User:Olalekan Fadeyi/sandbox

OLALEKAN FADEYI is a professional Development, Good Governance and Policy Researcher based in London, United Kingdom.

He is an amiable, humorous, calm-headed and God-fearing Innovative Genius with lots of impressive dispositions to add unique values and fun to everyday life. Simple personality, professionally- focused innovative genius with hands-on experience in the Voluntary sector and development projects and advocacy.

Professionally, he researches, engage and specialize in good governance advocacy, education development and human development research and policies, and also earn a living as a consultant on participatory budgeting and Inclusive governance as well as sundry media/public relations and publications.

With a background first-degree in Sociology from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria and a Masters degree in Development Management from the University if East London, United Kingdom, Olalekan Fadeyi's foray into full-time profession in the Voluntary/Charity sector, Good Governance Advocacy and Journalism has seen me through vistas of other post-graduate executive and professional courses in Nigeria, Germany, United Kingdom and across the world.

He first opened for business in Nigeria in 2003 and in the United Kingdom in 2008, and have been serving London, and the rest of the UK, ever since. He has also recently took on as clients a few multi-lateral and international bodies in the United States, Canada and The Netherlands. He offers a full range of research and consultancy services, ranging from small local development projects to major national or regional engagements, and everything in between.

Beginning from a humble and notable stint of work experiences with some major media houses in Nigeria, he began publishing African GONG since 2004, and Bright-lights Magazine since 2007.

His adroit passion for the third sector, voluntary and development works led him to join Centre for Governance and Qualitative Studies (CGQS) in 2003 as Consultant Community Liaision Officer. He however rose through to the position of International Program Officer of the organization in 2005 as a result of, and in recognition of his hard work and immense contributions in over-hauling the National grid and Regional network of the organization, and re-establishing new partnership pathways and development projects with international organizations as the British Council, Commonwealth of Learning (COL), INTRAC International, UNICEF and PLAN International to mention but a few.

His full-time private practice finally began in 2008 after he got enrolled as one of many consultants to implement the MDP-ESA/ Worldbank and CommGAP sponsored Peer Learning Initiative in Participatory Budgeting in East, West and Southern Africa.

Currently, he is founder and President of International Centre for Development Initiatives (ICDI), a global development research and advocacy organisation based in the United Kingdom, with a consulting arm (ICDI Africa) in east, west and southern Africa.

Find below a summary of his other track records and achievements outlined for quick referencing:

Visiting Researcher, Nigeria Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER) since 2005 Alumni, InWent International, Germany, 2007 and 2008 Associate, Nigeria Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) since 2006 Member, Management In Practice (MiP) United Kingdom, since 2007 Member, Human Development & Capability Association (HDCA) Netherland, since 2006 Member, British Council Nigeria, since 2005 Campaign Associate, Amnesty International, United Kingdom, since 2008 Visiting Researcher, University of East London (UEL) Mortgage Collections Specialist, Lloyds Banking Group, United Kingdom.

In addition to the above-listed, he has several academic researches and papers, seminars and journal contributions and publications to his credits. The below links mentions but a few:

http://wikieducator.org/images/e/e8/PID_746.pdf

http://wikieducator.org/PCF5:_DISTANCE_LEARNING_AND_WOMEN_MARINALIZATION:

http://www.mdpafrica.org.zw/p2p/WBI-MDPESA%20Peer%20Learning%20Pilot%20on%20Government%20Dialogue%20and%20Advocacy%20for%20Participatory%20Budgeting%20-%20FINAL%20DRAFT.pdf

http://sustainabilityandthecommons.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/shouldnt-america-be-thinking-seriously-hard-about-reducing-her-own-c02-emissions-now/

http://sustainabilityandthecommons.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/obamas-victory-a-triumph-for-the-american-commons-2/

http://sustainabilityandthecommons.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/fifty-shades-of-commons-and-enclosures/

http://sustainabilityandthecommons.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/is-this-the-end-time-form-of-enclosures-or-another-desperate-expropriation-by-government/

Why not look at the various services ICDI offers at: http://www.icdi-uk.net and get in touch to know how he and his other team of professionals can help contribute to, or improve your projects and programmes, or even be a part of it !