Leader in Microfinance and Agriculture Development
PROFILE OF DR. STEVE OLUSEGUN OGIDAN,
Dr Steve Olusegun OGIDAN is an employer of labour,
a self-motivated and hard-working strategy expert and development planner, with
experience in agriculture, rural development and microfinance, as well as human
resources development. A goal-directed, results-oriented individual with a
strong and varied background and education in poverty management, capacity
building, HR Solutions, Micro-insurance, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
(MSMEs) and Strategy for organizational development.
Dr Ogidan has a BA Education Degree from the
Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria, Masters Degree from the University of
Lagos Nigeria and PhD in Business Development from the Trinity College and
University, Spain. He was also trained at the International Training Centre of
the International Labour Organization, ITC/ILO, Turin, Italy, Vaikuth Mehta
National Institute, Pune, India and the NEGEV Institute of Strategies in Beer
Sheva, Israel.
He is presently the National Coordinating
Consultant to NIRSAL Plc Project Monitoring Reporting and Remediation Offices
nationwide to the Nigeria Incentive-based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural
Lending (NIRSAL), which is an innovative mechanism, targeted at de-risking
lending to the agricultural sector. It is designed to provide the singular
transformational and one bullet solution to break the seeming jinx in Nigeria’s
agricultural lending and development and also Team Leader on the IFAD/VCDP
Strengthening Farmers Organisation Project in Ogun State.
Dr Ogidan is an able and effective team leader, an
efficient and effective strategic planner, researcher, excellent trainer and
communicator at all levels within and outside organizations with good problem
solving and analytical skills. Specific interests include business development,
strategy formulation, HR Solutions, training and participatory research. Proven
leadership skills including managing and motivating others to achieve
objectives, strategic planning, change management and process re-engineering
and analytical skills. He is very fluent with information technology.
He was the Team Leader for unprecedented three
terms for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd FGN/IFAD-RUFIN Supervision Missions for Nigeria
between 2010 and 2013. He was a consultant to the UNDP and the Central Bank of
Nigeria on Microfinance Development Strategy. He was part of the team that
designed the Microfinance Certification Programme for Nigeria. He was also a
Strategy Consultant to the Supreme Court of Nigeria 2011-2014 and the UNDP
Nigeria and Africa Regional Office on Facility for Inclusive Market and many
others.
Dr Ogidan is an accredited OPTMA Trainer, Trainer
by Centre for Management Development, Nigeria and the Institute of Management
Consultants, Nigeria. He is an accredited trainer by the International Labour
Organization ILO/ITC to deliver its programme on Making Microfinance Work, MMW in Africa.
He is also an accredited Trainer of the Women’s World Banking WWB to
deliver Microfinance Management
Development Trainings of the Centre for Microfinance Leadership (CML). He
is also accredited by PrOpCom (Promoting
Pro-poor Opportunities in Commodity and Service Markets) a DFID initiative, as
a training consultant and service provider. He is a capacity building
Consultant to International Fertilizer Development Centre, IFDC, USA and worked
on Rice, Sorghum, Maize, Ginger, Groundnut and Soybean in Kaduna, Kano and
Katsina States of Nigeria; project sponsored by Strategic Alliance for Agricultural Development in Africa (SAADA), funded
by the Directorate of General International Cooperation (DGIS) of the
Netherlands; He is also currently a consultant with the UK Department
for International Development (DFID) ENABLE programme assisting in building
Business Membership Organizations (BMO’s) capacity for advocacy. He is a member
of the ITC/ILO International Team developing Training Curriculum and Manuals on
Access to Finance for African Workers and Trade Unions in Africa 2010- 2012.
In partnership with Making Cents International, Dr Ogidan is certified to deliver the Youth-Inclusive
Financial Services, YFSanother
product to deepen the outreach of Microfinance in developing world. Implementing
Sound Practices in Youth-Inclusive Financial Services provides
microfinance practitioners and youth enterprise and livelihoods practitioners’
critical overview of today’s relevance of financial services to youth in the
developing world and how to design and implement interventions to expand
youth-inclusive financial services. He served as a Strategy Consultant to the
Central Bank of Liberia and facilitated the transformation of Microfinance Unit
of the CBL to Inclusive Finance Department, project sponsored by the UNCDF.
Dr Ogidan has also
completed the European Union Project as a Master Trainer on the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Reform
(WSSSR) programme aims at providing support to institutional and policy reform
and demonstrating innovative approaches to service delivery, including
implementation of water supply and sanitation projects co-financed with the
government. Dr Ogidan was recruited by
PricewaterhouseCoopers Nigeria and handled the Training and HR
components of the project implemented by PricewaterhouseCoopers in a Consortium
of 3 firms namely: ITAD Limited, UK –
Consortium Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Nigeria, Mott MacDonald, UK
He was also the BDS/Grant Management Specialist on
the World Bank Rice Value Chain Project in Kaduna in 2008-2010: a World
Bank/FGN Programme under the leadership of Dr Rama Rao Vellanki. He is
currently the Kaduna State Coordinator of the World Bank State-Level Private Sector Policy And Institutional-Mapping (SPPIM)
project.Dr Ogidan was a
consultant to UNDP Nigeria on Microfinance as part of the National Experts on
Microfinance Baseline Survey Team and the Development of New Microfinance
Development Strategy, NMDS for Nigeria. He was a Consultant to the Central Bank
of Nigeria and the GTZ on Microfinance Curriculum Development and Training. He
is an accredited CBN Microfinance Training Service Provider (MTSP) training
Microfinance Bankers in Northern Nigeria.
A Commonwealth Scholar at the National Institute
of Cooperative Management, Pune, India (1994), a MASHAV (Government of Israel)
Scholar at the NEGEV Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development
(NISPED), Beer Sheva, Israel (2006) and a MasterCard Foundation Scholar at the
School of Applied Microfinance, Kenya, 2008. He is also member of the Institute
of Management Consultants IMC. Dr Ogidan is a Faculty Member in the School of
Applied Microfinance, Mombasa, Kenya and The Enterprise Development Centre (EDC)
of the Pan African University, (Lagos Business School) and a Strategy
Development Expert for EDS in Cuttington University, Monrovia, Liberia.
His passion for agriculture
and microfinance led him to make incursions
into several African countries as he led the team on the establishment of Togo
Incentive-based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, International Consultant
and Strategy Expert to the Central Bank of Liberia on Inclusive Finance, 2012. He
was the Team Leader Rest of Africa Engagement, NIRSAL Plc to Togo, Rwanda,
Sudan and Morocco
He is also the lead consultant facilitating the establishment
of a nation-wide microfinance bank midwife by NIRSAL Plc – NIRSAL Microfinance
Bank which recently commenced operations across the length and breadth of Nigeria.
Dr Ogidan who is the MD/CEO of Successory Nigeria
Ltd, Beresh Consulting and Chairman, Global Knowledge Group also chairs the
Board of Directors of a Microfinance Bank while providing management assistance
to a number of Microfinance Banks and Businesses across Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana,
Liberia, the Gambia, South Africa and the Royal Kingdom of Morocco. He is also
a Fellow of the Microfinance Association of the United Kingdom. He is married
with children.