Toyin Dania is an Entrepreneurial Specialist, currently with @MESTAfrica and the Women’s Entrepreneurship Day (WED) Ambassador for Ghana, with the Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Organisation (@WEDO) where she mentors, trains and empowers women and girls at all stages of their entrepreneurial journey.

She has upwards of 30 years of international development and enterprise experience with a concentration in NGO communities. She has in-depth experience working with NGOs: African Foundation for Development (@AFFORD), @USAID, @RemitAid, @DFID, @VSO and @Comic Relief.

Toyin’s experience in the West African domain includes working collaboratively within multi-disciplinary and distributed teams improving the economic opportunities of various groups to realize the personal and development benefits of enterprise.

She has developed, led and managed UK and European-funded projects and also designed and implemented projects and programs that supported the creation of jobs and business opportunities within the UK, Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone and in Diaspora communities. She has a passion for Africa and relocated to Ghana in 2014.

She currently sits on the Board for Street Children Empowerment Foundation (@SCEF) and is passionate about entrepreneur eco-systems, youth, women and the environment.