Year: 2017
Nancy AKANBOMBIRE
Nancy AKANBOMBIRE
Nancy is a gender, and monitoring and evaluation consultant with seven years’ experience in gender and development, research, policy analysis, participatory community engagement and project monitoring and evaluation. She has worked for over 5 years as the Project Manager at JMK Consulting Ltd where she was responsible for the design of capacity building programmes, implementation of research, as well as monitoring and evaluation.
Prior to joining AWDF as the Capacity Building Specialist, she was the Gender Expert for SMEC International Pty Ltd, a Progrmme Management Consultant for the Ghana Power Compact II, under the Millennium Development Authority.
Nancy holds a master’s degree in Environment, Development and Policy from the University of Sussex (UK) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Integrated Development Studies from the University for Development Studies. She has certificates in Gender Mainstreaming from the University of Sussex and a certificate in Project Management from the Project Management Research Institute of Ghana. She also holds a certificate in Gender and Diversity from the Radboud University in the Netherlands.
Nancy is a member of the Ghana Gender and Energy Networking Group.
Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah
[tp lang=”en” not_in=”fr”]Rita Nketiah is a second-generation Ghanaian-Canadian currently completing her PhD research in Critical Human Geography at York University, with a focus on second-generation immigrant transnationalism among young adults of Ghanaian origin. She completed two previous degrees (Honours Bachelors and Masters) in Women and Gender Studies from Western University and the University of Toronto, respectively.
Rita is currently an advisory board member for the Sankofa Initiative (ISDAO), a new LGBT fund supporting activists in West Africa. She also has over ten (10) years of experience of feminist activism and scholarship with a focus on Black/African women’s empowerment, anti-racism and Pan-Africanist movement-building. Rita has had the opportunity to work for several international development agencies including the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF HQNY) and the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) as a Gender Research consultant. She is also a creative writer, publishing in online spaces, such as This Is Africa (TIA) and Pambazuka. Rita has joined the African Women’s Development Fund as the Knowledge Management Specialist.[/tp]
Dahmata Yabre
Dahmata Yabre
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Dahmata Yabre is a development practitioner and a professional translator, with a strong interest in gender initiatives and women empowerment issues. Prior to joining AWDF, she worked with the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) and the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) on the Mandela Washington Fellowship Programme under YALI, the Young African Leaders Initiative.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Translation from the School of Translators in Ghana. She also holds an interdisciplinary Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.) Degree with a specialisation in Conflict Studies and Management from the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt in Germany.
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[tp lang=”fr” not_in=”en”]Dahmata Yabre est une traductrice professionnelle, active dans le secteur du développement et ayant un grand intérêt pour les initiatives du genre et l’autonomisation de la femme. Avant de rejoindre AWDF, elle a travaillé avec le Conseil International pour la Recherche et les Échanges (IREX) et l’Institut de la Société Civile Ouest-Africaine (WACSI) sur le programme Mandela Washington Fellowship sous YALI, une initiative pour les jeunes leaders africains.
Elle a une Maîtrise en traduction, obtenue à l’École des traducteurs au Ghana. Elle est également titulaire d’un Master II interdisciplinaire en politique publique (M.P.P.) avec une spécialisation en études et gestion des conflits de Willy Brandt School of Public Policy à l’Université d’Erfurt en Allemagne.[/tp]
AWDF mourns Marren Akatsa Bukachi: a feminist, a sister and a friend.
AWDF mourns Marren Akatsa Bukachi: a feminist, a sister and a friend.
Her active role in the African Feminist Forum and Ugandan feminist forum helped shape both of these spaces. She was a constant voice for progression, and knew that the future of the feminist movement relied on inclusion.
Marren was the Executive Director of the Eastern African Sub-regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI), a feminist organisation that was founded in 1996 to monitor how governments in the region implemented the 12 critical areas of concern of the Beijing Platform for Action. She helped sustain feminist spaces on the continent with an immense passion and commitment to her feminist Ideals and it was easy for those who met her to see the feminist spirit within her.
Her voice, her energy and her passion will be greatly missed.
Rest Well, Marren, you have made an indelible mark
Resource Centre Day: African Feminists Doing Research
Resource Centre Day: African Feminists Doing Research
Are you interested in learning more about African feminist theories?
Do you want to learn how to be a feminist researcher?
Do you want to know more about how to use Wikipedia to tell African women’s stories?
Join the AWDF staff for an afternoon of trainings, conversations and deep critical thinking about African feminist theory and praxis.
This session will be open to AWDF staff and (feminist) public interested in deepening their knowledge of African feminist research practices and learning more about Wikipedia usage.
Register for the event HERE