Itunu Omolara Oriye is a human rights lawyer, activist and feminist legal researcher. Her work as a feminist legal researcher explores feminist legal theory with a focus on feminist constitutionalism. Omolara started her career working with two high profile Lagos law firms, Paul Erokoro SAN & Co and Falana & Falana Chambers — a foremost […]

A multilingual passionate feminist who chose to dedicate her life and work to the rights of African women and women of African descent, especially those facing multiple discriminations, Maureen Douabou has collaborated with feminist organizations all around the world. With a master’s degree in Humanitarian Action and NGO and a master’s degree dissertation written on […]

As a Programmes Assistant, Programmes Support, Mary provides bi-lingual administrative support to the Programmes team- with a focus on the Grants Department, Capacity Building Unit and Catalytic Initiatives. She helps support programme communications, liaison with francophone grantees and provides support with translation. Mary is a graduate of the School of Translators of the Ghana Institute […]

Abena Bomo AFARI joined AWDF in November 2018 as a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Associate. She completed her national service at the Ghana Institute of Languages, where she taught French. She has a bachelor’s degree in French and Marketing from Central university and a Master’s degree in Gender, Peace and Security from the Kofi Annan […]

Joyce started her career at the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG) as a volunteer and later became a staff working as a Project Officer for the Accra Young and Wise Centre. She recently worked with the Ministry of Gender Children and Social Protection and the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development as a […]

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 […]