A Social Policy Specialist

My regional and international work related experiences started in 2004, a year after I graduated from the law school with the globally recognized non-profit, the Geneva headquartered Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE). I gained extensive experience working with modern concepts of Non Governmental Organization (NGO), project design, development and management as well as research and evaluation in NGO sector.

With my first Masters’ Degree in Social Policy Studies from the University of Ghana, I have over the years focused on providing policy advise, policy development, analysis and advocacy in different spaces. These experiences spanned from national, regional and to international levels. I developed policy documents out of my legal researches, shared these with different governments and institutions and utilized them as policy briefs and advocacy tools to engage national, regional and international organizations and policy makers for policy and legal reforms.

At the international level, I also submitted policy documents and reports to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council; contributed to the UN-Habitat’s policy guides on the rights of the urban poor in Africa and others to the Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). At the regional level, I have worked very closely with the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights on different policy related issues.