Professor Abena Oduro
Co PIAbena D. Oduro is Co-Principal Investigator on this project responsible for overall conceptual and administrative oversight of the project. She is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Ghana. Her main areas of research are poverty and inequality analysis, gender and assets, unpaid care work and international trade policy. She is currently an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics and is a member of the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR). She is the first Vice President of the Association for the Advancement of African Women Economists (AAAWE). At the University of Ghana, she has served as Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Director of the Centre for Social Policy Studies and Director of the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa. Internationally, she has served as President of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE).
Dr. Gloria Afful-Mensah
ResearcherGloria is a researcher on the WEE-Ghana project and is responsible for analysing the domestic resource mobilisation policies of the Ghanaian government. She is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Ghana and her research interests are in the areas of Economics of Gender and Health, Poverty, Inequality, and Development. She has undertaken training in American University’s Programme on Gender Analysis in Economics.
Dr. Godson Korbla Aloryito
Post-docGodson is a post-doctoral fellow on the WEE-Ghana project, investigating gender integration in central government expenditure policies and evaluating their outcomes. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Ghana. Previously, he worked at the International Budget Partnership, where he championed gender mainstreaming initiatives. Godson has also consulted for the World Bank and the Institute of Development Studies.
Professor Dzodzi Tsikata
Co PIDzodzi Tsikata is Co-Principal Investigator on this project responsible for overall conceptual and administrative oversight of the project. She is a Professor of Development Studies at SOAS, University of London. Before this, she was Professor of Development Sociology and immediate past Director of the Institute of African Studies. Her research interests are in the areas of gender and development policies and practices; agrarian change and rural livelihoods; the labour relations of the informal economy and transformative social policy. She is a member of the editorial collective of Feminist Africa and Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. She is also the Secretary of the Executive Committee of IDEAS and a member of the Agrarian South Network. Dzodzi is also the Principal Investigator of a pan-African research, networking and advocacy project, the Gender Equitable and Transformative Social Policy for Post-COVID-19 Africa (GETSPA).
Dr. Faustina Obeng Adomaa
ResearcherFaustina is a researcher on the WEE-Ghana project and is responsible for interrogating the gender equitable design processes of care policies and its outcomes. She is a critical geographer whose research interests lie at the intersection of micro- and macro- level agrarian changes, social relations, and economic structures. She also works as a gender equality and social inclusion consultant with the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA).
Mr. Promise Eweh
Post-docPromise is a postdoctoral fellow on the WEE-Ghana project and explores the extent to which employment policies in Ghana are gender-equitable. He is finishing his PhD in African Studies at the University of Ghana.
Professor Akosua K. Darkwah
Co PIAkosua K. Darkwah is Co-Principal Investigator on this project responsible for overall conceptual and administrative oversight of the project. She is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Ghana. Her research focuses primarily on gender and labour studies in the Ghanaian context. She serves as a member of the editorial collective of both Feminist Africa and African Studies Review. At the University of Ghana, she has served as Director of the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CEGENSA) and Head of the Department of Sociology and is currently the Dean of the School of Information and Communication Studies. She also serves as the Convenor of Ghana’s Network for Women’s Rights (NETRIGHT), the country’s largest network of women’s rights advocates.
Dr. Geraldine Ampah
ResearcherGeraldine A. Ampah is a researcher on the WEE-Ghana Project and is responsible for analysing the extent to which digitalisation policies in Ghana are designed with gender-equitability in mind and the gendered outcomes of this policy. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Sociology. Her research interests are in the areas of Sociology of Development and Migration.
Dr. Nana Ama Aning Oppong-Duah
Post-docNana Ama is a postdoctoral fellow on the WEE-Ghana project and works specifically on the financial inclusion policies of the government, interrogating the extent to which the design is gender-equitable and its outcomes. Prior to this, she worked as a research assistant on an International Centre for Tax and Development project that explored the relationship between taxation and social protection among informal workers in Accra. She recently completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Ghana.