Gender and Social Sciences
Sarah is a Social Scientist and Development Economist, supporting ASDEV’s gender research and projects. Her research interests include resource management research, fisheries and aquaculture, economic and trade policy analysis, value chains, gender, border security and other socioeconomic development issues. She also has expertise in project management, monitoring and evaluation of projects, stakeholder engagement (policy and community level) and over seven years’ experience in field survey assessments in Africa.
As development practitioner and researcher, Sarah has worked with both local and international development organizations including serving as a Research Officer with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Consultant for the International Women in Seafood Industry, Research Assistant for the Lancaster Environment Center, University of Lancaster, UK, and PhD Collaborator with Duke University, Sustainable Energy for All, Gender mainstreaming in Energy Access in ECOWAS Project, Research Officer for Delinks Services – Centre for Parliamentary Research and Development Ghana, and Field Survey Officer for the Institute for Statistics, Social and Economic Research, Ghana.
Sarah is a conservation and women development advocate and volunteers as the Ghana Gender Advisor for the FAO Illuminating Hidden Harvest Gender Team. Again, she volunteers as the Ghana Team Lead for Mundus Maris – Science and Arts in sustainability engaging stakeholders in ocean governance, and organizing ocean literacy workshops among fisherfolks, youth and students in Ghana.
Through her career and education pursuits, Sarah has presented and participated in several conferences, workshops and academic exchanges including, presentations at the 3rd and 4th world Small-scale Fisheries congress, in Thailand and South Africa respectively, African Small-scale fisheries Write shop- Zambia, 2nd International School of Social Science conference- Ghana, and participation in Policy Write shop on Food System Transformation, Uganda, Summer School on Agricultural Value Chains Transformation, Kiel Institute and University of Lome, Togo, and Erasmus Mundus Academic Exchange with KoC University, Turkey and the Environment for Development 17th Annual meeting, Ghana.