Abubakari has over seventeen years of experience in information and communication management. He is currently responsible for IRC Ghana communications, learning and advocacy coordination and management; and has a passion for promoting evidence-based learning that supports good governance.
Abubakari is also working together with the Steering Committee of RCN Ghana to properly focus sector learning and address more strategic issues on the sustainability of learning in the water sanitation and hygiene sector in Ghana. He was the National Coordinator of the Resource Centre Network (RCN) Ghana from 2008 - April 2014.
Before IRC / RCN, Abubakari worked with the British Council Ghana as the information officer and later the head of information and library services; and also with Macmillan Ghana (a subsidiary of Macmillan Publishers, UK) as head of marketing communications.
Abubakari holds an MBA in Marketing (University of Ghana Business School), and MA in Development Studies, specialised in rural development and decentralisation (University of Leeds, UK) and was originally trained in Communications (public relations, advertising and marketing) at the Ghana Institute of Journalism; and social sciences (BA, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra). He is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana (CIMG) and the Institute of Public Relations (IPR) Ghana.
All systems go! was the first event of its kind dedicated explicitly to using systems approaches in the WASH sector. These symposium proceedings... Read more...
Presentations from the WASH Learning theme 4 - Governments, politics and systems change session of the All Systems Connect International Symposium... Read more...
A framework for defining and measuring the wider support systems needed to maintain infrastructure was developed and applied in six countries with... Read more...
Three factors – legitimacy of the collaborative, aligning activities within clear mandates, and demonstrating value – all work together to secure... Read more...
Dans le cadre de la décentralisation, la commune de Torodi a pour mission dans le domaine de l'AEPA la création et la gestion des infrastructures... Read more...
District WASH master plan of Makalondi, Niger Read more...
There is insufficient information in the literature to evaluate the utility and efficacy of systems approaches for improving WASH service... Read more...
Successful sanitation approaches were characterized by their adaptation to the local context, community participation, built-in mechanisms that... Read more...
A special edition of the ANAM WASH Hubdate features recent visit of representatives of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. Read more...
Dr Angela Huston (IRC) discusses whether the WASH systems strengthening approach is relevant in all contexts and why can it be useful for WASH system... Read more...
The IRC Ghana team together with the Government hosted a sustainability forum as a final activity of the Triple-S project and as a formal start-up of the new initiative "Local Government Capacity Support for WASH". The latter is the project that is following up Triple-S and bringing together CWSA,... Read more...
Analysis of the integrated planning approach used in the Wastewater Agriculture and Sanitation for Poverty Alleviation (WASPA) in Asia Project (2005-... Read more...