As SEND Ghana celebrate on 8th August 26 years of impactful pro-poor policy research and advocacy, the Board of Directors has appointed the organisation’s first female Country Director, Ms. Harriet Nuamah Agyemang.
Her appointment takes effect from August 1st, 2024.
Ms. Nuamah Agyemang joined SEND Ghana in August 2003 after her National Service and subsequently served as Project officer and Communications Officer.
For nearly a decade she was the Senior Programme officer overseeing SEND’s Southern Ghana Program.
Ms. Nuamah Agyemang is credited for spearheading the organization’s Making Ghana’s Budget Work for Equity Initiative. Also from 2022 onward Ms. Nuamah Agyeman has led the Epidemic Preparedness Campaign.
The campaign brings together professional bodies in the health sector, academia, traditional leaders and civil society organisation advocating the establish of statutory fund by the Ghana government to support health emergencies.
She brings to her new position 21years of experience working in the civil society sector and leading SEND’s advocacy programs at national and sub-national levels.
As Country Director Ms. Nuamah Agyemang will provide strategic leadership for the management and operations of SEND.
Her priorities include strengthening the regional synergies between SEND Ghana , SEND Liberia and SEND Seirra Leone to leverage capacities, learning and sharing and partnerships with the government and the civil society fraternity, lead the organization to live its foundational object of being a social enterprise while contributing to economic improvement of its principals, uphold high levels of integrity through systems development and strengthening and innovatively adapt SEND programming to the changing landscape to remain relevant in the advocacy and livelihood space
Ms. Nuamah Agyemang holds a Masters in Development Studies from the University of Ghana, Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Development Studies from University for Development Studies and a Diploma in Journalism from the Ghana Institute of Journalism.
