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.
A 1995 Pacific Institute report, California Water 2020: A Sustainable Vision, offered compelling support for the argument that alternative approaches... Read more...
This article charts the progress of a two-year project, carried out by the ODA-funded Environmental Health Programme at the London School of Hygiene... Read more...
The Women's Coordinating Council (WCC), a voluntary agency consisting of 105 women's voluntary organizations in West Bengal, is promoting awareness... Read more...
This article develops a model of cost and financing strategies for rural and peri-urban water supply and sanitation. Read more...
The objective of this publication is to provide a short, accessible overview of what may be considered 'good practice' in emergency water and... Read more...
The purpose of the workshop was to expose key government managers and decision makers to a broad range of interventions which could be used to combat... Read more...
The Economic Development Institute Workshop of 1990 had as its emphasis the plight of the urban poor, and the problems of enforcement of their basic... Read more...
This report examines the issues related to the operation and maintenance (O&M) and cost recovery in rural water supply and sanitation programmes... Read more...