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.
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This paper presents the results of a baseline survey on disability-related problems on access and accessibility to sanitation in the BRAC WASH III... Read more...
Webinar recording discussing two initiatives from Asia related to the topic how to move from building infrastructure to creating support mechanisms... Read more...
This article questions the current ways of seeing urban water services and offers alternatives. Read more...
This study identifies the effectiveness, costs and cost drivers of SODIS, ceramic filters and biosand filters. Read more...
Adaptation of the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) questionnaire for sanitation to the situation of Mobile Desludging in Zimbabwe. Read more...
Production problems and insufficient demand led to the termination of ceramic filter production. Trouble-free production and high demand are... Read more...
Guía metodológica para la estimación de los costos per cápita en el marco regional del Monitoreo de los Avances de País en Agua y Saneamiento. Read more...
Analysing the results of using a MUS approach in six municipalities in Honduras. Read more...
Read the reflections and highlights on the session "Influencing decision makers - Finance, equity, institutional leadership" convened by IRC and partners. Read more...
Ce rapport résume les principaux constats d'une étude exhaustive sur la qualité de l'eau consommée dans les communes d'Aribinda et de Gorgadji dans... Read more...
Forte de son expérience, IRC Burkina Faso propose de combler certaines des lacunes du guide méthodologique révisé du PCD-APEA destiné aux communes. Read more...
A step by step guide on the siting of drilled water wells, from consideration of the user needs up to engaging a drilling contractor to construct the... Read more...
Sector collaboration in Ethiopia between 2006 and 2012 as an instrument for sector awareness creation, ownership and capacity. Read more...
Can faecal sludge from pit latrines based in rural areas in Bangladesh be processed in a financially sustainable manner. Read more...
This paper describes how the ASTRA tool can help identify potentially appropriate technical solutions fro the delivery of arsenic and saline-free... Read more...