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.
The nutritional impact of a water and sanitation intervention in a rural community in Bangladesh, comprising of the provision of handpumps, latrine... Read more...
The authors describe a piped water supply programme in 44 small towns in West-Java, Indonesia. Read more...
This article describes two participatory visual exercises which were used to start discussion about hygiene and sanitation. Read more...
The incidence of eye infections in a community is generally accepted as an indicator of the adequacy of water supply for their needs. However,... Read more...
This paper describes how optimum coagulation conditions can be identified for both coloured waters and turbid suspensions in terms of floc properties... Read more...
The addition of cystine to H2S strips for bacteriological water tests was found to reduce the time required for assessing contamination and to... Read more...
This article presents a practical approach to the selection of technologies for surface water treatment based on raw water turbidity and algae... Read more...
This paper reviews the available information about the efficiency and application of the traditional domestic water purification method employing... Read more...
High levels of arsenic in tubewell drinking-water in West Bengal, India, have been linked to arsenical dermatosis and skin cancer. Read more...