Appiah, Sarah

Sarah Appiah is a PhD candidate and young development researcher with an Economics background. Her research interests include resource governance, fisheries and aquaculture, economic and trade policy analysis, food systems transformation, value chains, gender, border security and other socioeconomic development issues. She also has expertise in project management, monitoring and evaluation of projects, stakeholder engagement (policy and community level) and over seven years’ experience in field survey assessments in Africa. As a young development practitioner and researcher, Sarah has worked with both local and international development organizations including serving as a research officer with the International Water Management Institute, Consultant for the International women in Seafood Industry, Research Assistant for the Lancaster Environment Center, University of Lancaster, UK, PhD Collaborator with Duke University, Sustainable Energy for All, Gender mainstreaming in Energy Access in ECOWAS Project, Research Officer for Delinks Services- Centre for Parliamentary Research and Development Ghana, and Field survey officer for the EfD-Ghana and the Institute for Statistics, Social and Economic Research (ISSER)- Ghana. Sarah is a conservation and women development advocate and volunteers as the Ghana Gender Advisor for the FAO Illuminating Hidden Harvest Gender Team. Again, she volunteers as the Ghana team lead for Mundus maris- Science and Arts in sustainability engaging stakeholders in ocean governance, and organizing ocean literacy workshops among fisherfolks, youth and students in Ghana.