As SEND Ghana celebrates 26 years of impactful pro-poor policy research and advocacy on August 8, 2024, the Board of Directors has appointed the organization’s first female Country Director, Harriet Nuamah Agyemang.

Her appointment takes effect on August 1, 2024.

Ms. Nuamah Agyemang joined SEND Ghana in August 2003 after her national service and subsequently served as a project officer and communications officer.

For nearly a decade, she was the senior program officer overseeing SEND’s Southern Ghana Program.

Ms. Nuamah Agyemang is credited with spearheading the organization’s "Making Ghana’s Budget Work for Equity Initiative."

Also, from 2022 on, Ms. Nuamah Agyeman will lead the Epidemic Preparedness Campaign.

The campaign brings together professional bodies in the health sector, academia, traditional leaders, and civil society organizations advocating the establishment of statutory funds by the Ghanaian government to support health emergencies.

She brings to her new position 21 years 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 Sierra Leone to leverage capacities, learning, sharing, and partnerships with the government and the civil society fraternity.

This will lead the organization to live its foundational object of being a social enterprise while contributing to the economic improvement of its principals, upholding high levels of integrity through system development, and strengthening and innovatively adapting 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, a Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Development Studies from the University for Development Studies, and a Diploma in Journalism from the Ghana Institute of Journalism.