Rose Buabeng
Accra
Summary
As a gender and climate justice activist, Rose believes in building leadership of marginalised populations and communities in advancing social and climate justice. Rose started working with various civil society and social justice organisations in 2000. Rose has fundraised, planned and implemented social justice programmes at various levels. Rose has also worked in the philanthropic sector where she resourced women’s rights and feminist organisations in Anglophone Africa. These organisations work with their communities to protect common lands, promote economic and environmental justice, and secure health and bodily rights, leadership and citizenship. All over Africa, the grassroots work of these women’s rights organisations has led to improvements in systems: gender friendly policies and strengthened movements. Rose is passionate about knowledge generation and has written a number of blogs on environmental and other issues; links to such publications are below:
- https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jsd/issue/view/0/2899
- https://www.pioneerspost.com/business-school/20231102/how-scale-your-impact-feminist-edge
- https://awdf.org/changing-the-narratives-around-breast-cancer-a-rights-basedperspective/
- https://awdf.org/mobilising-for-gender-just-climate-action-cop-26-and-beyond/
- https://awdf.org/world-environment-day-africanwomenchampion-eco-friendly-agro-processing-models/
- https://awdf.org/life-andhopeafter-breast-cancer-african-women-providing-support/
- https://awdf.org/highlights-from-the-2016-campaign-on-16-days-of-activism-against-gender-based-violence/
- https://medium.com/@AWDF/envisioning-a-feminist-earth-african-women-lead-the-way-92e90f184b48
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Gender, Environment and Economic Specialist
African Women's Development Fund
01.2008 - Current
- Developing strategies and resourcing women's rights organisations and building movements for gender and climate justice.
Programmes Coordinator and Gender Expert
Training Research and Networking for Development (TREND GROUP)
01.2006 - 01.2008
- Rule engendering agricultural programmes and research
- Gender audit and strategies development for the Root and Timber Improvement Programme in Ghana.
Empowering Forest Fringing Communities Advocate
Rural Development Youth Association and Institute of Cultural Affairs Ghana
01.2001 - 01.2005
- Advocating for rights to royalties from forest resources exploitation, grassroot environmental education and movement building, supporting plantation development projects.
Education
PhD - Environment Science
University of Ghana
Masters - Environmental Resources Management
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Ghana
First Degree - Renewable Natural Resources Management (Forestry)
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Ghana
Skills
- Gender Environment and Economic Justice Specialist
- Fundraising
- Planning
- Implementing social justice programs
- Resourcing women's rights and feminist organizations
- Protecting common lands
- Promoting economic and environmental justice
- Securing health and bodily rights
- Leadership and citizenship
- Knowledge generation
- Writing blogs on environmental and other issues
- Participating in workshops and trainings
- Developing strategies
- Building movements for gender and climate justice
- Rule engendering agricultural programs and research
- Gender audit and strategies development
- Empowering forest fringing communities
- Advocating for rights to royalties from forest resources exploitation
- Grassroot environmental education and movement building
- Supporting plantation development projects
- Climate adaptation strategies by rural women
- Publishing research work
- Masters and first degrees in Environmental resources Management and Renewable Natural Resources Management (Forestry)
- Consulting for the Global Fund for Women as Movement Led Advisor for their Climate Justice Programme in Africa
- Serving as a Regional Advisor for the Global Fund for Women
- Advising and monitoring African grantmaking activities
- Acting as a Grant Support Team member for the 'AmplifyChange Fund
- Providing technical support to nascent women's rights groups and organizations
- Providing technical support to the African women's movement and national feminist forums
Consultingexperience
- Global Fund for Women, USA, Movement Led Advisor, Climate Justice Programme in Africa
- Global Fund for Women, USA, Regional Advisor, African grantmaking activities
- AmplifyChange Fund, UK, Grant Support Team member, SRHR fund
- Spring Impact, UK, Advisor, Economic Empowerment Accelerator Programme for women in Southern Africa
Technicalsupport
- Nascent women’s rights groups and organisations
- African women’s movement
- National feminist forums in Africa
Personal Information
- Title: Gender Environment and Economic Justice Specialist
- Gender: Female
Publications
- Https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jsd/issue/view/0/2899
- Https://www.pioneerspost.com/business-school/20231102/how-scale-your-impact-feminist-edge
- Https://awdf.org/changing-the-narratives-around-breast-cancer-a-rights-basedperspective/
- Https://awdf.org/mobilising-for-gender-just-climate-action-cop-26-and-beyond/
- Https://awdf.org/world-environment-day-africanwomenchampion-eco-friendly-agro-processing-models/
- Https://awdf.org/life-andhopeafter-breast-cancer-african-women-providing-support/
- Https://awdf.org/highlights-from-the-2016-campaign-on-16-days-of-activism-against-gender-based-violence/
- Https://medium.com/@AWDF/envisioning-a-feminist-earth-african-women-lead-the-way-92e90f184b48
References
- Pontso Mafethe, Programmes Director, African Women’s Development Fund, +233 55 393 5314, pontso@awdf.org
- Mr. Lambert Okrah, President & CEO, Major Groups Partnership on Forests, +1-613-236-4763, info@mgp-forests.org
- Dr. Adelina Mensah, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, +233 265196017, ammensah@staff.ug.edu.gh
Training
- The Global Women in Management (GWIM 70) program by the Women’s Leadership Institute (WLI), US
- The Summit on Women & Climate, August 2nd-7th, 2014, the Green School in Bali. Organized by Global Greengrants Fund and the International Network of Women’s Funds
- Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) Anglophone West African Sub-Regional Workshop on Strategic Planning to mainstream gender into Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), Lagos-Nigeria (2nd – 5th October2007). Gender and Water Alliance (GWA), (Netherlands)
- WEDC International Conference on Water Resources Management and Sanitation (2007); Accra, Ghana
- The Sixth African Development Forum (ADF IV) organized by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Addis Ababa-Ethiopia (19th 21st November 2008). AU/ECA
- Regional Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in Africa – Beijing+ 15; Banjul, Gambia; 16-19 November 2009. UNIFEM
- Third African Feminist Forum; Darkar, Senegal; 20th – 24th The October, 2010 12th AWID International Forum on Transforming Economic Power to Advance Women’s Rights and Justice; 18th- 23rd April 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey. Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)
Timeline
Gender, Environment and Economic Specialist
African Women's Development Fund
01.2008 - Current
Programmes Coordinator and Gender Expert
Training Research and Networking for Development (TREND GROUP)
01.2006 - 01.2008
Empowering Forest Fringing Communities Advocate
Rural Development Youth Association and Institute of Cultural Affairs Ghana
01.2001 - 01.2005
PhD - Environment Science
University of Ghana
Masters - Environmental Resources Management
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Ghana
First Degree - Renewable Natural Resources Management (Forestry)
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Ghana
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