Margaret is an accomplished development practitioner and a visionary with over two decades of experience in furthering accountability to the interests of women/girls and other marginalized constituencies in development policy and action. She has worked to facilitate economic opportunities for women and contributed to increasing their representation, participation and actual involvement in leadership, governance and peace processes in society.
As a Course Director at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center, Margaret was responsible for the postconflict reconstruction training courses in Election Observation and Election Management. She also served as the Head of the Women, Peace and Security Institute (WPSI) where she had responsibility for the day-to-day running of the Institute, providing strategic leadership, technical expertise and managerial oversight of the WPSI program. She provided technical expertise and guidance for the institutional mainstreaming of gender at the Centre and led the Institute to collaborate with the Office of the AU Chair's Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Security to train high ranking African Women in Election Observation and Dispute Resolution. Under her leadership, the WPSI initiated and successfully conducted the Centre's first accredited domestic election observation mission during the 2016 general elections in Ghana. She has served as a facilitator for Executive Training Courses in Politics, Peace and Security as Knutsford University where she was responsible for the module on Gender, Peace & Development in the African Context.
She was part of the technical team that supported the November 2015 South Sudan Women's National Peace Dialogue to elaborate a position document and plan for monitoring the implementation of the agreement to end the conflict in that country. More recently, she worked to promote gender responsiveness in education, focusing on responsiveness to the learning needs of male and female basic school learners.
Prior to joining the KAIPTC, she variously served as an Adjunct Lecturer, teaching courses in Communication & Public Speaking and Development Studies, Research/Teaching Assistant, Team Leader and Program Coordinator among others. She has participated in a number of international development conferences and training workshops in various capacities – resource person/facilitator, rapporteur and participant.
Margaret has a multidisciplinary educational background that includes graduate work in GENDER and DEVELOPMENT and COMMUNICATION STUDIES from IDS, Sussex University and University of Ghana among others. She brings to iEDIFY Africa a depth of insight, passion and a desire to contribute to efforts at stemming Africa's mounting youth unemployment the attendant challenges.