CURRICULUM VITAE: ELAINE TWENEBOAH

Personal Details

Place of Birth: Accra, Ghana

Nationality: Ghanaian

Marital status: Single

Gender: Female

Languages: English, Asante-twi (mother tongue) and Ga

Contact Address: Centre for Social Policy Studies (CSPS)

P. O. Box 72

University of Ghana, Legon

Ghana, West Africa

Tel: 233-21-502217

233-21-500270

233-24- 694070

E-mail elainetweneboah@yahoo.com

Educational background

• 1999–2001:

MPhil. Environmental Science, University of Ghana, Legon. Subjects for written examination included: Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Law, Remote Sensing, Water Resource management and Forest Resource Management. Topic of thesis was: The Impacts of Tourism on the Coastal Zone of Ghana. Main aim of the study was to identify the impacts of tourism on the biophysical and human environment of the coastal zone of Ghana using Ada-Foah and Elmina, both well-known tourist destinations.

· 1993 – 1998:

B.Sc. (Hons.) Zoology / Botany, University of Cape Coast (2^nd Class Upper division). Final Year project work was: Differences in the leaves of four species of Citrus. The main aim of the project work was to identify any differences in the leaf epidermal structure between species of Citrus, namely C. reticulata, C. paradisi, C. sinensis and C. limon.

Diploma in Education (Pass).

• 1990 – 1992:

G.C.E Advanced Level Certificate in Science Accra Academy

• 1985 – 1990:

G.C.E Ordinary Level Certificate in Science Accra Girls' Secondary School

Work experience

• August 2002- present

Principal Organiser (Gender and Environment) Centre for Social Policy Studies (CSPS), University of Ghana, Legon. Main duties include networking with organisations with similar areas of interest and research, organising training programmes and workshops, and conducting research into issues of gender and the environment.

• October 2002 Part of a team of consultants contracted to run a research and training programme on the theme “Business and the Environment” for hairdressers, dressmakers, welders, technicians etc under the Youth Enterprise Development Scheme in Ashaiman, a migrant community in Accra Funding was from IBID.

• October 2001- May 2002

Research Assistant Development and Women’s Studies (DAWS) Office, Institute of African Studies University of Ghana. Main activities included assisting in the preparation of research proposals and fieldwork.

• March 2001

Assisted in the preparation for a curriculum for a planned international undergraduate course on Environmental Studies in Ghana by the Institute of African Studies University of Ghana. Main duties included the preparation of a bibliography and acting as a Rapporteur.

• September 1998-August 1999

Science Tutor Dormaa Secondary School. Taught Core Science in Forms One and Two and Elective Biology in Forms Two and Three.

• September 1992- August 1993

Administrative assistant Ga District Assembly. Worked with a woman’s NGO in organising women from the communities in and around the Ga District, organised meetings and workshops and assisted in selection of community based projects for funding.

SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES

• February 15^th - 20^th Nordic African Institute Conference on Motherhood. Presented paper with the title Looking Back-Narratives of Ashanti women in pre-colonial and colonial era.

• 31^st January 2003 Launching of Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire (CWIQ) II Survey

• 29^th January 2003 Stakeholders meeting on the Demographic and Health Survey And the Maternal Mortality Study in Ghana

• December 2002 Part of a group of participants drawn from all over Ghana by ActionAid (Ghana) to develop a Network on food security in Ghana.

• September 2002 part of a panel critiquing the section on “Gender equality by 2005” in the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) final draft country report.
• July 2002 African Gender Institute Seminar for Associates. Paper Presented

Research experience

• Three month Associateship at the African Gender Institute (AGI), University of Cape Town, South Africa (May 2002- August 2002). Final Report submitted on “Women and coastal pollution in Ghana”. Presented another paper on “the feminisation of poverty in Ghana” at a panel seminar with the theme The Challenges faced by African Women. Was also a guest at the South African Broadcasting Studios (SABC) for a radio presentation called Women Today.

• October 2001 Part of a team of consultants commissioned by the Save the Children Fund an international NGO, to put together a proposal for the study on the use of herbal preparations by pregnant woman in Northern Ghana.

• September 2001 Part of a team of assistants responsible for translating, transcribing and editing interviews for the World Health Organisation funded project “Gendered Outcomes: The differential effects of the socialisation of Ghanaian female and male adolescents on their sexual culture”.

• June 2000 Women's Health in the City of Accra Project, funded by the Ford Foundation, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Michigan and the University of Ghana, Legon. Looked at the reasons and emotions that women who had gone through induced and spontaneous abortions experienced. Results are to be published in three separate volumes namely – “Tales of the City”; “Reasons emotions and fears concerning abortions in Accra” and “Interviewing women with induced abortions- my story”.

· March 2000 Member of a team commissioned by the United Nations Environmental Programme's Biodiversity Planning Support Programme (BPSP) to prepare Best practice / country case studies on integrating Biodiversity into the Tourism sector.

Involvement in organisations

International Association of Impact Assessment-Ghana Chapter -member

Association of Women rights in Development (AWID) - member

List of referees

Prof. Christopher Gordon

Co-ordinator, Environmental Science Programme

C/o Dean Graduate Studies

University of Ghana

P.O. Box LG 71

Legon, Accra, Ghana.

Dr. Akosua Adomako-Ampofo,

Senior Research Fellow

Institute of African Studies

University of Ghana

Legon, Accra, Ghana