Justina Dugbazah is a gender and development specialist. She
currently works with the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating
Agency (technical body of the African Union) in South Africa. ...view moreJustina Dugbazah is a gender and development specialist. She
currently works with the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating
Agency (technical body of the African Union) in South Africa. She
is also affi liated with the University of Pretoria as an Associate
with the Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, and an
External Examiner for the Department of International Relations,
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Dr. Dugbazah
has vast experience working in positions that bridge academia
and development policy and practice. Prior to her employment with the NEPAD Planning and
Coordinating Agency, Dr. Dugbazah worked as a Research Fellow and also taught ethnography
and gender and development at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, where she also
obtained a PhD in gender and development. She has also worked as a Policy Analyst and Project
Manager for many years in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Her special interests are in gender mainstreaming, rural livelihoods, women’s empowerment,
poverty reduction strategies, migration, ethnography, human rights and other subsectors under
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