Ms. Angela Dannson is an Agricultural Economist with 33 years experience working in the public sector, at the Policy Planning Monitoring and Evaluation Directorate (PPMED) of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA).  Ms. Dannson, graduated BSc. Agriculture (Agricultural Economics) in 1986 from the University of Ghana and obtained MSc. in Agricultural Economics from Imperial College of London and Masters in Governance and Leadership from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, Accra. Having joined the Ministry in 1988, she rose to the position of Director in 2014 and retired in January 2021. For nearly two decades, she was at the centre of donor coordination, ensuring policy alignment and consistency with development partner funded projects during design and implementation and facilitating sector policy dialogues among stakeholders, especially the Agriculture Sector Working Group (ASWG). She contributed to the design of several policies, plans, programme and projects in the sector such as the Food and Agricultural Sector Development Policy (FASDEP), the Medium Term Agricultural Sector Investment Plans (METASIP), the Canadian funded Budget Support Programme (2004-2013), the three Agricultural Development Policy Operations (2008-2013) funded by the World Bank, the Ghana Agricultural Sector Investment Programme (2014-2021) and other IFAD funded projects, the AfDB funded projects including Rural Enterprises Programme and the Savanah Agricultural Productivity Improvement Project (SAPIP, 2018-2022) to mention a few. Angela is currently the USAID Embedded Advisor to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.

Name: Ms. Angela Dannson

E-mail: adannson@gmail.com 

Year Graduated: Agricultural Economics, 1986

Institutional Affiliation: Ministry of Food and Agriculture

Theme of Presentation: Strengthening Research-Policy-Practice Linkage Perspective of 33 Years Experience at MoFA

Date of Presentation: 27/10/2021