Profile – Lawrencia Adams

Lawrencia has worked with national and donor organizations for more than twenty years; and is a senior management and consulting professional in the development field. Her technical expertise embraces rights-based and policy/advocacy approaches to programming, and the organizational development of SMES, NGOS, Civil Society Organizations, and Rural People’s Organizations. She is a gender specialist with a focus on formulation of innovative social development projects using the participatory approach.

Lawrencia has a very good insight into political economy and socio-cultural related root causes of poverty and CSO development in the African context. She is skilled in international policy advocacy, conflict transformation and peacebuilding, strategic planning for NGOs and rural people organizations, social impact assessment and decentralization and NGOs/PVO capacity building, and sub-grants management in compliance with donor requirements including USAID, European Union, CIDA and World Bank. Lawrencia is a highly self-motivated, well organized, change-oriented, and practical problem solver. She is fluent in English and French and holds an Executive Master of Business Administration degree in Entrepreneurial Management, a Graduate Diploma in Rural Sociology, and a Bachelors Degree and Diplomas in various fields. Significant accomplishments include the implementation of Ghana’s NGO standards project and Trust Bill.