Jack Brewer Foundation honors Water Governance Specialist, Mrs Elsie Eseenam

A Policy Analyst, Lawyer and Water Governance Specialist, Mrs Elsie Eseenam Efua Appau-KLU has been awarded by the Jack Brewer Foundation and State of Florida for her role in promoting women empowerment in Ghana and Africa at large.

Speaking in an interview with journalists after the event, Mrs Appau-Klu underscored the importance of girl child education and women empowerment and called on well-meaning Ghanaians to her join her to advocate rights of women in order to promote women empowerment in the country.

According to her, educating and empowering girls and women respectively will lead to the socio-economic growth and development of the family, community and the nation at large.

Touching on some of her initiatives to promote women empowerment in Ghana, Mrs Appau-Klu

said she has led her team to develop a programme dubbed “Beyond Academics” where young people are trained on employable skills to prepare them adequately for the job market.

She revealed that " l play role in advocacy for the rights of women, advocacy and implementation of the domestic violence act and plan of Action - lobbying for funds and implementing projects in eliminating poverty in five regions of Ghana."

According to her, she supports widows and homeless women, empowering youth and young people.

She added that she played role in promoting quality and sustainable access to education economic empowerment of female sex workers and supporting livelihood options, promoting access to sanitation for poor communities in the country.

"I am also playing a leading role of training on human capital needs and promoting sustainable jobs," the female legal luminary added.

Profile

Mrs Elsie Appau -Klu is a Lawyer, Policy Analyst and Water Governance specialist.

She has over 14 years of work experience as a policy analyst, project management expert and social development specialist with particular expertise in water governance, gender and public financial management issues.

She has good working experience with governmental organizations, private-sector, civil society and grassroots organizations to alleviate poverty for sustainable economic development. 

She has advised and worked on various projects which look at project management, good governance with the World Bank, African Development Bank, the UN system and the Netherlands Foreign affairs Ministry.

She advocated for the passage of the Domestic Violence Act and worked as Gender Advisor with the Netherlands Embassy who funded the implementation of the National Plan of action between 2009-2012.

Mrs Appau- Klu also worked on promoting gender equity by supporting initiatives in the campaign against early and forced marriages.

The interventions were funded by the Netherlands and Canadian Governments in five regions of Ghana.

Elsie Appau- Klu has touched many life’s in the sectors of Gender, governance, water &Sanitation as well as Human Resources.

She served on many Boards including the Dominion University Council, FEED Africa (USA Based NGO), Ministerial Advisory Board for Youth and Sports (2010- 2011), West African Sexual and Reproductive Rights Committee among others.