Akua Sena DansuaHon Akua Sena Dansua is a member of four
parliamentary committees, Gender and Children, Public Accounts,
Business and Local Government and Rural Development.
She holds an Executive Masters Degree in Governance and Leadership
from the Ghana Institute of Management and PublicAdministration (GIMPA)
and a graduate diploma in Communication Studies, University of Ghana,
Legon.
Ms Akua Dansua is a qualified journalist and a product of the Ghana
Institute of Journalism (GIJ). She rose through the ranks as a reporter
of the then �Weekly Spectator� to the position of a Deputy Features
Editor of the paper until she was called to serve the nation as the
District Chief Executive for Kpando during the erstwhile PNDC regime.
She obtained her GCE �O� & �A� level at the Mawuli School.
She had been Technical Advisor to the National Council on Women and
Development, Media Consultant, UNDP, 1995 consultant to the UNDP among
other roles.
Ms Dansua was at one time acting Chief Reporter of the Nigerian
Reporter between 1983 to 1987 and also Electoral Assistant to the
Electoral Commission from 1979 to 1980.
Ms Akua Dansua belongs to several civic, social and non-governmental
organisations. Among these are African Women Development Fund (AWDF),
Ghana, where she is its local advisor, chairperson, advocates for
Gender and Development Initiatives, Ghana, an NGO at Kpando, as well as
a member of the Evangelical Presbyterian (EP) University College
Council, 2005 and board member, Africa in Democracy and Good Governance
(ADG), The Gambia.
The MP has received a number of fellowship and scholarship awards.
Amongst which she received the Dag Hammarskjold fellow (1991) awarded
by the United Nations Correspondents Association for being the most
promising journalist from Africa.
She attended the 46th UN General Assembly session in New York in 1991 as her prize.
Ms Densua was recognised by the Women�s Law and Human Rights
Institute of the Art Foundation for her leadership role in the
development of women in the country.
She undertook special assignments as member of Commonwealth Observer
Team to The Gambia Presidential election in 2006 and member of Ghana�s
Parliamentary delegation to the 37th African conference of the
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Abuja, Nigeria.
She was the first chairperson of the West Africa Media Network
(WAMNET) one time vice-president, Association of Women in the Media
(ASWIM) Ghana.
As a journalist she was an executive member of the Parliamentary Press Corps.
Ms Dansua hails from Botoku in the Volta Region and began her
primary education at the Kadjebi-Akan Local Authority Experimental
Primary and Middle School.
Her hobbies include social work, listening to music, reading, discussions and browsing the
internet.
Ms Dansua was appointed Minister for Women and Children�s Affairs
in February 2009 under H. E. President J. E. A. Mills� Administration.