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Dr. Evans Sakyi Boadu

PhD

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Lecturer

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Department of Sustainable Development and Policy

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Dr Evans Sakyi Boadu is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Sustainable Development and Policy, School of Sustainable Development (SSD), University of Environment and Sustainable Development (UESD), Somanya, Ghana. After earning a BA in Political Science with Geography and Resource Development from the University of Ghana (UG), Ghana, he went on to earn his MA in Administration/Public Administration (MPA) (Thesis Option) and PhD in Public Administration at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), Cape Town, South Africa (SA). He has a certificate in Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development from the University of Bergen (UiB), Bergen, Norway. Evans has held a postdoctoral research fellow position at the School of Public Health, UWC, Cape Town, and the School of Governance, University of Witwatersrand (WITS), Johannesburg, South Africa. He was an Associate Lecturer at the School of Government (SoG), UWC, Cape Town, SA, a Research and Administrative Assistant at the Institute for Poverty, Lands, and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), Cape Town, SA, as a Postgraduate Teaching and Research Assistant at the SoG, UWC, as a Teaching Assistant at the Political Science Department, West University of Timisoara, Romania.

Evans has had a variety of research and teaching experiences at numerous universities and research organizations, including UWC, WITS, the West University of Timisoara (UVT) in Timisoara, Romania, and the University of Ghana (UG) in Ghana, serving as an intellectually curious emerging researcher in policy, governance, and evaluation in Africa, he has instructed undergraduate and graduate courses. As an emerging academic and researcher, he served as a reviewer and examiner for some accredited academic institutions and reputable academic journals. He worked as a field research assistant for the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), Ghana, Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research (ISSER), UG, and Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), Cape Town, South Africa. He is a member of the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA), the Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS), and the Institute for Local Government Management (ILGM) in South Africa.

Dr Boadu has served as an Erasmus research scholar at the West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania and won several academic fellowships and awards, some of which include the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship at the South African-German Centre for Development Research (SA-GER), Cape Town, South Africa, 2016-17; Bergen Summer Research School Fellowship, University of Bergen, Norway, 2019; European Commission, Erasmus Student Mobility Fellowship, West University of Timisoara (WUT), Timisoara, Romania 2019-20; South African (SA) National Research Foundation (NRF) Postdoctoral Fellowship 2021-22, World Evaluation Case Competition African Championship Award, 2020, and the WITS Centennial Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2023. His research interests include governance, policy monitoring and evaluation, culturally/indigenous responsive evaluation, social policy, indigenous knowledge systems, community-based development, and child and youth studies with a focus on Ghana and South Africa, and Africa at large. He has a significant body of academic work in these research areas and has presented several scholarly papers at prestigious national, continental, and international conferences.

• Development governance.
• Public sector policy monitoring and evaluation.
• Childhood and youth studies.
• Indigenously responsive evaluation.
• Indigenous knowledge methods.
• Community-based development

Recent publications
Peer-reviewed articles:
1. Kyei‐Gyamfi, S., Kyei‐Arthur, F., Sakyi, K. S., Boadu, S. E., Lartey, C., & Kyere, A. (2025). COVID‐19 Lockdown and Children’s Recreational Experiences: A Cross‐Sectional Study Using the Six Stages of Play Theory. Infant and Child Development, 34(6), e70057.

2. Kyei-Gyamfi, S., Kyei-Arthur, F., Abutima, T. K., Allotey, A. A., Afrifa, H., Boadu, S. E., & Sakyi, K. S. (2025). Challenges in Education for Visually Impaired Children in Ghana: A Path to Inclusion. International Journal of Pediatrics, 2025(1), 6653071.

3. Nordjo, E., Ahenkan, A., Okbandrias, M., Boadu, E. S., Boon, E., Otchere‐Ankrah, B., … & Kwawu, G. (2025). Fostering Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Decent Work Policies in Africa: Lessons from Ghana. Public Administration and Development, 45(3),1-15.

4. Kyei-Gyamfi, S., Kyei-Arthur, F., Boadu, S. E., Sefa, K., Yeboah, E., and Gyarkor, A. (2025). Knowledge of children on harmful traditional practices, the types, and regulations in Ghana. Reproductive Female and Child Health 4(2), 1-14.

5. Boadu, E. S., & Ile, I. (2024). Community-based development and indigenous evaluation in Africa: insights from Ghana. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 42(2),1-23.

6. Gyamerah, K. G., Osafo, J., Gyasi-Gyamerah, A. A., & Boadu, E. S. (2024). Examining acculturative stress among international students in Ghana using an interpretative phenomenological approach. Unpacking the social support systems. Plos one, 19(9),1-24.
7. Boadu, E. S. (2024). Evaluating Ghana’s youth-centered food security policies: A collaborative governance approach. Sustainability, 16(9), 1-17.

8. Mukiga, A. K., Boadu, E. S., & Edson, T. (2024). Perceived Public Participation and Health Delivery in Local Government Districts in Uganda. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(7), 1-19.

9. Boadu, E. S. (2023). Factors affecting the integration of cultural values into evaluation: Indigenous perspectives. African Evaluation Journal, 11(1), 1-11.

10. Nordjo, E., Boadu, E. S., & Ahenkan, A. (2023). Community participation in enterprise development programmes for poverty reduction and sustainable development in Ghana. Community Development, 1-24.

11. Boadu, E. S., and Ile, I, (2023). Evaluation innovation in Africa: Towards an indigenously responsive evaluation values, approaches, and practices in Ghana. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development. pp 1-13

12. Boadu, E. S., and Ile, I, (2022). Beyond the Buzzword: A Framework for an Indigenous Relational Evaluation in Traditional Communities in Ghana. American Journal of Evaluation, Vol 43 (4) pp. 1-22.

13. Sefa-Nyarko C, Okafor-Yarwood I, and Boadu, E. S. (2021). Petroleum Revenue Management Act in Ghana: A Critique of the Role of Civil Society in Monitoring the Annual Budget Funding Amount. The Extractive Industries and Society, Vol 8, Issue 3, pp. 1- 11

14. Boadu, E. S., I Ile, and Oduro, M. (2020). Indigenizing participation for sustainable community-based development programmes in Ghana. Journal of Asian and African Studies, Vol 56 Issue 7, pp. 1658–1677.

15. Eresia-Eke, C. E., and Boadu, E. S, (2019). Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Preparedness of Public Sector Institutions in South Africa. Journal of Reviews on Global Economics, Vol 8, pp.532-542.

16. Boadu, E.S. and Ile, I, (2019). Between power and perception: Understanding youth perspectives in participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) in Ghana. Evaluation and program planning, Vol 77, pp.1-8.

17. Dinbabo, M. F., Ile, I., Majee, W. Belebema, M. and Boadu, S. E, (2019). Evaluating System Efficiencies and Service Delivery of Immigrant Population in South Africa and the United States. African Human Mobility Review, Vol. 4, No. 3 pp1384-1415.

18. Boadu, E. S., and Ile, I. (2018). The Politics of Youth Participation in Social Intervention Programmes in Ghana: Implications for Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E). Journal of Reviews on Global Economics, Vol 7, pp. 913-925.

19. Ile, I., and Boadu, S. E. (2018). The paradox of youth empowerment: Exploring Local Enterprise and Skills Development Programme (LESDEP) in Ghana. Cogent Social Science Journal, Vol 4, 2018 – Issue 1, pp.1-15.

20. Boadu S. E., and Ile E, I, (2017). Rethinking participation in monitoring and evaluation (PM&E). Beneficiary’s perspectives from Local Enterprises and Skills Development Programme (LESDEP) in Ghana. Loyola Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 31 Issue 2, pp. 209-227.

Recent book chapters published:
1. Boadu, E. S. (2025). Governance, Constitutional Democracy, and Political Accountability in West Africa. In Political Governance and the African Peer Review Mechanism: A Comparative Analysis (pp. 197-220). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

2. Sulle, E., Maganga, F., Qamara, R., Boadu, E. S., Malle, H., & Minani, O. (2023). The politics of the smallholder-investor relationship in the Tanzanian sugar sector. In Land, Rights and the Politics of Investments in Africa (pp. 124-145). Edward Elgar Publishing.

3. Boadu, E. S. (2022). Indigenous Knowledge and Community Development in Africa: A Framework to Explore the Approaches, Philosophies and Practices in Ghana. In Indigenous Methodologies, Research and Practices for Sustainable Development (pp. 145-164). Springer, Cham.

4. Boadu, E. S. (2022). Evaluating the Commitment of South Africa to the Principles of Separation of Powers. In Democracy and Political Governance in South Africa (pp. 37-57). Springer, Cham.

5. Boadu, E. S., & Alaji, F. (2022). Evaluating the Rights of Children and Young People in Africa: The Policies and Practices in South Africa. In Democracy and Political Governance in South Africa (pp. 113-131). Springer, Cham.

Awards:
1. South African National Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship under the South African Research Chairs Initiative of the Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation of South Africa (grant no. 98918), South African Medical Research Council and the Belgian Development Cooperation, through the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape. Cape Town, South Africa (January 2021- December 2022).

2. World Evaluation Case Competition 2020 Award, African Champion Team, ‘One for all-All for one’ Team, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.

3. European Commission, Erasmus Student Mobility Fellowship, West University of Timisoara (WUT), Timisoara, Romania, for a PhD Student Mobility Fellowship (September 2019- February 2020).

4. University of Bergen Summer School PhD Fellowship, Bergen Summer Research School, University of Bergen, Norway (15- 27th June 2019). Accepted into the course “Cultural Policy, Arts Heritage, and Sustainable Development” BSRS 2019.

5. German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship at the South African German Centre for Development Research (SA-GER) for a master’s degree in public administration, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, and (2016-2018).

Conference Presentation:
1. Title of paper: Indigenous knowledge and sustainable development: Exploring the indigenous approaches, philosophies, and practices in Ghana (E.S. Boadu).

Paper presented at the Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS) Annual Conference,
June 12-16, 2025, at the University of Montreal, Canada.

2. Title of paper: Community Participation in Enterprise Development Programmes for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development in Ghana (E. Nordjo and E. S. Boadu)
Paper presented at the 3rd Research and Development Conference, SD Dombo University
of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Ghana from the 17 to 19th October 2023.

3. Title of paper: Institutional Support for Enterprise Development in Emerging Markets – Evidence from the Bank of Industry (BOI), Nigeria (E. Ilori, I. Ile, and E. S. Boadu)
Paper presented on 2nd December 2020 at the 5th PAERC International Conference on Entrepreneurship in Times of Economic Crisis (2nd to 3rd December 2020), ISBN: 978-0-620-89351-0, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

4. Title of paper: An anatomy of participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) in Africa. Insight from the indigenous governance systems.
Paper presenter on 8th April 2019 at the London International Conference on Research in Social Science and Humanities (ICRSSH), Canada Water Theatre and Library, 21 Surrey Quays Road, London, UK.

5. Title of paper: “Between Power and Perception: Understanding of youth insights in participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E)”.
Paper presented on 9th May 2018 at the South African Association of Public Administration and Management (SAAPAM) 17th Annual Conference dubbed as “Building State Capacity for Democracy’s Developmental Mandate” at Northwest University, Mahikeng, South Africa.

6. Title of paper: “Operation feed yourself: Unpacking the nexus between youth participation in agriculture and food security in sub-Saharan Africa. The case of Ghana”
Abstract accepted for presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Food Safety and Security. University of Pretoria in collaboration with the University of Johannesburg, the Human Sciences Research Council, the Agricultural Research Council in South Africa, and the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security from 15-17 October 2018 at the St George’s Hotel, Pretoria, South Africa