Roberta Blankson is a Knowledge Management, Communication, Capacity Development and Events Consultant at IDEV. Before joining the team in June 2023, she worked with the International Centre for Evaluation and Development (ICED) as a Senior Program Officer for East and West Africa. In this role, she led the conceptualization and launch of the “Parliamentary Knowledge Exchange Forum” to enhance collaboration and dialogues between African Parliaments and Civil Society Organizations in Ghana, Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, Sierra Leone and Gambia.
She has also worked with the Office of the President of Ghana’s Monitoring and Evaluation Secretariat, the Ministry of Monitoring and Evaluation-Ghana, the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation-Ghana, and was also a Corporate Banker with First Atlantic Bank, Ghana. She served on the Ministerial Advisory Board of the Ministry of Monitoring and Evaluation from 2019-2021.
Roberta has expertise in knowledge management, communication and storytelling for impact, partnerships and multi-stakeholder engagement, resource mobilization, policy design, evaluation capacity development and program management.
She holds a Master’s degree in Development Finance from the University of Ghana, and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration (Banking and Finance) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. She is passionate about youth-inclusive development, literacy and strengthening a reading culture in Africa.