Mashood Issaka
Senior Program Officer
Issaka@ipinst.org
Mr. Mashood Issaka is Senior Program Officer with the Africa Program. In addition to coordinating program activities on/in Africa, he has focused on post-conflict reconstruction and governance and civil society’s role in peacebuilding in west, east, central and the Horn of Africa. He has also been interested in regional arrangements, crisis and response capacities, and the role of current and new actors in security and development in Africa.
Prior to joining IPI in July 2003, Mashood directed government and INGO decentralization and development programs with Ghana Ministry of Local Government. He has also worked for the UN Capital Development Fund in New York and Oxfam International in Washington DC.
Mashood holds a Master of Public Administration degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, New York where he focused on advanced management techniques and democratic theory and practice in Africa. At Columbia he was a Philip E. Mosley Fellow. He has a BA in Geography from the University of Lagos and a Certificate in Strategic Planning from the University of Ghana School of Administration.
Publications:
- Civil Society and Conflict Management in the Great Lakes Region: Opportunities and Constraints, with Bushoki Batabiha, IPI Report, 2005
- “The Role of External Institutions in Democratic Reform in Ghana” Paper, African Studies Association and Canadian Association of African Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005
- The Role of Civil Society in Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes Region, with Arthur Bainomugisha, IPI Report, 2004
Languages
Including English, Mashood speaks the West African languages of Hausa, Twi and Kotokoli.