Theo Sowa

CEO of African Women's Development Fund; Advocate for Children's Rights

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Theo Sowa Biography

Theo Sowa is an independent advisor and consultant, specialising in international social development with a particular emphasis on children’s rights and protection issues. She is currently the CEO of the African Women’s Development Fund.

Born in Ghana, she has lived and worked in many countries in Africa, as well as the UK, Europe, and the USA. Her work includes advisory roles to African and other international women and children’s rights activists and leaders, plus policy development and advocacy with a variety of international agencies and organisations. She was Senior Programme Advisor on the UN Study on Children and Armed Conflict (the Machel Report) and led the five year review of the report.

Theo is a board member of various national and international civil society organisations and grant making foundations, including being a trustee of Comic Relief (a multimillion grant making foundation) and Chair of Comic Relief’s International Grants Committee; a member of the African Advisory Board of the Stephen Lewis Foundation; a Patron of Evidence for Development; a member of the UBS Optimus Foundation and a board member of the Graça Machel Trust.

She has authored many publications, including being a contributing editor to ‘The Impact of War on Children’; a contributing author and co editor of a Harvard Law School/UNICEF Innocenti publication on ‘Children and Transitional Justice’; and co author of ‘Groupwork and Intermediate Treatment’.

Theo was awarded a CBE in June 2010.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/15/2024.

Theo Sowa Videos

  • Know Your African Feminists: Theo Sowa
    Voice, Power, and Soul: Conversations from the 4th African Feminist Forum THEO SOWA (Ghana) In April 2016, the African Feminist Forum held its...
  • Women Deliver: Theo Sowa, African Women's Development Fund
    The development community is talking about women and girls, but they're not always acting in a way that places women and girls centrally in that...
  • Theo Sowa, Ask Her Talks
    Theo Sowa, CEO of the African Women’s Development Fund, speaks at the May 2015 Ask Her Talks -- hosted by the Stephen Lewis Foundation...

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