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Nafi Chinery

Interim Africa Director, West Africa Regional Manager (Anglophone)
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Nafi is the interim Africa director and West Africa regional manager (Anglophone) at NRGI. She supervises the design, implementation and coordination of NRGI’s strategic engagements and programs in Anglophone West Africa. She is also one of NRGI’s leads on gender and extractives.  
 
Nafi is a social development expert with over 20 years of experience in development work. Prior to joining NRGI, Nafi worked with Oxfam GB and the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), a pan-African grant-making foundation for women’s rights. She has a longstanding career in organizational development and transformative and strategic leadership. For 17 years, Nafi has worked to develop and strengthen credible well informed women’s rights organizations and leaders to accelerate the respect for women and rights of marginalized groups across Africa. 
 

She holds a master’s degree in social development and sustainable livelihoods from the University of Reading, U.K., and a bachelor of arts and diploma in education from Cape Coast University, Cape Coast, Ghana. She was also a 2014 Aspen New Voices Fellow.

Authored content

The Resource Remix: Equity in Energy Transitions - COP27 Takeaways for Resource-Rich Countries

Antonio HillNafi ChineryIsabel Cavelier Adarve
13 December 2022

How Ghana Can Map Its Energy Transition Journey

Nafi Chinery
4 April 2022

Ending Nigeria’s Oil Dependency: Not If, But When…and How

Nafi ChineryTengi George-Ikoli
9 March 2022

Nigeria: Updated Assessment of the Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the Extractive Sector and Resource Governance

Briefing
13 November 2020
Nafi ChineryAaron SayneAlexandra Gillies

Risk and Reward in Ghana’s Agyapa Gold Royalties Deal: Eight Points for Consideration

Nicola WoodroffeDavid MihalyiNafi Chinery
1 October 2020

Ghana: Initial Assessment of the Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the Extractive Sector and Resource Governance

Briefing
15 June 2020
Nafi Chinery

Nigeria: Initial Assessment of the Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the Extractive Sector and Resource Governance

Briefing
4 June 2020
Nafi ChineryAaron SayneAlexandra Gillies

New Legislation Will Bolster Ghana’s Revenue Management. Here are Four More Ways to Improve Public Oversight

Aisha AdamNafi Chinery
12 February 2019

Ghana: Updated Assessment of the Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the Extractive Sector and Resource Governance

Briefing
14 December 2020
Nafi Chinery

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    Economic diversification
    Energy transition
    Gender
    Global initiatives
    Legislation and regulation
    Licensing and negotiation
    Mandatory payment disclosure
    Measurement of environmental and social impacts
    Measurement of governance
    Open data
    Revenue management
    Revenue sharing
    Sovereign wealth funds
    State-owned enterprises
    Subnational governance
    Tax policy and revenue collection
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