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Eugenia Date-Bah

Eugenia Date-Bah is a well known researcher in the field of Gender, conflict and employment issues. She has been involved in research and technical assistance activities for over thirty-five years. She is the former Director of the ILO InFocus (International Focus) Programme on Crisis Response and Reconstruction. She worked in the ILO (both in the field and at headquarters) for over 24 years, during which she covered training, project design and evaluation, technical seminars and conferences, advisory services, preparation of publications and tools covering gender issues, refugees and other vulnerable groups, antiapartheid activities, comprehensive responses to the socio-economic challenges of armed conflicts and post-conflict reintegration and reconstruction processes, capacity building of institutions (governmental and civil society bodies).

Apart from her work on armed conflicts and other crises, she has also held other positions like Manager of the ILO Action Programme on Skills & Entrepreneurship training for Countries Emerging from armed Conflict; manager of the ILO Interdepartmental Project on Equality for Women in Employment; Senior technical specialist in gender questions, Senior official responsible for operational activities in the implementation of the ILO Declaration against Apartheid; Senior programme Officer in the ILO Africa Regional Office; and a Sociologist/Social Anthropologist in a multidisciplinary ILO research project on appropriate technology and the working conditions of rural women. Before joining the ILO, she was a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Ghana. She holds a Ph.D from the University of Birmingham (England), MSc. from the London School of Economics (LSE), and a B.A. (Hons) from the University of Ghana. She has published extensively. Her most recent publication is Jobs After war: A critical challenge in the peace and reconstruction puzzle (ILO, 2003).