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Dr. Bernadette Araba Adjei is the Deputy Director of the Legal and Monitoring Department of the Water Resources Commission of Ghana. Dr. ADJEI is a lawyer with 16 years’ experience in environmental law and water governance. She has been involved in the development and administration of a number of laws and regulations in the water sector in Ghana. Among these are water and buffer zone policies for Ghana, and regulations on administration of surface and groundwater use and management. She also has a wide knowledge in transboundary water resources governance and has collaborated with ECOWAS-WRCC, the Volta Basin Authority in West Africa and UNECE. Dr. Adjei has contributed to the following publications:

·         Ghana National Implementation Plan for the Convention on The Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (1992 Water Convention) (2021)

·         Legal Pluralism and Water Resources Governance in Ghana – Outcomes of Formal and Customary Management Frameworks (PhD Thesis) (2019)

·         Adjei B.A., and Larsey M. (2015), Ghana’s efforts at environmental enforcement networks: legal and institutional structures: - book chapter -Environmental Enforcement Networks; Concepts, Implementation and Effectiveness (ed.) Faure et al (2015)

·         Adjei B. A, and Ampomah B.Y. (2009) Statutory and Customary Water Rights Governing the Development and Management of Water Infrastructure and Technologies in the Volta Basin: The Case of Ghana; Water Rights in Informal Economies in the Limpopo and Volta Basins, CP 66, CGIAR.

·         Charter on Volta Basin Water Charter - (2018) National Legal Expert Contribution for Ghana 

·         Adjei B.A. (2009) Baseline Study - Institutional Context of the Volta Basin, the Legal and Institutional Framework of Integrated Water Resources Management in Ghana, Volta Basin Authority, - Accra, Ghana

·         Adjei B. A., and Ampomah B.Y. (2009) Ghana’s Strive Towards Transboundary Water Resources Management, the Agenda of Shared Waters – Shared Opportunities, conference presentation/workshop output, Accra

·         Adjei B. A., Youkhana E., and Ampomah B Y. (2008) The Transboundary Water Resources Management Regimes of the Volta Basin, ZEF Working Papers No. 28, University of Bonn, Bonn., Germany

·         Adjei B. A., (2008) Ghana’s Water Resources – Policy, Legal and Institutional Framework, Workshop output 2008, Challenge Program, CGAIR, Accra.

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Dr. Adjei has obtained an LL.M in Environmental Law, certificates in International Water Law and a PhD in Development Studies specializing in Legal Pluralism and Water Governance.