Antoinette Adjoa Tsiboe-Darko, PhD

Antoinette Adjoa Tsiboe-Darko, PhD
Research Fellow
Contact Info
atsiboe-darko@ug.edu.gh
Education
PhD in Development Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, 2014.
MPhil in International Development Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 2002.
B.A. Degree with honours in Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana, Legon, July 1999.

Dr. Antoinette Tsiboe-Darko has nearly two decades of expertise in investigative research, community engagement and dialogue, and gender-sensitive program implementation. Her research strengths are in natural resource governance approaches and the social effect of natural resource development in endowed regions. She has in-depth experience in the provision of expert consultancy services in social development, social impact assessment and the provision of social interventions in communities endowed with natural resources. Her work in resource endowed regions spans Ghana and Burkina Faso. In policy advocacy, she has led projects in health and education and in green energy transition, and within civil society, she has worked on projects for organisations including the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research, STAR Ghana Foundation, UNICEF and World Vision Ghana. She has contributed to evidence-based policy formulation for Government agencies including the National Development Planning Commission and the Ministry of lands and Natural Resources of Ghana. Her methodological strengths lie in engendering research processes and the translation of key research findings into actionable development programs.

Research: Dr. Tsiboe-Darko’s principal research interests lie in governance structures, institutions, building sustainable livelihoods and corporate social investments in the extractive sector of Ghana. Her research over the years has been in specific social development and governance issues such as health, poverty and education and the resultant effect on community development, citizen's participation and political decisions.

 

Selected Projects:

Title: “Coast to Coast” Community Engagement and Sensitisation Exercise

Funded by: Tullow Oil Ghana PLC (in partnership with Petroleum Commission and Fisheries Commission)

Title: Child Marriage in Ghana

Funded by: World Vision Ghana commissioned and funded by World Vision Ghana

Objective: A qualitative study of child marriage in selected communities across Ghana

 

Selected Publications:

Kumi, E., Osei, D.B., & Tsiboe-Darko, A. (2025). Predictors of local non-governmental organisations’ (NGOs’) adoption of self-regulation in Ghana. Nonprofit Policy Forum, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1515/npf-2024-0074

Kumi, E., Amoah, K.S., & Tsiboe-Darko, A. (2025). A critical reflection on the contributions and barriers of local civil society organisations (CSOs) to National Development in Ghana. Forum for Development Studies,1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2025.2502344

Kumi, E., Osei, D.B., & Tsiboe-Darko, A. (2025). Understanding Local NGOs’ Sustainability in Ghana: Does Organisational Capacity and Scope Matter? Journal of Civil Society, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2025.2547662ve

Armah, R., Tsiboe-Darko, A., Tsiboe, F., Zereyesus, Y., & Osei, E. (2024). Off-farm diversification shifts agrarian household diets towards healthier and nutritious foods: Population-based evidence from Ghana. Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

Gyan, S. E., Domfe, G., & Tsiboe-Darko, A. (2023). ‘I Am on a Family Planning Program, but I Have Not Told My Husband’: Contraceptive Decision-Making of Child Brides in Ghana. Journal of Family Issues, 44(9), 2398-2421. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X221093297

Tease, F., Johnson Gaither, C., Yembillah, R., Tsiboe-Darko, A., Mensah, P., & Adams, B. (2023). “When will the tree grow for me to benefit from it?”: Tree tenure reform to counter mining in southwestern Ghana. Society and Natural Resources, 36(3).

Gyan, S., Domfe, G., & Tsiboe-Darko, A. (2021). “I am on a family planning program, but I have not told my husband”: Contraceptive decision-making of child brides in Ghana. Journal of Family Issues.

Tsiboe-Darko, A., & Gyasi, N. (2020). Divergent influences in negotiating resource investment in Ghana’s mining sector. In L. Laube & P. Pierra (Eds.), Civilizing resource investments and extractivism: Societal negotiations and the role of law. ZEF Development Studies.

Tsiboe-Darko, A. (2019). Oil and Social Responsibility. In R. Aidoo (Ed.) The Politics of Economic Reforms in Ghana. Routledge: London and New York.

Afranie, S., Gyan S. E., & Tsiboe-Darko, A. (2019). Child marriage in Ghana: Who cares? Ghana Social Science Journal. 16 (2). School of Social Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon.

 

Professional and Community Service: 

  • Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Ghana: Advisory Board Member, August 2018 - present
  • Great Museums of Africa, Technical and Advisory Committee Member (Ghana Representative). November 2019.
  • Heritage and Cultural Society of Africa (HACSA), Board Member January 2019 - present
  • Guest Speaker: United Nations World Volunteer Day. “The Value of Volunteerism in Ghana’s Socioeconomic Development, December 2015

 

Memberships:          

African Excellence Network: An Alumni Association of the DAAD Centres of African Excellence.