Topic: Financing Civil Society: Balancing Independence and Sustainability
Thursday | July 17th 2025 | 9:30 - 10:30 AM
Other Panelists: Prof. Takyiwaa Manuh, Dr. Alex Amankwah-Poku, Hon. Philip Oppong Amponsah, and Allan Quaye
Moderator: Prof. Anna Lartey
Kirchuffs is the founder and Executive Director of PACKS Africa, a youth-led Pan-African capacity development think tank operating to improve the uptake of research and other forms of evidence in policy processes and practice. He is a PhD student in African Studies at the University of Ghana, aiming to explore opportunities to amplify indigenous knowledge in global development. Leading research and outreach efforts at PACKS Africa, individual and institutional-level capacity development has been a core focus in his line of work, particularly through diagnostics of information systems and knowledge management.
He has almost 15 years of experience within the field of evidence-to-policy, playing various roles at local, national, and regional levels of collaboration to enhance opportunities for interventions that ultimately target human development. While providing strategic leadership to PACKS, he also leads on specific initiatives, aiming to nurture a truly influential organisation for evidence-informed policies. His strategic position within the EIDM fraternity earned him various appointments, including Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg, Visiting faculty at the University of Southampton, and Advisory Group member of the Africa Evidence Network (AEN).
He may be reached via email at k.atengble@packs-africa.org. Get in touch with him on Twitter @K_Atengble or @PACKS_Africa.