Sarah Ntoh Ashu Davis is currently the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ACCESS TO BASICS (ATB). She has over 25 years of work experience; working with the United Nations – Peacekeeping Missions, UN Agencies, and other international organizations in the area of international development, peacekeeping operations, project management, gender equality/social protection. Very knowledgeable of international laws and legal frameworks on human rights, child rights, and gender.

Before dedicating her life to serve and drive this passion and vision, she worked as Planning Officer/Project & Gender Focal Point at the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in Congo (DR) – MONUSCO from 2018 – 2022 – served in a number of Field Offices (Kisangani, Kananga, and Bukavu) in planning & coordinating peacekeeping operations, including project monitoring. Before joining MONUSCO, she spent 8 years working as Country Programme Associate/Gender Focal Point at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) – UN Agency. As the pioneer staff of the Ghana Country Office, she played lead role in establishing the Country Office, and setting up systems in place in 2010, actively participated in several project designs, and supervision missions. Her hard work and dedicated service to IFAD earned her an award for outstanding performance in 2012. Sarah joined IFAD after working with the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) Cocoa Livelihoods Program in Ghana, after spending 14 years working with Opportunities Industrialization Centre (OIC), Buea, Cameroon as Administrative Officer.

After spending decades serving her country, Africa, and the world at large, she finally resolved to formalize her lifelong brain-child ACCESS TO BASICS, which began as a personal project several years ago. Today, she dedicates herself full-time to this life passion and daily committed to uplifting the underprivileged children and their families from extreme poverty, and to end gender inequality and social injustice by facilitating them with access to basic needs (education, health, livelihood empowerment, and social protection), including advocacy and policy influencing in favour of women and girls.

Sarah holds an MA in Development Studies from the prestigious Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana, a BSc. in Sociology/Anthropology with Minor in Gender Studies from the University of Buea, Cameroon. She travelled to several countries (the Netherlands, Nigeria, Congo DR, and South Africa} for professional certification trainings in Gender Mainstreaming in Projects & Programmes, PRINCE2 Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, and CIPS Procurement.