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WIPSEN-Africa has a five-member Board of Directors that is responsible for formulating and recommending general policies and guidelines for the Network. The Board of Directors is currently constituted by:
A lawyer by profession, Dorcas Coker-Appiah has for over twenty years been a women's rights activist. She works at Gender Studies and Human Right Documentation Centre as Executive Director. As one of the founding members of FIDA Ghana, she has been an active participant in all its activities since its inception in 1974, having served as vice President and then President from 1988 to 1989 and 1999 t0 1991 respectively. She also served as the President of Legal Aid steering Committee of FIDA and also the Project Coordinator of the Legal Literacy and Publication committee for a number of years.
Dorcas is also a member of Women in Law and Development in Africa, WILDAF, a Pan-African network of organizations and individuals with members in twenty-six African countries and a founding member of WILDAF Ghana and currently the chairperson of the African Regional Board Director of WILDAF.She has also served as a resource person for a number of organizations across Ghana and other parts of Africa training in gender, human rights and leadership. She also has a number of publications to her credit.Dorcas is currently serving as a member of the CEDAW Committee in New York.
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