Ahmed Elassal

Ahmed El Assal is a PhD candidate at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam; he holds an MA in Governance, Development and Public Policy from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex. Ahmed has more than twelve years of experience in the international development sector and worked with several organisations including GIZ, Oxfam, among others. As part of the ADAPTED project (Eradicating Poverty: Pathways Towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals), Ahmed’s research focuses on demand for good governance and policy access for the poor. His research investigates which demand-side initiatives have been successful, and will focus on a number of case studies to investigate more in detail why certain initiatives led to greater access to policy-making for the poor while others failed.