{"id":12054,"date":"2024-02-09T15:52:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T20:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=12054"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:27:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:27:27","slug":"sulley-gariba","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/sulley-gariba\/","title":{"rendered":"Sulley Gariba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Sulley Gariba\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"193\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Sulley-Gariba-160x193.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Sulley-Gariba-160x193.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Sulley-Gariba-200x241.png 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Sulley-Gariba.png 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sulley Gariba was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2:00 p.m. ceremony on Tuesday, June 10, \u201cin recognition of longstanding work and academic scholarship in international development, civil society practices, government policy, and program development in Africa.\u201d<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carleton alumnus Sulley Gariba is a policy, governance and evaluation specialist with over 30 years of experience in leadership and providing strategic advice to governments, as well as regional and international institutions. Since January 2013, he has been the senior policy advisor to the President of Ghana and also<br>\nthe head of the Presidential Policy Delivery Unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a leader in the international evaluation movement, he was the founding president of the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS) from 2002 to 2005, and president of the African Evaluation Association from 2007 to 2009. He advised the secretariat managing the first-round evaluation of the Paris<br>\nDeclaration between 2006 and 2008. He has served on several expert panels to assess the evaluation function in UNICEF, the UNDP, the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and, in April 2014, became a member of the Advisory Council on Citizen Engagement in Development, a panel constituted by the World Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recognition of his three decades of commitment to development in Ghana, Dr. Gariba was awarded the Millennium Excellence Award for Rural Development in 2005 by the Millennium Foundation and the Government of Ghana. He also served as a commissioner for 12 years on the National Planning Commission of Ghana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lb-2C8coSu4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF Sulley Gariba<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sulley Gariba was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2:00 p.m. ceremony on Tuesday, June 10, \u201cin recognition of longstanding work and academic scholarship in international development, civil society practices, government policy, and program development in Africa.\u201d Carleton alumnus Sulley Gariba is a policy, governance and evaluation specialist with over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":340,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-12054","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13405,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12054\/revisions\/13405"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=12054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}