Mrs. Agyei has over seven (7) years of experience in implementation of several community-based natural resource management projects/ programmes in Ghana. Her specific areas of expertise are forest landscape restoration, ecosystem-based climate change mitigation and adaptation interventions and natural resource governance, particularly promotion of gender and social inclusion in natural resource management (NRM) decision-making. She has tremendous experience in facilitating the creation and strengthening of community-based NRM structures, for example CREMAs. She has also been involved in successfully advocating for incorporation of community-based NRM solutions in sectoral policies at the sub national and national levels.

Dorcas holds a Master’s degree in Climate Change and Sustainable Development and a BSc. in Agriculture from the University of Ghana-Legon. She also holds a certificate in Landscape Governance, Restoration and Privatization from Wageningen University.