Staff Listing
Sonkita Conteh
Program CoordinatorSonkita Conteh is project manager based in the OSIWA-Freetown office. Conteh works on the Scaling up Grassroots Justice Services in Sierra Leone project, which focuses on legal empowerment of the poor.
Conteh is a legal practitioner of the High Court of Sierra Leone and holds a master's degree in human rights and democratization from the University of Pretoria. As a consultant for the past two years with the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions Africa Office in Accra, Ghana, he researched and reviewed law and policy on the right to water and sanitation in South Africa and Ghana; drafted amicus curiae briefs, publications and training manuals; and provided training to civil society organizations. He has over five years’ litigation experience.
