About Sagal Abas Bafo

Sagal Abas Bafo is a women’s rights and humanitarian–development–peace nexus specialist with extensive experience working in fragile and conflict-affected contexts across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. As the founder of Adapt Localisation Nexus (ALN), she has spent over a decade working alongside women-led civil society organisations, local groups, and national stakeholders to respond to the complex dynamics of conflict, displacement, and post-conflict recovery. Her work focuses on strengthening local leadership, civic participation, and gender-responsive approaches to crisis response, governance, and urban transformation, with particular attention to how power, space, and public life are reshaped after conflict. Currently, Sagal supports CSO partners in fragile, conflict countries to navigate evolving humanitarian and political challenges, strengthen institutional capacity, and develop locally driven strategies that enable communities to shape more inclusive recovery and governance in their own contexts.