Elizabeth Annan-Yao worked with UNRISD on the project Social Policy in Late Industrializers: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Challenge of Social Policy from 2002 to 2004.
Her study covers social policy in four Francophone countries from West and Central Africa, including Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, and Senegal. Her publications include: Annan-Yao, E. (2002) “Analysis of Gender Relations in the Family, Formal Education and Health”, an article published by Cairo Gender Institute and CODESRIA; Annan-Yao, E. and A. Assani (2001), Etude sur les mariages précoces et grossesses précoces au Burkina-Faso, Cameroun, Gambie, Libéria, Niger et Tchad, UNICEF, WCARO, Abidjan, 2001; and Annan-Yao, E. (2000) Status of the Girl Child in West and Central African Region, UNICEF, WCARO, Abidjan, October, 2000.
She holds Doctorat en Sociologie.