[4][5] In Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, Achakpa serves as the national coordinator for Nigeria.
[8] Achakpa was married at age 16, became a mother of three children, and then her husband died, leaving her as a young widow.
[11] The primary focus of her work addresses the need to incorporate gender-related matters into water resource planning and management.
[19] She has spoken at the UN assembly in Nairobi on the importance of women's human rights in relations to environmental activism.
[6][7] In 2015, Vogue magazine featured her in an article on the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference that identified her as one of 13 "formidable women leading the way".