Currently AKATIGA has around 21 staff, consisting of 14 researchers (full time and part time) and 7 support staff (librarians, financial administration, publication information, and housekeeping).

The educational background of the researchers is anthropology, economics, development studies, urban and regional planning, and communications, with one person with a Masters degree and 6 Masters degrees. In principle, AKATIGA prefers to develop and train young researchers to accumulate their research expertise to become intermediate researchers and (in the long term) to become senior researchers.