Nominated
by BPW Cotonou
Nomination form signed by Huguette AKPLOGAN DOSSA
on 21 April 2008
Nominee Information
Postal Address: 028P937 Cotonou
Telephone: 00 (229) 95 95 90 28 / 90 93 60 7l
E-mail: huqsena2002@yahoo.fr
Occupation:
- Director of Cabinet Emeraude Consulting, Specialist
in Adult Education and Executive
- Director of NGO Sister's Union for Action Président
of BPW Cotonou
Active in Occupation
BPW Offices held
Club:
- BPW-Cotonou From 2004 to 2008
Positions in other Voluntary Organisations:
National Coordinator of Social Watch in Benin during
years 2005- 2008
Supporting
Statement
To whom it may concern
I have the honor of submitting the nomination
of Mrs. Huguette AKPLOGAN DOSSA as candidate for Regional
Coordinator for Africa after the decision made by BPW African
Regional Congress, August 2007 in Cotonou. Having been committed
to women’s issues, Mrs. Akplogan Dossa is convinced
of the importance and urgent need to work for women’s
efficient leadership through the reinforcement of individual
and collective skills and the solidarity among women organizations
in Benin and in Africa. She has been Regional Coordinator
for Social Alert, Social Watch and nominated for « Women
of the Year Award » in 2008 in Benin.
Additionally, she created BPW Cotonou in
May 2004 thus confirming her commitment to work for a true
women leadership in taking their social, political and economic
responsibility at local, national and regional levels. In
order to accomplish her tasks as President of BPW Cotonou,
she participated in some BPW meetings: International BPW Congress
in Luzern in 2005; Regional Conferences in Cairo, in 2006;
and in CWS New York, in 2008 and in the Individual Development
Program (IPD). Her dynamism, that she transmitted to her Club,
is also the reason of her nomination; as well as:
- She helped created other clubs in Africa (Niger, Mali,
Togo, Senegal);
- She motivated new affiliations
- She reinforced the capacities of current Clubs (Burkina
Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Young BPW Benin, Nigeria
and Burkina Faso)
- She excelled in organizing African Congress in Cotonou
in 2007;
Huguette’s nomination for BPW Regional
Coordination is part of these actions. She commits herself
to give BPW Africa a new start in order to offer BPW a real
crucible of leadership culture, exchanges of experiences,
reinforcements of capacities and opportunities, through:
- The creation of new clubs in African Region
- The reinforcement of current clubs;
- Training women in business leadership and business
culture in order to improve their professional, economic,
political and social life.
- Create an investment fund (capital/risk);
- Network BPW African Clubs with clubs in other continents
to insure BPW Africa visibility;
- To lobby and advocate with regional institutions to
gather recommendations for BPW Congress.
- To create partnerships with UN agencies in Africa and
other partnerships such as with Open Society Initiative
for West Africa to train BPW.
With this experience, Huguette Akplogan Dossa
seems to be the ideal candidate to help the blooming of BPW
Africa, because between BPW and her there is a common vision,
along with the triennial theme: «the power to make the
difference through action and advocacy.
La Secrétaire Générale
de BPW Cotonou
Tatiana YABI MAMA
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