Amina Mohammed, the Secretary General's Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning and the Hon Minister of the Environment in Nigeria
NGO CSW/NY Announces 2016 NGO CSW Women of Distinction Awardee
February 4, 2016 – New York, NY – The NGO Committee on the Status of Women, NY (NGO CSW/NY), one of the Regional Committees of CoNGO that advocates for women’s rights and gender equality, is pleased to announce the 2016 NGO CSW Forum Women of Distinction Awardee, Amina J. Mohammed.
Amina J. Mohammed was appointed Special Adviser on “Post-2015 Development Planning” to the United Nation’s Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 7 June 2012. She brought more than 30 years of experience as a development practitioner in the public and private sectors, as well as civil society.
Ms. Mohammed was appointed Hon Minister of the Environment by Nigerian President Mohammadu Buhari when he swore in his new Cabinet on 11 November 2015. She is also currently the CEO/Founder of the Center for Development Policy Solutions, a newly established think tank to address the policy and knowledge gaps within the Government, Parliament and private sector in development and civil society for robust advocacy materials. Mrs. Mohammed is also Adjunct Professor of the Master’s Programme for Development Practice at Columbia University, New York.
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Prior to that, Mrs. Mohammed served as the Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on the Millennium Development Goals after serving three Presidents over a period of six years. In 2005 she was charged with the coordination of the debt relief funds ($1 billion per annum) towards the achievement of Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria. Her mandate included designing a Virtual Poverty Fund with innovative approaches to poverty reduction, budget coordination and monitoring, as well as providing advice on pertinent issues regarding poverty, public sector reform and sustainable development.
From 2002-2005, Ms. Mohammed served as coordinator of the Task Force on Gender and Education for the United Nations Millennium Project. Prior to this, she served as Founder and Executive Director of Afri-Projects Consortium, a multidisciplinary firm of Engineers and Quantity Surveyors (1991-2001) and worked with the architectural engineering firm of Archcon Nigeria in association with Norman and Dawbarn UK (1981-1991).
Mrs. Mohammed also serves on numerous international advisory panels and boards, including the Global Development Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Secretary General’s Global Sustainability Panel, the Hewlett Foundation on Education, African Women’s Millennium Initiative, the ActionAid International “Right to Education Project”, the Millennium Promise Initiative and the Institute of Scientific & Technical Information of China.
She is a Governor of the International Development Research Centre in Canada, and currently chairs the Advisory Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Global Monitoring Report on Education.
Mrs. Mohammed received the National Honours Award of the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2006 and was inducted in the Nigerian Women’s Hall of Fame in 2007.
Mrs. Mohammed is married with children.
About the Women of Distinction Award
This annual award is given to a woman or women in recognition of her leadership in the struggle for gender equality and women’s empowerment. The honoree is a leading activist from a developing country who can address the theme of the CSW, will benefit from participation in Consultation Day, and make a difference when she returns home.
Извор: WUNRN - 10.02.2016
