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Interview with Yero Baldeh and Amel Hamza
Director of the Transition States Coordination Office of the African Development Bank (Y. B.), and Acting Director of the Gender, Women and Civil Society Department and Manager, Gender and Women Empowerment Division of the African Development Bank (A. H.)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2022
Abstract
Yero Baldeh has over twenty-four years of professional experience, seventeen of which with the African Development Bank. He is currently the Director of the Transition States Coordination Office at the African Development Bank (AfDB), Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. Prior to this, he was the Country Manager for Ghana, Lead Coordinator of the Transition States Coordination Office and Country Manager in Sierra Leone, among other posts. Before he joined the Bank in 2004, Dr Baldeh was the Head of The Gambia Social Development Fund.
Amel Hamza has more than thirty years of management and technical experience on gender and related topics, with over a decade of successful track record in the AfDB. She is currently leading the AfDB's roll-out and implementation of the 2021-2025 Gender Strategy. Prior to joining the AfDB, Dr Hamza worked in academia in her home country of Sudan and held different positions in UNICEF and UN Women. She holds a master's degree in Development Studies with specialization in Women and Development from the Institute of Social Studies, from the Netherlands.
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- Information
- International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 103 , Issue 918: The Sahel , December 2021 , pp. 795 - 805
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- Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the ICRC.
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This interview was conducted in 2021 and finalized in March 2022.
References
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8 ICRC, above note 6.
9 AfDB Group, “Africa Resilience Forum (ARF2021)”, above note 6.
10 AfDB Group, above note 2.
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12 AfDB Group, above note 7.