World Health Organization or WHO Regional Office for Africa and the UN Volunteers launched the Africa Young Women Health Champions, an initiative to recruit early to middle career women professionals across 47 countries in the Africa.
The institutions will jointly hire around 100 young African women as national and international UN Volunteers.
The recruitment will focus on female professionals in public health, epidemiology, health research, health emergency management, data management, statistics and information management, innovation, communications, administration and external relations.
The Africa Young Women Health Champions initiative will provide women with the opportunity to serve to improve the health and well-being of people in Africa.
‘This initiative comes at the right time for WHO in the African Region. We have committed to achieving gender parity among WHO staff, and although we are making progress, we still have work to do’, said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa.
‘With the Africa Young Women Health Champions initiative, we are opening the doors for 100 women professionals to join WHO offices across Africa as UN Volunteers, said Toily Kurbanov, UN Volunteers Deputy Executive Coordinator.
‘WHO and UN Volunteers share the goal to empower women while helping countries on the continent to improve people’s health. And these new colleagues will be the agents of change and champions of Africa’s healthy future’, the official explained.
This initiative has the potential to empower the next generation of female health leaders on the continent.
The initiative shows a strong commitment of WHO in supporting the next generation of female leaders in health in Africa.