{"id":12309,"date":"2020-10-14T09:26:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T09:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africlub.net\/awdf\/?p=12309"},"modified":"2020-10-29T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T15:50:10","slug":"awdf-welcomes-incoming-ceo-francoise-moudouthe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/awdf-welcomes-incoming-ceo-francoise-moudouthe\/","title":{"rendered":"AWDF welcomes incoming CEO, Fran\u00e7oise Moudouthe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span lang=\"en\"><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 60%; display: inline-block; margin-right: 30px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12310 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Francoise-Moudouthe-headshot-high-res-322x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Francoise-Moudouthe-headshot-high-res-322x450.jpg 322w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Francoise-Moudouthe-headshot-high-res-732x1024.jpg 732w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Francoise-Moudouthe-headshot-high-res-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Francoise-Moudouthe-headshot-high-res-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Francoise-Moudouthe-headshot-high-res.jpg 1344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><\/figure>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The Board of Directors at the African Women\u2019s Development Fund is pleased to announce Fran\u00e7oise Moudouthe as the newly appointed, incoming CEO of AWDF.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">In 2018 the current CEO of AWDF, Theo Sowa encouraged the Board to initiate a thoughtful executive leadership transition at the organisation. The transition plan that followed led to an international search by an independent Executive Search company, culminating recently in the appointment of Fran\u00e7oise Moudouthe.<br \/>\nA pan-African feminist with roots in Cameroon, Fran\u00e7oise Moudouthe is passionate about advocating for women\u2019s rights and fostering sisterhood within African feminist movements. She is the founder of Eyala, a bilingual platform that amplifies the voices and lived experiences of African feminists. Having played an instrumental role in incubating Girls Not Brides, the global civil society partnership to end child marriage, and in spearheading its growth in Africa, Fran\u00e7oise has most recently worked as an international consultant, focusing on strategy, advocacy and movement-building for gender justice in Africa. She is a Board member of the Malala Fund and Womankind Worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">\u201cI am honoured to join AWDF, an organisation with an extraordinary legacy of redefining feminist movement-building and philanthropy in Africa and globally. I look forward to working with the AWDF team, grantee partners, and the wider African feminist movement, to nurture and support dynamic feminist activism in Africa in the years to come,\u201d says Fran\u00e7oise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Ndeye Sow, AWDF Board Chair added that \u201cwhile it is always sad to say goodbye to the type of visionary leadership shown by Theo as she grew and consolidated the work of our organisation, the Board of AWDF are delighted with the choice of Fran\u00e7oise to take over the leadership of AWDF. We know that her vision and passion will take AWDF even further on the amazing leadership journey started by Bisi Adeleye Fayemi, carried on through Theo Sowa and now in the hands of Fran\u00e7oise Moudouthe. We look forward to her leadership journey at AWDF.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Fran\u00e7oise will join AWDF in the second week of November 2020. After a transitional period where she and Theo will work together as incoming and outgoing CEO, Theo will step out of AWDF in mid-December.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AWDF welcomes incoming CEO, Fran\u00e7oise Moudouthe - 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