Fatouma Bintou Djibo
Fatouma Bintou Djibo | |
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.jpg) in 2014 | |
| Nationality | Burkina Faso |
| Occupation | Diplomat |
| Employer | United Nations |
Fatouma Bintou Djibo, also Fatoumata, is a Burkinabé Resident Coordinator of the United Nations in Niger. She is the Resident Representative of the UNDP (now called the United Nations Sustainable Development Group).[1] She is appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Life
[edit]She attended Sorbonne University and Paris's Institute of Demography where she studied spatial planning and demography where she received both an undergraduate and later a Master's degree. She spent some years working as a diplomat and she also attended further training at Georgetown University in Washington D.C.[2]
She presented her credentials as the Secretary-General of the United Nations's representative to the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Niger, Ibrahim Yacouba, on October 6, 2017.[3]
At a press conference in October 2019, Bintou Djibo explained that a delegation from the UN Peacebuilding Fund had come to Niger in order to investigate the funding made in connection with peacebuilding projects aimed at creating social cohesion between communities. This had led to the development of advice and guidance in regard to funding opportunities.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Niger". United Nations Sustainable Development Group. United Nations. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ "Le Bureau du Coordonnateur résident | Les Nations Unies au Niger". niger.un.org (in French). Retrieved 2020-06-21.
- ^ "Mme Fatouma Bintou Djibo reçue en audience par le Président de la République, Mahamadou Issoufou". Les Nations Unie au Niger. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
- ^ Souleymane, Laouali (22 October 2019). "Conférence de presse de la mission du fonds des Nations Unies pour la Consolidation de la paix : Mesurer l'impact des projets financés par le fonds" (in French). Le Sahel. Retrieved 12 June 2020.