Invitation to the Unveiling and Inauguration of AHOA’s International Advisory Board and International Technical Advisory Panel

 3 September 2023

Invitation to the Unveiling and Inauguration of AHOA’s International Advisory Board and International Technical Advisory Panel, 5 September 2023, by 2.00 p.m. WAT

Excellency,

We are pleased to invite you to the official inauguration of the Afrihealth Optonet Association’s International Advisory Board (AHOA-IAB) and International Technical Advisory Panel (AHOA-ITAP) scheduled to hold as follows:

DATE: 5 September 2023

TIME: 2.00 pm WAT (DURATION: One Hour approximately)

1:00 PM (GMT): United Kingdom, Senegal, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Liberia, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Mali

2.00 PM: Germany, France, Nigeria, Angola, Congo, Algeria, Morocco, Cameroon, Benin

3.00 PM: South Africa, Egypt, Israel, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Sudan, Rwanda, Botswana, Burundi, Mozambique, Malawi, South Sudan

4.00 PM: Russia, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Iraq, Turkey, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Madagascar

4.30 PM: Iran

5.00 PM: UAE, Oman

6.30 PM: Sri Lanka

6.45 PM: Nepal

7.00 PM: Bangladesh, Bhutan

8.00 PM: Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand

9.00 PM: Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Hong Kong

VENUE: Virtual via this link <https://meet.google.com/eeh-nwns-zqc>

Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) - winner of the SDG 3 – Good Health and Wellbeing Champion Award is a community-focused civil society organizations (CSOs) international Movement/Network Coalition and Think-tank deeply engaged in promoting evidence-based credible actions and support for policies, practices, programmes and interventions that enhance productivity, accountability, transparency, and civil society’s coordination/contributions in gender justice, financial inclusion, equitable access to health, democracy, good governance and human rights; in Society Welfare/Social Safety nets, Development Work/Sustainable Development, Health - including Traditional Complimentary Integrative Health (TCIH)/Ayurvedic Medicine; and in educational, literary, scientific, social, climate change, energy, biodiversity, nutritional/agricultural, cultural, sporting, governance, human rights, and charitable intervention(s)/purpose(s). AHOA’s mandate includes Building an inclusive and broad movement for Health and Sustainable Development; Creating avenues to influence the design and implementation of policies, practices, programmes and interventions; Promoting coordination, information exchange and harmonization among the civil society and stakeholder groups across the world; and Promoting citizen involvement, leadership and accountability mechanisms in the implementation of respective interventions.

AHOA has a global membership/partnership of over 1,900 (One Thousand, Nine Hundred) organizations mainly from the global South and promotes the ‘One Health’ paradigm where Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. AHOA uses partnership/collaboration, advocacy, research/evidence generation, capacity development, outreaches, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) as strategies. AHOA’s activities/interventions are for the benefit of rural and poor urban dwellers, marginalized, vulnerable, and disadvantaged populations of women, children, adolescents, persons with disabilities, persons in conflict-affected areas, the poor, elderly, rural, disadvantaged and vulnerable persons, orphans and the elderly.

The AHOA CSOs Movement/Network Coalition and Think-tank works to explore the nexus between and within the following sectors:

1.      Health - including UHC, PHC, Reproductive Health, PHC, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB), Malaria, NCDs, NTDs, Infectious and Communicable diseases, Vaccines/Immunization and COVID-19;

2.      Energy and Environment - including biodiversity, environment, ecosystems, renewable energy, energy efficiency, conservation and climate change (BEEREEECCC);

3.      Nutrition/micronutrients and Food Security;

4.      Gender, Democracy, Good Governance, Peace, Human Security, and Human Rights; and

5.      Sustainable Development across regions, populations, communities, and generations

AHOA partners with the Society for Conservation and Sustainability of Energy and Environment in Nigeria (SOCSEEN). AHOA has members/local Chapters in Nigeria’s 36 States and Federal Capital Abuja, National Chapters in some countries, sub-regional Chapters in North Africa, West and Central Africa, East and Southern Africa; and in America, Asia, Caribbean, Europe and Oceania regions. AHOA has a Consultative Status at the United Nations ECOSOC; and an Accredited Observer status at the UNEP/United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA).

Best regards,

Uzodinma

Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje, CMC, CMTF, FIMC, FIMS, FNAE, FASI, FAHOA

CEO/Evaluation Expert, Projects Management Counsultant and Lead Facilitator/Trainer,

Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) - CSOs Global Movement for Health and Development  

(Winner of the SDG 3 – Good Health and Wellbeing Champion Award)

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