CALL FOR THE EXPRESSION OF INTEREST/NOMINATION OF PATRONS/MATRONS OF AFRIHEALTH OPTONET ASSOCIATION (AHOA)

CALL FOR THE EXPRESSION OF INTEREST/NOMINATION OF PATRONS/MATRONS OF AFRIHEALTH OPTONET ASSOCIATION (AHOA) 

Excellency,

Hope you are well and safe. Thank you for your continued active participation in AHOA’s activities. 

We are reaching out to you as a development stakeholder, to express your interest or nominate someone or/and yourself for consideration as a Patron/Matron of AHOA - persons who are committed to Human Welfare and Community/Population Development; and promoting the mandates of AHOA using their positions, resources, talents, connections, treasures, finances, time, etc. 

Intending/Nominated AHOA Matron/Patrons shall be willing and available to promote, further, encourage, and or help AHOA, AHOA’s cause, and or AHOA’s work. AHOA currently has more than 2,300 duly registered member organizations in 106 (One hundred and Six) countries across all the continents where AHOA members currently live and or work. AHOA’s global Google group currently has more than 38,000 (Thirty-eight Thousand) members from every part of the world.

Benefits of being a Patron/Matron in AHOA (local, national, continental, global)

-          We’ll always honour and recognize our Patrons

-          Decoration with the sash officially indicating your new status as Patron or National Grand Patron or Continental Grand Patron or World Grand Patron of AHOA

-          Recognition at all AHOA occasions/events when you are present (inform the CEO or CEO’s representative of your presence at each occasion/event)

-          Opportunity to be considered for inclusion in AHOA official delegations to local and international engagements/events such as visits to Presidents and leaders of countries, United Nations agencies, multilateral institutions, etc.; when you contribute funds, talents/skills/influence and time to the actualization of AHOA’s delegation’s participation in the event

-          AHOA will identify with you during your special events if invited/requested 

-          Opportunity to represent the CEO of AHOA at some events when officially delegated by the CEO

-          Opportunity to attend events of AHOA whenever and wherever they are held

Duties, Expectations, and Roles of Patrons/Matrons of AHOA:

-          Shall be persons who are committed to promoting and ensuring the availability and accessibility of Human Welfare and Community/Population Development interventions;

-          Commit to using their positions, talents, treasures, time, funds, resources, connections, etc., in supporting and promoting the mandates, projects, programmes, policies, activities, and interventions of AHOA;

-          Shall be willing and available to promote, further, encourage and or help AHOA, AHOA’s cause, and or AHOA’s work in their communities, countries and world at large;

-          May be of any origin/country, faith, colour, sex, level of education, profession, business, etc., and willing to be a furtherer and promoter of AHOA’s concerns. 

Each nominated/prospective Patron/Matron can be of any origin/country, faith, colour, sex, level of education, profession, business, etc., and willing to use  her/his resources and funding to be a further promoter of AHOA’s concerns and commitments to humanity and the welfare of the society (see below). We desire to have Patrons/Matrons in every country. We also welcome Self-nomination. 

All the EOI/nomination/self-nomination is to be submitted using the attached EOI/Nomination form, duly completed. 

Please email the completed EOI/Nomination form, as an MS Word document, to ceoafrihealth@gmail.com and cc: afrihealthpartnerships@gmail.com; with the subject line as ‘AHOA Patron/Matron_Country_Name of EOI/Patron nominee’.

Nominations are welcome at any time, but those submitted outside the above format/guide may not be considered at all. Nominations shall be considered on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) is a global membership Network and Think-tank uniquely composed of both civil society and community-focused organizations. By harnessing the experience, resources, and reach of its more than 2,300 duly registered Member/Partner organizations from 106 (One Hundred and Six) countries, and the input of the experts and stakeholders among its 38,000 plus members Google Group, AHOA has become a third-sector global player, partner, project/programme developer, implementer, monitor and reporter on the pulse and state of the civil society and rural/poor urban communities from all the continents; in all issues relating to better health-for-all and sustainable development, and the measures needed to achieve and safeguard them.

As a Networking Organization, AHOA promotes sustainable citizen participation (SCP) to address, prevent and mitigate disasters, wars, escalation of weapons, global warming, famine, water shortage, floods, epidemics/pandemics, diseases, poverty, capacity challenges, food security, radioactive contamination, electromagnetic field (EMF) risks to life, cyber risks, economics, governance, gender-based violence (GBV), violence against women and girls (VAWG), and cross-generational resource challenges.  

As a Non-State actor representing, working with, and reaching target populations in 106 (One Hundred and Six) countries across all the continents, AHOA is therefore well-positioned and available to Governments, Development Partners, Agencies, Institutions, Professional Bodies, and Organizations in reaching (and defining/finetuning) their objectives, advancing their work and achieving their target/mandates.

As a Networking Organization, AHOA promotes sustainable citizen participation (SCP) to address, prevent and mitigate human and development challenges including disasters, wars, escalation of weapons, global warming, famine, water shortage, floods, epidemics/pandemics, diseases, poverty, capacity challenges, housing, transport, food security, radioactive contamination, electromagnetic field (EMF) risks to life, cyber risks, economics, governance, gender-based violence (GBV), violence against women and girls (VAWG), and cross-generational resource challenges.  

AHOA’s position as a global CSO network and Think-tank has continued to give thousands of CSOs, non-profits, and non-state actors, the needed platform to voice, network, capacitate and flourish. The AHOA Movement and its members/partners are committed and involved in the promotion of Development Work, Sustainable Development including the SDGs, and Health - as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.

AHOA uses partnership/collaboration, advocacy, communication, research/evidence-generation, capacity development, outreaches, monitoring, and evaluation (M&E) as strategies; to benefit rural and poor urban dwellers, marginalized, vulnerable, and disadvantaged populations of women, children, youth, adolescents, people with disability, orphans, widows, victims of disasters, homeless/destitute, and elderly.

The AHOA Network explores the nexus between Health – UHC, PHC, HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, NTDs, NCDs, Vaccines, and COVID-19; Energy and Environment - biodiversity, environment, ecosystems, renewable energy, energy efficiency, conservation, and climate change; Nutrition/micronutrients and Food Security; Gender, Democracy, Good Governance, and Human Rights.

To promote equity in participation, AHOA does not demand any compulsory financial/material commitment from organizations/entities to become members. Intending members are only required to complete a membership/partnership form, and an institutional capacity needs assessment form. Members/Partners do not pay registration/membership fees, dues, or levies. To sustain the organization, members/partners and stakeholders willingly make voluntary donations, and serve/participate voluntarily in the activities of the Network, from time to time. AHOA is also entitled to receive/benefit from grants, endowments, waivers, subventions, awards, bursaries, contributions, donations, etc. from within and outside the Network.  

AHOA is in Consultative Status at UN ECOSOC, and an Accredited Observer status at the UNEP/UNEA.

In anticipation, we thank you for your kind consideration.

Sincerely, 

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

Health Economist; Certified Evaluation and Projects/Programmes Management Consultant; Conferences and Workshops Organizing Expert; Researcher; Health/Development, Climate Change/Biodiversity and Human Rights Advocate; Facilitator/Trainer; Blogger; Writer/Columnist

CEO & Main Representative to the United Nations,

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

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

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