Brazzaville – As share of the formulation for the election of the next World Smartly being Organization Regional Director for Africa, a virtual dwell candidates’ forum shall be held on Wednesday 2 April 2025 from 09:30 to 16:00 Brazzaville time.
The virtual forum, agreed by WHO Member States within the Discipline, is among the many measures adopted to reinforce the transparency of the electoral task. This can additionally be presided by Honourable Louise Mapleh Kpoto, Minister of Smartly being and Social Welfare of Liberia and present First Vice-Chairperson of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa.
The forum is a platform offered to the candidates to element their trip and abilities, and to display their imaginative and prescient of what they hope to total within the route of their tenure to voice on the core mandates of WHO within the African Discipline.
The four candidates (in country alphabetical inform) are:
- Dr Michel N’da Konan Yao, proposed by Cote d’Ivoire
- Dr Mohamed Lamine Dramé, proposed by Guinea
- Professor Janabi Mohamed Yakub, proposed by United Republic of Tanzania
- Professor Moustafa Mijiyawa, proposed by Togo
The candidates will every give a presentation of no bigger than 20 minutes.
Different of questions
Each and each Member Assert joining the virtual forum might possibly possibly seek information from questions if it so needs. Member States are invited to indicate the candidate(s) to whom they desire to seek information from a ask by writing to the Regional Office on the next e-mail take care of GoverningBodiesAfro [at] who.int (GoverningBodiesAfro[at]who[dot]int) no later than 26 March 2025, at 17:00 Brazzaville time. The tokens bearing the names of the Member States wishing to seek information from questions shall be placed within the relevant bags (one for every candidate). Member States that nominated a candidate are most likely to be not expected to seek information from the candidate they nominated a ask.
After every candidate has made an oral presentation, the Chair will pick the tokens randomly, one-by-
one, till the allotted time is exhausted. After every token is drawn, the corresponding Member States shall be invited to seek information from a ask, and the candidate invited to make an reply.
Questions and answers
Member States can own up to 1 minute to seek information from one ask fully. A couple of share questions might possibly perchance possibly additionally not be permitted. Candidates can own up to three minutes to answer to every ask. Each and each interview will attain when the 40 minutes for the interview own elapsed, even though there are pending questions. On the different hand, a candidate shall be permitted to total their reply to the ask being addressed when the 40 minutes elapse.
Timekeeping
A clock shall be displayed on the veil to encourage the individuals to retain for the length of the points in time within the route of every ingredients of the interview.
The tournament shall be livestreamed in English, French and Portuguese on WHO Regional Office for Africa social media channels and internet location by the hyperlinks below:
- X
- WHO AFRO
- YouTube
