Anna Tibaijuka

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Anna Tibaijuka, 2010

Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka (born October 12, 1950 in Kagabiro , Muleba , Tanzania ) is a Tanzanian politician and economist. From 2002 to 2010 she was Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Program , then until 2014 Minister for Housing and Settlements under Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda .

Life

Childhood and family

Anna Tibaijuka was born as the fifth of eleven children into a smallholder family in the Kagera region on the shores of Lake Victoria . At the instigation of her father, she attended a mission school in Tanzania.

In the 1970s she married Wilson Tibaijuka. Among other things, he was the Tanzanian ambassador to Sweden in the 1990s. She is the mother of five children. Her husband passed away in 2000.

Career

From 1972 to 1975 she studied agricultural economics in Dar-es-Salam , then she did a doctorate in this subject at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala .

From 1993 to 1998 she was Professor of Economics in Dar-es-Salam. During this time she took part in various conferences on behalf of the Tanzanian government, such as the World Food Summit (Rome, 1996) and the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Istanbul, 1996). In November 1997 she became a member of the UNESCO Scientific Advisory Board .

In 2000 she became director of the United Nations Center for Human Settlements . After its conversion into a UN program, from 2002 she was Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-HABITAT). From 2004 she was a member of the Commission for Africa , a seventeen-member commission chaired by Tony Blair , which was supposed to analyze the problems of Africa in preparation for the 2005 G-8 summit .

In July 2004 she received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in recognition of her achievements in the areas of welfare economics and women's rights. In 2005, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan appointed her special envoy for the operations of Operation Murambatsvina in Zimbabwe .

In 2010, Tibaijuka's second term at the helm of UN-HABITAT ended. She became a member of parliament in her home country Tanzania and took over the Ministry of Housing and Settlements in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda . She was also elected Chair of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC).

Fonts (selection)

  • 1979: Strategies for Smallholder Agricultural Development in West Lake Region Tanzania . Uppsala: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
  • 1993: Tanzania's Priority Social Action Program . Dar-es-Salaam University Press
  • 1996: Poverty and Social Exclusion in Tanzania . International Institute for Labor Studies
  • 1998: The Social Services Crisis of the 1990s . London: Ashgare Publishing

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Maelezo Mafupi Kuhusu: Ni Nani? Ever Amefanya Nini? (PDF; 881 kB), p. 3
  2. ↑ HWO - THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDs OF HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY (Autumn 2010): the 10 question interview , p. 14: I was incredibly fortunate to have a father who recognized the importance of education for girls. He ensured I went to an excellent missionary school in Tanzania. Later I was lucky that my husband encouraged me to do my Doctorate at Uppsala University, Sweden.
  3. ↑ List of Ambassadors , tanemb.se, accessed November 28, 2011
  4. ↑ Maelezo Mafupi Kuhusu, p. 4
  5. ↑ a b Profile at un.org, accessed on November 28, 2011
  6. ^ Martin Plaut: Blair & Africa: The Africa Commission. Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 31, No. 102, Agendas, Past & Future (Dec., 2004), pp. 704-711
  7. ↑ Heriot-Watt University: MONTHLY SUMMARY FROM COURT, SENATE, PME AND ITS BOARDS: JUNE / JULY 2004 (PDF; 70 kB): Ms Anna Kajumulo-Tibaijuka, Director, of UN HABITAT - Doctor of Science in recognition of her distinguished contribution to welfare economics and womens' rights.
  8. ^ Novell Zwange: Former UN Executive Director Tibaijuka To Chair the Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council , shout-africa.com, October 17, 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Tibaijuka, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tibaijuka, Anna Kajumulo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tanzanian politician and economist
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Kagabiro , Muleba , Tanzania