{"id":41445,"date":"2020-05-28T15:43:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T15:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/who-appoints-clare-akamanzi-as-board-member-of-who-foundation\/"},"modified":"2020-05-31T14:20:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T14:20:40","slug":"who-appoints-clare-akamanzi-as-board-member-of-who-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/who-appoints-clare-akamanzi-as-board-member-of-who-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO appoints Clare Akamanzi as board member of WHO Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a press statement issued by WHO, the Foundation will be supporting the Organization\u2019s efforts to address the most pressing global health challenges.<br \/>\nThe newly unveiled foundation whose goal is to broaden WHO\u2019 donor base is legally separate from the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General said that development is An important part of WHO&#8217;s future success is broadening its donor base and increasing both the quantity and quality of funds at its disposal. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The creation of the WHO Foundation is part of WHO&#8217;s transformation and an important step towards this goal, and towards achieving our mission to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Akamanzi will serve alongside Bob Carter and Professor Thomas Zeltener; she welcomed the move and said on her Twitter account that the birth of WHO Foundation is a crucial addition to ongoing efforts to address global challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The Foundation,which has its Headquarters in Geneva, will support global public health needs by providing funds to WHO and trusted implementing partners to deliver on the Organization\u2019s \u201ctriple billion\u201d goals. <\/p>\n<p>Among other duties, the WHO Foundation will simplify the processing of philanthropic contributions in support of WHO and make such contributions possible on all aspects of health and WHO\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe work of the WHO is vital for both safeguarding and promoting global health \u2013 a role that has become all the more crucial in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe WHO deserves a strong, independent, external advocate who can support and strengthen its impact,\u201d said Professor Thomas Zeltner, Founder of the WHO Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO Foundation will initially focus on emergencies and pandemic response, according to a press statement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35727 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/clair-akamanzi-2-d4e54.jpg\" alt=\"The World Health Organization [ WHO] has appointed Clare Akamanzi, RDB CEO as one of its founding members of a newly created foundation,\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization [ WHO] has appointed Clare Akamanzi, Rwanda Development Board (RDB) CEO, as one of its founding members of a newly created foundation, an independent grant-making entity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2942],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-nicole-kamanzi-m"],"bylines":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41445"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41445"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}