Brazzaville – To strengthen transparency across the election of the subsequent World Well being Group (WHO) Regional Director for the African Area, a reside discussion board of candidates might be held on Monday 22 July 2024, 09:30−16:00 Brazzaville time.

The discussion board, which might be presided by Hon Edwin Dikoloti, Minister of Well being of Botswana and present Chair of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa, was agreed by WHO Member States within the Area. Candidates might be given platform to element their expertise and experience, and to current the imaginative and prescient of what they hope to attain throughout their tenure to ship on the core mandates of WHO within the African Area.

The 4 candidates (in nation alphabetical order) are:

• Dr Boureima Hama Sambo, proposed by Niger.
• Dr Ibrahima Socé Fall, proposed by Senegal.
• Dr Richard Mihigo, proposed by Rwanda.
• Dr Faustine Engelbert Ndugulile, proposed by Tanzania.

The candidates will every give a presentation of not more than 20 minutes.

Choice of questions

Every Member State becoming a member of the digital discussion board could ask questions if it so needs.

Member States are invited to point the candidate(s) to whom they want to ask a query by writing to the Regional Workplace on the following electronic mail deal with GoverningBodiesAfro [at] who.int  no later than 15 July 2024, at 17:00 Brazzaville Time. The tokens bearing the names of the Member States wishing to ask questions might be put within the related baggage (one for every candidate.) Member States that nominated a candidate are anticipated to not ask the candidate they nominated a query.

After every candidate has made an oral presentation, the Chair will choose the tokens randomly, one-by-

one, till the time obtainable is exhausted. After every token is drawn, the corresponding Member States might be invited to ask a query, and the candidate invited to offer a solution.

Questions and Solutions

Member States may have as much as one minute to ask one query solely. A number of half questions is not going to be permitted. Candidates may have as much as three minutes to reply to every query. Every interview will conclude when the 40 minutes for the interview have elapsed, even when there are pending questions. Nonetheless, a candidate might be permitted to finish their reply to the query being addressed when the 40 minutes elapse.

Timekeeping

A clock might be displayed on the display to help the contributors to maintain inside the closing dates throughout each components of the interview.

The occasion might be livestreamed in English, French and Portuguese on WHO Regional Workplace for Africa social media channels and web site by way of the hyperlinks beneath:

X,   WHO AFRO,  YouTube