Sir Toyin:
Thank you very much for this important and exemplary information. Most certainly, unlimited congratulations are extended to Dr. Etta (Mra.) Aina on the very deserving position, knowing that she will work hard to build on the impressive accomplishments of the Foundation.
It is also heart-warming information to learn that retired General Danjuma (T.Y.) has lived an exemplary life, which includes the creation of the grant-making Foundation that our distinguished sister is heading as the Executive Director. Unlike some military heavy weights on the continent who often retired under shady and questionable circumstances, retired General Danjuma deserves a heavy pat on the back. Hopefully, future retiring Generals will follow his shining example!
A.B. Assensoh.
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Dr. Mra. Aina to head the Danjuma Foundation
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Dr. Mra. Aina to head the Danjuma Foundation
T.Y. Danjuma Foundation Appoints New Executive Director
TYDF Appoints New Executive Director
The TY Danjuma Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Florence Etta-AkinAina, an internationally recognized expert in various aspects of philanthropic and development work, as its new Executive Director with effect from Monday 20 May 2013. She will succeed Dr. Edugie Abebe, the Interim Executive Director, who successfully molded the Foundation into a robust team during its short transition period.
The grant-making Foundation, created by Lt. General T. Y. Danjuma (Rtd) in 2009, works to enhance the quality of life of mainly rural Nigerians by supporting initiatives to improve access to quality health care and education and alleviate poverty. The Foundation currently supports 66 Nigerian-based NGOs in these areas of need in 14 states of the Federation and the FCT.
Dr. Etta, who was born and grew up in Ikom, Cross River State, earned bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Lagos, and, as the recipient of a prestigious Commonwealth scholarship, a PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of London. She was also associated with several Nigerian "firsts": the first woman in her home district to earn a PhD, the first lecturer with a PhD at the Federal College of Education (Technical) in Akoka, Lagos, where she taught for 16 years. Before then, as a National Youth Service Corper, lecturing at the (then) Bauchi College of Arts & Science, she started the college's first counseling service. She later served as the first vice president of the National Association of Women in Colleges of Education, and was the first president of the Lagos chapter.
Beside her work in Nigeria, Dr. Etta has undertaken program evaluation, management and grant-making assignments from various governmental, non-governmental and international organizations--among them the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, UNFPA (Nigeria), UN Women, and the African Development Bank--in, among other places, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal and South Africa. She has mentored locally-based African NGOs, and, from 1999 to 2005, worked with the International Development Research Center for Eastern and Southern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya.
Dr. Etta has also served on a number of international boards, among them the World Summit on the Information Society, the International Development Evaluation Association, the African Gender and Development Evaluators Network, and the African Evaluation Association, where she served as its president, from 2009 to 2011. In 2012, she was among those honored by the American Evaluation Association with an Outstanding Evaluation award.
Dr. Etta has written or edited numerous books, among them "Beyond Benign Neglect: Nutrition and Early Childhood in Nigeria" (Malthouse, 2007) in addition to many articles in professional publications.
Dr. Etta is married, with children.
Toyin Falola
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