I was born in Diourbel on 2 July 1973. I went to the Franco de Mouride primary school in Diourbel. After passing the sixth grade entry diploma, I went to secondary school in the same town at the Diourbel CEM until third grade where I obtained my BFEM in 1997. I am an activist for a better involvement of women living with HIV in decision-making bodies, a founding member of the ABOYA association in 2001, I was Secretary General from 2003 to 2010, and President of the organisation from 2011 to the present day.

Member of the Steering Committee of the National Network of Associations of People Living with HIV (RNP+), this position allowed me to be a member of an international organisation of women living with HIV (ICW West Africa) West Africa branch and since 2016, I have been the Chair of the Board of Directors of the same organisation. I am also an advisor to the National AIDS Council (NAC) and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Alliance of Communities for Health (ANCS).

In 2022, I graduated from the 2nd class of CARTOLOCS trained by Enda/Santé on mapping and estimating the size of key populations.

Nogaye SOW was born in 1960 in Thienaba in the Thiès region, she ended her studies when she left the Serigne Ibrahima Seck primary school in Thienaba. Responsible for communication for the AISM in Thienaba, President of the jaapoo fadjo health mutual in Thienaba, President of the Badiane Gokh in the Khombol district since 1999, General Secretary Thienaba GIE FASS DIOM. In 2016 she was named best Badiane Gokh in the Thiès region.

I'm an activist leader and sex worker from Senegal. I've been involved in the response to HIV since 1995. I started out as a relay, peer educator in a sex worker support organization called AWA. After my studies, I trained in organizational management, then in therapeutic education and peer support through ESTHER. I'm vice-president of RENAPOC and represent key populations on the CCM. I was a health mediator in the South health district from 2003 to 2017. I was South District supervisor for the national vulnerability mapping survey organized by CNLS in 2016. I also participated in the development of the regional strategic model of key populations on HIV. I also participated in the revision of the national strategic plan on HIV in Senegal. I have taken part in numerous national and international conferences (JSS, Forum des Médiateurs, CSW, Icasa, AfriVIh, Aids, etc.).

I currently run an organization of sex workers called And Soppeku.

AMFE is committed to promoting the schooling and retention of girls in a quality education system in a safe environment by addressing the social conditions that impede the progress of women in the Matam region and in Senegal as a whole:

• Eradicating forms of gender-based violence (female genital mutilation, sexual assault, child marriage, early pregnancy and domestic violence),
• promoting sexual and reproductive health education and access to care,
• facilitating access to justice for girls and women,
• facilitating vocational training and capacity building for girls and women.
• education of communities to contribute to the well-being of girls and women.
  

I am a young woman who has been working in the field of public health and humanitarian aid for more than 10 years; concerned about the future of youth and especially women, I had the honour in 2011 to join the Association des jeunes pour le Développement (AJD/Pasteef) as an assistant programme officer. Right from the start, this position allowed me to pilot several programmes to combat violence against women and young people. Living in a patriarchal society where men are considered superior to women, we have seen multiple acts of violence against women for centuries. This is why I decided to participate in the raising of awareness among my sisters and brothers to change this silence.

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"To take part in the fight against female genital mutilation it is important to involve future parents, namely young people".
"Participating in the emancipation of women and girls is the duty of every citizen".

In the same vein, I am currently the Executive Secretary of the Association Sénégalaise pour l'Avenir de la Femme et de l'Enfant (ASAFE), created in 1997 and legally recognised in 2002. I hold a Higher Diploma in Social Work, with an option in Social Services Management, a Master II in Finance and Public Management, a Master 2 in Citizenship, Human Rights and Humanitarian Action and a State Diploma in Social Work, specialising in supervised education.

I am passionate about early childhood and my struggle is to see meaningful representation of young people in decision-making bodies. To this end, I was recently elected deputy mayor of the city of Guédiawaye.

Born in Thiès, Fatou Badiane is a development worker who has been working in community health since 1983 and has been acting in community dynamics since 2009. President of the Badienou Gox in the Thiès region, she was named the best Badienou Gox of the Thiès health district and the 2nd best Badienou Gox of the Thiès region.

• CSVA National Coordinator
• 1st Vice-President CCM
• Chair of the CCM Strategic Monitoring Committee
• Chair of the CCM Resource Mobilization Commission
• National Coordinator NGO Jamra
• Treasurer 3CAPSANTE
• Administrative and Financial Manager Alliance of Christian and Muslim Religious and Medical Experts (ANREMS)
• General Secretary National Federation of NGOs and CBOs fighting against drugs (FONSELUD)
• Secretary General Réseau National des Intervenants de la SC sur les drogues
  (RNSD)
• Administrative and Financial Manager, Réseau National Islam Santé Education (RNISSE)
• Member of the Comité Interministériel de lutte contre la Drogue (CILD) (Interministerial Committee for the Fight against Drugs)

President of JGEN Senegal (Women Global Entrepreneurship), Maimouna Astou YADE is a young Senegalese feminist activist, 32 years old, social entrepreneuse, she works in advocacy for gender equality and women's sexual rights.

She is a passionate young feminist dedicated to the cause of women and girls, and advocates for the empowerment and the effective inclusion of young people and women in all economic, political and social development policies, both at national and regional levels. A lawyer by training, she specialises in gender, development and human rights. Maimouna became involved at a young age in advancing the rights of women and girls in her country and has led several girls' and young women's leadership organisations since 2010.

Maimouna is also involved in the integration of young African women, particularly in French-speaking Africa, and she initiated and co-founded PLAJEFLF (the African platform of young French-speaking women leaders). This platform was created in Niamey in November 2019.

New Deal focal point since 2015, Sylvie is a young leader and fervent activist for human rights, particularly the rights of girls and children, in collaboration with the Centre Conseil Adolescent de Kolda and Paroles aux jeunes.

Her main activities focus on reproductive health and the sexuality of young people, early marriages, female circumcision, girl empowerment, civil status issues, education, nutrition and recently on alternatives to irregular migration.

Mrs Ndeye Farma NDAO is the newly elected President of the Youth Network appointed at the last ordinary general assembly held in February 2022. She is an active militant for women’s and children’s rights, a leader in the National Movement of Pioneers of Senegal, a legal advisor for companies and businesses and obtained her Master II in Private Law at the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences of the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar.

Adji Fatou Ndiaye - Born on November 28, 1991 in Dakar, I graduated in 2018 as a midwife. I have completed several internships in public and private health facilities in
CHU de FANN, Le Dantec, etc. From 2018 to 2021, she was recruited by the NGO AcDev to join their mobile RH/FP delivery team in the health districts of the Dakar medical region,
now the Dakar regional office. For the past 1 year, I have been president of the RN-ASLUT women's section and supervisor of the OCAS project on behalf of RN-ASLUTASLUT.

Born in Kaolack, Khadidiatou Wane has been involved in community life as a versatile relay in the Mbour health district since 1999, helping and guiding women in matters of health.

Her community engagement led her to create the Soppe Sa Jabotte association, which works for women’s empowerment and the prevention of diseases. Her commitment and community involvement led to her being elected president of the “Badienou Gox” in Mbour department in 2010, a position she still holds today. She also chairs the FDEA savings and credit mutual.

Convinced that women must be trained to ensure their autonomy, she has a diploma in sewing and another in fruit and vegetable and cereal processing. Finally, she has opened a sewing room in her home to help girls from disadvantaged backgrounds who cannot afford training.

Aissatou NDIAYE, Sociologist, I'm President of Youth Women for Action (YWA/SN), an organization of girls and women working on violence against women and girls and on sexual and reproductive health rights. I am also the coordinator of TASK FORCE, an advocacy committee for access to medical abortion in cases of rape and incest in Senegal.

Larissa Mabo trained as a psychologist and also holds a higher degree in human resources management. She has over 19 years of experience in coordinating community-based HIV/AIDS projects funded by donors such as PEPFAR, USAID, UNOCI-AIDS. She managed the first community-based voluntary counselling and testing centre in Côte d'Ivoire, which was awarded the prize for best community-based structure. She has also been part of the national pool of advanced trainers since 2005. Finally, she is the president of the NGOs CEDV, Milles Espoirs and Anonyme CI.

A nurse by training, KOUAME Akoua Pélagie worked in private clinics in Abidjan for around ten years.

In 2009, she became involved in the fight against HIV and AIDS as a volunteer with the Espace Confiance NGO, where she was a Bio-Lab Technician at Bietry. In 2012, she was recruited as a Community Screening Agent at the NGO BLETY where she initiated HIV/AIDS Counselling and Testing through an advanced strategy in the sex worker community in the 10 communes of Abidjan and among other Vulnerable Populations at the NGO Arc-en-ciel plus, on the IMPACT project of Heartland Alliance International, as well as other projects. In 2013, she was recruited by Espace Confiance ANYAMA. She later became a Community Advisor / Supervisor on the Global Fund ROUND 9 project in the regions of Agneby Tiassa and Mé. The sum of her experiences led her to found the NGO Conscience et Vie (COVIE) on 30 March 2014, becoming its first President. In 2015 KOUAME Akoua Pélagie was recruited by the members of the Board of Directors as Executive Director to ensure the daily management of the Association. As Executive Director of the NGO COVIE, her priority is to be closer to vulnerable populations.

Irad Gbazale is a teacher, communicator by training and former local radio host. She founded and runs the NGO Femme en action and since September 2020 has been leading the Réseau des médiatrices de paix communautaire de Côte d’Ivoire [Community Peace Mediators Network] as National Coordinator. This network was set up by UN Women Côte d'Ivoire and the Ministry of Women, Family and Children. She is a member of the Committee to include gender in the electoral process (CSGPE-CI) and a member of the Peace and Security Network for Women in the ECOWAS region (RESFECO-CI), and is responsible for communication with the Group of Women's Organisations for Gender Equality (GOFEHF) and the Collective of Activists of Côte d'Ivoire (CACI).

Kouamé Josiane has held several positions of responsibility in community organizations:

• President of the NGO GNOUWIETA -(POADCI) - Regional President of Haut-Sassandra
• NGO association of defenders and helpers of housewives and servants of Côte d'Ivoire (ADDAD) - Regional President of Haut Sassandra
• Catholic Women's Association - President of the Military Chaplaincy of Daloa
• Association of military wives of Côte d'Ivoire region of Daloa - President of the wives of retired soldiers
• RIP+ - Focal Point Haut-Sassandra - Ivorian Network for the Defense of Children's and Women's Rights - Member
• Public finance project, I participate - Member
• Regional platform (Haut-Sassandra) for GBV and OVC - Member
• Federation of Women's Associations of Daloa - Member

Founding president of the TCHELE WOYE NGO, she is a trained secretary. After several years of professional experience, she decided to create her own organisation to fight against discrimination against girls and women.

Today, as head of a company specialising in food, clothing and printing, she is also a financial literacy trainer and project coordinator. Her passion for humanitarian work has made her an active member of several community organisations.

Born in Dimbokro, Côte-d'Ivoire, on 26 March 1970, Anne CECILE KONAN has a Master’s in Geography with a population option and a DESCOM in communication with a human resources management option. Secretary General of the Fédération des Associations pour la promotion sociale des handicapés de Cote d’Ivoire (FAHCI - Federation of Associations for the Social Promotion of the Disabled of Cote d’Ivoire) since September 2005 and a founding member of unafehci where she served as President from 2006 to 2010 and from 2018 to date.

Born in Saint-Louis, Senegal, Madeleine Cécile Marie Joseph Boguifo is a corporate lawyer. Concerned about the well-being of the population, especially the most vulnerable, she works as a volunteer in the NGO "Y-Voir & Sourire" where she is responsible for the cervical and breast cancer screening project and the follow-up of women in prisons.