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Meet
Anna Tibaijuka UN Habitat
Executive Director
 Mrs.
Anna
Tibaijuka
The
new Executive Director of the
United Nations Centre for Human
Settlements (Habitat), Mrs. Anna
Kajumulo Tibaijuka, comes to
Habitat from the United Nations
Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD) where she
has been the Special Coordinator
for Least Developed Countries,
Landlocked and Small Island
Developing Countries. In this
role, Mrs. Tibaijuka has been
responsible for strengthening the
capacity of LDCs in trade
negotiations with the World Trade
Organisation. Most recently, Mrs.
Tibaijuka was also designated the
Executive Secretary for the Third
United Nations Conference on
Least Developed Countries which
is to be held in Brussels next
year.
A
Tanzanian national, Mrs.
Tibaijuka holds a Doctorate of
Science in Agricultural Economics
from the Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala.
From 1993 to 1998, when she
joined UNCTAD, Mrs. Tibaijuka was
Associate Professor of Economics
at the University of
Dar-es-Salaa m.
During this period she was also a
member of the Tanzanian
Government delegation to several
United Nations Summits including
the United Nations Conference on
Human Settlements (Istanbul,
1996); the World Food Summit
(Rome 1996); the Fourth World
Conference on Women (Beijing
1995) and the World Summit for
Social Development (Copenhagen,
1995). At these conferences, Mrs.
Tibaijuka was an active member of
the Civil Society and NGO Forums.
At the World Food Summit in Rome,
she was elected Coordinator for
Eastern Africa in the Network for
Food Security, Trade and
Sustainable Development (COASAD).
Mrs. Tibaijuka has also been a
Board Member of UNESCO's
International Scientific Advisory
Board since November
1997.
Dedicated
to the role, and rights, of women
in development, Mrs. Tibaijuka is
the founding Chairperson of the
Tanzanian National Women's
Council (BAWATA), an independent,
non-politically aligned,
organisation advocating for
women's rights to land,
inheritance and social
services.
 Mrs.
Tibaijuka is also founding
Chairperson of the Barbro
Johansson Girls Education Trust
which is dedicated to promoting
high standards of education
amongst girls in Tanzania and in
Africa.
Mrs.
Tibaijuka was also the convener
of Tanzania's Local Entrepreneurs
Initiative (TALE), a voluntary
group mobilising and assisting
Tanzanians to form joint venture
companies with overseas
investors. She has been a Board
Member of the Tanzania Economic
Policy Development and Management
Foundation and is a Director of a
number of private companies
dedicated to encouraging
entrepreneurship and efficiency
in the marketing of agricultural
commodities.
 Mrs.
Tibaijuka has undertaken
extensive research on
agriculture, rural development
and human settlements policy;
trade and marketing, cooperative
development and aid policy;
welfare economics with a focus on
education, health and nutrition,
water and food security; women in
development; and tropical
agriculture and environmental
xeconomics.
She has published five books and
a large number of articles and
papers. Her books include:
Strategies for Smallholder
Agricultural Development in
Kagera region, Tanzania
(Agricultural University,
Uppsala, 1979); Tanzania's
Priority Social Action Programme
(Dar-es-Salaam University Press,
1993); Poverty and Social
Exclusion in Tanzania (ILO,
International Institute for
Labour Studies, 1996); The Social
Services Crisis of the 1990s
(Ashgare Publishing Ltd, London,
1998).
Mrs.
Anna Tibaijuka speaks English,
Swahili, Haya, Swedish and some
French. She is a widow and has
four children.
Anna
Kajumulo Tibaijuka
Executive
Director
UNCHS
(Habitat)
UN
Habitat
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