"The priority of the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund, UNICEF, in Cameroon is to make sure that the rights of children are fulfilled in Cameroon, especially in the fields of social development, education, health and sanitation, nutrition and broad protection", Felicite Tchibindat said in Yaounde yesterday, December 17, 2013.
The new Resident Representative of UNICEF to Cameroon presented her letters of introduction to the Minister of External Relations, Pierre Moukoko Mbonjo, during an audience in the ministry. Talking to reporters after their discussions, Felicite Tchibindat said UNICEF will also have what "we call an equity agenda because we want to reach children in areas that are difficult to reach." The programmes of UNICEF, she said, are basically concentrated in the Far North, North, Adamawa and East Regions but the organisation also supports government at the central level and other priority areas.
Before her appointment to Cameroon, Felicite Tchibindat from Congo Brazzaville was the Regional Adviser of UNICEF for nutrition for West and Central Africa with base in Dakar, Senegal since February 2008. Since June 2013, she was also the acting Representative of UNICEF in Burkina Faso in charge of development and putting in place of the country programme. She is holder of a Doctorate Degree in Public Health and Developing Countries from the University of Paris VI, in Paris France in 2004.
Felicite Tchibindat since November 1984, has been working, first as nutritionist in the Ministries of Scientific Research and Education in Brazzaville, Congo. She climbed the rungs of the professional ladder in Congo in the scientific research domain till she joined UNICEF as the official in charge of nutrition project in Congo in August 1999. Since then, she has evolved in the UN System working with UNICEF.
