Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has been appointed to the Board of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, based at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York, US.
The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) is a global network bringing together governments, the private sector, and civil society organizations dedicated to using the data revolution to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
The 17-member Board, which includes Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, Chief Executive Officer, Plan International; Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); John Pullinger, UK National Statistician, Head of the Government Statistical Service (GSS), and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, United Kingdom; and Mahmoud Mohieldin, Senior Vice President for the 2030 Development Agenda, World Bank Group, is chaired by the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Amina J. Mohammed.
The Board is set to hold a two-day working session from 10-11 July, 2018, and in line with his duties and obligations, Vice President Bawumia left Accra on Sunday 8th July, 2018 for New York to participate in the 2-day meeting.
Dr Bawumia will also hold discussions with Deputy UN Secretary General Amina J. Mohammed on a number of issues including Enhancing advocacy for improved statistical capacity in Africa, Financing the implementation of high level commitments to statistics and Digitization of data for SDG monitoring.
He is also expected to have a town hall meeting with the Ghanaian community in New York.
Dr Bawumia returns to Accra on Friday 13th July, 2018.
Source: Starrfmonline.com
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Ndc is a pr**imitive party, hence they lack international recognition. They are the first to rubb**sh every civil and good thing but have no solution to what they ru*bished, Nea )wo 3ba kwas*ia ammr3 s3 nea otete no. Bringing forth a f000**l is easier than nurturing him/her. Dr Bawumiah go higher and higher your limit is the sky but for the against fuo de3 3ha yia a ! Ndc are unemployed and Ghanaians don't like them so they are frustrated to the point of ma*dness.
And the cedi continue to fall.
Hmmmmm...Dr Borrowmia!
Listen to those f0009lish comments below. Upon all yours against, you would choose to go and clean white man's toilet if you should win American lotteries. What about that of Ibn Chambers appointment as ndc member at Kuffour's time?
See how stuuuu-ppid africans are. when the obroni gives them toy positions, they think they are in heaven. Nkwasssssiasem
The white people easily ***barred word*** africans by giving them stuuuupppp-id posts to make their 'head to sweet them'.
We dont care what post he gets. He was voted to fix Ghana's economy not go about getting ***barred word*** posts for himself
how is this going to solve the problems of GHana?
Pls stop praising him. We are suffering in Ghana and these foreign posts do NOTHING to fix the difficult cost of living in Ghana.
He is going to collapse the United Nation with his lies