Ayawovi Demba Tignokpa
Ayawovi Demba Tignokpa is a Togolese politician. She served as Minister of Finance from 2002 to 2003, and Minister for Development Planning and Cooperation from January 2019 to October 2020.
Life
[edit]Ayawovi Demba Tignokpa was Minister of the Economy, Finance and Privatisations from 2002 to 2003. She was the first woman to be Minister of Finance in Togo.[1]
Demba Tignokpa was one of three deputies, and two Union for the Republic deputies, elected from Bassar Prefecture in the 2013 parliamentary election.[2]
In 2015 Tignokpa was a founding member of the African Parliamentarians' Network on Development Evaluation (APNODE).[3]
In 2017 Tignokpa was serving as Chairperson of Togo's Public Accounts Committee (Togo PAC),[4] and as President of the West African Association of Public Accounts Committees (WAAPAC).[5]
Demba Tignokpa was brought into the cabinet of Prime Minister Komi Sélom Klassou in a reshuffle announced on 25 January 2019.[6] She replaced Kossi Assimaidou as Minister for Planning and Development, with an expanded portfolio including cooperation.[7] In February 2019 she was appointed 3-year President of the Country Coordination Mechanism for funds financed by the Global Fund for fighting HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Togo.[8] She lost her ministerial position in Victoire Tomégah-Dogbe's cabinet of October 2020, in which the Ministry of Planning and Cooperation was attached to the Presidency of the Republic.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Historique du ministère". Ministry of Finance (in French). Retrieved 4 November 2023.
- ^ "Republic of Togo Lesislative Elections of 25 July 2013". Retrieved 4 November 2023.
- ^ "CONSTITUTION OF THE AFRICAN PARLIAMENTARIANS' NETWORK ON DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION" (PDF). Retrieved 4 November 2023.
- ^ "Workshop Programme". AFROPAC Secretariat. January 2017.
- ^ "7ème conférence et Assemblée générale du WAAPAC : Réflexions sur le rôle des parlements dans la lutte contre les flux financiers illicites (FFI)" (in French). 11 January 2017. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
- ^ Kohnert, D. (2020). "Togo". In Adetula; Kamski; Mehler; Melber (eds.). Africa Yearbook. Vol. 16 – Politics, economy and society South of the Sahara in 2019. Leiden & Boston: Brill.
- ^ "Qui sont-ils ces nouveaux ministres entrés au gouvernement?". Togo First. 25 January 2019. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
- ^ rene (23 February 2019). "Demba TIGNOKPA prend les rênes du CCM-TOGO pour un mandat de 3 ans" (in French). Retrieved 4 November 2023.
- ^ "Togo : le nouveau Gouvernement en place" (in French). 2 October 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2023.