Nasser Fellowship graduate meets Tanzania's Minister of Community Development

Nasser Fellowship graduate meets Tanzania's Minister of Community Development
Nasser Fellowship graduate meets Tanzania's Minister of Community Development

Mansoza Kengo, a graduate of the Nasser Fellowship for International Leadership, the third batch, met with Dr. Dorothy Jwajima, the Tanzanian Minister of Community Development,  her Deputy, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, and some of the Ministry’s leaders. This took place at the headquarters of the  Ministry of Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MCDGEC-Tanzania) in the Tanzanian capital, Dodoma.

The meeting dealt with introducing the Nasser Fellowship for International Leadership in its third edition,  as means to  activate  bilateral cooperation between Egypt and Tanzania in the field of youth, women and children were discussed.   activities and programs that can be implemented during the coming period were also on the table for discussion.  For her part, Jwajima stressed the cooperation with the Ministries of Information, Culture, Artists, Sports and Foreign Affairs, in order to accomplish and activate  issues of common interest to both the Egyptian and Tanzanian peoples.

During the period from May 31 to June 17, 2022 at the Engineering Authority House in Cairo, Egypt's Ministry of Youth and Sports organized the activities of the Nasser Fellowship in its third edition under the auspices of His Excellency President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, President of the Republic, as 150 young leaders from non-aligned countries and friendly countries participated in these events. 

The Nasser Fellowship for International Leadership aims to transfer the long established Egyptian experience in  building consolidated national institutions, as well as creating a generation of young leaders from non-aligned countries with a vision in line with the South-South Partnership. Moreover, the Fellowship aims at raising awareness of the role of the Non-Aligned Movement historically and its role in the future. In addition to this, it aims at activating the role of  member states' youth network  in  the Non-Aligned Movement  NAM, and networking the most influential young leaders at the level of non-aligned countries and friendly countries.

As indicated by the fifth objective of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030,  the Fellowship aims at giving an equal opportunity to both genders.  Young people are also given the opportunity to mingle with each other and make partnerships in various fields, not only at the continental level, but also globally, as indicated by the seventeenth objective of the goals of  sustainable development.