About African Sustainable Development Network (ASDN)

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About ASDN

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African Sustainable Development Network (ASDN) is a not-for-profit non-governmental organisation (NGO) incorporated under Nigerian law in 2004

ASDN exists to simultaneously provide Africa a coherent and coordinated global voice on economic causes, and generate a continuous continent-wide campaign for sustainable economic development

These are through genuine citizenship engagement and the pursuit of sound market-driven and transparent fiscal and monetary policies and projects.

ASDN’s Vision

Helping create an Africa unburdened by debt but effectively utilising the different types of globally available financial resources to provide good living for its peoples. .

ASDN’s Mission

To ensure, through citizen action, enlightened campaigns and intelligent representation, that Africa obtains genuine debt reductions to free resources for its uplift from poverty; obtains new loans on optimum terms; and makes optimum application of such loans to free its citizens from privation.

ASDN’s Objectives

These are as follows:

¨ To campaign for genuine reduction of African countries’ debt burdens in order to free resources for health, education, food security and infrastructure

¨ To help ensure that the freed resources are used for the above purposes

¨ To help ensure that new loans are transparently procured, on the best possible terms

¨ To help ensure that the new loans are accountably utilised for the purposes for which they are procured.

¨ To canvass sound, best practice fiscal and monetary policies in Africa, including prudent management of external accounts and privatisation where necessary

¨ To monitor execution of economic policies on the continent.

ASDN’s Levels of Work

The network’s work is organised on two levels:

à Africa-wide and

à Country-specific projects aimed at each of the 53 African countries.

Country Programmes

ASDN’s work in each country is in two broad segments:

1) Campaigning and helping prepare the country for debt relief negotiations

2) Beyond relief: essentially facilitating optimal economic policy making and implementation, new loans procurement and utilisation and general resources application.

ASDN Governance

The Board of Governors is ASDN’s highest advisory body. Comprised of respected persons from all over the world with a common passion for Africa’s economic renaissance, the BoG provides general oversight on all areas of the organisation, including:

¨ Advocacy issues

¨ Advocacy execution

¨ General policy formulation

¨ Resources mobilisation and

¨ The annual budget

More detailed oversight is provided by the board of trustees. This comprises the president and secretary.

The board of trustees is supported on a regular basis by the legal adviser.

Bio data

President, Rose Umoren

Ms Rose Umoren holds an MA from the University of Manchester, England, an MSc from the University of Lagos and a BA from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

She is president of Global Money, a firm of business research providers.

Prior to this, Ms Umoren worked for five years in banking as a senior management staff in the Corporate Planning, Corporate & Investment Banking and Credit Risk Management functions. She has also practised journalism in Nigeria and the United States. In Nigeria, she was at various times the editor of Business Concord, Business editor of the Guardian, among others. In the United States, she was the pioneer Africa correspondent of the Rome-based news agency Inter Press Service (IPS).

Ms Umoren has also served as a member of the advisory panel of Washington Post online and on the executive committee of the Nigeria Marketing Association (NIMARK), Lagos State chapter.

Ms Umoren is also, among others, a fellow, Institute of Management Consultants, Nigeria; and a certified management consultant.

Her core work areas include currencies, international trade, privatisation, energy, external debt, multilateral financial institutions, structural adjustment and intellectual property rights; and corporate strategy.

Author of two books: Economic Reforms and Nigeria’s Political Crisis, and The Nigeria Banking Services User’s Handbook, she speaks French and English.

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