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1. President Joyce Banda : First
Female President of Malawi
President Joyce Banda has been a panelist and motivation
speaker at a number of international conferences and
forums, including the International Conference on Women
in Beijing, the American and African Business Women's
Africa Conference in London and the Women Deliver
Conference in Washington, DC.

3. An entrepreneur, activist, politician and a philanthropist, Her Excellency
Dr. Joyce Banda became president is Former President of the Republic of
Malawi having ruled Malawi from 2012 -2014. She is Malawi’s first female
president and Africa’s second. Voted as Africa's most powerful woman by
Forbes Magazine for two years running and voted as one of the most
powerful women in the world, Her Excellency Dr. Joyce Banda is a
champion for the rights of women, children, the disabled and other
marginalized groups.

4. Before becoming President of Malawi, Dr.
Joyce Banda served as a Member of
Parliament; Minister of Gender and Child
Welfare; Foreign Minister and Vice President
of the Republic of Malawi. While serving as
Minister of Gender and Child Welfare, Dr.
Joyce Banda championed the enactment of the
Prevention of Domestic Violence Bill in 2006,
which provides a legal framework and
instrument for elimination and Prevention of
all forms of Violence against Women and Girls.
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5. President Dr. Joyce Banda is credited for
turning round Malawi’s ailing economy which
was on the verge of collapse when she became
president in April 2012. She instituted a
number of economic reforms which did not
only bring the economy back on right truck but
also saw the economy growing from 1.8% in
2012 to over 6.2 % in 2014; improved the
operational in-+dustrial capacity from 35% in
2012 to 85% in July 2014; enhanced Malawi’s
foreign exchange import cover from one week
in 2014 to three and half months in July 2014;
and also turned around Malawi’s fuel cover
from 1 day in 2014 to 15 days in 2014 at any
given time. In the areas of democracy, good
governance and rule of law President Banda
repealed a number of draconian laws that
infringed on people’s civil liberties, media
freedom and weakened institutions of good
governance and rule of law

7. Dr. Joyce Banda’s unwavering commitment to
promotion women’s maternal health and
reproductive rights saw her establish
Presidential Initiative on Maternal Health and
Safe Motherhood, which spearheaded the
fight against high maternal mortality and
promotion of safe motherhood in Malawi.
Remarkably during the two year period of her
presidency, Malawi registered considerable
success in the areas of maternal and child
health and reproductive health in general as
the country reduced maternal mortality ratio
from 675 deaths per 100,000 live births to
460. The achievement is attributed to the
model which President Banda introduced,
which was a balanced act of both traditional
and technical dimensions and approaches.

8. Staying fast to her humanitarian convictions,
President Banda sold the multi-million dollar
presidential jet and donated 30% of her salary
to Malawi Council for the handicapped
(MACOHA), an organization for people with
disabilities during her two year of presidency.
A recipient of more than 15 international
accolades including “Hunger Project Africa
Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of
Hunger” shared with President Joaquim
Chissano of Mozambique in 1997, President
Banda is a strong advocate for women and
girls’ emancipation and empowerment and a
prominent civil rights campaigner. She
founded the Joyce Banda Foundation
International, which has guided projects from
empowering women, rural communities to
providing orphans education.

9. Currently the Joyce Banda Foundation
International has benefitted over 1.3 million
people in Malawi through various programs
and interventions ranging from economic
empowerment, agriculture and food security,
education, water and sanitation, youth
development just to mention a few. Among
many other organizations, she established the
National Association of Business Women,
which lends women start-up cash to build
small businesses, and the Young Women's
Leadership Network, which mentors female
students in schools.

11. On the international scene, President Dr. Banda was
instrumental in formation of such organization is a African
Federation of Women Entrepreneurs (AFWE), currently
running in 41 countries in Africa, Council for the Economic
Empowerment of Women in Africa (CEEWA) and
Americans & Africans Business Women’s Alliance (AABWA)
of which she served as First President.
President Banda sits on a number international
organization bodies. These include Executive Advisory
Committee of UNIFEM, Global Leaders Council for
Reproductive Health and Scientific Advisory Board of the
Programs in Global health and Social change for Harvard
Medical School.
President Joyce Banda has been a panelist and motivation
speaker at a number of international conferences and
forums, including the International Conference on Women
in Beijing, the American and African Business Women's
Africa Conference in London and the Women Deliver
Conference in Washington, DC.

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