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=== Oley Dibba-Wadda [ Edit | Edit source ] ===


Oley Dibba-Wadda ( Oley Lucretia Clara Dibba-Wadda, was born on the March 24, 1967 in Oxford in the United Kingdom. She is a Gambian national and an International Development Expert and actively engaged in politics in The Gambia. She specialises in youth employment, girls‘ education, education, gender equality and women’s rights.

==== Contents [ Edit | Edit source ] ==== • 1. family and education • 2. careers • 3. web links • 4. individual records

==== Family and Education [ Edit | Edit source ] ====Big text Dibba-Wadda was born in Oxford in the United Kingdom to Omar Baboucar Yusupha Dibba (her father and studying at the time at Oxford University) and Lucretia Eleanor Clara Dibba, nee Carayol, (her mother). She was named after her paternal grandmother, Oley. And her middle names given to her by her parents after her mother. She is a great granddaughter of the Late Mrs. Lucretia Ayeshemi St. Clair Joof, the first female Gambian MP. [1] She has three younger siblings Penda, Omar and Lucretia Dibba and is married to renowned Gambian athlete, Mr. Bye Malleh Wadda together, they have four children, Omar, Katty, Mustapha and Samsudeen Wadda (one daughter and three sons). [2]

Career [ Edit | Edit source ]

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After attending St. Joseph's High School, she earned a National Diploma in Hotel Management and also in a Diploma in Gender and Development as well as a Masters in Gender Analysis in Development from the University of East Anglia in Norwich , UK. [2]

In October 2019, Oley resigned from her job as Director for Human Capital, Youth and Skills Development of the African Development Bank (AfDB) to return home and actively engage in politics. Prior to the AfDB, the first woman to head the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA). She was also the Director of Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS) and the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE).

She was also a Global Ambassador for 10X10 and Concern Universal (now United Purpose ) and also worked for Oxfam, Great Britain, the Commonwealth Education Fund and the European Development Fund in different capacities.

In 2012, she was awarded Inspiring Woman of Excellence. In 2013, she was awarded Woman Leadership Award. In 2017, she was nominated for the “New African Woman” Forum Awards for Education and in 2020, she was nominated for “She Awards” Most Outstanding Writers in The Gambia, for her work. [3] Oley founded the Gam Africa Institute for Leadership (GAIL) in 2017, where she is president and CEO. [4]

In March 2017, she published her autobiography Memoirs of an African Woman on a Mission , which was presented by the Gambian Vice President Fatoumata Tambajang. [6]

She was amongst the first cohort of top 15 African women selected from across the African continent by the Ellen Johnson Presidential Center for Women, to participate in the ‘Amujae Leaders’ Initiative, and prepared to take up roles and excel in the highest echelons of public leadership and is now actively engaged in politics in The Gambia and in early January 2020, she officially joined the Gambian United Democratic Party . [7]

==== Weblinks [ Edit | Edit source ] ====Big text • portrait . https://www.ejscenter.org/programs/amujae-initiative/participants/ • https://www.oleydibbawadda.com


==== Individual records [ edit | Edit source ] ====Big text 1. Oley Dibba Wadda, Director of Human Capital, Youth and Skills Development, AfDB. Accessed January 18, 2019: "In terms of who motivated me, I would say my great grand-mother. Her name was Mrs. Lucretia Ayeshemi St Clair Joof. She was the first female member of parliament in The Gambia. She had no children of her own, but she raised several children (including my grandmother, my mum and my mum's siblings) under her wing. "

2. Jump up to:a b webmaster: Oley Dibba Wadda, Director of Human Capital, Youth and Skills Development, AfDB | TheWomensTorch. Retrieved December 26, 2018 (British English).

3. World Women Leadership Congress. Retrieved December 26, 2018.

4. GAIL | Gam Africa Institute for Leadership | The Gambia. Accessed December 26, 2018.

5. Webmaster Webmaster: Gambian Oley Dibba-Wadda is director of human capital at AfDB. In: The Standard Newspaper. June 28, 2017, accessed December 26, 2018 (American English).

6. Editor: Book Launch: Memoirs Of An African Woman On A Mission. December 28, 2017, accessed December 26, 2018 (American English).

7. Oley Dibba joins UDP. Retrieved January 10, 2020

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