Céline Yoda

Céline Yoda (born April 6, 1958) is a Burkinabé politician; she currently serves as the Minister for the Promotion of Women, in which capacity she has served since June 10, 2007.

Yoda received her diploma from the École Normale Supérieure d’Enseignement Technique et Professionnel in Dakar, where she studied social and familial economics. Before serving in public office, she spent a long career working for non-governmental organizations nd some government groups. She was the first female secretary general of SPONG (the Secrétariat Permanent des ONG, Burkina Faso's organization of NGO's); she served in this position for two terms. She also worked for a time for the United Nations in Burkina Faso as a national expert on "population creation and development". From 1997 until 2000 she was the secretary general for the Ministry for the Promotion of Women; in 2000 she was named her country's ambassador to Denmark, remaining in Copenhagen until being called home to serve in the government of Tertius Zongo.

Reference

• Le ministre Céline YODA rencontre les acteurs sociaux de la promotion de la région du Centre Est (in French)

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