General Assembly (GA)
Main body that takes decisions at the political and strategic level. For each member there are two representatives. The GA takes place twice a year.
Advisory Board
Body composed of 3-6 administrators chosen among the members of the network. The choice of the representatives is based on the gender and geographical balance of the members (Africa, America, Europe). The Board meets once a month.
Executive Secretariat
Body in charge of the administrative, accounting and financial management of the network. It ensures the preparation, follow-up, coordination and execution of the work of the GA, the Board and the working groups (WG). One person is responsible for its management.
Working groups
Bodies gathering the members of Minka interested in contributing to a specific thematic. Each WG group has its own mandate and objectives, and evolve depending on the needs expressed by the network. There are currently 5 WP :
- WP : Gender – Cereals- Resilience
- WP : Climate justice
- WP : Network expansion and partners
- WP : Funding strategy, support and donors
- WP : Advocacy
Geneviève Gauthier
President of the Board
Geneviève Gauthier is the Senior Director of International Programming at Mission Inclusion (Canada).
Geneviève holds a Master’s degree in International Development from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) and a Master’s degree in Comparative Women’s Studies in Culture and Politics from the University of Utrecht. She has extensive experience in the field of gender and social inclusion, both in Quebec in the community sector and internationally in the fields of humanitarian action and international development.
She has worked for several NGOs and specialises in responding to and preventing violence against women and girls in humanitarian crises. She has been based in Vietnam, Jordan, Burundi, South Sudan and Yemen, and has been part of emergency response teams where she has developed gender-based violence response services for refugee and displaced women and girls.
Abdoulaye Ouedraogo
Member of the Board
Abdoulaye Ouedraogo is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Permanent Secretariat of Non-Governmental Organisations (SPONG) in Burkina Faso, and General Coordinator of the NGO APIL.
Development economist and expert in sustainable territorial development, he has a Master’s degree in project development and management, specialising in agro-ecology and sustainable agriculture. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Management Science.
Abdoulaye has 25 years’ experience in running socio-economic development programmes for rural communities in Burkina Faso. Under his leadership, the NGO APIL supports the socio-economic initiatives of 72,000 families facing climate hazards, food insecurity and huge security challenges in six regions of Burkina. Its expertise focuses on systems for creating productive assets in rural communities, and strategies for strengthening the resilience of populations in fragile contexts through integrated and sustainable approaches.
Dominique Morel
Member of the Board
Dominique Morel is Program Manager in Senegal for Humundi (formerly SOS Faim), for whom she has worked for nearly 8 years.
An agricultural engineer by training, with a certificate in agroecology, Dominique has almost 30 years’ experience in development cooperation, particularly in the fields of agriculture, rural development, sustainable food systems and microfinance.
She previously worked for ENABEL (Belgian Development Agency) for 10 years, and has field experience on 3 continents (Latin America, Asia and Africa) in program and project management, seminar organization, multi-stakeholder partnerships and experience capitalization. She is also a member of Alterfin’s Board of Directors.
Camille Rouaud
Coordinator Minka
Camille is the Coordinator of the Minka network since July 2020.
Before joining Minka, she worked for several NGOs and UN agencies in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the United States. She has been based in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burkina Faso, India and Peru.
Her areas of expertise include international development programme management, organisational and team coordination, project development, governance and elections and women’s participation.
Camille also sits on the French National Right of Asylum Court (CNDA) for the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as an assessor.
Marc Mees
Agro-ecology and capitalization expert
Marc is an agronomist by training and has spent most of his career with SOS Faim Belgium, where he worked mainly in the partner support department and in knowledge management. For SOS Faim, he coordinated the writing of the magazines Zoom Microfinance and Dynamiques Paysannes.
Marc is also one of FOGAL’s representatives in MINKA and contributes to the network’s knowledge sharing and capitalisation dynamics.
Its main areas of expertise are: agricultural finance, agroecology, territorial development and programme evaluation.