Ayawovi Demba Tignokpa
Ayawovi Demba Tignokpa is a Togolese politician. She served as Minister of Finance from 2002 to 2003, and Minister for Development Planning and Cooperation from January 2019 to October 2020.
Life
Ayawovi Demba Tignokpa was Minister of the Economy, Finance and Privatisations from 2002 to 2003. She was the first woman to be Minister of Finance in Togo.{{cite web | title=Historique du ministère | language=FR | website=Ministry of Finance | url=https://finances.gouv.tg/historique-du-ministere/ | access-date=4 November 2023 }}
Demba Tignokpa was one of three deputies, and two Union for the Republic deputies, elected from Bassar Prefecture in the 2013 parliamentary election.{{cite web | title=Republic of Togo Lesislative Elections of 25 July 2013 | url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/t/togo/togo2013.txt | access-date=4 November 2023 }}
In 2015 Tignokpa was a founding member of the African Parliamentarians' Network on Development Evaluation (APNODE).{{cite web | title=CONSTITUTION OF THE AFRICAN PARLIAMENTARIANS’ NETWORK ON DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION | url=https://idev.afdb.org/sites/default/files/documents/files/Constitution.pdf | access-date=4 November 2023}}
In 2017 Tignokpa was serving as Chairperson of Togo's Public Accounts Committee (Togo PAC),{{cite web | title=Workshop Programme | publisher=AFROPAC Secretariat | date=January 2017 | url=https://www.afropac.net/index.php/downloads/category/7-lome-togo-workshop-presentations?download=43:togo-programme }} and as President of the West African Association of Public Accounts Committees (WAAPAC).{{cite web | title=7ème conférence et Assemblée générale du WAAPAC : Réflexions sur le rôle des parlements dans la lutte contre les flux financiers illicites (FFI) | date=11 January 2017 | language=FR | url=https://www.nigerdiaspora.net/Archives-Nigerdiaspora-2003-2020/index.php/breves/item/76445-7%C3%A8me-conf%C3%A9rence-et-assembl%C3%A9e-g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale-du-waapac-r%C3%A9flexions-sur-le-r%C3%B4le-des-parlements-dans-la-lutte-contre-les-flux-financiers-illicites-ffi | access-date=4 November 2023 }}
Demba Tignokpa was brought into the cabinet of Prime Minister Komi Sélom Klassou in a reshuffle announced on 25 January 2019.{{cite book | last=Kohnert |first=D. | year=2020 | chapter=Togo | editor-last=Adetula | editor-last2=Kamski |editor-last3=Mehler | editor-last4=Melber |
title=Africa Yearbook. Vol. 16 – Politics, economy and society South of the Sahara in 2019 | location=Leiden & Boston | publisher=Brill | url=https://osf.io/download/5e46cd54d662210125990b9f/ }} She replaced Kossi Assimaidou as Minister for Planning and Development, with an expanded portfolio including cooperation.{{cite news | title=Qui sont-ils ces nouveaux ministres entrés au gouvernement? | newspaper=Togo First | date=25 January 2019 | url=https://www.togofirst.com/fr/politique/2501-2415-qui-sont-ils-ces-nouveaux-ministres-entres-au-gouvernement | access-date=4 November 2023 }} In February 2019 she was appointed 3-year President of the Country Coordination Mechanism for funds financed by the Global Fund for fighting HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Togo.{{cite web | author=rene | title=Demba TIGNOKPA prend les rênes du CCM-TOGO pour un mandat de 3 ans | date=23 February 2019 | language=FR | url=https://impartialactu.info/demba-tignokpa-prend-les-renes-du-ccm-togo-pour-un-mandat-de-3-ans/ | access-date=4 November 2023 }} She lost her ministerial position in Victoire Tomégah-Dogbe's cabinet of October 2020, in which the Ministry of Planning and Cooperation was attached to the Presidency of the Republic.{{cite news | title=Togo : le nouveau Gouvernement en place | date=2 October 2020 | language=FR | url=https://www.togofirst.com/fr/politique/0210-6348-togo-le-nouveau-gouvernement-en-place | access-date=4 November 2023 }}
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