The caput of the UN Children’s Fund, Henrietta Fore, announced her resignation connected Tuesday, successful bid to give herself fulltime to caring for her husband, who is suffering from what she described arsenic a superior wellness issue.
Ms. Fore said it had been “a hard decision”, and successful a connection to staff, described holding the bureau of Executive Director arsenic “a tremendous honour”.
With a dense heart, I person informed the UN Secretary-General and our Executive Board President of my determination to measurement down arsenic UNICEF Executive Director successful bid to give my vigor to my husband’s superior wellness issue.
— Henrietta H. Fore (@unicefchief) July 13, 2021“To service the world’s children is some exhilarating and fascinating. You person achieved singular accomplishments astatine an bonzer time, and we person truthful overmuch much to do”, she told the UNICEF team.
She said she would proceed successful the apical occupation until the extremity of the Executive Board rhythm this twelvemonth and the opening of the UN General Assembly successful September, and volition stay “until my successor has been chosen”.
She added that successful the meantime, she would proceed to pb connected processing the agency’s Strategic Plan, and besides absorption connected countries’ entree to COVID-19 vaccines; to assistance the harmless instrumentality to classrooms crossed the world; “and further accelerate our enactment successful some humanitarian and improvement contexts”, to guarantee a “bright aboriginal for each child.”
‘Sincere appreciation’
In a statement issued via his Spokesperson, Secretary-General António Guterres said he full understood Ms. Fore’s decision, accepting her resignation with “deep regret.”
“The Secretary-General wishes to explicit his sincere appreciation to Ms. Fore for her inspiring enactment of UNICEF and for her work to amended the lives of children each astir the world. In particular, helium noted UNICEF’s captious relation successful the planetary effect to COVID-19 and successful reimagining education.”
The connection said that arsenic a effect of her leadership, UNICEF was present an enactment “with a broader array of nationalist and backstage assemblage partnerships and a bolder absorption connected achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.”
The UN main thanked Ms. Fore for her “outstanding enactment to code the bonzer challenges facing children and young radical astir the world.”
Leading nationalist servant
She became the agency’s seventh manager successful January 2018, having worked successful economical development, education, health, humanitarian and catastrophe alleviation arsenic a nationalist servant, for much than 4 decades.
She became the archetypal pistillate to service successful the US Government arsenic Administrator of the Agency for International Development (USAID), and Director of US Foreign Assistance, betwixt 2007-2009. Before that, she besides served arsenic an Under Secretary of State, astatine the State Department.
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