Board of Trustees: 2022 review and 2023 orientations

The year 2022 was an opportunity to strengthen the alliance strategy of the Lomé Initiative against Falsified and Substandard Medicines. The Foundation thus became member of the executive committee of Fight the Fake Alliance. It participated for the first time in the World Health Assembly and the WHO Africa Regional Committee held in Lomé where the event, co-organised with WHO and the Togolese government, was a great success. The year ended with an increased level of recognition of the Lomé Initiative. The Brazzaville Foundation appears to be a reliable and legitimate platform to address the issue of falsified and substandard medicines at the African and international level. To accompany all of these actions, and following a very broad consultation, it has developeda new brochure which explains the methodology of the Lomé Initiative. The year 2023 will see the strengthening of alliances, particularly with the pharmaceutical industry, and the implementation of the pilot project in Togo supported by new international partners.

The year 2022 saw a repositioning of Brazzaville Foundation with regard to the preservation of the Congo Basin. In 2021, it had acted as operator of the Congo Basin Blue Fund at COP26 in Glasgow. While remaining a technical partner of the Congo Basin Climate Commission, the Foundation was present in its own name at the COP27 organised in Sharm el-Sheikh in November, where it was granted its provisional observer status to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). At the PreCOP in Kinshasa in October, it launched a survey entitled "Solutions from Africa" aimed at aimed at understanding the challenges of climate finance. This survey was further developed during the COP. Based on its results, a new project is being studied to develop a pilot incubator for climate projects in 2023.

The year 2022 ended with the launch of a new website enabling the Foundation to better inform its stakeholders. The new quarterly magazine, sent out by newsletter, was appreciated by most recipients, if the very satisfactory open rate is anything to go by.

As of 23 January 2023, the trustees are Jean-Yves Ollivier, Founding Chairman, Charles Carr, Treasurer, Martine Chayrigues and Kishore Sakhrani.