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Dr. Vince Sinining Welcome to the official website of Africa Health Development Organization (AHDO) in the DRC.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the poorest countries in the world and will have 15% of the world's poor by 2030 as projected by monitoring agencies. It has also suffered from decades of conflict. DRC is prone to large public health emergencies, including seven Ebola outbreaks since the 1970s, a large yellow fever outbreak and ongoing cholera epidemics. The nutrition situation in DRC is critical: 4.3 million children are malnourished, including 1.9 million children with severe acute malnutrition, as reported by actionforhunger.org.

According to MICS 2017-2018 the rate of acute malnutrition in DRC is up to 7% with a 42% rate of growth retardation. . In response to these statistics, DRC government has signed partnerships with several parties, including AHDO, to fight malnutrition and provide food security.

DRC, as DFID reported, has enormous potential for growth, trade and investment. It has enough fertile land to feed a billion people. Its forests are second in size only to the Amazon. Its hydroelectric energy resources could power most of Africa. It has an estimated $24 trillion of mineral wealth. Unlocking this potential will have huge benefits for the Congolese people and the region.

DRC is facing many challenges typical among the least developed nations: high levels of poverty, malnutrition and inadequate healthcare. We believe that a healthy and well-nourished population is an important factor in the government's efforts towards achieving the country's sustainable development.

Our way forward is to partner and collaborate with various stakeholders, international donors, and the DRC Ministry of Public Health in combating malnutrition and in improving health of the population. We believe in the power of working together to achieve our common goals.

Dr. Vince Sinining
Chef de Projet

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Dr. Vince with his former Deputy, Chad D'Amore at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA	Dr. Vince with President Kessai H. Note of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and Ambassador Vinci Niel Clodumar of the Republic of Nauru


Dr. Vince with His Excellency Vladimir Putin, President of Russia since 2012, previously holding the position from 2000 until 2008. In between his presidential terms he was also the Prime Minister of Russia under his close associate Dmitry Medvedev.	Dr. Vince with the Honorable Haja Zainab Hawa Bangura, the second United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict with the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations from 2012 to 2017

Brief Profile

Dr. Vicente "Vince" Sinining is currently the Chef de Projet of African Health Development Organization founded in Geneva, Switzerland with a national office in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He serves as Managing Director of Light Publications in Rwanda.

Dr. Vince, as he is commonly addressed by his peers and colleagues, is an experienced administrator and a professional educator since 1988. He has taught in the United States (18 years), Southeast Asia (5 years), Pacific Islands (2 years), and Africa (4 years). He served as an accredited diplomat at the United Nations in New York for almost a decade with a diplomatic rank as Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and of the Republic of Nauru on separate posting. Since 2000, he is a speechwriter and special adviser to select Heads of States of various Permanent Missions to the United Nations. In higher education, he served as Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Education and Management at Mahatma Gandhi University and acting Coordinator and Professor of Education at Christian University of Rwanda. In the Philippines, he served as a Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Education and Management at a 4-year College and as a Visiting Professor of a State College. Since 2018, he serves as an external examiner of Ph.D Thesis at various universities in Europe, India, Southeast Asia, and Africa.

He is the founder and chairman of VCS Research (established in 1996 and incorporated in Washington DC in 2000), a consulting firm for education, capacity building and sustainable development. He was the co-founder and Executive Director of AIM Foundation in the Republic of Malawi, and Executive Director of Reimanlok Foundation in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

He is the authorized representative of Winchester City University in Rwanda, Malawi, and the DRC - - -providing access and scholarships to higher education to talented individuals. He regularly writes columns and commentaries in various publications.

He studied chemical engineering for five years and earned a Bachelor degree in Computer Science, a Master in Education, and a Ph.D. in Education with specialization in Leadership and Management.

He was a Senior fellow at Columbia University in New York, USA and at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, New York.

During his time at the United Nations, he attended various training on diplomacy, finance, economics, politics and government at UNITAR, NYU, Yale, and Harvard.

Dr. Vince at AHDO