Fatouma Bintou Djibo, also Fatoumata, is a Burkinabé Resident Coordinator of the United Nations in Niger. She is the Resident Representative of the UNDP (now called the

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). She is appointed by the

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Life

She attended

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and Paris's Institute of Demography where she studied spatial planning and demography. She gained a first and master's degree. She spent some years working as a diplomat and she also attended further training at

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in Washington D.C. left, Senegal's Prime Minister welcomes High Level Participants to Ministerial Conference on IP in Dakar She presented her credentials as the

's representative to the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Niger, Ibrahim Yacouba, on October 6, 2017. At a press conference in October 2019, Bintou Djibo explained that a delegation from the UN Peacebuilding Fund had come to Niger in order to investigate the funding made in connection with peacebuilding projects aimed at creating social cohesion between communities. This had led to the development of advice and guidance in regard to funding opportunities.

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