Greetings from the African Palliative Care Association! We hope you have been well.
We are inviting you as a member of the African Palliative Care Association to participate in the nomination of APCA Board members as required by the APCA constitution.
This process is important because the board is not only the overall governance body into which the APCA General Assembly vests its powers, it also contributes significantly to the work of the organisation through their skills, time, commitment to palliative care, resources as well as enlarging APCA’s network for sustainability and impact on patients across Africa.
The current board composition is 10, and 3 of these members will be stepping down after serving 2 terms of 3 years each. We therefore invite you to nominate any person of regional or international repute with the following skill sets currently needed on the APCA board.
1. Research and academia
This role requires an academic or professional in the field of health or related to health who will bring this expertise to the board. The individual would support the board with their experience in overseeing research activities as a way of developing the body of evidence for palliative care to develop the discipline and meet the needs of the population in Africa. Having worked in this field is mandatory and experience as a member of a national regional, or international level board is an advantage.
2. Fundraising: This role requires expertise with exposure to and involvement in fundraising for non-profit causes at the national, regional or international level to support the APCA board in building and maintaining a robust oversight over fundraising and grant making activities.
3. Government, international relations and policy: This person will bring the expertise of relating to and working with governments to ensure successful oversight of implementation of palliative care and related projects in African countries.
4. Business: This requires a person with experience in the for profit/ business sector to strengthen APCA’s secretariat in its interaction with big businesses. The purpose of this role is to tap into the Corporate Social Responsibility of companies and to serve as a liaison between APCA and its board and the interests of business entities, with the aim of integrating common interests into the work of APCA on the African continent and globally.
5. Leadership in Public Health/Global Health and Program Management/ Implementation: This role focuses on strengthening health systems through the design, implementation, and management of public and global health programs.
6. Organisational/Social Development: This role requires enhancing institutional effectiveness through organisational development, while promoting inclusive and sustainable social development at the community, national, regional and international levels.
The person nominated MUST have at least one of the skills listed above.
We are also looking at gender, language and regional representation
The nomination process:
Please confirm that the person you are nominating is available and can travel to meet both physically and virtually at least once every quarter.
Ascertain that the person is an APCA member and if s/he is not a member ask them to register online free of charge on the APCA website. If it is not possible for him/her to register but you still want to nominate them please mention so in the nomination summary.
Send the person’s CV and a short summary of nomination below to nominations@africanpalliativecare.org by 21st August 2025. The Governance committee of the APCA Board will then short-list qualifying nominees for the voting process.
Voting will be done online between 22nd and 26th August 2025
The successful persons will be notified by 29th August 2022, so that they can plan to attend the General Assembly on 24th September 2025 at the APCA conference, in Gaborone, Botswana.
The nomination summary should be about one page and should include the following details:
The name of the nominee, their current telephone and email contacts
The skills the person is bringing to the board
Reasons why you have nominated the person
Any other relevant information.
We thank you for your participation.
Sincerely
APCA Communications
