I.V. NOMINATION MRP WOMEN AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 MASERU 000237 SIPDIS ECA/PE/V CHARLOTTE PETERSON E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: KPAO OEXC SCUL LT ECON SUBJECT: I.V. NOMINATION MRP WOMEN AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REF: 04 STATE 114693 START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): : The following data is in a fixed format which enables : automated processing in Washington and should not be : edited except by means of the Post-EVDB software. EXPORT-SOURCE: POST-EVDB VERSION: 3.0.7 POST-EMAIL: INFOMASERU@STATE.GOV TRANSMITTING-POST: PAS Maseru TRANSMITTING-POST-ID: 6119 EXPORT-TYPE: BIO DATA START NOMINATION: ECA-OFFICE: E/VGA PROG-AGENCY-NAME: POST-PROJ-ID: 14 ECA-PROJ-NO: PROJ-NAME: Women and Econmic Development START MEMO PROJ-DESC: Women and Economic Development. END MEMO PROJ-DESC: PROJ-TYPE: Multi-Regional PROG-TYPE: IV Grant Visitor FY: 2005 DEPART-POST: 09/27/2005 SESSION-DATE: 09/29/2005 RETURN-POST: 10/22/2005 NO-OF-PART: 1 RANK-ORDER: 1 START MEMO POST-OBJ: END MEMO POST-OBJ: START MEMO POST-RCMD: END MEMO POST-RCMD: ECA-OFFICE-ID: 1035 PROG-AGENCY-ID: PROJ-TYPE-ID: MRP PROG-TYPE-ID: 29 NOMINATING-POST-ID: 6119 FUNDING-CNTRY-ID: 6119 STATUS: N ORIGINATOR: P SUBJ-DISC: Economic & Business Development START BIO: PREFIX: Ms. F-NAME: Palesa M-NAME: Doreen L-NAME: Monkhi SUFFIX: POSITION-CODE: 311 PRINCIPAL?: Yes M-ADDR1: P.O. Box 055 M-ADDR2: Maseru 100 M-ADDR3: M-CITY: Maseru M-STATE: M-CNTRY: Lesotho M-ZONE: M-ZIP: M-PHONE: (09266) 58850071 M-FAX: M-EMAIL: pmonkhi@leo.co.ls M-CNTRY-ID: LT M-ADDRTYPE: B GENDER: DOB: 09/29/1970 MAR-STAT: S BIRTH-CITY: Maseru BIRTH-CNTRY: Lesotho CITIZ-CNTRY: Lesotho RES-CNTRY: Lesotho START MEMO POSITION: Contracts Manager- A&C Holdings END MEMO POSITION: START MEMO OTHER-POSITIONS: 1998-2004 - Quantity Surveyor- Lephema Executive Transport. END MEMO OTHER-POSITIONS: START MEMO PREV-POSITIONS: 1996-1997- Technician- These Construction Services LTD. END MEMO PREV-POSITIONS: START MEMO US-TRAVEL: None END MEMO US-TRAVEL: START MEMO OTHER-TRAVEL: Brussels, Belgium END MEMO OTHER-TRAVEL: START MEMO EDUCATION: Education: 1988-1991- Diploma in Civil Engineering , Lerotholi Polytechnic. Training: 1.Sept 1997-December1997- Small Scale Contractor's Project MASERU 00000237 002 OF 003 Training Program(Using Labour based Methods). 2.July 1990- January 1991- Spie Batignolles LTD - Trainee in Construction Management. 3.January 1989- June 1989- Ministry of Works, Roads Department, trainee in maintenance, laboratory and design sections. Summit attended: Young Entrepreneur Summit for Developing Countries around the World- Brussels, Belgium. Conferences attended: Guest Speaker at Women's Forum held by the U.S. Embassy in Lesotho. END MEMO EDUCATION: START MEMO MEMBERSHIPS: END MEMO MEMBERSHIPS: START MEMO PUBLICATIONS: None END MEMO PUBLICATIONS: START MEMO SPEC-CONSID: None END MEMO SPEC-CONSID: FIRST-LANG: Sotho/Sesutho ENGL-READ: 5 ENGL-SPEAK: 5 ENGL-COMP: 5 START OTHER-LANGS: OTHER-LANG: English OTHER-LANG-ID: EN READ: 4 SPEAK: 3 COMP: 4 END OTHER-LANGS: START MEMO NOM-POST-OBJ: Maseru's 2006 MPP goal Democratic Systems and Practices seeks to promote greater participation and leadership by women in politics, business and society as leaders. Post objectives are to provide women in Lesotho the capacity and opportunity to participate in decision making, to empower them through training and involve them in the economic development of the country. As a very successful entrepreneur, Ms. Monkhi will benefit greatly from the program and bring back skills that will benefit women. She is an active mentor for young Basotho women interested in entering business. END MEMO NOM-POST-OBJ: START MEMO NOM-POST-RCMD: END MEMO NOM-POST-RCMD: START MEMO VIS-OBJ: END MEMO VIS-OBJ: START MEMO VIS-REC: END MEMO VIS-REC: NOMINATING-OFFICER: Jed T. Dornburg START MEMO NOMINATING-JUSTIFICATION: The nominee is a successful young business woman in Lesotho, who has her own engineering company. This program will give her the opportunity to explore the gender dimensions of business, economics, and international finance. She will have a fuller understanding of the contributions of women to the economic development of the U.S and will have the opportunity to explore the progress of women in overcoming gender bias to participate more fully in the world economy. Someone of her ability will be able to put this experience to good use in the Lesotho context. END MEMO NOMINATING-JUSTIFICATION: NOM-OFF: SPEAKER?: No NOTIFY-EMB: No MEDIA?: No HOME-STAY: No HOME-HOSP?: No E-I-TYPE: NOMINEE-ID: 33 PERSON-ID: 32 BIRTH-CNTRY-ID: LT CITIZ-CNTRY-ID: LT RES-CNTRY-ID: LT FIRST-LANG-ID: SR E-I-TYPE-ID: NOM-POST-ID: 6119 NOM-FUNDING-CNTRY-ID: 6119 MASERU 00000237 003 OF 003 NOM-STATUS: N DS2019-ACTION: 1 DS2019-SUBJECT: 45.0601 SPONS-FUNDS: 0 SPONS-AGENCY1: USGOVT-AGENCY1: US-AGENCY-AMT1: 0 USGOVT-AGENCY2: US-AGENCY-AMT2: 0 INTL-ORG1: INTL-ORG-AMOUNT1: 0 INTL-ORG2: INTL-ORG-AMOUNT2: 0 VIS-GOVT-AMT: 0 COMMISSION: 0 OTHER-AMOUNT: 0 VIS-AMOUNT: 0 VIS-CAT: 5 END BIO: END NOMINATION: END FIXED-FORMAT TEXT: PERRY