MONROVIA: The African Observatory for the Promotion of Good Governance (OAPBG), a conglomeration of journalists and communication professionals based in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, has awarded its West Africa’s Most Influential Woman Award to Liberia’s Vice President, Chief Dr. Jewel Howard-Taylor.
The Award, according to the group of journalist and communication professionals, is in recognition of VP Howard-Taylor’s female leadership role played while serving in different capacities including First Lady, Standard Bearer of the National Patriotic Party, Senator of Bong County and now first female Vice President of the Republic of Liberia.
The Award is also in recognition of Madam Howard-Taylor’s stellar examples and advocacy for gender inclusion as well as empowerment, a release from the Office of the VP said.
Graced by several African personalities, the ceremony dubbed “Distinction of the Best West African Actors of Emergence Edition 2018” was held Thursday, December 20, 2018, in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
Receiving the Award on behalf of the Vice President, the Deputy Chief of Protocol in the Vice President, Mr. Ephraim Tunis Teage, expressed the VP’s gratitude and humbled appreciation, noting that she sees the award as a welcoming incentive that bears the potential to propel her to do more.
He recalled that from the time VP Howard Taylor mounted the platform of leadership beginning her time as First Lady of the Republic, serving at the country’s Central Bank, and as an elected Senator for over a decade of a key political subdivision, Liberia’s first female Vice President has never relented in her crusade for good governance.
According to him, VP Howard-Taylor has not only pinned her focus on governance in the echelons of national government, but even more robustly, on best practices in community organizations, municipal and county administrative and fiscal systems, as well as other non-governmental entities.
Stressing the critical importance of good governance, the VP was cited as noting that, even if a nation is one of affluence and prosperity, the piercing effects of governance limitations can stymie its growth, undermine prosperity and shortchange its vision.
