Governance and MMM Teams

Board 2022-2024

Anne-Claire de Liedekerke, President of MMM

President: Anne Claire de Liedekerke (Belgium)
Secretary-General: Marie-Liesse Mandula (France)
Treasurer: Anne del Marmol (Belgium)
Vice-President: Valérie Bichelmeier, Head of MMM UN Delegation (Switzerland)
Vice-President: Johanna Schima, Head of EU Delegation (Belgium)

Laurence van den Abeele, President, MMM Belgium
Aliette Abraham, President, Otitsara (Madagascar)
Philip Biswas, Founder & Director, Rural Reconstruction Foundation – RRF (Bangladesh)
Françoise Cardoso, Expert in Sustainability, Health & Planet, Social Innovation & Inclusion, Women empowerment & CSR (France)
Alain Englebert, President, En Avant les Enfants – EALE (Belgium/DRC)
Nikki van der Gaag, Independent Consultant on Gender equality issues (UK)
Jean Bolly Kouassi, President, AJAD (Côte d’Ivoire)
Jocelyne Le Pivain, President, MMM France
Xavier Prats-Monné, Special Advisor, President of the European Committee of the King Baudouin Foundation (Spain)
Roland Vaxelaire, Consultant (Belgium)

MMM Teams and Representatives of member organisations at the 2019 General Assembly

International Secretariat (SGI) & UNESCO Delegation – Paris

Marie-Liesse Mandula, Secretary General + Representative at the UNESCO

Shahnaz Pakravan, Communication Manager

Caroline de Senneville, Project Manager + Representative at the UNESCO

Sarah Krimi, MMM Network Coordinator

Carol Pinson, Accounting Manager

 Read about the work of the UNESCO Delegation here

MMM European Delegation – Bruxelles


Johanna Shima, Véronique de Vaumas, Laetitia Wolkonski, Anne-Michelle de Mathelin, Kristzina Szalachy

Read about the work of the EU Delegation here

MMM UN Delegation – New York, Geneva, and Vienna

Alexandra Bouée (New York), Valerie Bichelmeier (Geneva), Jacqueline Leduc (New York), Karen Thorsen (Geneva), Carole Joncour (New York), Mélanie Nédélec (Geneva)

Irina Palffy, UN Vienna

Irina Palffy, UN Vienna

Read about the work of the UN Delegation here

MMM at the National Level – Belgium & France

Laurence Vanden Abeele Bosteels, President of MMM Belgium

Jocelyne Le Pivain, President of MMM France

 

 

Latest News from MMM and its Network

A Green Deal must include a Care Deal – maternal mental health under the spotlight at EU Parliament

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On November 7th, we co-hosted an event at the EU Parliament on peripartum depression with MEP Maria Noichl.

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Breaking the Silence on Maternal Mental Health

13.11.23

Make Mothers Matter launched a new video series on Maternal Mental Health, addressing mothers, their families and society in general. Our aim is to highlight the latest research surrounding maternal health in o

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Our members highlight why and how young mothers must be counted

24.10.23

A look back at our LP4Y event in New York

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Join us in New York to find out why young mothers must be counted

12.10.23

As part of the LP4Y Youth Inclusion International Forum, which will take place on 18-19 October 2023 in New York/Brooklyn, Make Mothers Matter is organizing a session entitled Make Young Mothers Count, whose ma

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MMM welcomes first ever Human Rights Council resolution on Care

11.10.23

UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - Entitled ‘Centrality of care and support from a human rights perspective’, this landmark resolution was presented by the governments of Argentina, Iceland, Mexico and Spain

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Call to action: make 2024 the EU year for Women’s Mental Health

09.10.23

In June this year, the European Union (EU) Commission announced a new high-priority initiative to address the mental health of all Europeans.

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