UAPS Structure

The Union for African Population Studies (UAPS) is a pan African non profit scientific organization whose main aim is to promote the scientific study of population in Africa. It was established through the initiative of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) by the Third General Conference of African Demographers, Statisticians and Planners held in Addis Ababa in March 1984. Based in the ECA in the beginning, the Headquarters of UAPS was transferred to Dakar in 1987. UAPS has been given the status of an international NGO by the Senegalese government since 1989 but has not yet been able to obtain diplomatic status.

 

UAPS is open to all African or Africanist researchers and to all institutions working in the field of population and development in Africa. It currently has a membership of about 1,200 members from Africa, Europe, North America and Asia. It has two types of memberships: individual and institutional.

Individual members are researchers belonging to Universities, Research Centres and other Institutions (national and international) of Higher Learning. Institutional members are partners (Africans or Africanists)  that collaborate with UAPS in undertaking its various activities in the different regions of Africa.


UAPS STRUCTURE

General Assembly

UAPS is governed by the General Assembly (GA), which is composed of all paid up members. The GA meets once every fours years during the Population Conference to deliberate on performance and future activities of the Union and elects new Council Members.

Council

The Council is elected by the GA and serves a four-year term. It is composed of five Bureau members and five members from the five different regions of Africa as follow:

  • President

  • Vice-President (who becomes President in the next Council)

  • Secretary General

  • Treasurer

  • Editor-in-Chief and

  • Five Regional Representatives (Central, East, North, South, West)

Current Council members are:

President: Dr. Eliya Zulu (Malawi)
Vice-President: Dr. Jean François Kobiane (Burkina Faso)
Secretary General: Dr. Anne Khasakhala (Kenya)
Treasurer: Prof. Kofi Awusabo-Asare (Ghana)
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Clifford Odimegwu (Nigeria)
Western Africa Representative: Dr. Sanni Amadou Mouftaou (Benin)
Central Africa Representative: Dr. Gervais Beninguisse (Cameroon)
Eastern Africa Representative: Dr. Honorati Masanja (Tanzania)
Northern Africa Representative: Dr. Amir Bouraoui ( Tunisia)
Southern Africa Representative: Dr. Henry Victor Doctor (South Africa)

 

The Secretariat :

 The secretariat is the implementing body of UAPS. It is presently undergoing restructuring and has the following permanent staff in early 2006:

  • The secretariat is the implementing body of UAPS. It is presently undergoing restructuring and has the following permanent staff in early 2007:

    • Mrs. Alice A. AZIAWA                        -  Administrative Assistant/Bilingual Secretary
    • Mr. Joseph ACHEAMPONG              -  Office Clerk