About Me

I- SHORT INTRODUCTION

Aimée Florentine Kaboré started her career in April 2000, as a trainee, at the National Press Group of Burkina Faso. Three (03) months later, she was made a freelance Journalist. Then she was recruited as full-time journalist and Civil Servant in January 2006 for the same newspaper.

Some of her current professional tasks include writings news on environment protection for which she got the special Prize of UNDP, at the 2013 National Awards for journalists: https://lefaso.net/spip.php?article46013.

This is partly where her unsuspected educational mission in environmental issues sprouted, as the former UNDP Representative in Burkina Faso, Mrs Ingrid CYIMANA, confided that that such an article gave all her staff members a clear idea of what to do in that part of Burkina Faso : https://lefaso.net/spip.php?article46013

Another link related to environment: https://www.planetgold.org/fr/aimee-florentine-kabore

More information about my career : https://lefaso.net/spip.php?article55653

   II- EDUCATION

From 2012-2014 : Master Degree in English-French Translation at the Translation Department of the University of Ouagadougou, including 2 months-internship Translation Service of the Ministry of Foreign     Affairs of Burkina Faso, from December 1rst 2013 to January 31rst, 2014; as well as  an  internship at Ghana Institute of Languages in Accra / Ghana, August 28th to September 19, 2012.

Certificate, from Translation Service of the Ministry in charge of Foreign Affairs of Burkina Faso where I was sent by the Translation Department of University Joseph KI-ZERBO and where I had the honor to be part of the high qualified professional team members of the translation service.

From 2011-2012:  4th year University Degree from the Anglophone StudiesAnglophone studies Department 4th year University Certificate in American Civilization and Literature, Anglophone StudiesDepartment of University Joseph KI-ZERBO

From 2011-2010 : Bachelor Degree in American Civilization and Literature-University Joseph KI-ZERBO of Ouagadougou,
III- ADDITIONAL COURSES/ PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS IN JOURNALISM

August 4th-9th, 2013, Coaching and Leadership courses for journalistsat Poynter Institute, in Florida-The USA.

September 23rd -October 4th, 2013: Training on “Women sexual and reproductive health: getting the story right” in Dakar, Senegal.

From January 1rst to April 30, 2010, Diploma Course in Development Journalismat the Indian Institute of Mass Communication of New Delhi, in India.

From May 20th to June 17th and from June 22nd to July 03rd, 2009,Online course on ” Public Relations (PR) and Statistics: BUILDING bridges between users and producers “, followed by a practical training course, organized by Inwent,at the National High School of Statistics and Economy (ENSEA) of Abidjan, in Cote d’Ivoire.

From October 27 to November 7, 2008,Training course in «Reporting on Pan African Institutions” at the Pan-African Parliament, in Midrand/ South Africa.

From May 14 to June 21, 2007, Training course entitled: “Internet Course for Journalists.at Radio Netherland Training Center (RNTC), at Hilversum-The Netherland.
 

From October 4 to 15, 2004, Training  : “Reporting on regional integration in West Africa: history, institutions and policies of ECOWAS “, organized by Inwent.at the International Institute of Journalism of Accra (IIJ)/Ghana.

IV– EXPERIENCE

From March 5 to August 31, 2024 : Public Affairs & Communication Manager at Coca-Cola Burkina Bottling Company.

 Key tasks:
-Executes all public affairs, government relations, and sustainability related programs and initiatives of CCBBC.

-Ensure optimal use of resources and maximize the Impact of public affairs, government relations, and sustainability plans.

– Monitors regional and local NGOs, activists, and political developments to identify trends with implications to the business. Engages with and builds coalitions with regional and local government and non-government stakeholders to advocate for or against and advance policies and programming that support our business goals in compliance with our Public Policy and Sustainability agenda.
-Identifies and monitors regional and local divergent stakeholders to understand their priorities and develop a strategic plan for engagement. Engages with convergent stakeholders to strengthen our impact and deliver value to the business.

-Conducts periodic monitoring, evaluation and reporting on the implementation and impact of the Coca-Cola Foundation locally.

-Reporting into the COO/CEO, provide inputs to support the business planning process.

-Analyze public policy and regulatory issues, manage divergent stakeholders and share insights to define the public affairs, government relations, and sustainability strategy for the business.

-Communicate on a regular basis with key internal and/or external parties, and has responsibility for collating and sharing public affairs, government relations, and sustainability related data for consolidatingat the WIMA Franchise level.

From November 4, 2020 to March 4, 2024 : Communication Officer at 
National Volunteering Programme of Burkina Faso”

Key tasks:
-Elaborate and implement the Communication Plan

-Report and write news for the Facebook Page and the web-side.

-Take picture, make videos

-Promote a very good image of the project.

– Build and maintain relationships with journalists and partners that can held the National Volunteering Programme to go ahead.

From April 2020 to October 31, 2020 : English-French Communication Officer at Projet PlanetGold Burkina Faso

Key tasks: 

-English-French translation duties

-Promote a very good image of the project.

-Create and update social media content and the website.

– Build and maintain relationships with journalists and partners that

can held the project to go ahead.

From June 10, 2019 to December 15, 2019 :Communication Specialist Projet “Emplois des Jeunes et Développement des Compétences”

Key tasks:
-Promote a very good image of PEJDC.

-Create and update social media content and the website.

– Build and maintain relationships with journalists and partners that can held the project to go ahead.

From September 1rst, 2017 to June 10, 2019, back to the Newsroom of
the National Daily Newspaper of Burkina Faso (Les Editions Sidwaya) as a Full-time Journalist- Reporter

As a full-time journalist-reporter, at the biggest and National Press Group of Burkina Faso, my daily duties are interviewing, reporting, writing and editing news.

April 1rst, 2016-August 31, 2017 : Communication officer at the national “Women Environmental Programme Burkina Faso” (WEP-BF)

Among other duties:

-Elaborate and implement a communication plan

-Promote a very good image of WEP-BF, as well as to develop, support and promote the goals of this NGO.

-Create and update social media content and the website.

-Develop and disseminate public relations materials that increase the visibility of WEP-BF.

-Build and maintain relationships with journalists and partners that can held WEP-BF to go ahead.

-Identify target audience and create strategy to engage them.

-Another assignment which is not mentioned in my contract is that I was also in charge of English-French Translation of all documents, as the Headquarter of that local NGO is based in Nigeria.

-I was also a trainer as the other staff members of WEP-BF, because this NGO is in charge of training technicians of industrial companies in Industrial symbiosis, for the sake of protecting environment and making

more economy, as waste of a given company can be used and paid as roar material by another company.

March 2016-July 2015:  Burkina Faso PACTE-BF/ECES Project

I was recruited by ECES as a Media Monitoring Agent at PACTE-BF/ECES Project’s monitoring unit to monitor daily media contents related to elections, from July 2015 to March 30 2016.

My Tasks & responsibilities:

-Monitor media contents related to election for the Independent National Electoral Commission in Burkina Faso.

– Participated in trainings related to media monitoring content again,

particularly related to elections and to leadership.

From 2015 to 2020 : Monitoring Media Project (GMMP)/ Burkina Faso Country coordinator

In 2015, as Burkina Faso’s Country Coordinator for Gender Monitoring Media Project (GMMP), I took part at the training for national coordinators of GMMP, in Togo. Then, with my team in Burkina Faso, we successfully took part at the 2015 GMMP. Ten (10) other journalists were my team members.

It was very interesting research which happens every 5 years to measure women’s representation in the media. The Global Media Monitoring Project is the world’s most extensive and significant global research on gender in news media.

In Burkina Faso, the 2015 GMMP highlighted an overview that charts

the systematic nature of women’s exclusion in the news media.

My Key tasks & responsibilities during the GMMP:

-Training colleagues in Media Monitoring in application of and adherence to GMMP methodology

-Leading a team of coders / media monitoring agents

-Quality assurance.

From April 2000 to July 2015: The national Daily Newspaper of Burkina Faso: Les Editions Sidwaya as a Full-time Print Journalist- Reporter

At the beginning of my career, in 2000, I was writing news on cultural and social aspect of life, mostly big news on women’s issues, for the sake of promoting all those who are leaving in rural areas; my aim was to reveal their bad living conditions and promote their rights.

My objective was also to make government and institutions be aware of the difficulties that those women are facing. I need to free them from men’s tyranny as well.

To achieve such an objective, I used to go and meet, one after one, women ‘s associations to interview them and write news on their activities including their daily difficulties. Then, one day, I wrote about an association of rural women producing, manually, local butter because they did not have any modern tool. As soon as I publish my article as top news, the Director of the International Monetary Fund himself, who was taking part at a summit in Burkina Faso, met those women before his departure, not only to encourage them but also to give them 5000 US dollars. Then, the ministry in charge of women’s

rights gave them modern material and all related tools. They even got a head office, a nice place to stay where they produce and export their butter. Since then, they improved the quality and quantity of their butter.

As far as Environment protection is concerned, I was awarded the special prize of UNDP, at the 2013 National Awards for Journalists, thanks to a big news related to Environment protection in the northern part of Burkina Faso.

The objective of such story was to fight against sandbank and

deforestation, by sensitizing people through my writings and make them take part at the struggle against climate change.
V-    PARTICIPATION AT INTERNATIONAL FORUM AND CONGRESS

In 2013, I took part at the :

–    deutch Welle  Global Media Forum in  Bonn, Germany ;

–      World Democracy Forum inStrasbourg, France ;

–      Rural Women’s congress in Rabat, Morocco.

VI-      REFERENCE PERSONS

1-  Caroline COMPORT, Founder Narrative Quest Leadership Coaching: www.narrativequest.com -Previously at The Media Project 331 8th Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 / USA. Contact: +1-703-868-4801/[email protected]

2-   Marijke KOEMAN, preiously Director at WebWerkWinkel.Freelance journalist/Trainer, Co-alumni Officer RNTC-Witte Kruislaan 10 1217 AP Hilversum -The Nederlands, en Hollande, aux Pays-Bas. Contact: +31356233196/[email protected]

3-  Gérard Senakpon GUEDEGBE, Journalist-Trainer, Communication Expert and CEO at Syabonga Gold Group à Cotonou /Benin. Contact : +229 97084415 et/ou

+225 07 89 79 43 69/[email protected]