ICPA2023-PID129 - Téné Maimouna Zoungrana and Thanujah Yogarajah

Towards Gender Parity: Empowering Women in Corrections and Peacekeeping

Authors

Tene Maimouna Zoungrana

Corrections Officer, United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA)

Téné Maimouna Zoungrana is a prison officer from Burkina Faso serving with the UN Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). Zoungrana is the Coordinator of the Security Teams at the Ngaragba Central Prison, which is the largest and most notorious prison in the Central African Republic (CAR), housing 1,335 inmates, which accounts for 69% of the entire prison population in the country. As the main trainer and coordinator of rapid intervention activities, she and her team of 42 officers support national prison staff in incident and crisis management. Zoungrana is responsible for introducing rapid intervention training modules into the national curriculum of CAR’s prison administration.
Through her work, Zoungrana has broken many gender stereotypes and barriers in a typically male-dominated space, training and inspiring her colleagues in the corrections field. She was awarded the first United Nations Trailblazer Award which recognizes women justice and corrections officers who have provided outstanding contributions to peace operations’ mandates and have challenged gender stereotypes.

Thanujah Yogarajah

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