Dr. Eyango receives congratulations from Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Dr. Vijitha Mahadevan Eyango (Prince Ndedi Eyango's wife, NDLR), ANE's Senior Gender and Education Advisor, recently received the prestigious Swanee Hunt Award for Advancing Women's Role in Policy Formulation. Dr. Eyango received the award from Under Secretary Green during the Department of State's 8 November awards ceremony in the Benjamin Franklin Room. According to ANE AA James R. Kunder, "It is a great honor for a USAID employee to win this honor, and a well-deserved recognition of Dr. Eyango's outstanding work in the gender field." Eyango was selected based on her work on economic opportunities for women and women's political participation in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Swanee Hunt Award for Advancing Women's Role in Policy Formulation is an annual interagency award. United States Department of State Swanee Hunt Award for Advancing Women's Role in Policy Formulation Presented to Vijitha Eyango For your tireless efforts to broaden women's economic opportunities and political participation particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan after years of repression had left women there uneducated, unskilled and without the tools required to assume their rightful productive role in society. Your extraordinary contribution has helped these women play a vital role in the reconstruction and democratization of these two countries. November 2004. Secretary of State, Colin Powell Source: usaid.gov