Beatrice Ndefon is a health administrator, gender expert and activist from Cameroon. Her long-term goal as a gender activist is to fight on the elimination of all forms of discrimination and oppression against women and girls within her community, her country and beyond. Beatrice is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Solidarity Health Foundation, a non profit organisation that provides quality and accessible healthcare and social services for vulnerable populations in Cameroon. Her goals and motivations are shaped by her twenty-year experience of working and helping patients in the hospital as well experiences as an activist for peace in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon. Through both her work and activism, Beatrice works to combat Gender Base Violence (GBV), Violence against Women and Girls (VGWg), forced and early marriages, harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation (FGM). She also promotes the education of the girl child, comprehensive sexuality education, second chance education and vocational training for girls and their sexual and reproductive rights, and she also provides psychosocial support to internally displaced women and girls. Beatrice also works with men and boys to promote gender equality through He for She programmes.  

Beatrice has participated in various peace dialogues and advocacy meetings for community security as well as international dialogues. She travelled to the USA to engage in a dialogue with the diaspora separatist leaders and participated in the Africa Women in Dialogue held in South Africa in 2019. In all of the dialogues that she participates in she focusses on women’s issues and the rights of women and girls.  

Participant in: March/April 2022 Fellowship: Peacebuilding and Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding Processes