Who's Who in CPR

Marie Dimond
Head of Office and Area Programme, North and South Kivu, DRC

Marie arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in October 2006 to establish a UNDP office in North and South Kivu, Goma, to reinforce UNDP activities during the country’s post-electoral phase. The decentralization of UNDP post-conflict operations in the country has allowed for closer collaboration with local partners, better identification of strategic opportunities and more efficient responses to local needs. UNDP focuses on early recovery activities such as repair and construction of barracks for brigades, encouraging conflict resolution, improving social services, and helping communities affected by war rebuild their homes and livelihoods. Prior to her posting in DRC, Marie served with UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery and later UNDP Africa Bureau in New York, supporting country offices in crisis and post-conflict situations. She has worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Namibia, with the World Food Programme in Somalia and Southern Sudan, and with the Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Burundi.  She holds a BA in Political Science and French from Boston University and an MA in International Affairs from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

Retno Winahyu Satyarini
Team Leader, Early Recovery Assistance Programme, UNDP Indonesia

Retno is Team Leader of UNDP’s Early Recovery Assistance (ERA) Programme, a programme designed to accelerate recovery from the May 2006 earthquake in Indonesia. In this role, she leads a team focusing on livelihoods, housing, management information systems, disaster risk reduction, and coordinating and mainstreaming disaster risk reduction in the recovery process and in the government’s longer term development programmes. The programme also provides support to communities to restore their livelihoods and assist in reconstruction. The ERA Programme is a programme between UNDP Indonesia and the National Development Planning Agency of the Government of Indonesia. Prior to her work with UNDP, Retno was a consultant for several non-governmental organizations including Oxfam Great Britain and Plan International; worked on fair trade issues in the East Asia Region for the Overseas Development Institute; and was a research associate at the International Centre for Agro-Forestry. She has a BSc in Agricultural Engineering from Bogor Institute for Agriculture, Indonesia; an MSc from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok; and a diploma in Rural and Regional Planning from Germany.

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