Who's Who in CPR

Susan Finch
Peace and Development Advisor, Office of the RC, Macedonia
As Peace and Development Advisor, Susan helps ensure UNDP country programmes are conflict sensitive and reflect political developments. Working closely with the UN Country Team and UN Department of Political Affairs, her advice has been instrumental in supporting the implementation of the conflict prevention strategy. Susan has extensive experience working in the Balkans and in Africa, starting with her assignment in 1993 working with CARE Canada and the UN peacekeeping mission to Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. During her service for the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, she spearheaded an outreach programme of the International Commission on the Intervention and State Sovereignty and was also responsible for a peace and security programme for West Africa. Prior to joining UNDP in 2004, Susan worked in implementing peacebuilding programmes in Africa for the Canadian International Development Agency. She has a B.A. in Biology and a Masters in Public Administration with a focus on international development.

Raul Rosende
Advisor to the Resident Coordinator, UNDP Colombia
Raul has more than 16 years of experience in designing and coordinating conflict resolution and humanitarian programmes in diverse conflict and post-conflict settings. Since 2003, he has advised and supported the Resident Coordinator for Colombia on a variety of CPR issues, including the designing and managing of the Donors’ Fund. Through UNDP Colombia’s Reconciliation and Development programme, which he took part in building and coordinating, he works on a range of issues, such as landmines, disaster prevention, community-strengthening and local governance. He has also provided strategic analysis and policy advice on specific interventions in DDR and led the programme on preventing recruitment of youth. Before joining UNDP Colombia, Raul advised the Special Representatives to the Secretary-General in the UN missions in Afghanistan and in Guatemala. Before joining UNDP, he worked in the Organization of American States in Nicaragua and Guatemala. Over the years, he has handled complex situations such as negotiating response to crisis with armed public and civilian actors, promoting return and reintegration of displaced populations, and carrying out DDR of ex-combatants. Raul’s thematic experience is backed by his extensive experience in resource administration and management.

Yasmine Sherif
Team Leader and Senior Advisor, Rule of Law Unit, UNDP Sudan
Since joining UNDP Sudan in June 2004 to set up the Country Office’s Rule of Law Unit with one laptop and one staff member, Yasmine has led the growth of the programme, which now employs 26 staff and has projects at the field and national levels. Working with the government, national non-governmental organizations, civil society and the UN Mission in Sudan, the programme seeks to restore the social contract on the basis of confidence and capacity building. With major projects being implemented at state and community levels, the Rule of Law Programme conducts awareness raising in basic human rights, domestic law and Sudanese ethical frameworks; runs a number of legal aid centers and legal networks; conducts community policing; and builds capacities of rule of law institutions, such as the Judicial Service Commission and the national judiciary. Before joining UNDP, Yasmine spent 17 years as a human rights lawyer with the UN both at headquarters and in crisis situations, such as Afghanistan, Bosnia, Cambodia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She also worked as an Adjunct Professor at Long Island University, lecturing on international human rights, humanitarian affairs and the Middle East, and has published extensively in these fields.

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