Who's Who in CPR

Ozonnia Ojielo
Peace & Governance Advisor to the Resident Coordinator/Chief of Governance Unit, UNDP Ghana

Since September 2004, Ozonnia has worn two hats as the Peace and Governance Advisor to the Resident Coordinator and the Chief of the Governance Unit for UNDP Ghana. He provides strategic advice on governance issues to stakeholders, analyzes the political trends in the country, and ensures programmatic issues related to conflict prevention and peace-building are being addressed. In addition to facilitating community-level confidence building initiatives, Ozonnia has worked with the government to formulate and manage a nationwide conflict prevention programme. Some of the initiatives pioneered in Ghana include setting up a ‘National Peace Architecture’ to detect early signs of conflict and channel potential disputes through peace councils at the regional and local levels. Prior to joining UNDP, Ozonnia had a distinguished career in promoting conflict resolution and conflict management through mediation, training, research and education. He served as the President for the Center for Peace in Africa (1993-2002), which worked towards building a national capacity for conflict resolution in Nigeria, and worked for the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2002-2004). As a chartered mediator, conciliator and arbitrator, Ozonnia also provides training on conflict resolution, peace and governance and was a Faculty member of the UN System Staff Training College (2003-2004) and the International Training Programme on Conflict Management and Governance. Ozonnia has a BA and MA in History from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, an LLB Hons in Law and is a  Barrister at Law from the Nigerian Council of Legal Education.

Rose Ssebatindira
Assistant Resident Representative, Crisis Prevention and Recovery Programme, UNDP Uganda

As the Assistant Resident Representative of the Crisis Prevention and Recovery (CPR) Programme since June 2004, Rose ensures the strategic direction of the country office’s CPR Programme by managing and advising her team and senior management on all aspects of the CPR Programme. The launch of the Northern Uganda Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Profiling Study, which was part of the capacity support to the Government of Uganda to implement its IDP Policy, is just one example of how Rose works with her team to find creative responses to emerging challenges and opportunities in CPR. Prior to her current position, Rose was the Programme Analyst and Head of Programme Support Unit for UNDP Uganda (2002-2004), where she was responsible for leading the implementation of results-based management initiatives and monitoring and evaluation plans. As the National Coordinator for the UNDP Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF/SGP) for Uganda (1997-2002), Rose oversaw the  GEF/SGP process from the initial identification of projects, disbursement and management of grants, to programme monitoring and evaluation. Before joining UNDP, Rose was an Associate Peace Corps Director for Natural Resource Management for the US Peace Corps in Uganda (1992-1997), where she managed 35 Peace Corps Volunteers working in 9 National Parks and 6 Wildlife Reserves. Rose has an MA from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University and three degrees from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. 

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