Coumba Mar Gadio - Gender and Development Specialist & Coordination Unit Chief a.i.
Tel. (221) 869 06 26
coumba.mar.gadio@undp.org
Ms. Gadio, was trained in France and the US as a Rural Sociologist. Her areas of specialization include Poverty Reduction Strategies, and gender/development. For the past fifteen years she has worked in academia, teaching theories of Development, social research, and Gender and Development courses. In addition, she worked with development oriented institutions such as the World Bank, World Links, UNCF, and USAID on a number of gender and poverty related assignments. Her areas of interest and publications include mainly research on African women's work in the informal sector and generational changes occurring in their roles in agricultural.

Isabelle de Goussencourt - JPO
Tel. (221) 869 06 44
isabelle.de.goussencourt@undp.org
Having studied Translation and Political Science, Isabelle de Goussencourt served for almost three years with UNDP Burundi in the Community Assistance Umbrella Programme, a direct execution programme aimed at helping Burundian communities recover from the crisis. As the Head of the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit, she gained experience in capacity building, participatory approaches and also worked in resource mobilization. Prior to joining UNDP she worked in Kosovo as Press and Information Officer for a non-governmental organization.

Papa Mambaye Sow - Finance and Administrative Associate
Tel. (221) 869 06 39
papa.mambaye.sow@undp.org

M. Sow joined SURF-WA office on March 2002 as Senior in Finance and Administrative Associate. Before his present position, he has worked in UNDP/SENEGAL for 3 years. He has a Diploma in Company International Management and a Bachelor in Business Administration( Specialization: Finance). Now, he's doing the VDA programme.

Tahir Djafar Basse - Research Associate and Expert Roster Manager
Tel. (221) 869 06 21
tahir.basse@undp.org

Trained as an agro-economist with his areas of expertise covering rural development, project management, decentralization and local governance, monitoring and evaluation, participatory approaches, and data base management, Tahir served as a Junior Expert in charge of rural development, monitoring and evaluation for the Local Development Fund (UNCDF's Programs in Kedugu, Senegal). He also worked as Junior Expert with the multifunctional platform for poverty reduction programme (UNIDO, Senegal) and, also served as research associate with the Senegalese Institute for Agronomic Research. Tahir joined the SURF in March 2003 as Research Assistant, he is currently doing the UNDP/VDA programme.

Abdou Salam Sy - IT Associate
Tel. (221) 869 06 45
abdou.salam.sy@undp.org

Abdou Salam holds an University Diploma of Technology in computer science and a Teaching Ability Certificate. Before joining UNDP/SURF-WCA, he has worked for the Ministry of National Education of Senegal where he conducted a computerization project. After four years he joined the “Industries Chimiques du Senegal” Group in the private sector where he was IT Manager for the sales subsidiairy SENCHIM. He works for UNDP/SURF-WCA since November 2004.

Mohamed Sall-Sao, Government Restructuring and Civil Service Reform Specialist
Tel. (221) 869 06 36
mohamed.sall-sao@undp.org
Before joining the SURF, Mohamed SALL-SAO was Interregional Adviser at UN/DESA. His academic background is in public administration and finance. He is post-graduate of the University of Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and graduate of the Institute of Political Science of Paris. Mr. Sall-Sao has over twenty-five years of practical experience in public administration, civil service reform, public sector management and governance. He has diverse field experience and exposure to the management of development situations (in Africa, Central America and Southern Asia), as well as a strong expertise in capacity-building and policy advice on public administration and governance.

Luigi Tessiore - Advisor in Local Governance and Decentralization
(221) 869 06 24 - mob 569 80 84
luigi.tessiore@undp.org
Luigi Tessiore joined BDP in April 2003, and has more than 20 years of experience working with Academia, Governments and Private sector in Europe, and in developing countries in Africa, Central America, the Balkans as well as in conflict areas. He has consulted for private companies and for local, regional and central government in Italy, and internationally for the EU, UN System (ILO, UNOPS, UNCDF, and UNDP) and the World Bank. He is an associate of the Institute for Public Administration (IPA) of the New York University and an External Academic Adviser with the Postgraduate School of Local Development and Planning of the University of Turin.

Kango Kare-Lantone - Governance Institutions Reform Advisor
(221) 869 06 35
kango.lare-lantone@undp.org
A development economist by training, Kango LARE-LANTONE, who served as a legislator in Togo's Haut Conseil de la Republique, is a seasoned legislative strengthening specialist. He has also worked on democratic institutional development issues in Africa through numerous projects dealing with civil society, elections, human rights, participatory democracy, poverty reduction and economic development. Current interests include the emerging field of democratic control of Security Sector Actors in Africa.
He has done consulting work with and for PGA, UNDP, the World Bank, USAID and SUNY. Kango has a PhD (abd) in Development Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Masters in Development Economics from the Boston University, Maîtrise es Sciences Economiques from l'Université du Bénin, Lomé, TOGO, Licence es Sciences Economiques
From l'Université du Bénin, Lomé, TOGO.

Pierre Dandjinou - Information and Communication Technology for Development Specialist
Tel. (221) 869 06 22
pierre.dandjinou@undp.org
Mr. Dandjinou previously served as Director of Infocom Services, a consultancy firm operating from Cotonou, Benin and Libreville, Gabon. As a Programme Officer for UNDP he coordinated the Africa node of the Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP). Mr. Dandjinou also worked as head of the Information and Communication department of the International Center for the Bantu Civilizations (CICIBA) in Libreville Gabon. Involved in many IT related initiatives on the continent, Mr. Dandjinou is chair of the Isoc Chapter of Benin, a member of Afrinic, the Africa Internet registry and the At Large Study Committee (ALSC) of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names. Mr. Dandjinou is also an Advisor to the Global Internet Policy Initiative (GIPI) and the ACP IT Policy.

Gustave Nebié - Advisor and Policy Specialist - Poverty Reduction
(221) 869 06 42
gustave.nebie@undp.org
Gustave's main areas of expertise are : Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Public Finance, Budgeting, Debt Management, Banking, Monetary Policy and Finance, Economic Governance and Poverty Reduction Strategies.
He has more than 17 years' experience working with the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) as an economist, the Ministry of Finance as Director of Economic Studies and Planning, and Debt Relief International (DRI) in London (UK) as Programme Manager.
Gustave posseses the Diplome de l'ENA from the French National School of Administration, Paris, a post graduate degree in Economics and a Master in Econometrics from the University of Dijon, France, and a Master in Banking from Dakar, Senegal.

Dibongue Kouo - Policy Specialist - Energy and Poverty Reduction
Tel. (221) 867 27 94
dibongue.kouo@undp.org
Dibongue Kouo joined BDP in September 2005. In addition to his experience as a power Economist within the Corporate Planning Department of SONEL (Cameroon, 1984 – 1992) as well as his Senior Officer position in IEPF (the Institute of Energy and the Environment for the French-speaking Countries, Canada 1992 - 2002), responsible for leading and managing the Energy Policy and Institutional issues programme, he carries the experienced gained from being a senior Energy Economist within SNC LAVALIN Inc. - Energy Division (Canada, 2003 – 2005).
Dibongue holds a Masters Degree in Econometrics and a post-graduate diploma in Industrial economics and statistics, as well as a post-graduate certificate in Energy Policy and planning. He has a wide experience as an energy economist (energy sector pricing studies, energy sector policy and regulation, energy sector restructuring and reform, Energy - poverty reduction issues & Access to energy services …)

Abdoulaye Ndiaye - UNDP/GEF Regional Coordinator, Biodiversity - Team Leader
Tel. (221) 869 06 61
abdoulaye.ndiaye@undp.org
Abdoulaye Ndiaye joined UNDP/GEF in January 2003 as Regional Coordinator for Biodiversity, International Waters, POPs, and Land Degradation for West/Central Africa. He is also the Team Leader of the UNDP/GEF coordination unit for this region. Abdoulaye came to UNDP bringing more than 20 years of government, non-government, foundation, and private consulting experience having worked for: the MacArthur Foundation as Program Officer for Conservation and Sustainable Development for Africa; the World Conservation Union (IUCN) as Country Director for Senegal; the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as Program Officer; Catholic Relief Services (CRS) as Program Officer and Country Director; and, the Senegalese Government where he started his professional career as head of the Urban Water Supply Unit.
Abdoulaye has a BS in Physics/Chemistry from the University of Dakar, a Rural Development Engineering degree from the International School of Engineering of Burkina-Faso, and a MSc in Water Resources Administration from the University of Arizona.

Mathieu Koumoin - UNDP/GEF Regional Coordinator, Climate Change
Tel. (221) 869 06 38
mathieu.koumoin@undp.org
Mr. Koumoin is a power engineer with specialization in Energy, Economics and Environmental Planning. Before joining UNDP-GEF, he was a Senior Public Utilities Economist with the African Development Bank (2000-2003), and also served in Washington, D.C. as the World Bank’s Africa Region Energy Economist (1995-1999) when he took a field assignment in Dakar as the Bank’s Regional Coordinator for the RPTES Program (Regional Program for the Traditional Energy Sector) in charge of the West and Central Africa Regions. His field experience includes Energy/Climate change project design and implementation, Energy sector restructuring and reform, demand and supply side analysis, climate change mitigation, environment-poverty reduction linkages and natural resource management. His current activities include several renewable energy projects under preparation together with technical assistance to UNDP CO to support UNDP-GEF’s enabling activities.

Fabiana Issler - Regional Technical Advisor for Biodiversity Western Africa
Tel. (221) 869 06 76
fabiana.issler@undp.org
Fabiana joined UNDP-GEF in July 2005. Prior to that, she has worked with the design of GEF projects in Brazil and Cuba, National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans for Angola and Sierra Leone, and National Capacity Self-Assessments in several countries, most of them in Africa. She has also worked as a consultant for the Danish firm COWI Consult and for the UNDP Country Office, both assignments in Mozambique.
Fabiana holds a Masters' degree in Social Sciences from Roskilde University in Denmark with specializations in International Development Studies and Environmental Planning. She speaks English, Danish, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

Aminata Diop - UNDP/GEF Programme Associate
Tel. (221) 869 06 32
a.talla.diop@undp.org

Aminata joined UNDP-GEF in June 2003 as Program Associate within the Regional Coordination Unit for West and Central Africa. She is a graduate of CESAG (Dakar) with a dual major in Development Project Management and Marketing. She has 12 years experience. Six (6) years in Private sector (Marketing, Sales) and 6 years experience in International Co-operation for Development, including three years as Technical Assistant to German Development Service in Benin where she managed a Capacity building, NGO and SME strengthening project. Before joining UNDP-GEF she working as a consultant for GTZ-IS in Côte d'Ivoire, the Austrian Cooperation in Senegal, the French Cooperation and UNESCO in Senegal.

Ndeye Djigal Sall - Programme Associate-CC and CDAC clusters
Tel. (221) 869 06 78
ndeye.djigal.sall@undp.org

Ndeye is an Agricultural Economist and holds a professional Master in Economic Policies and Projects Analysis.
She was Programme Officer of Monitoring and Evaluation (2002-2003) at Winrock International (Senegal office). From 2003 to 2004, she realised different missions with regards to social, rural and economic development. Since September 2004, she had been involved as the Regional Project Assistant for the UNDP-GEF project " Capacity Building: West and Central Africa Inventories ".

Landing Sagna - UNDP/GEF Finance and Administrative Associate
Tel. (221) 869 06 28
landing.sagna@undp.org

Landing Sagna   has a Master  in economic  sciences. Before   joining  the UNDP-FEM  , he was an administrative assistant with the European Development Fund, UN volunteer with national programme fight against poverty as Administrative and Financial Assistant. Landing has  nine years working experience  .

Ndey Isatou Njie - CAP 2015 Regional Coordinator
Tel. (221) 869 06 30
ndey.njie@undp.org
A Sustainable Development and Environment Specialist, Ms. Njie has experience in managing strategic framework processes for sustainable development, public participation, policy development, learning, monitoring and evaluation, and capacity building. She also has experience in participatory approaches to sustainable development planning and environmental management, water quality management, water sanitation, and community water supplies. Ms. Ndey has worked with the World Bank, UNDP, UNICEF, UNSO, WHO, FAO, GTZ, and USAID. Prior positions held include Startegic Planning Advisor for the Strategies for Sustainability Programme of the World Conservation Union and Executive Director of the National Environment Agency for the Gambian Government.

Racine Kane - CAP 2015 Specialist
Tel. (221) 869 06 46
racine.kane@undp.org
A Geographer and Environment Specialist, Mr. Kane has expertise in remote sensing and geographical information systems for natural resources management, environmental project development, management and assessment, and spatial analysis for environmental impact assessment. Mr. Kane worked for many years as Head of Programme for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis with the Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE) in Dakar. He has served on numerous national and international committees, published extensively, and consulted for UNEP, the World Bank, USAID, the European Commission and other funding organisations. Mr. Kane recently served as Technical Manager for the Open Forest Degradation Project, a European Union funded effort involving both European and African universities and research organizations.

Moussoukoro Coulibaly Diallo - CAP 2015 Finance and Administrative Associate
Tel. (221) 869 06 59
moussou.coulibaly@undp.org

Ms Diallo joined UNDP-Senegal since 1992 where she has held many assistant positions in the finance and personnel departments.
She currently works as the administrative and financial assistant for UNDP Capacity 2015 Programme. As such Ms Diallo is in charge of all matters regarding personnel, travels, workshops as well as budget management.
Before joining UNDP, Ms Diallo worked successively as a clerk in the banking sector and as a legal assistant in an attorney's office.

Mamadou Sarr