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UNDP in The Gambia

Our Team

Who are the decision makers?

The Resident Representative, who is the representative of the Administrator, heads UNDP in The Gambia and is also responsible for ensuring the effective day-to-day management of the UNDP Country Office as well as assumes overall responsibility for the UNDP programme and operations to ensure coherence and strategic direction of UNDP activities. The Resident Representative is supported by one Deputy Resident Representative, responsible for Programmes and Operations and a Senior Economist.

Ms. Aissata De is the current Resident Reprentative. Ms. Nana Teiba Chinbuah is the Deputy in charge of Programmes and Operations, and Ms. Fatmata Lovetta Sesay is the Senior Economist.

Senior Economist

Fatmata was the Economics Advisor and Head of the Strategy, Policy and Capacities for Economic Management (SPACE) team at UNDP in South Sudan. She was responsible for economic research, strategy formulation and implementing national development plans to solve economic problems, especially as they relate to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She monitored economic policy development and advised the UN Organizations in South Sudan and its partners on strategic policy issues and contributed to UNDP’s policy dialogue with Government and donors. Her achievements in South Sudan include; leading the preparation of the National Development Strategy (NDS), strengthening public financial management, domestic resource mobilization and supported capacity of the legislative assembly for budget oversight; establishing a team of 12 South Sudanese Economic Governance Analysts based in all the regions in the country; supported the production of economic and social statistics in collaboration with the National Bureau of Statistics and led the preparation of the development finance assessment for the INFF roadmap. She led research teams undertaking studies on investment opportunities, external debt stock, humanitarian assistance and Statebuilding. She also led the establishment of a research collaboration with the school of economics at the University of Juba to help increase economic research in South Sudan.
Before her assignment with UNDP in South Sudan, she was the Regional Policy Advisor on Women’s Economic Empowerment for UN Women East and Southern Africa Regional Office. Here, she initiated a partnership with the IMF Africa division that led to the development of a training course at the IMF Africa Institute in Mauritius on Gender and Macroeconomics. She worked as an MDGs Adviser for UNDP in New York supporting countries in Africa to prepare MDGs needs assessments and costing
She has made significant contributions to a handful of UN publications such as the National Human Development Reports, papers assessing the impact of the MDGs for women’s empowerment; project and programme assessments for various UN Agencies, development partners and national governments; and national development plans across Africa and the Caribbean, with cross-country experience in Botswana, Ethiopia, Haiti, Kenya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Saint Maarten, Sudan, South Sudan, Timor-Leste, Uganda, Mano River Union countries and Zambia. She has also worked in the Africa Section in UN Women New York as Programme Specialist, supporting the Africa portfolio in 19 country offices and often acted as OIC. She oversaw a budget of over USD 20 million.
She has taught courses and facilitated workshops/ trainings for senior policymakers at UN training institutions such as ITC/ILO and the UN African Institute for Economic Development Planning (UNIDEP). She was also an invited speaker at a high-level research seminar at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, USA. Prior to joining the UN, she worked as an International Consultant providing services to a range of institutions such as the UNECA, several UN agencies, development partners and national governments. She has worked as Senior Economist in the Ministry of Finance and Office of the Vice President in Sierra Leone, building expertise in social data analysis, national strategic frameworks, national budget preparation and policy formulation. Before working as a consultant, she was a research fellow at Oxford University.
Fatmata holds a PhD in Development Economics (Ludwig Maximillian University, University of Munich, Germany), an MSC in Law and Economics (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) and a BSC degree in Education and Economics (University of Sierra Leone). Fatmata is married with three children, and she enjoys dancing and sports!

Fatmata Lovetta Sesay

 

 

 

Senior Management

 

 

Aissata De

 

Resident Representative

Nana CHINBUAH

 

Deputy Resident Representative

Governance and Peace Cluster

 

 

Ida Persson

 

Programme Specialist

Eline Cole

 

Programme Associate

Shella Ngwa

 

M&E Officer

Juliette Ayuknow

 

Gender/SGBV Specialist

 

 

 

Poverty and Inclusive Growth Cluster

 

 

Lamin Darboe

 

Programme Analyst

Amie Khan

 

RFF Project Analyst

Ousman Gaku

 

Migration Project Analyst

Angelic Mendy

 

Project Associate

 

 

 

Environment and Climate Cluster

 

 

Fatoumatta Sanyang

 

Programme Specialist

Alhagie Abass Kinteh

 

Programme Analyst

Bernard Martin Mendy

 

UPOPS Finance Officer

Sunkung Danso

 

UPOPS M&E Officer

Lamin S. Jammeh

 

NAMA Project Manager

Pa Lamin Dibba

 

NAMA Project Engineer

Fatoumatta Ceesay

 

NAMA Project M&E

 

 

 

Strategic and Economic Policy Unit

 

 

Fatmata Lovetta Sesay

 

Senior Economists

 

 

 

Communication

 

 

Mariam Njai

 

Communications Analyst

Kujeh Kah

 

Communications Analyst

Accelerator Lab

 

 

  Adama Jallow

 

Head of Exploration

Yahya Jammeh

 

Head of Solutions Mapping

 

 

 

Administrative Unit

 

 

Nyangsarg Joof Dubois

 

Common Services Associate

JOSEPHINE AGOFURE

 

 

Mariam Ndoye

 

Registry Clerk

Haddy Ceesay-Joof

 

Receptionist

 

 

 

Finance Unit

 

 

Baboucarr Manneh

 

Finance Analyst

Abdou Sallah

 

Finance Assistant

Aji Mari Camara

 

Programme Finance Associate

 

 

 

Human Resource Unit

 

 

Alagie Saidy

 

HR Associate

 

 

 

Information and Communication Technology

 

 

Baboucarr Foon

 

ICT Associate

 

 

 

Procurement Unit

 

 

Essa Coker

 

Admin and Procurement Associate

 

 

 

PACD

 

 

Thomas Mugabiyimana

 

Team Leader Procurement

Cherno Lamin Jallow

 

Project Manager

Marie Chorr Bah

 

M&E Officer

 

 

 

Drivers

 

 

Ansumana Sanneh

 

Driver

Paul Lamin Sambou

 

Driver

Lamin Queen Manneh

 

Driver

Sutay Sima

 

Driver

Kinneh Sanyang

 

Driver

 

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