Edwine Carrie started his career in Haiti in 2002 as a Programme Associate, in UNDP's Poverty Reduction Unit before relocating to the former Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) in the Strategic Planning Unit in UNDP Headquarters in New York, back-stopping the technical teams deployed to country offices as part of the corporate response to crises and crisis preparedness.
In 2006, Edwine joined UNDP's Arab States Bureau in New York, in the Country Operations Division, supporting the Bureau's oversight function over the country offices in the Region, focusing on data analytics, briefing material and country programming. In 2009, Edwine was assigned as Programme Specialist to Maghreb desk team, covering Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya.
In 2011, Edwine joined UNFPA's post-earthquake recovery efforts in Haiti as Operations Manager before returning to UNDP Headquarters in 2012 as a Programme Specialist in the desk team backstopping a cluster of crisis countries (Sudan, Libya and Yemen) in the Arab Bureau, focusing on data analytics, trouble-shooting, guidance on compliance on programme issues and support to programme delivery and resource mobilization.
Edwine was UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Algeria (2017-2021), covering a broad range of issues from programme formulation to delivery, partnership building and resource mobilization, monitoring of UNDP programme and operations effectiveness, results-based management, and representation of UNDP in key fora.
As of 2 September 2021, Edwine is appointed as UNDP DRR in the Philippines.