Edwine Carrie (Haiti) has been appointed as UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in the Philippines since September 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. In this role, he oversaw an uptick in programme development, with large new programmes developed on circular economy, governance, peacebuilding dividends, resilience and biodiversity protection.
Prior to the Philippines, Edwine was UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Algeria from May 2017 until 2021, overseeing programme build up on governance (political participation and transparency) and the UNDP localized response to covid 19 in the health sector.
Before Algeria, Edwine was posted in UNDP Headquarters in New York since 2009 as Programme Specialist in the Regional Bureau for Arab States, Maghreb desk team, covering Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya. In 2011, he joined UNFPA's post-earthquake recovery efforts in Haiti as International Operations Manager before returning to UNDP Headquarters in May 2012 in his previous capacity.
Having started his UN career in 2002 in UNDP Haiti's Poverty Reduction Unit, Edwine had relocated to the Crisis Bureau (former Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery - BCPR) in New York, back-stopping the technical teams deployed to country offices as part of the corporate response to crises and crisis preparedness.
An avid football fan and nature enthusiast, Edwine enjoys reading fiction and traveling. Edwine speaks French, English, Haitian Creole and some Spanish.
He is married and has one child.