The United Nations Development Program for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNDP LAC) supports 34 countries (and 41 territories overall) in their efforts to address diverse development challenges, framed around three broad settings which require different forms of support:
- Eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions;
- Accelerating structural transformations for sustainable development; and
- Building resilience to crises and shocks
These three development challenges often coexist within the same country, requiring tailored solutions that can adequately address specific deficits and barriers. Underpinning them is a set of core development needs, including the need to strengthen gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, and to ensure the protection of human rights.
We are committed to creating new solutions, building collaboration platforms, and sparking new partnerships and instruments for development to disrupt the way our organization thinks, invests, manages, and delivers—so we can perform faster and better than ever to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Institutional Representative: Almudena Fernández, Chief Economist
Almudena is an economist with over 12 years of experience in sustainable development policy. She has an extensive knowledge of policy research, evaluation and development on issues related to social protection and social inclusion and a proven ability to draw from expertise gained in various settings to conceptualize, develop and translate research questions into evidence based-policy recommendations and guidance. Almudena has demonstrated experience in programme and project management, and in building partnerships with government officials, academic institutions, and other development partners.
The United Nations Development Program for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNDP LAC) supports 34 countries (and 41 territories overall) in their efforts to address diverse development challenges, framed around three broad settings which require different forms of support: These three development challenges often coexist within the same country, requiring tailored solutions that can adequately address specific deficits and barriers. Underpinning them is a set of core development needs, including the need to strengthen gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, and to ensure the protection of human rights. We are committed to creating new solutions, building collaboration…