May 2016 – January 2017 Turkey UNDP
HQ Economic Development Adviser for Eastern Europe, Former Soviet Union and Turkey.
- Provide strategic advice to country offices on building capacities to improve private sector development, trade, investment and productive capacity enhancement;
- Provide strategic advice to country offices on building capacities to improve trade-related projects;
- Propose UNDP approach to Trade and Productive Capacity and Sustainable Local Development and propose service lines for the Sustainable Development (SD) Cluster and concrete actions products, tools, platforms and instruments.
- Prepare methodology for operationalizing SDGs for ongoing and incoming UNDP programmes and projects;
- Develop minimum standards for microfinance loans for trade, private sector development, greening agriculture, micro-insurance, developing capacities in private sector development.
- Develop service-lines on building productive capacities, trade and local development for the SD Cluster;
- Mapping of potential new partners, including from the private sector for the region for Turkey.
- Launching Integrated Resource Efficiency project in Southern Anatolia, Turkey with GAP-RDA