The United Nations Improvement Programme (UNDP) has introduced the appointment of Kishan Khoday as Resident Consultant for Jamaica, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands, efficient January 22.
As Resident Consultant based mostly on the UNDP Multi-Nation Workplace in Jamaica, Khoday additionally represents UNDP in Bermuda, Cayman Islands, The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands. He’s additionally appointed Resident Consultant to Belize, which is served by the UNDP Belize workplace based mostly in Belmopan.
Throughout separate conferences within the western Caribbean, Khoday, a Canadian nationwide of Indian descent, offered his credentials to Jamaica’s Minister of Overseas Affairs and Overseas Commerce, Senator the Honourable Kamina Johnson Smith on February 2in Kingston; to Bermuda’s Deputy Premier and Minister of Dwelling Affairs, Honourable Walter Roban in Hamilton on February 8 and to Director Normal in The Bahamas’ Ministry of Overseas Affairs on 5 February in Nassau. Handing over of credentials formally marked the beginning of Khoday’s tour of obligation in these respective nations.
In welcoming the brand new Resident Consultant, Minister Johnson Smith highlighted the fruitful cooperation between Jamaica and the UNDP, notably in poverty discount, local weather change, catastrophe threat administration, coral reef safety, and advancing gender equality. She mentioned these efforts are pivotal for attaining the Sustainable Improvement Targets by 2030, showcasing the depth of the multilateral partnership and shared dedication to a sustainable future.
In Hamilton the next week, Bermuda’s Deputy Premier Walter Roban acknowledged the continuing joint UN and Bermuda partnership on the Constructing Again Equal challenge as a promising car for financial empowerment of marginalized teams similar to ladies, youth and individuals with disabilities, and mentioned Bermuda regarded ahead to increasing the scope of the UNDP’s engagement together with his nation.
Instantly following acceptance of Khoday’s credentials on the Nassau workplace of the Ministry of Overseas Affairs in The Bahamas, Director Normal Jerusa Ali lauded important areas of ongoing cooperation with the UNDP together with catastrophe resilience and local weather change adaptation and mitigation. She additionally outlined different key areas for potential collaboration associated to digitization and information assortment.
Khoday pledged persevering with assist for the event aspirations of the respective nations served by the Multi Nation Workplace anchored on an inclusive and sustainable strategy that leaves nobody behind. He mentioned that via UNDP’s present Nation Programme (CP) in Jamaica (2022-2026), UNDP provides a strategic strategy to combating multidimensional poverty and advancing local weather resilient, nature-based pathways, leveraging UNDP’s capacities in innovation, digitalization, and sustainable finance.
Khoday has served with UNDP for 25 years, having coordinated over USD $1 billion in nation programming to assist companions and communities around the globe advance inclusive and sustainable improvement pathways. This included excursions of obligation with UNDP Nation Workplaces in China, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia and with UNDP’s regional places of work for the Center East and North Africa based mostly in Egypt and Jordan. Previous to becoming a member of the UN, Khoday labored with authorities and group organizations in his house nations of Canada and India on problems with poverty discount, ecological resilience, and group empowerment.
Khoday is a scientist and lawyer, holding a Juris Doctorate specializing in constitutional, worldwide, and environmental legislation; a Grasp of Science in pure useful resource administration targeted on land and water methods, and a Bachelor of Science in agriculture specializing in biodiversity and ecological change. The UNDP Resident Consultant is a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences and coverage dialogues on the event agenda and a acknowledged thought chief on strategic points similar to local weather change, ecosystem resilience, constitutionalism, postcolonial and decolonial concept, and resilience-based approaches to improvement, having revealed extensively on these and different points.
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