Head of Resident Coordinator's Office in Liberia

Meet Ng'ong'a-Margaret Gulavic, the head of Resident Coordinator’s Office in Liberia.   

Under the leadership of the Resident Coordinator, Ng’ong’a'-Margaret facilitated the establishment of a Government-UN policy dialogue platform, launched in 2021, by engaging the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning and the UN country team.  The Platform serves as a forum for partners to connect and discuss priority issues under the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (2020-2024), and improve coordination among entities working on similar thematic areas.    

Furthermore, following the smooth transition of the UN in Liberia in 2018 from a peacekeeping to a development phase, which Ng’ong’a-Margaret herself had successfully supported, she has assisted the Resident Coordinator in convening a series of thematic discussions and ensured all stakeholders – both from peacebuilding and development sectors – discuss and agree on UN’s collective priorities. For example, the peace-building priorities in the Transition Plan 2018-2022 were reflected in the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 2020- 2024, to make the Cooperation Framework as the single strategy to serve both development and peacebuilding priorities of the country.  

Understanding the need for learning from peer UN experts in similar development context, Ng’ong’a'-Margaret provided the conceptual thinking and organized, with her counterpart in Kenya, a successful UN Liberia-Kenya Peer Exchange on key thematic areas including SDGs acceleration, youth engagement, and community development.  The exchange informed various programming elements in Liberia, such as youth empowerment, SDGs acceleration, development cooperation, joint UN area-based programmes at the community level and private sector engagement.