Chikako Kodama

Experience

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  Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

  Apr 1997 - Oct 2004

  I was a desk officer for UNDP and managed peacebuilding portfolio of the ODA Policy. Multilateral cooperation division, Economic Cooperation Bureau

  • Official

    Sept 2004 - Oct 2004

  • Second Secretary

    Sept 2002 - Sept 2004

  • Third Secretary

    Jun 2000 - Sept 2002

  • Attache

    Jul 1998 - Jun 2000

  • Official

    Apr 1997 - Jun 1998
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  United Nations Mine Action Service

  Oct 2004 - Oct 2005

  Liaison Analyst

  Ensured partnership with key donors to mobilize resources and provide periodic progress/substantive reports on their contributions to the Mine Action Programme for Afghanistan (MAPA). In addition, provided advisory services to the government on preparing the national development budget and meeting international obligations of the Mine Ban Treaty.

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  UNDP

  Oct 2005 - Dec 2016

  As a Chief Technical Specialist, managed various projects on social cohesion, confidence building through local service delivery, and resilience. • Provided advice to Minister of Local Administration on policies and approaches to participatory democracy and confidence building between citizens and local authorities and supporting local authorities to conduct participatory planning with citizen engagement. • Led conducting a rapid integrated assessment in studying conflict impacts on local governance, social cohesion, community security, non-state actors and livelihoods. Based on the assessment, a series of infographics on “Resilience Monitor” were issued to inform the ongoing conflict impacts. • Led a development of a UN joint programme for “Enhanced Rural Resilience in Yemen” and mobilized funds from the EU. UNDP’s results included emergency employment, entrepreneurship development, sustainable solar energy application, community development, restoration of service delivery and social cohesion.• Managed 11 project staff in three locations in Yemen and provided strategic guidance. Show less As Programme Specialist for conflict prevention and social cohesion, responsible for quality assurance of the projects.• Monitored conflict dynamics and hotspots in Darfur using Armed Conflict Location and Event Data. • Successfully performed as Acting Head of Technical Secretariat (P5 level) of the Darfur Community Peace and Stability Fund (DCPSF), a locally established UN multi-partner trust fund, for more than a year in partnership with development partners and NGOs. • Led a newly established humanitarian cluster, Governance, Infrastructure and Economic Recovery (GIER), and developed the GIER Sector Response Plan for the 2013 Humanitarian Work Plan.• Led UN strategic planning e.g. the Country Programme Action Plan (CPAP) 2013-2016 (peacebuilding outcome) and the Integrated Strategic Framework with UNAMID (Peacebuilding, Social Cohesion, and Reconciliation (JWG 6). • Managed a DCPSF Technical Secretariat team of five people based in multiple locations (four are technical staff and one general staff). Show less Led the Crisis Prevention and Recovery Team, which was the largest programme unit in terms of annual delivery and resource mobilization in UNDP Lao PDR. • Provided technical support to the Government’s priority works, such as Lao Government’s Presidency to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (1MSP), development of a 10-year strategic plan of UXO/ Mine Action.• Played a key role for the Deputy Secretary-General’s participation in the 1MSP e.g. opening statements, meetings with the President, Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Lao PDR.• Managed a locally established UNDP Trust Fund for Support to the Full Implementation on Convention on Cluster Munitions.• Contributed to the World Bank – UN Joint Damage, Loss and Needs Assessment after Typhoon Haima in Lao in terms of coordination among sectors and mainstreaming early recovery approach. • Represented UNDP in various coordination meeting including early recovery cluster (UNDP is the cluster lead), the UXO Sector Working Group (UNDP is a co-chair), and UNDAF 2012-2015 outcome groups. Show less

  • Chief Technical Specialist

    Aug 2014 - Dec 2016

  • Programme Specialist

    Apr 2012 - Aug 2014

  • Chief, Crisis Prevention and Recovery Unit

    Apr 2010 - Apr 2012

  • Programme Specialist

    Jan 2009 - Apr 2010

  • Programme Analyst

    Oct 2005 - Dec 2008
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  UNDP

  Jul 2017 - Dec 2018

  Team Leader and Advisor, Governance

  As Governance Advisor in UNDP/PAPP, provided strategic direction to programming on governance, and ensured management of the Governance and Social Development project portfolios. • Co-designed UNDP/PAPP Governance Strategy with the Governance team.• Managed UNDP/PAPP Governance portfolio and provided hands-on programmatic quality assurance to implementation of projects for rule of law, and resilience in Area C and East Jerusalem. • Led the work of a UNDAF result group on governance (UNDP was a co-chair). • Represented UNDP in the National SDG 16 Working Group, which is co-chaired by UNDP and the Ministry of Justice. The Working Group facilitated monitoring, reporting and capacity development on SDG 16 targets. Show less

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  UNDP

  Mar 2019 - Jul 2023

  As Governance Chief Technical Advisor, provide strategic advice concerning governance, human rights and sustainable peace as well as lead adaptive programing for the governance portfolio with innovation. • Developed governance project portfolios on local governance, civic engagement, and social cohesion.• Identified strategies to implement governance portfolios in the context of de-facto one party political system through application of innovation approaches (e.g. ethnographic research, design thinking, collective intelligence, social innovation challenge etc). • Led social risk management through overseeing social impact assessment, risk management plan development, project level grievance redress mechanisms. • Co-designed innovation bootcamps with Cambodian local authorities, National School of Local Administration, and CSO to design civic engagement dialogue platforms and developed innovation curriculums for local civil service. Show less In the context of the UN mission withdrawal, strengthening the UNCT and UNDP capacity to plan and manage the transition in close coordination with UNAMID.• Managed development of a joint UN transition action plan (UNCT and UNAMID) in line with the Secretary General’s Planning Directive. • Facilitated planning, implementation and coordination of the State Liaison Functions (SLFs) – a joint programme between 10 UN agencies and UNAMID in the areas of rule of law, human rights, and durable solutions.• Contributed various knowledge management on UN transition’s lessons learnt.• Coordinated Identification of areas and initiatives for humanitarian-development-peace nexus for the Action Plan of the Joint Steering Committee (JSC) to advance humanitarian and development collaboration. Show less

  • Governance Chief Technical Advisor

    Sept 2020 - Jul 2023

  • Transition Specialist

    Mar 2019 - Sept 2020
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  Tama University

  Apr 2024 - now

  Assistant Professor

  Teaching two courses, "Introduction to Global Understanding" and "SDGs and Development studies"