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Edwine started his career in Haiti in 2002 in UNDP's Poverty Reduction Unit before relocating to the former Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) in the Strategic Planning Unit in UNDP Headquarters in New York, back-stopping the technical teams deployed to country offices as part of the corporate response to crises and crisis preparedness. In 2006, Edwine joined UNDP's Arab States Bureau in New York, and in 2009, he was assigned as Programme Specialist to Maghreb desk team, covering Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya. In 2011, Edwine joined UNFPA's post-earthquake recovery efforts in Haiti as Operations Manager before returning to UNDP Headquarters in 2012. Before joining UNDP Philippines in September 2021, Edwine was UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Algeria from 2017 to 2021, covering a broad range of issues from programme formulation to delivery, partnership building and resource mobilization, monitoring of UNDP programme and operations effectiveness, results-based management, and representation of UNDP in key fora.