MANAGEMENT
Joint Steering Committee
The Joint Steering Committee bears the overall responsibility for management of the Montenegro Acceleration Fund. It is responsible for leadership, strategic direction, and decisions on eligibility, allocation and other managerial and oversight aspects of the Fund.
The Joint Steering Committee is composed of eight members:
- two co-chairs – Government Representative and the UN Resident Coordinator,
- two representatives of Government line ministries, on an annual rotational basis,
- two representatives of participating UN Organisations from the ones that have signed to the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework, on an annual rotational basis,
- two ex-officio representatives of the Montenegro Acceleration Fund Administrative Agent and the Secretariat, respectively, and
- two representatives from contributors to the Fund, on an annual rotational basis, as observers.
| MAF Joint Steering Committee: | ||
| Vučić Ćetković :: Co-Chair :: | Diego Zorrilla :: Co-Chair :: | |
| Advisor to the Prime Minister |
UN Resident Coordinator in Montenegro |
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| Anđela Stojanović Jakšić | Ekaterina Paniklova | |
| Minister of Education | UNDP Resident Representative | |
| Damjan Ćulafić | Stefanie Krause | |
| Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Northern Region Development |
UNHCR Representative
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| Observers: | ||
| Mladen Grgić, Advisor to the President of Montenegro | ||
| Richard Kohli, Head of Cooperation, Swiss Cooperation Office in Serbia | ||
| David Muckenhuber, Councellor, Head of Office, Austrian Development Agency | ||
| Secretariat: | ||
| UN Resident Coordinator’s Office, rcs-unmontenegro@un.org | ||
| Mari Matsumoto, MPTF Portfolio Manager, mari.matsumoto@undp.org | ||
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board of the Montenegro SDG Acceleration Fund serves as a platform for discussion, with the purpose to enhance quality and impact of the Montenegro Acceleration Fund and advise the Joint Steering Committee on the key decisions. Establishment of the Advisory Board bears no costs. It is composed of well-known and independent experts. The membership of the Advisory Board is gender and age balanced, so to enable different perspectives and increase the quality of deliberations.
The composition of the Advisory Board applies for two years, with the possibility of extension.
| Dejana Ponoš |
| CEO of Arhimed |
| Dragan Koprivica |
| NGO Centre for Democratic Transition (CDT) |
| Nataša Grdinić |
| CEO CMM Montenegro |
| Siniša Bjeković |
| Ombudsperson |
| Denis Mesihović |
| World Bank |
| David Vukićević |
| Youth Representative in the Council for Sustainable Development |
| Milica Pejanovic-Djurišić |
| Representative of academia |
| Željko Uljarević |
| KfW |
| Samir Jaha |
| NGO Mladi Romi |
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