UNITED NATIONS — Rosa Malango, United Nations resident coordinator of Uganda, receives about 1,200 emails a day, and normally doesn’t read them until midnight, following long days of meetings.
It can be hard to keep up with the various global initiatives and partnerships the U.N. regularly launches, on top of Malango’s daily work of conducting broad outreach and representing U.N. agencies. Her small team of staff remains incomplete, without a head of office — and with less capacity than she had in previous leadership positions at the U.N. Development Programme and U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
“I appreciate that the secretary-general and deputy secretary-general are trying to encourage coherence, but oh lord, making sure we implement all of this is going to be a challenge,” Malango told Devex.