The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Nepal Hanaa Singer-Hamdy presented her credentials to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Tuesday.

The UN Resident Coordinator is the highest-ranking official of the UN Development System in Nepal.

According to a press statement, Singer-Hamdy will lead the UN Country Team and coordinate UN support to Nepal in implementing the 2030 Agenda. Singer-Hamdy of Egypt was appointed to the position by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, with the approval from the Government of Nepal.

Following the UN Reform in 2019, the Resident Coordinator’s function has been upgraded to be the representative of the UN Secretary General in member states.

During the meeting, Singer-Hamdy appreciated Nepal’s contribution to global peace through peacekeeping forces and expressed the UN’s commitment to accompany Nepal on the inclusive and sustainable graduation from the Least Developed Country.

The UN Resident Coordinator, during the meet, said the UN stands ready to support the government to complete the peace process and victim-centric transitional justice reform.

Singer-Hamdy has worked for close to 30 years across development and humanitarian contexts at various senior management and strategic leadership roles and has most lately served as the UN Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka, reads the statement.