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Uyanga Gankhuyag
UNDP
ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme Manager
Description
Uyanga Gankhuyag is a development economist specialized in extractive industries policies. She is currently the Manager of the ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme implemented by UNDP, which works with mining authorities and supports artisanal and small-scale miners and mineral processing enterprises in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries to improve livelihoods, create jobs and promote environmental sustainability and low-carbon development. She worked for over 10 years in policy analysis and programming in extractive industries, serving mineral-producing developing countries. In Asia Pacific, she led regional capacity development initiatives on extractive industries, climate and natural resource modelling. Uyanga has authored or contributed to multiple publications in areas of managing mining for sustainable development, natural resource revenue-sharing, fiscal transfers, poverty and inequality, financing social services using extractives revenues, and conflict prevention in resource-rich countries. She also served in New York where she has worked on UNDP’s strategy and programming on extractive industries for sustainable development, as well as wider economic development and poverty reduction. Early in her career in Mongolia, Uyanga has worked in the financial sector, fiscal and investment policies, poverty reduction programs and programs addressing commodity dependence. Coming from Mongolia, a country that relies on mining for its development, she is passionate about resource-rich and resource-dependent countries advancing their development in a sustainable manner.
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