The UN Resident Coordinator Office
The Office of the UN Resident Coordinator in the Republic of Serbia operates under the UN Resident Coordinator’s strategic guidance and it supports the UNCT in the development, implementation, monitoring and reporting of the UN Cooperation Framework (former UNDAF) and in the activities related to the Agenda 2030. The office facilitates establishment and implementation of mechanisms that ensure all members can fully participate in UNCT consultations and decision-making processes and are informed through regular communications and information sharing.
The Office of the UN Resident Coordinator in the Republic of Serbia fulfills the following five key functions in support of the responsibilities of the RC and the UNCT:
(1) Strategic planning;
(2) Development economics;
(3) Partnerships and development finance;
(4) Data and results management and reporting; and
(5) Communications and advocacy.
The Office of the UN Resident Coordinator in Serbia has currently nine core staff members: Team Leader and Strategic Planner, Senior Economist, Partnership and Development Finance Officer, Communications and Advocacy Officer, Human Rights Advisor, M&E Officer, Executive Associate to RC, Driver/Assistant.
A National Human Rights Adviser supported by a programmatic Team on human rights forms an integral part of the Resident Coordinator’s Office in Serbia. The Human Rights Team supports the Resident Coordinator and the United Nations Country Team with human rights advice and mainstreaming, as well as national stakeholders including Government and authorities, civil society and national human rights institutions through advise, technical support and cooperation, with the support from the UN Office for Human Rights in Geneva. The Team prioritizes support to commitments under the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and to programmatic tools such as the new United Nations Sustainable Development Coordination Framework.
The UN Resident Coordinator in Serbia
Dr Scano has over 20 years of experience in public health programme management and policy development in areas ranging from disease control, outbreak response, to regulatory strengthening. Dr Scano took up many important assignments with WHO Headquarters in Geneva and in the field including South Africa to assist the country with the outbreak of extensively drug-resistant TB in 2007.
In China, Dr Scano supervised all communicable and noncommunicable disease programmes in the WHO China Office, and supported strengthening of the National Regulatory Authority for medicine, vaccines and other health products. Since Jan 2020, Dr Scano has been at the forefront of the WHO COVID-19 response in China
first and then he provided support to the WHO European office on COVID-19 response. Prior to his assignment in Serbia as WHO Representative and Special Envoy of the
WHO Regional Director for the Western Balkans, Dr Scano was acting WHO Representative for WHO in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dr Scano is a public health specialist and holds a M.D. from University of Padua, Italy; a post graduate degree in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine; and he is a Yale World Fellow.
