Before becoming a UN Volunteer, I spent eight years in the Commissariat for Refugees and Migration of the Government of Serbia working on issues of forced migration, assistance to refugees and internally displaced persons. This experience gave me a deep understanding of why timely humanitarian response is integral to migration and it showed me that, to be effective, these responses need to be followed by developmental responses in support of peace.
My name is Jelena Maric Lukovic. I serve as national UN Volunteer Resilient Programming Assistant with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the Republic of Serbia.