Marlon Clarke is the Head of Cluster for the Prevention, Recovery and Resilience cluster providing overarching support to the Disaster Risk Resilience and Recovery Programme, managed from the Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean office.  Marlon has over ten years’ experience in project management tied to Disaster Risk Reduction and since 2017, he has been a key member of the ongoing Recovery to Resilience programme of the UNDP Barbados Sub Regional Office (SRO).

Marlon has contributed to regional resilience and took the lead on several key recovery projects in the Caribbean over the years. In February and August 2018, he was deployed to Dominica as Officer-in-Charge of the Project Office to support the recovery interventions specific to the emergency employment and the re-roofing programme. During October 2017, Marlon was the sector expert in Disaster Risk Reduction and lead the Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) for this sector in Dominica. Further to this, from 2012 to 2016, Marlon had direct responsibility for projects seeking to strengthen preparedness and response capacity in the Caribbean.

Prior to this period, he has been immersed in implementing project activities related to the Disaster Risk Reduction portfolio and has contributed to its development through assisting in:

• The determination of programmatic areas of cooperation, based on the strategic goals of UNDP;
• Strategic planning, results-based management and reporting
• Resource Mobilisation
• Partnership Building

Marlon has a Bachelor’s degree in Management from the University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill Campus and a Master’s degree in Disaster Management with Distinction from Coventry University in the UK.