Ola Karakra is an international practitioner who currently works as a Livelihoods Specialist in UNDP Iraq. The main goal of her work is to jump start the local economy in areas recently liberated from ISIL, through provision of different schemes in livelihoods. Prior to working with UNDP Iraq, Ola worked in DAI Europe in the Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund as a Lead Market Systems Analyst in Palestine, Jordan and Egypt. Before this, she worked with UNDP Palestine on Livelihoods’ Improvement and Poverty Reduction, in order to economically empower the less privileged people, which happen to mostly be women. In addition to this, she worked for Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Palestine on local governance improvement and community empowerment.