 On 31 August 2014 Ruedas was appointed Country Director of the United Nations Development Programme in Kabul, Afghanistan, where she coordinated UNDP projects, including the construction of bridges, provision of water access to communities in remote areas of Afghanistan, and participation in the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Programme.From 2015 to 2017 she was the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan.In February that year she traveled to a refugee camp at Tawilla, where 86,000 refugees had gathered, and in 2017 she met with Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir and visited a camp in Darfur.