Bangladesh Agricultural University

Asian University of Bangladesh

Karim Uddin Public College

Chaperhat High School

Technical Coordinator-Nutrition Governance (Project Manager) at Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

- agricultural sub-sector assessment (crop, livestock and fisheries), intervention design, plan and implementation of climate smart Value Chain and Market System Development applying M4P in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh; 	development of public-private partnership platform (PPPP) and private local service provision development (LSP) and women business centre (WBC) aiming at strengthened availability of community level affordable agricultural services and marketing provision (support function, core market chain and business environment);    	strengthening nutrition platform (District & Upazila Nutrition Coordination Committee- DNCC & UNCC), Community Clinic (CC) & Union Health & Family Welfare Center (UHFWC) managed by DGHS & DGFP;	develop strategies, guidelines, tools in line with value chain and market system development, governance system facilitation, M&E and MRM and project operation and management from project steering committee to field level implementation;  	capacity building of technical and implementing partners staff in line with strategy, guideline, tool, knowledge management, M&E/MRM and reporting system;	contracting with GoB ministries especially Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and departments/ institutions, consultants, market actors to strengthen governance through implementation support of GoB’s NPAN2 & CIP2;	facilitate workshop, seminar, round table, talk show to make aware ear of policy makers and influencers;	management of team, local offices, finance and donor reporting

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

Technical Coordinator-Nutrition Governance (Project Manager)

CARE Bangladesh

Agri-Business and Marketing Specialist

To work as a Team Leader of the Agri-Business Team (ABT) to lead Agri-business component of the  USAID Agricultural Extension Support Activity project funded by USAID, Bangladesh.Responsibility:    Team management: Managing agri-business team of 7 members -Technical Managers and Technical Officers for both private and public sector; 	Leading value chain development component: Value chain assessment, planning and implementation. Private service provision development,  private sector engagement, agriculture extension service center development (private and public). Managing consultants and technical experts from CARE USA; Formulating implementation strategies, guideline and tools, identification of traditional and improved practices for maximizing crop production and conducting needs assessment; 	Conduction of different studies for input and output market system ensuring active participation of all level stakeholder;	ICT in service provision: Developing ICT based service provision development (for private and public) and farmers’ access to various apps and approaches like farmer’s query system, pest and disease diagnosis, video etc.; 	Facilitating for rural financial service in agriculture: Through digital financial-‘A Card’ involving Bank, input retailers and MFI;	Collaboration and synergy:  with all the USAID others feed the future (FtF) projects in the south and central Bangladesh.	Facilitating market driven linkages between agribusiness producers, wholesalers, processors, and markets	Partnership with the private sector organizations and GoB line departments in agriculture to ensure services for the farmers, LSPs and input suppliers for strengthening agricultural advisory and service market system. 	Establishing R&D involving private companies and public departments for facilitating farmers’ in choosing right variety and practices.

To design and implement a absolute M4P (Making Markets Work for the Poor) project 'SAMRIDDHI-prosperity in Bangladesh' funded by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) for 12 value chain development - Dairy, Bull Fattening, Poultry, Duck, Fish, Vegetable, Fruit, Medicinal Plant, Jute craft, Cotton craft and Plant craft.	Establishing collaboration with line department for technical capacity building of local service providers with updated technologies.	Ensure value chain analysis and identify relevant value chain actors. Coordinate interventions with private sector actors, service providers and Service Providers Associations, Plan and implement interventions, which enhance products’ competitiveness and value chain performance	Develop tools and guidelines to facilitate the process of service market development for the Local Service Providers (LSP) and their upazila level service providers’ association.	Establish collaboration and maintain regular contact with public and private sector organizations.	Ensure monitoring of project’s results, and capitalization and dissemination of project’s experience in the area of value chain development, and develop the capacity of the partner NGO staff in line with the new approaches and strategies of the project.	Achieved value chain analysis and implementation of jute craft, cotton craft, plant craft, milk, medicinal plant, chicken, vegetable, fruit and fish value chain, DRR and capacity building of community platform.

HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation

Value Chain Specialist

To implement Livelihoods, Empowerment and Agroforestry (LEAF) project (funded by Swiss Agency Development and Cooperation; SDC) in partnership with NGOs.Responsibilities:	Dealing partnership with 5 partner NGOs & their 61 project staff and 6 private sector organizations. Implementation of different monitoring tool and cost effectiveness exercise.	Implementing enterprise and economic development interventions and strategies like, six steps of marketing extension education, supporting mechanism for developing Micro & Small Enterprise (MSE), Business Plan development.	Promotion of handicraft value chain and its market exploration, dealing with large, medium and small private sectors.

Intercooperation

Associate Adviser-Markets and Micro Small Enterprise (MSE)

To implement an EC funded project 'Making Markets Works for Small Holder Farmers and Rural Producers (MMWSFRP)' in Gaibandha region in partnership with 4 PNGOs.Responsibilities:	Enhancing role and performance of partner NGOs in promoting development of viable markets for relevant affordable business and extension services, and in improving the business environment for poor and disadvantaged producers. 	Creating demand for business and extension services on capacity building plan, participatory training needs assessment and long term strategic plan, conducting training, workshop and demonstration of participatory Market System Development (PMSD) and market assessments of product and services.	Facilitate business and Extension Service Providers Capacity building in delivering a range of affordable business and extension services through service providers’ forum and skill training. 	Facilitate capacity building of producers’ group, regional networks and other concerned in influencing business environment.

Practical Action

Project Officer

To implement two projects- Livelihoods, Empowerment and Agroforestry (LEAF) and Sustainable Access to Agricultural Knowledge Technology and Information (SAAKTI) funded by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).Responsibilities: Managing a 21-members team of technical, administration and finance and their capacity building and monitoring. Capacity building of team members (FFs for HID & Rights, Service Provision and MSE) by supervision, coaching, mentoring, and accompaniment.	Identify the most vulnerability, disadvantaged community and extreme poor people and way out the strategies of their livelihoods development in differentiated approaches.	Facilitate linkage, sharing and match making workshop with producers, market actors, input supplier, micro-finance organization, stakeholders and line agencies.	Participatory project planning, developing logical framework & M&E tool and implementation.

UDDYOG Foundation

Team Leader

For the 'Village and Farm Forestry Project (VFFP)', funded by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).Responsibility: Managing a team of technical, administration and finance staff and their capacity building;	Strengthening supply chain of quality planting material (fruit and timber trees) through establishing nursery and mother tree orchard;	Module and technical papers development, planning and designing of small projects with financial allocation, reporting, documentation and capitalization.

Project Coordinator

To implement SDC funded project-Village and Farm Forestry Project (VFFP) to strengthen supply chain of quality planting material (QPM).Responsibilities:	Support to the nursery owner on nursery management, record keeping and cost-benefit analysis.	Support to nursery owners association on ODM activities like decision making, fund management, fund raising, market information system, linkage and networking with service providers and QPM sources.

Azizullah Mahmud