Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka

Oberlin College

Private Sector Development and Results Measurement Consultant

Member of the DFAT and MFAT appointed Technical Advisory Group to the Pacific Horticulture and Market Access (PHAMA Plus, Phase II) program (a DFAT/ MFAT funded multi-country program) as an MSD Specialist. Responsibilities include providing DFAT and MFAT with strategic and technical advice on the implementation and performance of the program and its monitoring and results measurement system. The support from the TAG will continue till June 2026.

PHAMA Plus

Technical Advisory Group- Market Systems Development (MSD) Specialist

Supporting CRS' homes and communities (H&C) platform to pilot the Framework for Leveraging Markets for Scaled Housing Outcomes and its associated tools in select H&C platform countries: Malawi, Indonesia, India, and Greece. The pilot process will inform the finalization of the tools to operationalize the framework as well as support select country programs develop the first of their MSD strategies in the housing market system.

Catholic Relief Services

MSD Specialist

Designed and implemented an assessment of the housing market system in Vanuatu with a focus on poor and low-income households in urban, peri-urban, and rural areas. The assessment provides an understanding of the current state of the building industry in Vanuatu, with a particular focus on housing in both rural and urban settings, and will inform forthcoming updates to Vanuatu’s Building Code & National Housing Policy.

Habitat for Humanity Australia

Housing marekt systems specialist 

Housing market systems specialist working with DevLearn Consultancy in a three-person team engaged to harvest and document the outcomes of TCIS initiatives implemented through its labs and programs. The focus of the exercise is on capturing the significant changes and impacts experienced by target groups and key stakeholders in the market as a result of the initiatives including assessing the perceptions of these groups on the business models introduced and evaluating the contribution of TCIS in driving these transformations.

Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter

Housing Market System Specialist

Member of a three-member evaluation team (through the MFAT MERL Panel) to assess the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and impact of NZ government funded “Response to Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle Program”. Special focus on assessing the fit of the technical solutions developed by program stakeholders to the needs of end users (smallholders, public sector, and private sector) as well as the effectiveness of the service delivery model distributing the solutions to end users. Responsibilities include leading the formative analysis of the implications that the Program’s progress and achievements for a potential future phase, particularly in relation to productive partnerships, potential funding sources, likely geographic coverage, and logical expectations.

rdsm consulting

Systems specialist

Design and implement a comprehensive assessment of the agriculture sector in Fiji with a special focus on exports, exporters, and export support from the government. The study will include a comprehensive, and participatory constraints and opportunity analysis with key public sector stakeholders and provide the evidence base for the development of future oriented strategies to effectively respond to specific needs of the agriculture sector in Fiji.

International Labour Organization

Market Systems Development Expert

Designed and conducted a market assessment in the post-conflict context of Cabo Delgado, Northern Mozambique. The market analysis included analysis of the labor market alongside an assessment of key agricultural value chains. The output of the market assessment informed the development of implementation strategies and interventions for UNDP’s economic stabilization and recovery program that will trigger sustainable and inclusive development in the short-, medium- and longer-term. A notable output of the market assessment was the allocation of additional funding for implementing of dedicated irrigation (covering development of medium sized schemes and small scale irrigation technologies) activities.

UNDP

International Consultant

Supported the development of a Youth Entrepreneurship Framework for CRS that reflects best-practice in the global youth development sector, builds on existing CRS frameworks for youth engagement and positive youth development, and is applicable across diverse CRS programming contexts. Led the research effort to include youth perspectives in the framework and validation of framework components amongst CRS youth program participants through focus group discussions across four CRS countries
engaged in youth programming.

Market Systems Development (MSD) Specialist

Supported the development of a Youth Entrepreneurship Framework for CRS that reflects best-practice in the global youth development sector, builds on existing CRS frameworks for youth engagement and positive youth development, and is applicable across diverse CRS programming contexts. Led the research effort to include youth perspectives in the framework and validation of framework components amongst CRS youth program participants through focus group discussions across four CRS countries engaged in youth programming.

Market Systems Development Specialist

Lead MDF’s efforts to expand the program into three additional countries in the Pacific. Responsible for designing and implementing all inception phase steps including market assessments, strategy development, and establishing initial portfolio of partnerships. Provide technical advice on MSD and MEL to program staff and other short-term advisers. Support and mentor team members to undertake value chain mapping, constraints and opportunities analysis, strategy development, and development of business partnerships.

Market Development Facility (MDF)

Value Chain Mapping Specialist

Co-developed a framework for leveraging market systems for CRS' homes and communities (H&C) platform to deliver safe and dignified housing to communities at scale, including a full suite of tools to operationalise the framework. The framework is designed to intervene in the housing market system across crisis, recovery, and development situations.

Opportunities Unlimited B.V. is a platform for consultants with the ability to apply good development principles to private sector engagement to ensure sustainable impact at scale. At OU, we aim to ensure that our services are of the highest quality. Our aspiration is to contribute to making development efforts work efficiently and effectively.

Opportunities Unlimited B.V.

Senior Private Sector Engagement Specialist

Led the design and implementation of a systemic change study for ABI Development. The study was designed to assess the impact that ABI interventions generated in the wider market system: both in agriculture and in finance. The study focused on defining the early signs of system wide impact that its MRM system is seeing, measuring the extent of this system wide impact, and exploring the question of why some interventions contributed to this impact and some did not. The main output of the study was a report to support results measurement within aBi and design of future portfolios.

aBi Development

Team Leader- Systemic Change Study

Member of a 2-person team of evaluators doing the end of program impact assessment of the Resilient Efficient Agribusiness Chains (REACH) program. Evaluated the impact of the project during its implementation cycle as well as potential impact of the project at a system level in the longer term. The EPIA assessed the project’s activities using the six core criteria for the evaluation of development assistance - Relevance, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Impact, Equity and Sustainability including looking into the effect of contextual issues such as COVID 19. An important output of the EPIA was identifying and highlighting lessons learnt as well as designing a concept for the way forward for the program beyond its current phase.

IFDC- REACH

MSD Specialist- End of Program Impact Assessment

UNCDF’s LDCIP acts as a hub for innovative development finance by engineering the conditions for investment viability in the ‘missing middle’ or in riskier market segments. LDCIP makes loans and guarantees available to early stage businesses, SMEs, projects, MFIs and municipal investments at below market rates to get them going while absorbing and mitigating some of the associated risks. The assignment aims to establish a development results framework that would cover the entire investment cycle for LDCIP’s investment operations and help monitor, measure and evaluate the development impact of LDCIP instruments, such as loans and guarantees. The framework will also contribute to the planning, communication and management of investments and to ensure accountability to stakeholders.

United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)

Development Impact Consultant

Conduct a forward-looking review of the TCIS Philippine program with the aim of providing enlightening inputs for the country program strategic planning process. The review will assess the status of the program and make recommendations for further development that will support program growth and increased effectiveness.

Habitat for Humanity- Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter

Lead Consultant

Preparation of the Results Measurement, Learning, and Communications part of the tender for the proposed Myanmar Investment Enabling Programme (MEIP), funded by CDC Plus

Cardno Emerging Markets (Australia) Pty. Ltd

Writer Consultant

Develop synthesis of learnings for TCIS program in Kenya and alongside the TCIS Kenya country team present the lessons to a global learning event of webinars and online discussions. The synthesis of learnings will include the strategy for the program in the housing construction labor program, the pathway to developing the strategy, and analysis of the implementation experience to date (what works, why, results, what does not work, why, lessons).

Assess the business case for the Rwandan private sector to invest in the Small-Scale Irrigation Technologies (SSIT) market and identify the way forward to sustainably increase the uptake of SSIT by smallholder farmers in Rwanda. The assignment included a detailed assessment of the irrigation market (spanning large irrigation schemes to SSIT) and an assessment of the capacity of public and private sector stakeholders (including financial institutions and technology providers) to support expansion of the irrigation market in the country. Key output of the assignment was a recommendation paper advising IFAD’s future programming in SSIT in Rwanda.

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Agribusiness Specialist

Freelance

Conduct an in-depth assessment of the low-cost housing market in urban and peri-urban areas in Kenya. The assignment includes guiding and mentoring the TCIS Kenya staff to synthesize lessons learnt, finalise implementation strategy, and develop a diverse and innovative intervention portfolio through applying a systems approach to the low-income housing construction market in Kenya. Key outputs of the assignment include a detailed market assessment report, intervention strategy, and a lessons report

Implemented all program systems and reorganized implementation teams. Established a foundation portfolio of 10 businesses. Put in place a strong relationship with DFAT PNG Post. Led the formulation of the country strategy and household level analysis of poverty and gender.

Market Development Facility

Interim Country Director

Managing a multi-national team of 23 individuals, and all aspects of country budgets (10 million AUD in phase 1 and 17.5 million AUD in phase 2). Lead overall delivery of the program spanning finance and administration to implementation, results measurement and reporting. Have represented the program at high level national and international forums. Successfully led the program through a transition into the 2nd phase across different managing contractors. Have been instrumental in raising the profile of DFAT’s private sector development initiatives in Fiji and maintaining a high degree of relevance of the MDF Fiji program to the evolving, partnership focused, relationship between the governments of Fiji and Australia. 

Key achievements:
1.	Managing a portfolio of investments in over 60 businesses in exports, logistics, and tourism. Phase 1 investments are projected to generate 17 Million AUD of additional incomes for over 14,500 poor women and men in Fiji.
2.	Established a strong relationship with the Government of Fiji through partnerships and MOUs with key institutions such as Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Tourism, Investment Fiji, Reserve Bank of Fiji, Fiji Sugar Corporation, and Fiji Airways. 
3.	Leading the team to develop several high profile and innovative interventions such as agricultural input distribution systems, Fiji’s first private sector run small business incubator, rebranding and marketing of Fiji sugar, Fiji’s first commercial tissue culture laboratory, and a commercial fertilizer operation.  
4.	Built the capacity of the team to develop implementation strategies, annual plans, and medium-term pipeline of interventions. 
5.	Developed a cadre of middle managers to manage implementation and results measurement with minimal supervision.
6.	Involved in design and implementation of a long- term longitudinal research study on measuring systemic change in shallow markets with the Springfield Centre.

Country Director

Led the finalization of the Horticulture engagement area implementation strategy and recruitment of key local managers.

Led MDF Fiji and Timor-Leste country teams to prepare for a Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) audit of the MDF results measurement (RM) system.

Achieved a successful DCED audit of MDF Fiji and Timor-Leste in 2014, with both country team RM systems found to be strongly compliant with the DCED standard for results measurement.

Acting Results Measurement Manager

Key member of the MDF core leadership team, involved in the creation, communication and implementation of MDF’s organizational strategy and vision. Involved in the design, development, and implementation of facility strategies for achieving systemic change, and women’s economic empowerment. Led all aspects of MDF programs in the Pacific and was a significant contributor to the preparation for Mid Term Review in the lead up to the second phase. Have pioneered innovative interventions around value added agriculture, women’s economic empowerment, connecting to impact investments, establishing sustainable small business incubators, integrating traditional Pacific communities into commercial supply chains, and adopting an MSD approach to disaster risk reduction and resilience building.

Member, Core Leadership Team

Established and managed DFAT Timor-Leste’s first market systems development program in the complex post-conflict economic context of Timor-Leste. Developed and managed a team of 13 local and international staff and all aspects of a 5-year 9 Million AUD budget. Crafted a strong relationship with DFAT Timor-Leste and pushed the learning agenda of DFAT in country on market systems development. Forged strong working relationships with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Ministry of Tourism, and the Coordination Ministry for Agriculture and Economy (MECAE).

Key achievements:
1.	Managed a portfolio of investments in over 20 businesses across agribusiness, logistics, and tourism projected to benefit 9,000 poor women and men in Timor-Leste.
2.	Led all sector assessment and poverty and gender analyses leading to sector and pro-poor growth strategies for the program. 
3.	Led the team in implementing a number of firsts for the private sector in Timor-Leste such as a 4-star heritage hotel in the country, commercial food safety testing laboratory, a commercial rice milling facility, and Timor’s first agricultural input retailer association. 
4.	Successfully preserved the program and portfolio with minimal disruption through the complex AusAID-DFAT merger and changes to the aid budget landscape. 
5.	Set up working relationships with other key donors and DFAT supported agencies including ACIAR, USAID, Mercy Corps, UNDP, ADB, and IFC.
6.	Secured 800,000 AUD to implement a suite of partnerships and research studies under the Gender Equality Fund (GEF) facility from DFAT.

Mujaddid Mohsin