Abul Kalam Md. Saifuzzaman, mother’s name- Begum Hazera Rahman and father’s name- Shaheed Fazlur Rahman, date of birth- 14 May 1958. House no. 1-1-2 Purbo Ahmad Nagar, Mirpur 1, Dhaka 1216, Bangladesh. Phone- 01824619495. email: [email protected];
Bachelor in Social Science (Hons.) & Master in Social Science (Political Science) and LLB from Rajshahi University, Master in Education from Ahasnullah University of Science and Technology, Bachelor in Education from Bangladesh Open University, and a Certificate course on Urban Governance from Berlin Technical University Germany.
I have been working in the field of research and development on social, economic, climate change impact, governance, gender, and disability and vulnerability issues since last 38+ years with National & International NGOs, International Development Agencies and donor, UN agencies, and in government projects with different expertise and capacities.
Specialization and Experience for Dalit and Marginalised Communities
Abul Kalam Md. Saifuzzaman is a seasoned expert with a remarkable 38-year career dedicated to human rights issues including social and economic rights, health, SRHR, Gender Based Violence Prevention, Gender Equity and Equality, Gender Transformation and Gender Inclusion, Gender Rights and Development, Child Rights, Disability, and Education, inclusive education. He has extensive experience working for marginalised communities.
As a consultant he has completed number research projects like In-depth Study of SRHR, Gender-based violence prevention, gender transformation etc. for CWFD, End Evaluation of Life Skills for adolescents for CWFD and evaluation of socio economic inclusion of migrant people for GUK, Lesson-learned Study of technical & vocational skills training the persons with disability for ADD International, Final Assessment of education and pre-vocational training for hard to reach and drop out students (ROSC project) for Save the Children, Impact Study of post COVID school health support for World Bank CSSR project, Gender Transformative Approach in Secondary Education Curriculum for UNFPA, Study on Financing Option for Women in Livelihood Skills for ASPABAE Philippine, Feasibility study for health and hygiene practice among the rural poor for RDRS, Post-flood vulnerability assessment of char dwellers for NETZ, Socio Economic Situation Assessment for street children in Dhaka City Corporation areas for Concern Worldwide and education situation assessment for slum children for UNICEF. Besides, he has completed number of other research projects for national and international NGOs, UN agencies.
Period | Employing organization | Summary of activities performed relevant to the Assignment |
Nov- Dec’2023 | CWFD Ref: Phone: 01712200078 e-mail: [email protected] Md. Sanwarul Hoque Khan, Head of Adolescent & Youth Programme | Facilitated in-depth study on ‘Experience of different Alia Madrasahs in implementing Life Skills Education Interventions (SRHR, GBV, Gender equity and equality, Prevention of Child Marriage etc.)’ under Generation Breakthrough Project Phase II. |
April-May 2023 | ADD International Ref: Phone: 01715400560 e-mail: [email protected] Mr. Ghulam Faruq Hamim, Bangladesh Programme Lead | Conducted a lesson-learned study (Process evaluation) of Disability Inclusive Vocational Training and Youth Employment, DID TO-12 Project. |
March 2023 | Gana Unnayan Kendra (GUK) Ref: Phone: 01713484636 e-mail: [email protected] Md. Ershad Ali, Programme Manager, GBViE Programme | Need assessment study through interview and literature review, drafting training framework and training module including finalisation of content, process and methods of session delivery, training facilitation, post training assessment of the participant’s achievements as outcome of the training, and reporting. The training was designed and facilitated on SRHR, GBV, Adolescent Empowerment, Gender and Disability Equity and Inclusion in Development Programme for host and Rohingya refugee camp. |
Oct-Nov 2022 | Dan Church Aid Ref: Phone: 01823234100 e-mail: [email protected] Jebunnesa Chowdhury Education Coordinator | Customization and contextualization of Gender Equity Movement in School manual and Diary for Rohingya focusing on SRHR, GBV, Gender Equity, Prevention of early marriage for refugee context, train the master trainers working in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya refugee camps. |
Sep- Dec’2022 | World Bank Covid 19 School Sector Response (CSSR) project Ref: Phone: 01711576333 e-mail: [email protected] Sheikh Md. Alamgir, Chief (Statistics Division) BANBEIS, Ministry of Education Bangladesh | Bangladesh COVID-19 School Sector Response (CSSR) Project. Working as Education Researcher to review and assess the Safe-School Re-opening Supports on health and education covering 20,000 primary school’s students, and teachers, and analysing quality outcomes of the support (Sep-Dec’2022). |
Dec 2022 | Gana Unnayan Kendra (GUK) Ref: Phone: 01713484629 e-mail: [email protected] Ms. Joya Prasad, Senior Program Manager | End Evaluation of ‘Promoting Resilience, Opportunity and Socio- Economic Empowerment of Migrants/Climate Displaced and Trafficked Communities in Bangladesh (PROSPERITY) Project’. |
Feb’21 to Mar’2022 | LC UK Reference: Phone: 01715180023 e-mail: [email protected] Mr. Zahir Siddique, Country Representative | Worked as Interim Programme Manager for DID TO13 project for LC UK, coordinate with consortium partners for Inclusive Education technical matter, assist in developing number of tools, and monitoring of the project. Provided technical assistance for introducing inclusive education at school and at home. Assisted partners for monthly and quarterly reporting, using different reporting format. Familiar with summary progress report, learning and adaptation log, risk register, ToC, logframe, work plan and capturing data against targets and sending compiled report to LC headquarter. |
Jan- Feb’2022 | NETZ Bangladesh Ref: Phone: 01712593445 e-mail: [email protected] Md. Shamsul Huda, Programme Manager | Develop, review and edit 15 days basic teachers training manual for primary school teacher and their supervisor. |
Oct- Dec’2021 | UNFPA-CWFD Ref: Phone: 01712200078 e-mail: [email protected] Md. Sanwarul Hoque Khan, Head of Adolescent and Youth Programme | Developing two board games and customization those in Burmese language on life skills development (SRHR, GBV, gender equity) of Rohingya adolescent boys & girls. |
Aug- Sep’2021 | UNFPA Ref: Phone: 01742606622 e-mail: [email protected] Dr. Muhammad Munir Hussain, Program Analyst-Adolescent & Youth | Review and identify gender gaps in secondary education curriculum, and based on identified gaps developed Training Outline and Train the NCTB Experts on Gender Transformative Approach in School Curriculum. |
2019-2023 | Action Aid Ref: Phone: 01715604096 e-mail: [email protected] Mr. Mahbub Bhuiyan, Global Platform Bangladesh | Further improvement of literature, contents and process, session delivery methods, elaboration and proofreading of capacity building tools (i) Resource Pack Training on Youth Led Agro-ecology and Public Services; (ii) Capacity building of Workers Guild’s Member, (iii) Training manual on ‘Youth Awakening and Movement’, (iv) Training manual on ‘Accountability for Effective Public Support’, (v) Facilitated training in number of batches on Capacity Development of Youth as Global Leader, Training on ‘SDG & Youth Participation’. |
Oct’19 to Feb’2020 | Save the Children & Directorate of Primary Education Ref: Phone: 01819816919 e-mail: [email protected] Mr, Aminur Rahman Managing Director, DEVResonance | Final Assessment of the Reaching Out-of-School Children (ROSC) Phase-II program (Basic education and pre-vocational training), commissioned by Save the Children and the Directorate of Primary Education of Bangladesh. |
Sep’19 to Dec’2021 | CWFD Ref: Phone: 01712200078 e-mail: [email protected] Md. Sanwarul Hoque Khan, Head of Adolescent and Youth Programme | Reviewed the training manual of Adolescent Reproductive Health and Rights, Gender-based Violence and Early Marriage Prevention and Gender Empowerment and conducted Training for Master Trainer, and GEMS Teacher for Secondary School in several batches in different locations. |
Aug’19 to Dec’2019 | UNFPA and NSDA Ref: Phone: 01742606622 e-mail: [email protected] Dr. Muhammad Munir Hussain, Program Analyst-Adolescent & Youth | Reviewed and further developed Life Skill Training modules (4 modules) for TVET Master Trainer. Trained 8 batches of master trainers. Translated 4 training modules from English and Bangla. The major contents were Critical and Creative Thinking, Reproductive Health and Gender Based Violence Prevention and Wellbeing, |
Jan’19 to Mar’2019 | UNICEF, Chattogram City Corporation Ref: Phone: 01717427913 e-mail: [email protected] Md. Keramot Ali Lead Consultant | Designing and conduction of a study to identify urban slum out of school children and possible options for educating the hard-to-reach urban slum children. |
Jul’19 to Aug’2019 | NETZ Bangladesh Ref: Phone: 01712593445 e-mail: [email protected] Md. Shamsul Huda, Programme Manager | Designing and conduction of a study on post flood vulnerability assessment and identifying ways to reduce the vulnerability of char people living in the Padma and the Yamuna River. |
Mar’19 to Apr’2019 | Concern Worldwide Ref: Phone: 01725277487 email: [email protected] Mr. Omar Farrukh Lead Consultant | Designing and conduction of a study on the situation of children living on street and pavement in Dhaka City area in regards to their education and livelihood and to find ways to mainstreaming. |
Nov’18 to Dec’18 | Christian Aid Ref: Phone: 01725277487 email: [email protected] Mr. Omar Farrukh Lead Consultant | Designing and conduction of a study for developing advocacy strategy for promoting health voucher scheme for urban poor. |
Nov’19 to Jan’20 | RDRS Ref: Phone: 01725277487 email: [email protected] Mr. Omar Farrukh Lead Consultant | Project feasibility study on Water and Sanitation Practice amongst rural poor people and to identify business potential of WASH within the rural communities. |
From 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2018, I had been working with GIZ Rule of Law Program at the capacity of National Project Coordinator responsible for inclusion, rehabilitation, reintegration of gender, vulnerability and disability and referral services (health, livelihood, life skill, drug treatment, counseling, legal aid, social & economic reintegration etc.) for vulnerable prisoners including women, adolescents, children, elderly people and person with disability. Capacity building of partner organizations through training and mentoring, program development for government agencies, private sectors, corporate bodies and PNGOs. Conducted number of researches projects in the areas of prisoner’s health, livelihood, counseling, life skills, advocacy and networking. Provided project monitoring and oversight management supports.
From 15 June 2011 to 30 June 2013, I had been working with GIZ Gender, Governance and Rights Project at the capacity of National Project Coordinator were responsible for ‘Implementation of UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ with the role of designing and implementation of the project, advocacy, coordination and networking. Worked with numbers of stakeholders like government agencies, PNGOs, local elected bodies (union council and municipality), community leaders, CBOs etc. Doing joint planning and implementation, documentation, awareness campaign, IEC and advocacy material development, translation of UN CRPD in an ‘easy to use’ format. Adopted right-based tools in the project and its activities. Conducted researches and studies and played strong advocacy for ensuring accessibility for people with disability in all government and private service agencies. Focus was given to women with disability because of their severe marginalization.
From 1 June 2009 to 14 June 2011, I had been working with GTZ Good Urban Governance Project at the capacity of Senior Adviser responsible for capacity building of the staffs of 50 municipalities in Bangladesh in regards to promote the municipality as pro-people’s service providing agencies. Capacity building of citizen groups including women, children, youth, adolescent and people with disabilities to become positive pressure groups to make the municipality understand better to its citizen and to take action based on their demands. Involved citizen in planning and implementation process of any development work of the municipalities. Special program has been taken for person with disability, women and people living in slums. Developed numbers of training modules for Urban Governance Development, life skill and livelihood skill development for marginalized people. Designed capacity building interventions, developed training manual and facilitation of training and workshops. Translate and re-translate the document and modules from Bangla to English and English to Bangla. Developed partnership, cooperation and coordination strategies, implementation mechanism, monitoring, and advocacy. Documentation and reporting.
From 21 December 2006 to 17 December 2008, I had been working with ACCC Canada for PEDP II as National Specialist and Deputy Team Leader, Equitable Access and Inclusive Education (Gender, Tribal, Vulnerability and Disability issues) component with the role of implementation of 4 strategies and action plans. Developed numbers of technical modules and IEC material for capacity building and awareness rising. Built capacity of staffs of primary education department from headquarter to field level on technical issues to promote education for marginalized children because of gender, ethnic minority, socially known as lower graded professional (like Dalit people), children of zipsy and children with disability. Promoted new ideas like pre-primary, quality and equity based education and inclusive education, education for ethnic children, vulnerable children and gender in education. Ensured coordination with different stakeholders including government agencies, international donors and UN agencies, NGOs and local communities. Translated various documents from English to Bangla and vice versa. Initiated quality field monitoring and oversight management. Provided high quality report.
From 15 March 2006 to 20 December 2006, I had been working with UNDP Supported NEX Management and Aid Coordination Project as Capacity Building Specialist with the role to build capacity of the government high officials working at different ministries and directorates on project initiation, project designing and proposal writing, donor negotiation, fund mobilisation and utilization, project monitoring and reporting. Assisted government of Bangladesh to institutionalize the skills through training and exposure visits on how to initiate, how to implement, supervise and monitoring the development projects. Initiated youth capacity building interventions through the project.
From 1 October 2005 to 14 March 2006, I had been working with Grameen Shikkha, as Deputy General Manager looking after numbers of projects including adolescent health rights, reproductive health, slum education program, Early Childhood Development and Parenting, primary health care, hygiene and sanitation (WASH) and Arsenic mitigation projects. Provided Life skill and livelihood skills for urban slum children. Implemented slum children education project covering children with disability. Proposal writing, project planning, and implementation, staff management, team capacity building, supervision, monitoring and reporting. Conducted several Action Research on education for slum children, children living in rural marginalized communities, arsenic mitigation and on hygiene practice in project areas.
From 29 January 2005 to 30 October 2005, I had been working with SESIP (Secondary Education Sector Improvement Project) as Training Manager, School Performance Based Management, developed capacity of government secondary education department from school to headquarter on how to delivery education services for students both young and adolescent boys and girls. Developed numbers of training modules and facilitated courses. Leaded a team of master trainer and utilized them for capacity building of others through cascade system. Rights of person with disability, adolescent rights, and child rights issues were also included.
From 17 January 1999 to 30 September 2004, I had been working with German Assisted Primary Education Development Project as National Project Coordinator (head of technical areas), had been leading a team of technical staff and international consultants working for primary education quality development with responsibility of planning and coordination with government and donor agencies. Developed numbers of training modules, facilitated workshop-meeting, event management, capacity development of government primary education staffs, project monitoring and reporting. Ensuring quality primary education and include children with disability in primary education system was the major focus. Leading number of research projects. Assisted international consultants on the focused areas.
From 1 November 1996 to 10 August 1998, I had been working with SOLIDARITY (a national NGO) as Program Officer for Advocacy Education for Civic Participation Project with the capacity of leading the project for successful implementation. My role was to build capacity local government (union council) for the development of its citizen including upholding rights of gender, tax payer and empowered them to raise their voice in local elected government bodies. Developed awareness of different groups of beneficiaries. I have done advocacy with the local policy level people. Prepared budget, took initiative for staff development, project monitoring and reporting. The project was directly worked with local elected bodies (Union Council) and CBOs. The project was to include marginalized people in local government.
From 27 March 1994 to 30 June 1996, I had been working with CWCD (UNICEF DPHE Social Mobilisation for Water and Sanitation Project) as Training Consultant leaded the capacity development component of the Department of Public Health Engineering, developed numbers of training modules on Social Mobilisation Techniques for Executive Engineer, Sub-Divisional Engineer, Sub-Assistant Engineer, Health Educator, School Teacher, Union and Pourashava Mayor and counselor, staff of village sanitation center on WASH including hygiene and sanitation of individuals. Leaded a team of master trainer and trainer covering Rajshahi and Rangpur administrative division (17 districts). Monitoring and reporting.
From 10 August 1992 to 25 March 1994, I had been working with RDRS German assisted ‘Marginal & Small Farm System Crop Intensification Project’ as Subject Matter Specialist Training leaded the performance development component of the project. Developed numbers of training programs including curriculum & material, IEC material, facilitated number of courses, workshops, roundtables etc. Worked with government agriculture departments, NGOs, Marginal and Small farmers groups, agriculture research, Livestock, Fishers, and Agriculture extension departments and financing banks (Sonali, Janata, Agrani and Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank) on promotion of ‘on farm’ and ‘off farm’, developed education programme for youth and adolescent people and also the farmers. Designed and conducted action research. Project monitoring and reporting.
From 12 April 1983 to 9 August 1992, I had been working with the Society for the Care & Education of the Mentally Retarded Bangladesh as Senior Guide Teacher leaded school and community based projects for education, training including vocational skill, life skill, rehabilitation and reintegration for the person with disabilities. Provided socialisation programme including better health services for students (children, adolescent, youths and adults). Developed concepts, ideas, planning, budgeting, implementation, staff development, team management, advocacy, coordination, supervision, awareness building and monitoring of the project. Built capacity of the project staff and stakeholders. Donor management and reporting. Translated numbers of documents from English to Bangla and customize those as per need of local institution.
Md. Omar Farrukh Lead Consultant 80, Palashnagar, Mirpur-11 Dhaka-1216. email: [email protected] Ph.: +8801725277487 | Mr. Vinay Kumer Jha Team Leader, GIZ IRSOP Project. email: [email protected] Ph. 009771 4482954 | Mr. Md Keramot Ali, Education Consultant, Bureau of Non-formal Education, BNFE Mohakhali, Dhaka 1216. email:[email protected] Ph. 01717 427913 |
SIGNATURE: Abul Kalam Md Saifuzzaman
Date: 03-05-2024
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