1. Curriculum Vitae
of
Shahanaj Begum
1. PERSONAL INFORMATION
Last Name:
Begum
First Name:
Shahanaj
Middle Name: Gender:
Female
Father's Name: Sonnyamot Shamsul Haque Mother's Name: Rehana Haque
Present Address: 270/4, A, (G-A) West Agargaon,
Sher-E-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka-1207.
Phone:
N/A
Mobile:
+88-01712-284544
Permanent Address: Vill.-Temar, P.O.-Sheral,
P.S.-Agailjhara, Dist.-Barisal.
E-mail
shahanaj_nasima@yahoo.co
m
Date of Birth:
24.03.1975
Country:
Bangladesh
Age:
40 years 3 Months
Religion:
Islam (Sunni)
Marital Status:
Unmarried
Country of Birth:
Bangladesh
Nationality:
Bangladeshi
Title of the applied position:
2. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
Name of Examination Year of Pass Division/Class Board/University
M. Sc. in Psychology 2001 Second National University
B. Sc. (Pass) 1994 Second National University
H.S.C (Science Group) 1992 First Dhaka
S.S.C (Science Group) 1990 First Dhaka
B. Ed. 1997 Second National University
M. Ed. 1998 Second Dhaka University
Summary of Professional skills and/or expertise
 More than 12 years Managerial, problem solving skill and Local elected bodies handling
skills on Different Urban poverty Reduction projects Quality Management & Implementation
of the projects including Financial Monitoring;  Liaison with different stakeholders;  Overall
Management and Conduct appraisals of potential Partners and staff and review different concept
notes;  Development of different project documents Strong skill in monitoring and evaluation
Result oriented and time bound work  Ability to conduct research and analysisExpertise on
Disaster risk reduction Water, Sanitation and Community Health services  Training & Team
work  Community mobilization and community empowerment  Strengthen of the Capacity local
Government Institutions, civil society, CBOs and Partner Organizations and Project Staff;
Gender awareness and women empowerment; Coordination with multi – stakeholders
Management and Partnership Environmental mitigations and Livelihood PRA and
Community Led approach Ensure integration of sustainable development, gender, disability from
analysis to setting indicators for DRR project In-depth knowledge on linking DRR with sustainable
development , right base approach, community development model, clear analysis on
social/economic/ gender power dynamics from community to national level. Understanding of
advocacy, campaigning and communications and how they contribute to achieving programme goals.
Through Partnership with CDMP project of UNDP & Urban Partnerships for Poverty Reduction
project, where I am working as focal person from UPPR. This partnership will mainly focus on
Disaster like Earthquake and Flood at Narayangonj.  Good communication, facilitation and
representation skills.
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2. 3. COMPETENCY:
Corporate Competencies:
• Working with UNDP supported project during last 5 years has given me an opportunity to explore and
understand the UN value, ethical standards, working morality, culture, gender, religion, race, nationality
and also respect multicultural sensitivity.
Functional Competencies:
• Management and Leadership:
1. Facilitation skill of program management of socio-economic development of urban poor like individual
business, group business. I have also good skill in facilitation and forming CDCs, Clusters, Federations and
CAP. I worked in community led process so I am well aware about community contracting process. I am also
quite capable in participatory monitoring and evaluation process, hygiene promotional activities. I got the clear
understanding on good governance issues. I am also experienced in PRA tools to find out the poor and extreme
poor people in the urban community through well being analysis. I can well mainstream the gender issues in
every phases of the development work. I am capable in preparing poverty mapping and other issues. I can set
strategies to incorporate the community poor, hard core poor, disable, female headed HH, pavement dwellers in
every stages of development work through creating employment generation activities, capacity building through
skill development and other livelihood enhancement activities.
2. Liaisons with business group, marketing channels, service providers and employment generating
organizations.
3. Capacity building on Community Based Organization (CBOs) and counterpart (GOB) organizations.
4. Monitoring, evaluation and reporting.
5. Ability to manage complex situations in working context.
• Development and Operational Management effectiveness:
1. Ability to manage, organize and facilitate training, workshop for skill development of different level
including strengthening of Local Government and Community business group.
2. Able to planning participatory method and learning, evaluation, data collection and completion.
3. Ability to prepare realistic budget for project component.
• Knowledge, Management and Learning:
Managing and organizing training, workshop, meeting, and liaison with partners NGO's to achieve project
output.
4. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Current Position : Socio Economic Expert
Duration : December 2012 to 31st
August 2015
Organization : Urban Partnerships for Poverty Reduction Project
(DFID/UNDP/LGED Project BGD/07/009)
UNDP, Dhaka-1207.
Major Responsibilities:
Community Mobilization
• Facilitate primary group formation, savings and credit group
development and community development committees (CDC);
• Facilities formation and functioning of local level Clusters and
Federation of the CDCs and organize exchange visits between towns
for sharing exchange visits between the communities and between
towns for sharing experience, knowledge, skills and capacity building.
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3. Social Development Activities
Support CDCs to organize participatory community appraisal sand family
surveys to identify community needs, problems, priorities and opportunities
for social development, education and training;
Provide support to the communities to translating the community development
needs into community social development action plans;
Facilitate negotiations with local service providers, NGOs, community
leaders, the private sector for acquiring resources and technical assistance for
social development interventions;
Facilitate preparation and formulation of social development proposals and
contracts and their implementation by the communities;
Follow up and supervision of work to ensure quality control during
implementation of community contracts by the CDCs;
Economic Development Assistance
• Facilitate focus group discussions and community market survey for
assessing socio economic needs for the communities and translate them to
socio economic development plan and prepare socio economics development
contracts;
• Support an assessment of the exciting capacities and opportunities for
economic development of the target groups;
• Assist in under taking feasibility studies, prepare business plans by the
communities with especial consideration to innovative and creative
opportunities;
• Assess local business opportunities and support the communities to
identify potential trades and enterprises for life skill enhancement (apprentice)
training.
• Support the communities to identify target beneficiaries for employable
skill development and organizes apprenticeship training programmes at local
levels.
• Support communities to gain access to financial resources
Training and Capacity Building
Organize entrepreneurship development training for successful business and
employment by the selected community;
Design, organize and provide relevant training programmes for capacity
building among the community leaders, beneficiaries and local government
staff.
Design and develop need based training programmes on financial and
business management, technical and life skills development, social and
economic development, leadership, and community development etc
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4. Project Management
• Participate actively and effectively in UPPR Town team discussions on
key policy and strategic issues and direction for socio economic development
of the extreme poor.
• Assist in preparing work plan and Budget for utilization of Social
Development fund in the town.
• Undertake regular participatory monitoring and supervision of projects
activities including collection, compilation, consolidation, processing and
analysis of data on different project components and documentation.
• Work closely with agriculture extension stuff for promoting agro based
income generating/ business activities among the communities.
• Contribute to project identification, development, appraisal, monitoring,
review and evaluation, ensuring that all initiatives clearly contribute towards
poverty reduction.
Liaison with Local Level Institution:
• Liaison with Ward Commissioners and provide advice for effective
implementation of the project.
Position : Socio Economic Assistant
Duration : November 2007 to November 2012
Organization : Urban Partnerships for Poverty Reduction Project
(DFID/UNDP/LGED Project BGD/07/009)
UNDP, Dhaka-1207.
Major Responsibilities:
Community Mobilization
• Facilitate primary group formation, savings and credit group
development and community development committees (CDC);
• Facilities formation and functioning of local level Clusters and
Federation of the CDCs and organize exchange visits between towns
for sharing exchange visits between the communities and between
towns for sharing experience, knowledge, skills and capacity building.
Social Development Activities
Support CDCs to organize participatory community appraisal sand family
surveys to identify community needs, problems, priorities and opportunities
for social development, education and training;
Provide support to the communities to translating the community development
needs into community social development action plans;
Facilitate negotiations with local service providers, NGOs, community
leaders, the private sector for acquiring resources and technical assistance for
social development interventions;
Facilitate preparation and formulation of social development proposals and
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5. contracts and their implementation by the communities;
Follow up and supervision of work to ensure quality control during
implementation of community contracts by the CDCs;
Economic Development Assistance
• Facilitate focus group discussions and community market survey for
assessing socio economic needs for the communities and translate them to
socio economic development plan and prepare socio economics development
contracts;
• Support an assessment of the exciting capacities and opportunities for
economic development of the target groups;
• Assist in under taking feasibility studies, prepare business plans by the
communities with especial consideration to innovative and creative
opportunities;
• Assess local business opportunities and support the communities to
identify potential trades and enterprises for life skill enhancement (apprentice)
training.
• Support the communities to identify target beneficiaries for employable
skill development and organizes apprenticeship training programmes at local
levels.
• Support communities to gain access to financial resources
Training and Capacity Building
Organize entrepreneurship development training for successful business and
employment by the selected community;
Design, organize and provide relevant training programmes for capacity
building among the community leaders, beneficiaries and local government
staff.
Design and develop need based training programmes on financial and
business management, technical and life skills development, social and
economic development, leadership, and community development etc
Project Management
• Participate actively and effectively in UPPR Town team discussions on
key policy and strategic issues and direction for socio economic development
of the extreme poor.
• Assist in preparing work plan and Budget for utilization of Social
Development fund in the town.
• Undertake regular participatory monitoring and supervision of projects
activities including collection, compilation, consolidation, processing and
analysis of data on different project components and documentation.
• Work closely with agriculture extension stuff for promoting agro based
income generating/ business activities among the communities.
• Contribute to project identification, development, appraisal, monitoring,
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6. review and evaluation, ensuring that all initiatives clearly contribute towards
poverty reduction.
Liaison with Local Level Institution:
• Liaison with Ward Commissioners and provide advice for effective
implementation of the project.
Position : Socio Economic Development Assistant
Duration : December 2004 to October 2007
Organization : Local Partnerships for Urban Poverty Alleviation Project
(LGED/UNDP/Un-Habitat Project BGD/98/006)
UNDP, Dhaka-1207.
Major Responsibilities:
Assistance for Socio Economic Development Contract Management:
• Participate in preparation of community socioeconomic development plans
(SEDP) and assist typing and preparing the SEDP and socioeconomic
development contracts (SEDC)
• Select apprentice through FGD and community level workshop
• Assessment of the existing capacities and opportunities for socioeconomic
development of the target groups.
• Facilitate community market survey for assessing socioeconomic need
opportunities and access.
• Assist in checking and verifying the SEDC contract with SEDP.
• Assist CDC and Cluster CDC in understanding the practical and operational
issues for implementing SEDC.
• Supervision and implementing of SEDC and report all relevant issues to the
office.
• Maintain updated records and information of local market demand, local
capacities, skill development training, apprenticeship training etc.
Assistance for Business Development:
• Assist to Mentor, CDC and Cluster CDC to identify extreme poor with
specific criteria.
• Assessment their skill, need and capacities.
• Market survey for group/individual business prepared small business plans
for the extreme poor.
• Assist to Cluster CDC and mentor for monitoring and supervision the
business.
Capacity building:
• Design and development need based training programmes on financial and
business management, technical and life skill development, gender,
leadership and community development etc.
• Organized workshop and meeting and conduct it with the assistance of Field
-coordinator.
Social Mobilization:
• Social mobilization at selected project location for primary group formation,
saving and credit group development and formation of Community
Development Committee, Cluster CDC.
• Facilitate formation and functioning of local level federation of communities
for sharing exchange visit between the communities for sharing experience,
knowledge, skill and capacity building.
Community Development Activities:
• Organize participatory community action plan and family survey to identify
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7. community needs, problem, priorities and opportunities.
• Assist with the communities in translating the community development
needs to community action plans.
• Facilitate preparation and formation of community action plans, sketch map,
design of community contract.
• Follow up and supervision of work to ensure quality control during
implementation of community contract by the CDC etc.
Training Focal Point
• Preparing yearly and quarterly training plan.
• Preparing budget for implementing training activities according to the budget
guidelines provided by the PMT
• Implement all the training according to the plan
• Ensure proper utilization of budget resources
• Ensure logistical support for the training
• Prepare training report for each training activity and sent to PMT/TC
Position
: Community Development Worker (CDW)
Duration : June 2002 to November 2004.
Organization
: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
UNDP/UN-Habitat/LGED Project BGD/98/006.
Local Partnerships for Urban Poverty Alleviation Project
RDEC Bhaban (Level-8), LGED, Agargaon, Sher-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka-1207.
Major
Responsibilities:
Community Mobilization:
• To provide support for the socio-economic surveys for identification of
urban poor communities and extremely poor groups.
• To provide support for formation and strengthening of community based
Primary Group to undertake their own development initiatives with special
emphasis on women.
• To facilitate the formation and functioning of Community Development
Committees (CDCs), CDC Cluster Committees and town level CDC
Federations.
• To facilitate the formation and functioning of Project Implementation
Committees (PIC) at ward level.
• Able to ensure maintenance of proper records and documents at the CDCs
and CDC clusters.
• To facilitate the development and monitoring of savings and credit groups in
the community in accordance with project guidelines.
• To organize motivation and advocacy programmes for urban poor
communities
Settlement Improvement:
• To facilitate the preparation of participatory urban appraisal surveys with the
communities to determine the socio economic development needs of the
poor communities
• To facilitate the preparation of community action plans (CAP) by the
communities
• To liaise with CDCs, settlement Improvement Assistants and engineers of
City Corporation for preparation of community contracts
• To support communities to establish linkage between CDCs and the relevant
suppliers for procurement of materials and labour for community contract
implementation
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8. • To assist CDCs for keeping updated records, accounts, vouchers, documents
for the contracts
• To ensure quality of good, materials and workmanship during
implementation of community contracts
Socio Economic Development:
• To support the communities to identify socio economic needs of the poor
families among the group members
• To support participatory market surveys by the communities
• To support the Socio-Economic Development Assistant in preparation of
socio-economic development plans (SEDP) by the communities
• To facilitate in preparing socio- economic development contracts (SEDC)
for poverty reduction by communities
• To establish linkages between CDCs and the relevant agencies,
organizations for contract implementation
• To assist CDCs for keeping updated records, accounts during
implementation of the contracts
• To ensure quality of training, life skill development training, education and
other intervention during implementation of SEDC
• To assist urban poor communities with identification of viable income
generating activities and micro-enterprise development, market promotion,
etc.
• To assist project officials with monitoring and documentation of project
activities including collection, compilation and consolidation of data on
project related activities and indicators and maintain relevant recodes
Training and Capacity Building:
• To organize training sessions and exchange programmes for staff, elected
representatives, government counterparts and community members,
including selection of participants and ensuring that training is carried out in
accordance with project guidelines
Others Responsibilities:
• Undertake any other work as assigned by the Field Coordinator.
Organization : Beximco NIIT
Road-4
Dhanmondi
Dhaka.
Position : Student Counselor
Duration : December 2001 to May 2002
Major Responsibilities:
• Motivation of the inquiries.
• Give information to the inquiries about Courses.
• Keep documents about admission.
• Arrange different type of program to increase marketing.
• Help students to solve their batch problem.
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9. 5. TRAINING OBTAINED:
SL.
No.
Course Title Duration Organized
by
01 Practical Training on Latrine Construction 03 Days LPUPAP
02 Training on Gender and Leadership 04 Days LPUPAP
03 Training on Socio-Economic Development plan 05 Days LPUPAP
04 Practical Training on Tube-well Construction 03 Days LPUPAP
05 Training on training management at town level 02 Days LPUPAP
06 TOT on Group Strengthening 05 Days LPUPAP
07 Training for Mentors to support group business
development and management for the Extreme poor
02 Days LPUPAP
08 Training for Extreme poor business development 05 Days LPUPAP
09 TOT for Extreme poor business development 08 Days LPUPAP
10 Hygiene Promotion Facilitator Training 06 Days LPUPAP
11 ToT on Adult Literacy Facilitator 05 Days UPPRP
6. LANGUAGE KNOWN:
Bengali : Competent in reading, writing & speaking.
English : Proficient in reading, writing & speaking fair.
7. COMPUTER LITERACY:
MS office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point).8. REFERENCE:
1. F.M Shamsul Alam 2. Md. Humayun Kabir Talukder
Town Manager
UPPRP,UNDP
Narayanganj City Corporation
E-mail: tm.narayangonj@upprbd.org,
Mobile : +88-01715-079073
WASH Advisor
Save the Children
Yemen.
Email:kabir4550@gmail.com
Mobile- +88-01711-351202
9. CERTIFICATION
I certify that all information stated in this resume is true and complete to the best of my knowledge. I authorized
the organization to verify the information provided in this resume.
SIGNATURE
(Shahanaj Begum)
Date:
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