Shikhty Sunny

Experience

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  The Daily Prothom Alo

  Sept 2008 - Dec 2012

  Feature Writer
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  Center for Alternatives

  Jan 2011 - Dec 2012

  Research Associate

  • Develop reports, grant proposals, policy briefs, press releases, and presentations for research projects within South Asia division; projects includes issues of education, maternal health and refugee crisis• Design the project outline, monitor the activities and performance to meet project timelines, budget, objectives, and deliverables and ensure implementation within deadlines. • Support the project leader with budgets, field activities, organizing events and project materials and manage grants Show less

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  Save the Children International

  Jan 2013 - May 2013

  Communication Specialist

  • Maintain media relations (print and electronic), prepare press releases; build communication strategy for MCHIP (Maternal Health and Child Integrated Program); document and share program activities, challenges, and lessons learned among social media, stakeholders and local partners; collect, gather and analyze information to update SCI website • Interview service recipients and religious leaders to review the program in rural Sylhet, Habiganj and Moulavibazar;

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  Tufts University

  Jan 2014 - Dec 2015

  Research Assistant

  • Support Impact Evaluation ( IE) projects with Tufts University• Survey Design & Sampling Methods• Design a survey using SurveyCTO (based on Open Data Kit) to ensure the degree of community participation; identify a sampling frame and procedure, and propose data collection plan; Organize outputs for reports in tables and graphs

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  Social Impact

  Jan 2016 - Aug 2016

  Research Assistant

  • Assist econometric impact evaluation with data management, including cleaning, merging data, constructing variables and analyzing data using STATA statistical software• Department for International Development (DFID)-Discovery Learning Alliance (DLA) implementing Girls’ Education Challenge Projects in Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya with SI(2016)• DFID funded Girls' Education Projects in Somalia implemented by CARE and Relief International with SI (2016)

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  The World Bank

  Jan 2017 - Jul 2017

  • The project includes Women’s Economic Empowerment-National Priority Program (WEE-NPP) in Afghanistan• Develop a review of the evidence for one or more pillars of the WEE-NPP: women’s financial literature and access to finance • Write a chapter on education financing for the Cameroon Public Expenditure Review• Prepare a brief diagnostic of Cameroon’s education sector’s characteristics and outcomes; amounts, trends, sources, economic and functional classification of education expenditure • The project includes an impact evaluation of Azerbaijan Second Rural Investment program• Data management including cleaning, merging and analyzing data from three household surveys using STATA statistical software

  • Consultant, Social Protection Team (Afghanistan)

    Feb 2017 - Jul 2017

  • Consultant, Education Global Practice (Cameroon)

    Jan 2017 - Jul 2017

  • Consultant, Development Impact Evaluation (DIME)

    Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
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  Moner Bondhu

  Jun 2017 - now

  Assistant Vice President

  • Lead the planning and directing Moner Bondhu's strategic and long-range goals; conducts organizational reviews to identify strengths and weaknesses and to evaluate operational effectiveness• Conducting research and analyses of operational effectiveness, processes, stakeholders, etc; supporting and guiding Moner Bondhu Team with decision-making processes• Guide Moner Bondhu in aligning strategic goals, processes and resource allocation with the organizational strategy• Presenting findings, projections and recommended actions; Planning, implementing and managing proposed recommendations and projects Show less

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  The World Bank

  Feb 2018 - now

  • Prepare toolkits for Closing Gaps in Women’s Employment in the Africa Energy Sector, by Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) and DFID’s Energy and Economic Growth (EEG) research program• Carry out global desk research and develop tools for the toolkit: guidance/checklists/evaluation forms for women’s mentoring programs, scholarships, gender-based quota/targets for female representation in the energy sector, benchmarking tools, and guidance on selecting indicators • Develop other knowledge management indicators Show less

  • Consultant (Infra Energy Global Program)

    Mar 2020 - now

  • Consultant, EDU GP SAR (Bangladesh)

    Nov 2020 - now

  • Consultant, MNAGIL

    Apr 2019 - now

  • Consultant, Education Global Practice (Uganda)

    Nov 2016 - now

  • Consultant, Poverty GP ECA (Roma Inclusive Report 2018)

    Jul 2018 - Oct 2018

  • Consultant, Office of Chief Economist (Africa team)

    Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
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  Social Impact

  Jan 2019 - May 2019

  Lead Expert

  • The project includes USAID funded Political Economy Analysis (PEA) of Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bandarban and Cox's Bazar (Bangladesh)• Field visit in crisis-affected areas Cox’s Bazar and Bandarban and help to produce the PEA report; conduct and take notes of 42 Key Informant Interviews and 12 Focus Group Discussions; participate in data analysis and contribute to the draft report; share recommendations for the stakeholders to act

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  BRAC

  Sept 2019 - Aug 2020

  Lead Researcher (Advocacy for Social Change)

  • Lead Social Network Analysis study of Rohingya Crisis: design and develop appropriate study methodology to map social capital, power relations, representation structure, social networks and information flows among Rohingya and between Rohingya and Host community • Provide guidance for designing appropriate tools for data collection, training of the data enumerators and analysis of the data; write the final report of Social Network Analysis after analyzing and interpreting data collected from the field• Identify way, process, and intervention for promoting Rohingya’s self-reliance, co-existence between the host community and Rohingya, and for ensuring better access to social protection services and employment Show less

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  NYU Global TIES for Children

  Feb 2020 - Jun 2024

  Research Consultant

  • Conduct research and support with the overall design of an impact evaluation of BRAC Humanitarian Play Lab (HPL) at the Rohingya Camp, Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh); published paper on Family Socialization and Experiences of Early Childhood Programs in the Rohingya Camps: Study Protocol (2022); brief on What Do Fathers Think of Play? Rohingya Fathers’ Perceptions of Play in Cox’s Bazar.• Provide technical support for research projects on Early Childhood Development in Emergency & Conflict (ECDEC) with the refugee population in Jordan • Support to develop of qualitative research tools and training modules for the field researchers as part of their ongoing projects • Visit camps to facilitate the depth interviews with Rohingya population, key stakeholders and beneficiaries at the BRAC Humanitarian Play Labs (HPL), behavioral observations, and participant observation at the HPL; conduct the data analysis in order to prepare an assessment a report Show less

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  UNDP

  Aug 2020 - Sept 2020

  Evaluation Consultant

  • Designing of tools and data collection, analysis, and interpretation for UNDP Partnership for a Tolerant, Inclusive Bangladesh (PTIB); utilize best practice evaluation methodologies • Published Evaluation Report in 2020 "FINAL EVALUATION OF PARTNERSHIP FOR A TOLERANT, INCLUSIVE BANGLADESH (PTIB) PROJECT"• Taking responsibility for relevant areas in the development and finalization of the inception report that will include the elaboration of how each evaluation question will be answered along with proposed methods, and sources of data Show less