Pranab Kumar Sarker

Experience

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  Oxfam

  Oct 1987 - Jan 1988

  Field Staff

  * Conducted assessment after the devastating flood in Gaibandha district in northern Bangladesh. * Coordinated the post flood rehabilitation of the poor households through resettlement, housing and infrastructure construction, community development and sustainable livelihood planning.

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  Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS)

  Jun 1989 - Oct 1990

  Research Officer

  * Designed questionnaires, select households for survey, conduct survey and coordination of filling up questionnaires, coding, editing and data entry in the computer and preparation of report; and * Conducted study and collected first-hand information on the Micro Finance projects and small enterprises in the rural Bangladesh.

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  International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

  Oct 1990 - Jun 1991

  Research Officer in the Farm Survey Project

  * Designed questionnaires, collected information from various households and small industries involved in paddy processing and marketing.* Analyzed data and supporting the research director to write the report and collected case studies on successful projects of the entrepreneurs.* Provided policy recommendation for the Ministry of Food and to the donors for crop marketing and crop production.

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  Coordinating Council for Human Rights in Bangladesh-CCHRB

  Jul 1991 - Jan 1994

  Program Officer

  * Conducted election monitoring in Local Government and National Elections.* Mobilized human rights fact finding teams comprising of the media people, lawyer, women activists, civil society leaders, political leaders and NGO workers investigating violence against indigenous people, minority community and victims of political violence.* Conducted advocacy and policy review for the Asia Foundation supported election monitoring, dialogues on human rights, fact finding and legal aid support for the victims.* Supervised monitoring of project activities, mid-term assessments and preparation of reports. Show less

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  Gonoshahajjo Sangstha

  Feb 1994 - Aug 1996

  Regional Coordinator for the Advocacy Program

  * Established and coordinated issue based programs of 6 District Advocacy Centers, organizing policy level advocacy on human rights issues.* Supervised 16 staff who arranged the programs and contacted with the civil society sectors, government people and liaised with the central advocacy network.* Organized civil society sector representatives of different districts, identified local human rights issues and initiated issue based advocacy programs.* Monitored the human rights situation in the minority communities, indigenous people and the and stranded Pakistanis in Dhaka and other slums.* Regularly maintained liaison with the government officials, trade union leaders, political leaders, law and order force and NGO activists and professionals. Show less

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  Steps Towards Development

  Aug 1996 - Apr 1998

  Research Officer

  * Developed a gender network in different districts in Bangladesh.* Developed the Development Workers' Information Network (DWIN) in different districts to provide technical support to the NGOs.* Built up capacity of the network members to generate funds from local as well as donors level.* Conducted training on different issues and initiated business developed by the NGO partners, individuals and in cooperative approach.* Conducted a study on the Micro Finance projects of local NGOs in Bangladesh.* Supported the partner NGOs in capacity development in report writing, monitoring, proposal development, budgeting and awareness building on gender and development of small entrepreneurship. Show less

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  Plan International Bangladesh

  May 1998 - Jun 2004

  M&E Coordinator /Core Team Member of Community Learning Assistance Project (CLAP)

  * Initiated a pilot project named "Community Learning Assistance Project-CLAP" for about two years and successfully implemented.* Contributed as a Monitoring Officer for developing M&E indicators for assessing project achievements through participatory appraisal.* Conducted appraisal of Micro Finance project at the slum level and the rural micro finance projects using women friendly measurable indicators.* Contributed to partners’ initiatives in developing child-led monitoring and project planning, developing monitoring tools and child friendly indicators, monitoring of projects, budget planning.* Conducted research independently and coordinated external researchers for evaluating projects, gave feedback and prepared annual reports.* Developed curriculum for the weak learners in the primary level classes, oriented the community resource persons, organized workshops for participatory assessment of the project applying the child friendly and community friendly indicators.* Designed and implemented the Community Learning Assistance Project (CLAP) specially targeting the weak learners in the primary schools of rural village and urban slums, ensured quality learning through child friendly teaching learning process, extracurricular activities, non-threatening environment and imparting challenging tasks for the learners. Show less

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  HIV/AIDS Prevention Project (HAPP), Population Services and Training Center (PSTC)

  Aug 2004 - Jun 2005

  Project Manager Team Lead,

  * Established three brothel based clinics in Mymensingh, Jamalpur and Goalanda Ghat brothels.* Recruited and trained 70 staff including 40 peer educators in brothel.* Arranged dialogues and local level advocacy activities to aware people in the district level and national conferences for policy level influence about HIV/AIDS and reproductive health of adolescent girls and boys.* Raised the aware among the sex workers, pimps, clients and the neighboring people about the spreading of HIV/AIDS and the ways we can prevent it.* Ensured health support, screening of HIV/AIDS positive through surveillance study by ICDDR'B and * Conducted monitoring and research for mid-term assessments of the project. Show less

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  Save the Children International

  Jul 2005 - Dec 2008

  Program Adviser / Programme Coordinator

  * Led the Christian Calendar Project in development of working children's organizations in remote villages and to document the success stories of the organization activities.* Managed a fund of $10 million to implement a partnership project for mobilizing the child laborers in the remote areas to develop children organization and to ensure their education.* Mobilized the Market Development Program (MDP) activities and overall reporting of MDP, children with disabilities and sexually abused children.* Coordinated the Child Link Project Bangladesh reporting for Save the Children.* Monitored the child laborers in the indigenous communities, low lands like haors, coastal areas and disaster prone areas.* Coordinated the Multilingual Education Program for the indigenous children supported by the Save the Children Alliance and developed child friendly indicators for school program monitoring.* Developed project documents & coordinated assessment of the partners’ project. * Coordinated the activities of Children’s Education through Empowerment of Save the Children. Show less

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  East West University, Dhaka

  Oct 2009 - Jan 2010

  Research Associate for the Busibess Climate Research Unit

  * Coordinated the research works on Investment Climate conducted by the university teachers. * Coordinated the awareness raising initiatives about business environment and about attracting the investors in Bangladesh, conducted training need assessment among the faculty members and students to introduce a new course on investment climate in the university.* Arranged all research related opportunities for the faculty researchers and students to conduct researches on investment climate and other business related studies. Show less

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  Save the Children UK

  Jan 2010 - Apr 2010

  Poverty and Working Children Project

  I reviewed the organization strategies of Save the Children International, INGOs and some NGOs working on poverty and working children in Bangladesh, developed survey methodology, contacted with the stakeholders and arranged FGDs and interviews with the key informants, prepared the report and presented to the Save the Children Management.

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  UNICEF Bangladesh

  Feb 2010 - Dec 2010

  Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, Education Specialist

  * Developed a database of primary and secondary education performance in all Upazilas, Districts and Divisions using the national and international data sources and posted them in Devinfo software for the use of the Education Officers.* Oriented the Education Managers of UNICEF Dhaka Office and the Directorate of Primary Education about the use of data related to education indicators and to find out the most vulnerable Upazila for intervention.* Contributed in developing performance of the English Teachers through monitoring of the English Teaching by the International English Trainers from Australian and New Zealand and* Provided strategic advice and developed tools for monitoring of education performance at school level, Upazila and district levels. Show less

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  Ministry of Primary and Mass Education, GOB

  Jan 2011 - Jun 2011

  Consultant, Child Education and Literacy Survey Project 2010, Directorate of Primary Education

  * Joined the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) under Ministry of Primary and Mass Education to complete editing, cleaning and analyze data collected by the school teachers from the households of school catchment areas of 62,000 primary schools in the country. * Developed internal tools and checklists for submission of inputs from the National Coordination Committee for Primary Education to key exercises.* Identified the marginalized groups in the database and in sample at the Upazila level, covered all segmented population and addressed the reasons behind dropping out and keeping out-of-school among the children of below 14 years.* Developed the data analysis plan of national report, contributed to strategic planning, reporting to donors and prepared documentation for the Ministry and the Government of Bangladesh. Show less

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  Dushtha Shasthya Kendra (DSK)

  Apr 2013 - Feb 2016

  Project Director of Economic Empowerment Project (EEP/shiree funded by UKAid, SDC & GoB)

  * Joined as the Team Leader of the project "Stimulating Household Improvement Resulting Economic Empowerment -shiree."* Provided livelihood, Real Time Monitoring, Nutrition & Health, Water & Sanitation, Microcredit & Business Development and finally NGO Transition to Cooperative Business and Organization Development support for sustainability development of 30,000 extreme poor households in Dhaka urban slums. The significant achievements are as follows.* Reviewed the Project Proposal and Monitoring Framework of the DSK-shiree Project.* Guided the project team of 250 staff for smooth functioning of the project activities for the targeted extreme poor households living in slums of Dhaka City.* Worked on the urban resilience due to natural hazards like fire, eviction and other disasters through capacity building training, psycho-social support.* Ensured Asset Transfer, start-up capital and stipend for running business, Savings, Revolving Fund utilization & Supplementary support.* Provided Nutrition Interventions among the 0-5 years’ children, pregnant and lactating mothers, adolescent girls and new couples like counseling; * Ensured health services through static and satellite clinics, medicine at 50% cost, free consultation, primary health related courtyard meetings, referrals and hospitalization.* Conducted research and Real Time Monitoring system using Android Phones, conducted baseline and mid-line survey to know the changes between the target beneficiaries and the control group households.* Developed a Sustainable Livelihood Development Model for the extreme poor households in the urban slums implementing a composite interventions as- Primary Health, WATSAN, Micro-credit, Gender Mainstreaming, Nutrition, Capacity Building and Organization Development; and* Conducted policy level advocacy to influence the policy makers, civil society and for reviewing the existing laws for the economic and social benefits of the urban extreme poor households. Show less

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  Maxwell Stamp Ltd

  Mar 2016 - Jan 2017

  Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

  * Participated in the ADB's Comparative Review of Secondary Education Stipend Project implemented to harmonize the four secondary and higher education stipend projects to be implemented under Secondary Education Development Project (SEDP). * Selected primary units considering geographic locations, diversity, poverty and disaster for data collection.* Developed an M&E framework based on the logframe.* Designed questionnaires for the survey and reviewed the literature.* Developed indicators and data analysis plan.* Conducted the survey recruiting highly qualified survey team and imparted the survey through planned methodology, analyzed data, prepared data tables with results of analysis.* Wrote the report using data tables and findings and presenting the findings to the government officials, donors and international organizations. The report was finally accepted by the Ministry of Education in January 2017. Show less

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  Consumark Limited

  Feb 2017 - Apr 2017

  Lead Consultant (Employee Outplacement Support Service)

  * Offered consultancy support to Consumark Limited, a human resource management support organization with its highly professional staff, think tanks and highly experienced in corporate level human resource positions. * Provided Employees' Outplacement Support for the employees of Katalyst-Swisscontact, an agrobased advisory level INGO financed by UKAid, SDC and DANIDA.* Provided advisory support on CV review, skill assessment, interview skill development through training, career counseling.* Recommended the employees for job placement to the head hunting organizations. Show less

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  Foundation for Research on Educational Planning and Development (FREPD)

  May 2017 - Jun 2017

  Senior Consultant (Statistician)

  * Conducted the In-depth monitoring of the Secondary Education Quality and Access Enhancement Project (SEQAEP) financed by the World Bank and implemented by the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE), GoB. * Developed a sample size for the field survey, oriented the field investigation staff and ensured data collection, data entry and data analysis and reporting support to the Team Leader.

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  UNHCR's Rohingya Repatriation Project implemented by Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

  Apr 2018 - Jun 2018

  Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

  * Coordinated the monitoring, assessment, learning sharing and reporting on project progress.* Coordinated camp-wise reporting and regular report submission on 4W and on Site Improvement with UNHCR.* Coordinated Site Management activities, process and monitoring of Site Improvement process of various partner organizations and gave feedback. * Shared the experience in the field level with the staff and coordination meetings, Sector Meetings and meetings with UNHCR experts.* Participated in emergency response and risk mitigation of the most vulnerable areas of refugees. Show less

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  Asian Development Bank (ADB)

  Aug 2018 - Dec 2018

  Deputy Team Leader and National ICT & Education Specialist

  * Reviewed monitoring framework, contract documents, Log Frame and other relevant papers on ICT Learning Centers (ILC).* Selected 64 institutions out of 640 where ILCs had been established designing a statistical sample size of the institutes, designed questionnaires for interviewing Head Teachers, ICT Teachers, students and the Assistant Programmers looking after the ILCs. * Recruited 10 Research Assistants with Computer Science background from BRAC University, oriented them on conducting the field survey and monitored the survey at the school level.* Analyzed the data and prepared reports for ADB, presented the key findings and policy recommendations to ADB. Show less

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  Eusuf and Associates

  Dec 2018 - Apr 2019

  Senior Statistician

  * Conducted the In-depth Evaluation of the Strengthening Education Engineering Department Project for the Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED), under the Ministry of Planning.* Analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of the Education Engineering Department under the Ministry of Education, GoB and finally submitted the key findings and policy recommendations to the IMED.

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  Secondary Education Sector Investment Project (SESIP) of Ministry of Education funded by ADB

  May 2019 - now

  National Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist

  * Providing monitoring and evaluation support to the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE). * Compiling the learning and experience from the overseas training reports prepared by the teachers and education officials.* Prepared the Annual Sector Performance Report (ASPR) analyzing the time series data.* Explored the idea of Whole School Scouting with the DG of DSHE.

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  Finance Division, Ministry of Finance, Government of Bangladesh

  Apr 2021 - now

  Consultant Statistics