Mahbub

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Present Professional Attachment:

2005–Present: Partnership Coordinator as well as Head of Dhaka Office of Coastal Development Partnership (CDP), CDP is a National Research and Advocacy focused not-for-profit & environmental activist organization. Pioneer human rights focused organization for establishing environmental governance in Bangladesh.

2004–Present: Senior Staff Reporter, Monthly Upakul Paribesh Barta, a national Monthly News Paper in Bangladesh focused on plain land indigenous rights, coastal environment, water & river management, climate change and good governance issues etc, published by Coastal Development Partnership (CDP).

Additional Present Professional Attachment:

2007-Present: National Advocacy Coordinator of Network for Ensuring Water Security (NEWS); it is a national research and advocacy network which is working against water sector’s corruptions. More than 62 CSOs, CBO’s and NGO’s are the member of NEWS.

2006-Present: Member Secretary of Better Coastal Livelihood Partnership (BECOLPO); it is a national research and advocacy network in Bangladesh where participated 42 CSOs, CBO’s and NGO’s.

2005-Present: Editor of CDP E-NewsLetter, it is an irregular online publication of CDP focused on local national and global human rights and environmental issues.

Previous Professional Attachment:

Project In charge of “An Initiative to Strengthen Peoples Movements to Ensure Economic Justice” project (Supported by Action Aid Bangladesh) implemented by CDP (Duration: June 2008–September 2008)

Resource Center Manager of Coastal Development Partnership (CDP), CDP Resources Center is the central information center in Bangladesh where preserved thousands of important books, reports and others documents that is highly required by NGOs, researchers, journalists, teachers, etc. (Duration: November 2003-March 2005)

Research Associate of Coastal Development Partnership (CDP)’s Human Rights and Good Governance project. (Duration: April 2003 -October 2003)

Assistant Teacher of Adrsha Academy-Gopalgonj, a reputed Kinder Garden (KG) School in Gopalgonj district of Bangladesh. (Duration: September 2002 - March 2003)
Recently Assisted to Development Some Project for CDP:

 Promoting Rights of the Indigenous Munda Community of Shayamnagar Upazilla of Satkhira District through Capacity Building and Alternative Livelihood
 Mother Management School (MOMs) for Munda (plain land indigenous) Community
 Protection of Child Labor in Shrimp Farming (CLSF)
 Sustainable Conservation and Management of Sundarban Mangrove Forest Biodiversity in the Southwest Coastal Region of Bangladesh
 Campaign for Ensuring Water Security in Bangladesh
 Community-based Ecosystem Management for Alternative Livelihood (CEMAL)
 Promoting Climate Change Awareness in Metropolitan cities (PROCLAIM) in Bangladesh

Some Publications:

1. Author, Effectiveness and Accountability of ADB Project in South-West Bangladesh (2008)
2. Author, Rive erosion in the Southwest Region of Bangladesh and its Distressed People (2004)
3. Research Associate, Reviewing IWRM in Perspective of People’s Wisdom (People’s Traditional Practice on Water Management), Supported by Water for People’s Network (WPN), Philippines (2007)
4. Research Associate, People’s Alternative Water Resource Management [Case Study: Bangladesh: Tidal River Management People's Initiative to Solve Water logging (Coastal River Basin Management) in the Southwest Coastal Region of Bangladesh], Water for People’s Network (WPN), Philippines (2007)
5. Research Associate, Living with Climate Change Future at Present Time: The Saga of One Million Water Imprisoned People in the Southwest Coastal Region of Bangladesh (2008)

Some Popular Published Articles:

 “Leading Role of NGOs in Solving Water Disputes between India and Bangladesh: Farakka Barrage Case”, published in the program book of 2nd international NGO Conference Seoul, Korea both in English and Korean languages (October 2008)
 “Save Sundarban Ecosystem, Save Coastal People of Bangladesh: The signature and post-disaster needs for the cyclone SIDR”, published in the CDP E-NewsLetter (December 2007).
 “The five real pictures of violation against women”, Published in the ‘Weekly Bchitra’ (8 June 2007)
 “Shrimp Firming in the southwest region of Bangladesh”, Published in the ‘Weekly Bchitra’ (25 August 2006).
 “The pictures of painful life of the Women & Children in the Southwest coastal region of Bangladesh”, Published in the ‘Weekly Bchitra’ (1 April 2005)
 “Women are in Discrimination: Development Policy and role of NGO”, published in the Daily Falafal (28 January 2004)
 “Peoples living with vulnerability”, published in the ‘Weekly Sonali Alo’ (23 April 2004)
 “Peoples of Southwest region are in high risk”, published in the ‘Weekly Bchitra’ (23 April 2004)
 “Environment: Problems in Bangladesh”, published in the ‘Weekly Bchitra’ (6 August 2004)
 “Indian River linking Project: the 2nd attacked for destroying Bangladesh”, published in the Weekly Purnima’ 22 September 2004)
 “It is needed to Integrated Initiative for reducing Violence against Women”, published in the ‘Weekly Bchitra’ (1 October 2004)
 “River Erosion: The Districts Gopalgonj is hazarded by the river Modhumoti”, published in the ‘Daily Probarton’ (12th September 2003)
 “Flooded Koyra by the high tide: Some Speech”, published in the ‘Daily Anirvan’ (16th October 2003)

Some Professional Trainings/Certifications:

 Human Rights Advocacy Workshop, CDP Khulna (2 days, 2007)
 Training on Internet Browsing, CDP Khulna (1 day, 2006)
 Training on Multi-media Projector Operating System, CDP Khulna (1 day, 2006)
 Training on “Easy Report Writing Techniques”, CDP (2 days, 2005)
 Training on Participatory Rural Appraisal, CDP (2 days, 2005)
 Certificate in Computer Application, SCTI, Khulna (90 days, 2005)
 Certificate in Computer Application,SIT foundation, GoB ICT development project(120 days,2005)
 Quality Printing and Technique of Publication, CDP-CARE RVCC project (2 days, 2005)
 Training on Human Rights, Manusher Jonno under the CDP-CBGP project (2 days, 2005)
 Training on Good Governance, Manusher Jonno under the CDP-CBGP project (2 days, 2005)
 Training on Baseline Survey, Manusher Jonno under the CDP-CBGP project (1 day, 2005)
 ‘Report Card Methodology’, WAVE foundation & Action Aid Bangladesh (4 days, 2004)
 Website browsing and Information Management, CDP-CARE RVCC project (1 day, 2004)
 Gender Training, CDP-CARE RVCC project (1 day, 2004)
 Financial Management Training, Manusher Jonno under the CDP-CBGP project (5 days, 2004)
 Gender Training, Manusher Jonno under the CDP-CBGP project (2 days, 2004)
 Training on Information Management and Dissemination process, CDP (2 days, 2003)
 Training on data collection and report writing, CDP (2 days, 2004)

Overseas Programs:

• Participated in the Forum Annual Meeting (FAM)-2008 of NGO Forum on ADB at Philippines on 24-28 March 2008 as a participant
• Met with ADB’s Asia Water Specialist at ADB Head Quarters in Manila for solving water problem in Bangladesh that is created by ADB project on 28 March 2008 at morning as a representative of Bangladesh.
• Participated in the Press conference on Global Rice Crisis, organized by Asia Pacific Network for Food Sovereignty (APNFS) on 28 March 2008 at noon in Manila as a speaker.
• Participated in the Civil Society Organization’s (CSO’S) parallel forum of High Level Forum (HLF)-iii, 31 August - 1 September 2008, Accra of Ghana as a Participant.
• Participated in the General Meeting of ‘More & Batter’s’ on 2nd September 2008 at Accra of Ghana as a speaker.
• Participated in the Video Advocacy Workshop (VAW) held on 14-26 September 2008 at Chiang Mai of Thailand as a participant.
• Participated in the 2nd International NGO Conference on History and Peace held on 8-12 October at Seoul Korea as a Speaker.
• Participated in the “Community Driven Development” Training held on 17 January-14 February 2009, in Hyderabad of India, organized by Bala Vikasa with the cooperation of SOPAR-Canada. Sponsored by APNFS-Philippines as a trainee.
• Participated in the “Info-Activism Campaign” workshop held on 19-25 January 2009, in Bangalore of India, organized by Technical Technology Collective as a participant.
• Participated in the “Climate Change Conference” held on 23-24 March 2009, in Bangkok of Thailand.
• Participated in the ADB AGM-2009 in Bali, Indonesia, held on 2-5 May, 2009

Technical Skillness:

 Advocacy and Partnership Development Experience: Have human rights based advocacy, community mobilization, networking and partnership development skillness.
 Language: Excellent read, write and listening skill both in English and Bengali
 Computer: MS Word, MS Excels, MS PowerPoint, Data entry and Using & Browsing Internet
 Organizing: Have excellent skill for organizing meeting, training both in national and international level with a systematic process.
 Conflict Management: Have practical experiences on conflict management and conflict resolution process in organization and out of side of the organization.
 Reporting: Have excellent report writing skill both in Bengali & English as well as excellent media reporting skillness.

Some Membership:

• Member Secretary, Better Coastal Livelihood Partnership (BECOLPO) Bangladesh
• National Advocacy Coordinator, Network for Ensuring Water Security (NEWS), Bangladesh
• Team Leader, Youth Movement for Environmental Governance (YMEG), Bangladesh
• Member, Sushasoner Jonny Procharavizan (Campaign for Good Governance), Bangladesh
• Founder Member, ASA University Human Resource Network (AUHRN), Bangladesh
• Member, South Asian Association for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE), Nepal
• Member, The International Gynecologic Cancer Society (IGCS), USA
• Member, Youth Social Forum (YSF), Bangladesh
• Member, Global Transparency Initiative (GTI), South Africa
• Member, Climate Change and Development Forum (CCDF), Bangladesh
• Member, HUB (Video Advocacy Site), USA
• Member, International Peace Network. Seoul, Korea
• Member, Positive Bangladesh
• Member, Green Peace International-list serve, India
• Member, Save the Children USA-list serve, USA
• Member, ProPoor Organization, India
• Member, Resource Alliance, UK
• Country Focal Point (CFP), Aids Care Watch (ACW), HDN, Chiang Mai, Thailand
• Member, YouthActionNet, USA
• Member, IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC) for the period of 2009-12

Academic Qualification:

 2008: Masters of Business Administration (HRM), ASA University Bangladesh, Dhaka
 2004: Masters of Social Science (Political Science), National University Bangladesh, Dhaka
 2002: Bachelor Degree (Humanity), National University Bangladesh, Dhaka
 2000: Higher Secondary Certificate (Humanity), Bangabandhu Govt. College, Gopalgonj,
 1998: Higher Secondary Certificate (Humanity) Chandradighalia High School, Gopalgonj

Ryan Schlief

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I am the Asia Coordinator at WITNESS.