This document is a curriculum vitae for Md. Abul Kalam Azad that summarizes his professional experience and qualifications. It details his 18+ years of experience managing nutrition, WASH, livelihood and other development projects for organizations including ICCO Cooperation, CARE Bangladesh, and UNDP. It also lists his educational background which includes a Masters in Agricultural Economics and a Masters in Public Health with a focus on nutrition. The CV provides an overview of Azad's roles and responsibilities in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating various development programs in Bangladesh.

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Curriculum Vitae of Md. Abul Kalam Azad
E-mail : azad_biplob@yahoo.com
Mobile : +88 01715046057
Skype : azad_biplob
Present Address : Team Leader-Nutrition, ICCO Cooperation, Hose-16, Road-30,
Gulshan-1, Dhaka
Name : Md. Abul Kalam Azad
Father’s Name : Md. Torab Ali
Mother’s Name : Ashrafunnessa
Date of Birth : 25 November 1973
Citizenship : Bangladeshi
Permanent Address : House 194, Road 5, Mohammodia Housing Ltd,
Mohammodpur, Dhaka
Education
1999 Masters in Agricultural Economics (Marketing), Upper 2nd
Class. Thesis on “An
Agribusiness study of Prawn in Khulna district”. Bangladesh Agricultural University,
Mymenshingh.
2016 Masters in Public Health (Nutrition), First position out of 40 students. CGPA 3.73 out
of 4. Thesis “Knowledge and attitude towards food intake and nutrition of pregnant
women in northern part of Bangladesh”. State University of Bangladesh, Dhaka.
Summary of Job Experience
Have 18+ years experience in programme development and management of Nutrition,
WASH, Livelihoods, Social Development, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
related projects with UN organization (United Nations Development Program-UNDP) and
International organizations (CARE-Bangladesh, Chars Development Programme-CLP of DFID-
Maxwell, ICCO Cooperation). Also have experience in advocacy, public-private sector
engagement, gender development, emergency response, human rights establishment,
market development, inclusive business and entrepreneurship development. Have expertise
in new project design and fund raising for organizational sustainability. Have skill to manage
good number of PNGOs in the area of financial management, technical support and
organizational capacity building. During my professional tenure I managed near about 40
PNGOs including 3 international NGOs. Have also experience in consortium project
management and skill to supervise experts and mid-level managers to implement project
activities in time with qualitative outputs including monitoring and reporting. Have expertise
in monitoring, reporting and presentation to donors and stakeholder. Have excellent strong
networking skill with civil society, donors, NGOs and GoB. Specifically have skill-
 Nutrition, WASH, Climate Change, Livelihoods Project design and implementation.
 Public-private sectors and civil society engagements.
 PNGO managements.
 Lobby and advocacy.

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Professional Background
1. ICCO Cooperation
Team Leader-Nutrition (EKN Funded PROOFS Project) March 2014- till date
Nutrition Team Leader is ICCO Dhaka Head Office based position, as team leader
coordinating and managing the regional Nutrition Experts and District Nutrition Officers to
design and implement the nutrition activities to improve the food and nutrition security in
northern and southern 7 districts of Bangladesh.
Specially-
 Nutrition Project Lead: Design and manage nutrition sensitive and specific activities,
homestead food production, feeding practice improvement of Adolescent girls,
Pregnant women, Lactating mother, Infant and Young Children (MIYCN). Develop
600 Nutrition Sales Agents (NSAs) for nutrition business and messaging as women
entrepreneurship development. Ensure family planning, hygiene and nutritious
products in rural area/last mile distribution. Innovate and introduce new technology
and mechanism (mobile movies, ICT, counseling and nutrition session) for BCC and
demand creation of nutritious products. Also have experience on home food
fortification, food fortification, bio-fortification, etc. Also prepare Details
Implementation Plan with budget and justification.
 Private-Public Sectors Engagement: Engage private sectors to supply nutritious and
hygiene products (such as Micro Nutrient Powder-MNP, Sanitary Napkins, Safe
Delivery Kits, De-worming tablets, Seed, etc) in rural area including nutrition
business capacity building of NSAs. Also raise fund from private company (Unilever)
to create awareness on hand washing and personal hygiene of the target
households. Some of the successful partnership includes Social Marketing Company,
DSM, Abdul Monem, DSM, ACI, Unilever and Square. Also partnership development
with civil society organizations (NGOs) and GoB line departments.
 Staff and Financial Management: Lead the nutrition team (19 staffs and 600 NSAs)
to implement nutrition project including HR issues and financial managements of the
nutrition project.
2. Chars Livelihoods Programme-CLP (DFID funded 150 million pounds programme).
Senior Nutrition Coordinator, CLP November 2013-December 2014
Senior Nutrition Coordinator is Head Quarter based position, coordinated with 19 PNGOs
and lead team (10 managers, 60 officers and 1200 nutrition workers) to implement
homestead food production, Pregnant Mothers, Infant and Young Child Feeding (MIYCF)
practice and WASH related activities for extreme poor family in 10 districts (northern chars)
of Bangladesh;
 Nutrition: Selected and developed capacity building of community nutrition workers
(CPK) to ensure nutrition messaging on food diversity, exclusive breast feeding,
complementary feeding up to 24 months children. Also ensured nutrition messaging
to newly married couple, adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women, husband

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and mothers in law. Distributed nutritious inputs (Micro Nutrient Powder-MNP, Iron
and Folic Acid Tablets, Seeds, etc), food allowance, etc to target households. Also
prepared budget and grants allocation to PNGOs including financial management
and reporting.
 WASH: Implemented Community Lead Total Sanitation (CLTS) programme, created
awareness on safe drinking water, hand washing, adolescent hygiene, etc.
 Advocacy for scaling up nutrition through civil society organizations and established
linkage with privet sectors, NGOs, agriculture, livestock, health departments of GoB.
Programme Coordinator, CLP August 2008- October 2013
Managed and coordinated 3 projects (Social Development, Social Protection and Education)
through PNGOs in northern 10 districts of Bangladesh.
 Supervised the district level managers and facilitated the PNGOs to implement the
Social and Gender Development related projects through Adolescent Groups (AG)
Development, Women Empowerment, Village Development Committee (VDC)
Formation and Strengthening.
 Lobby and advocacy to established human rights and land rights. Some of the
successful advocacy includes Khash land distribution to land less people in char area.
 Value Chain and Market Development: Engage private sectors (such as PRAN and
BRAC Dairy) to develop milk value chain and also capacity building of producer
groups for agricultural market development and linkage with market actors.
 Livelihoods Development/Social Protection: Ensured Participatory Action Plan
Development (PAPD) for sustainable livelihoods. Distributed Income generating
assets specially livestock, monthly stipend & homestead seed to the targeted
households including capacity building and agriculture value chain development.
District Social Development Manager, CLP June 2005 - July 2008
 Ensured core beneficiaries selection by using Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)
tools especially social mapping, well being analysis and Focus Group Discussion.
 Assisted to form village development committee to establish human and land rights,
reduce disaster risk, etc.
 Coordinated with GoB and local government to implement the project activities.
 Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR): Introduced climate friendly
crops (such as flood tolerant rice verity, floating vegetables gardening, etc). Ensured
participatory disaster management, disaster risk reduction, strengthening the
Disaster Management Committee and CBO to reduce disaster risk.
3. United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
Community Development Officer, UNDP December 2004 -May 2005
Under Coastal and Wetland Biodiversity Management Project of UNDP, formed village to
district level committee and alliance and activated civil society for the establishment of the
human rights through training, workshop, seminar, conference etc. Facilitated PNGOs to

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implement block plantation, homestead gardening, alternative income generating activities,
eco friendly environment development.
4. CARE-Bangladesh (USAID Funded Project)
Project Officer (Homestead Gardening), CARE Bangladesh Dec. 2002 –Sept. 2004
Flood Proofing Project (FPP) was working to mitigate the effect of floods and to improve the
livelihoods of the vulnerable community with the help of national NGOs and GOB. As Project
Officer, provided technical support to partner NGOs, GOB & Union Parishad in planning and
implementing of Flood Preparedness, Health and Nutrition Education (FPHNE), Homestead
Gardening and Erosion Based Plantation activities of the project through community
participation, social mobilization, supervising field staff, monitoring the field based activities
including the effective fund management of the partner NGOs & GOB.
Assistant Project Officer (Operation), CARE Bangladesh July 2001 – November 2002
Under Flood Proofing Project, facilitated National NGOs & GoB to reduce disaster risk and
established the human rights of the vulnerable groups through strengthening the Disaster
Management Committee, organizational capacity building of the local NGOs, CBOs, local
government/ Union Parishad for the effective disaster management. Provided technical
knowledge on disaster risk reduction planning, mitigation and preparedness.
Filed Trainer, CARE Bangladesh September 1998 –June 2001
Greater Options for Local Development through Aquaculture (GOLDA) Project of CARE
Bangladesh, developed capacity of smallholders farmers on aquaculture (prawn and fish)
and vegetables production including access to fiancé in coastal area of Bangladesh. Also
responsible for value chain development of Prawn and Fish.
Others experience
Programme Development and Fund Raising: Expertise on new project designing, Details
Implementation Plan Development, Budgeting, Theory of Change (ToC) development,
Log frame development, and concept note development for fund raising.
Training and Facilitation Skill: Skill in training needs assessment (TNA), training module
development and training conduction for the capacity building of the staff.
Gender related: Skills in Gender Analysis Frame Work development. Performed as a
Gender Focal Point with CARE and assisted to develop gender sensitive program and
office management system. Also developed and omplemented Gender Policy
Operational Guide line of the project.
Participatory Planning and Monitoring Programme Outputs: Skills in PRA session
conduction and Participatory Action Plan Development (PAPD). Developed and
implemented Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) tools for the programme
beneficiaries for their self evaluation

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Emergency Response
 Coordinated emergency response in 2007 flood under Chars Livelihoods Programme.
 Participated as Monitoring Officer with Disaster Management Project of CARE-
Bangladesh and monitored relief distribution and rehabilitation activities of national
NGOs during & post flood in 2004;
 Participated as Monitoring Officer with Disaster Management Project of CARE-
Bangladesh and monitored relief distribution of Partner NGOs during flash flood in
Southern region of Bnagladesh in 2000;
 Participated as Team Leader with Disaster Management Project of CARE-Bangladesh
and distribute relief during 1998 flood in Bnagladesh.
Training Received
 Long term (4 months) staff development training, organized by CARE Bangladesh
 Participatory Rural Appraisal –PRA (7 days), organized by CARE & UNDP
 Flood Preparedness, Health, Nutrition and Plantation & Homestead gardening (15
days), organized by CARE
 Institutional development and Organizational Learning (3 days), organized by PMTC
 Human Rights and Governance (5days), Organized by CARE
 Communication & Facilitation (5 days), organized by CARE
 Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Response (3 days), organized by CLP
 Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation -PME (3 days), organized by CARE
 Gender and Development (3 days), organized by CARE
 Team building and Partnership (7 days), organized by CARE & UNDP
 Right Based Approach and Social Justice (3 days), organized by CARE
 International Hygiene Practitioners workshop (5 days), organized by Water Aid
 Food Safety in Bangladesh (2 days) organized by FAO & ICDDR,B
 Cost of Diet (CoD) (12 days) organized by Save the Children
 Young and Infant Child Feeding (IYCF) (6 days) organized by ICMH
 Child protection in emergency (2 days), organized by UNICEF
 Disaster Risk Reduction (3 days), conducted by CDMP
 Result Based Monitoring and Theory of Change (5 days) by ICCO-Cooperation
 Safe and Security Training (3 days) by ICCO-Cooperation.
 Nutrition in Emergency (5 days) by UNICEF.
Other skill
 Computer Skill: Microsoft packages including Word, Excel, SPSS and Power Point.
 Language: Fluent in English and Bangla is mother toung.
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