1. Dr Abdullah Al-Muyeed has abridged proven experiences both as academician-researcher and
WASH professional. He is working as Technical Adviser-WASH in WaterAid Bangladesh country office
at present. He is keeping the portfolio of Programmes, Policy & Advocacy of WaterAid Bangladesh
keeping working relationship with Organizational Learning, Research and Monitoring & Evaluation.
Dr Muyeed has been instrumental in developing the country strategy 2016-20 of WaterAid
Bangladesh as one of the leading strategic contributors of the core team members. At present, he is
the country focal person of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) of WaterAid considering climate change
issues linking with WASH which has been reflected also in the newly developed country strategy.
His effort combines to inclusive Climate Change which is one of the pillars of 7 five year plan (7FYP)
of Bangladesh is a strategic contribution during project planning in WaterAid programs. He is deeply
familiar with equity and inclusion in WASH which is one of the niche areas of WaterAid. He has been
involved with field level implementation, monitoring as well as advocating issues on a national
scale. These include designing interventions not only to address persons with different types of
disabilities and elderly persons considering gender issues in both rural and urban settings,
promoting menstrual hygiene management for adolescent girls and women but also child-friendly
WASH facilities and hand-washing devices.
Dr Muyeed provides technical supports to the WaterAid country programmes to achieve
programmatic objective of economic and social development to set in motion a process of
self-reliant and sustainable growth through which social justice can be achieved. The key focus is to
development within a developing society having good governance aiming at building into society
the mechanisms that will ultimately permit self-reliant growth, business model at sustaining stable
growth patterns for economic development in harmony with the environment, and at providing
equal and appropriate opportunities to take part in development to overcome income gaps,
regional disparities, and inequalities between men and women. As an example of endeavors,
Shakhipur municipality of Tangail district has achieved sustainable model to plan, operate and
manage WASH program; Paikgacha municipality of Khulna district has successful sustainable
pro-poor water tariff system with a 100% payment by the consumers and so on.
He plays a vital role in determining WaterAid’s advocacy agenda and remains active in tabling
several national issues. The premiere agenda are to ensure water security by promoting rainwater
harvesting and second generation sanitation challenges. Sincere efforts have been made to ensure
the insertion of a dedicated chapter on rainwater management (Chapter 7) in the Bangladesh
National Building Code (BNBC) and engineering curricula development in polytechnic institute and
undergraduate curricula in technical universities. A separate teaching material on urban rainwater
harvesting was prepared for undergraduate and graduate engineering education of Bangladesh to
make the topic an inherent part of technical education. Faecal Sludge Management framework is
another important endeavor where he has provided critical input during the development stage by
Dr Abdullah Al-Muyeed
Technical Adviser- WASH
WaterAid Bangladesh
abdullahal-muyeed@wateraid.org
Cell: +8801730095588

2. Policy Support Unit (PSU) of the Government. Moreover, innovation of technology is another value
which he has added in WaterAid. Under his leadership, decentralized wastewater treatment system
(DWTS), constructed wetlands in treating wastewater, co-composting of faecal waste/sludge,
BioToilet, Faecal coliform test vials etc. are leaded to implement in programs of WaterAid Bangladesh
as a part of second generation sanitation. Large scale gravity flow water supply system/spring,
community based arsenic and iron removal plant, pipe water supply system, artificial aquifer
recharge, rural water supply system (rainwater harvesting, pond sand filter, well etc.) are also
implemented under his guidance where his major role is to coordinate and to act as decision maker
for appropriate technologies of WASH considering situational analysis and demand.
He is responsible for dealing/networking with a wide range of development partners and stakeholders
including I/NGOs, educational institutes, Water Supply and Sewerage Authorities (WASAs),
Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE), City Corporations, municipalities, Local Government
Institutions and ministries, development partners like DFID, USAID, UNICEF, ADB and World Bank. He
is also working as one of the technical steering committee members of SACOSAN-VI conference. He is
also responsible to support and strengthen the technical capacity of Partner NGOs on technical
aspects to enable them to deliver effective and relevant WASH projects, including assessment of
capacity and recommendations on implementation methodologies. Apart from that, under his direct
supervision and guidance WaterAid and Center for Science and Environment (CSE), India have jointly
organised international trainings every year on urban rainwater harvesting, wastewater treatment and
septage management to develop capacity of the sector of the country. His other responsibility is to
support assessment and analysis of WASH sector of the country that includes Hygiene baseline study
of the country program in collaboration with respective stakeholders and its periodic update. It
includes the directional input in the country program strategy and programmatic planning,
implementation and monitoring. He is also responsible to contribute in knowledge management of
WaterAid by documenting good practices, reports and its learning and sharing. The good practice of
SaTo (Safe Toilet) pan developed by American Standard, Journey to Zero, Rainwater Convention,
Resilient technologies, livelihood change of Hard-to-Reach areas etc. are stated examples of his
contribution of such knowledge management. Moreover, as Technical Adviser, he convene the Right
Based Approach (RBA) and Child Right Protection Protocol of WaterAid in all programmes during
planning, implementation and monitoring phases.One of the major role as a Technical Adviser is to
support project proposal development of the organisation and to furnish the proposal keeping
standard and appropriateness as per ToR. Therefore, he has relevant experiences on proposal
development of Urban, Rural, Climate Resilient, Small Town, Inclusions & Enabling programmes of
WaterAid. He put his technical expertise on relevancy of target theme/group (e,g, readymade
garment industry, urbanisation, climate resilience, environmental pollution, public toilet, SDG6 etc.)
while preparing the proposal. In addition, the responsibilities adhere to monitoring mechanism and
sustainability of those projects as well. He wrote technical articles in newspaper where WASH right,
climate change, environment, faecal sludge and DRR are also included as subject matters. Moreover,
after the devastating earthquake in Nepal (2015), under his strategic guidance, WaterAid Bangladesh
extended the emergency/post disaster support to the destitute and earthquake victim people of
Nepal and engineering team under his supervision provided direct support to improve the WASH
facilities of the victim where he put directly technical support to the South Asian Regional WaterAid
team. Some other mentionable international experiences are to provide technical support to

3. implement Water Safety Plan (WSP) in Myanmar and Nepal, consultancy support on Faecal Sludge
Management (FSM) to Practical Action Consultancy team to develop FSM plant at Urissya India,
technical support to faecal sludge management in collaboration with SNV, Beijing University and Asian
Institute of Technology to mainstream FSM in Khulna Bangladesh. Apart from that, he put technical
support to establish sludge treatment plant at Wakayama prefecture in Japan with VIOS and to establish
Self Turning Composting system in Bangkok and in Lampang of Chiangmai district of Thailand. And very
recently, WaterAid Bangladesh is strategically heading towards technology transfer on wastewater
treatment to WaterAid Tanzania under his strategic leadership.
He also worked as Associate Professor (previous job) of the department of Civil (environmental)
engineering of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology. As an academician, he wrote three text
books on environmental engineering and one of the book titled ‘Water and Environmental Engineering’
received the prestigious University Grants Commission Award (UGC) 2012, the highest academic
recognition in Bangladesh. Moreover, the book titled ‘Environmental Sanitation, Wastewater Treatment
and Disposal’ is the best seller text book by the publisher UGC. And all are focused on technical aspects
of water and sanitation. Moreover, He has more than 35 publications in national and international peer
reviewed journals and proceedings which are instrumental for program development as well. He was
also actively involved in the WASH and Environment sector in Bangladesh as an expert (as Associate
Professor) by leading a number of projects on food security, WASH and environmental policy and
safeguard strategy. In WaterAid Bangladesh, he has developed the Water Quality Protocol 2015, Health
& Safety protocol 2015 as safeguard of the organisation and many other reports on water and sanitation
issues. Here, it is to be mentioned that being the Technical Adviser, he is responsible to ensure safe
water and sanitation practice of WAB and custodian of those protocols.He achieved ‘Exceptional’ rating
in my last appraisal of WaterAid (program year April 2014-March 2015). He has experience of working as
individual environmental consultant in projects funded by World Bank Bangladesh country office also.
He is also the fellow as Expert on water resource by the State Government of USA. He also won the
prestigious ‘WaterAid Innovation Ambassador 2016’ award as recognition of his contribution to lead the
pursuit of world class technological innovations in Bangladesh – using sound scientific methods to test
and experiment, and diverse ways of disseminating and sharing the findings.
He can be reached through email abdullahal-muyeed@wateraid.org
Linkedin: https://bd.linkedin.com/in/amuyeed
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abdullah_Al-Muyeed