Our team
Rabeya Yasmin, Senior advisor and lead, microfinance credit
information bureau
Rabeya Yasmin has over 25 years’ experience in policy, strategy and implementation of poverty reduction programmes in Bangladesh and across Asia, Africa and Caribbean belt. She served in BRAC for 19 years. Rabeya was also Director of DFID-supported BRAC’s flagship graduation programme for the extreme poor called “Targeting the Ultra Poor”. From 2015-2016, Rabeya worked with the Char Livelihoods Programme (CLP) in Bangladesh as the Director of Partnerships, Policy and Governance. CLP was a DFID and DFAT funded programme managed by Maxwell Stamp PLC London. Between 2014 and 2017, Rabeya worked in short-term consultancy assignments with Maxwell Stamp PLC, Uplift (USA),
Save the Children (UK/Bangladesh), Opportunity International (Australia), World Food Programme Bangladesh and World Vision Bangladesh. Rabeya has an MSS in Political science from University of Dhaka, MA in Poverty and Development from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK.
Shamira Mostafa, KNOWledge Management and Communication Advisor
Shamira has worked in Bangladesh and USA for 7 years. Prior to BFP-B, she managed $1 million worth of pro-poor market lead interventions at Katalyst-Swisscontact. She has been involved in developing underprivileged communities at different capacities for several years. She worked with the Centre for Community Based Learning to advance math and reading skills of young learners in diverse communities of greater Boston area. Shamira also worked as a marketing associate for promoting food safety measures for a bio-technology company in Boston. Before that, she worked as a corporate trainer for Verizon telecommunication to serve micro and small enterprises for accessing affordable telecommunication and IT facilities. Shamira holds a Masters in Communication from Lasell College, Massachusetts and Bachelors in Business from North South University, Dhaka.
Muazzem Ahmed, Finance and Adminstrational Manager
Muazzem communicates financial, budget variances, sub grantees milestone claim review and report results and trends to the Managers. He has more than 18 years of experience in the field of finance, grants, administration and operational audit. He spent more than 10 years on financial and grants management of USAID funded project. He worked with US based organization like Pathfinder International –NSDP project, Winrock International, CCBA project and University Resources and Corporation LLc (URC), and TB Care-II project. In addition, he has experience with the projects funded by different donor agencies like DFID, ECHO, CARE, ICCO, ILO WFP, Learning for life. Muazzem holds a Master of Commerce in Management degree and have completed Chartered Accountancy course from Rahman Kashem Chartered Accountant Firm.
Malick Mahbub Al Hasnat, Finance and Administration Coordinator
Prior to BFP-B, Malick worked for ActionAid Bangladesh for more than 15 years. Before joining ActionAid, he worked for “Systems Rehabilitation Project”, Bangladesh Water Development Board, Netherlands Technical Assistance Program, funded by World Bank, EEC Netherlands and GOB for 7 years. He is specialised in the field of administration, logistics, facilities management, financial management, safety & security management and disaster management for INGOs and projects of ActionAid, BWDB, DFID, ECHO, UNDP etc. He has experience in several countries including Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, UK and Thailand. Hasnat holds a Master of Commerce in Management degree from University of Dhaka, 1991.
Onindita Islam, Monitoring, Evaluation and learning Specialist
Onindita has over eight years of experience in financial inclusion, extreme poverty and private sector development projects. She has worked on implementation of both regional and national scale projects in Bangladesh. Prior to joining BFP-B, she has worked at BRAC focusing on microfinance operations, financial literacy and financial inclusion project designing. She has also worked at World Vision focusing on graduation initiatives where she coordinated a consortium project. Her skills include project design & management, ,monitoring and evaluation, investment management, stakeholder coordination. Onindita holds a Masters from Institute of Development Studies, Sussex and a Bachelors in Economics from Queen Mary, University of London.
Anima Hoque, MICROFINANCE-CIB, COORDINATOR
Anima has more than 5 years’ of experience as a Project management and Communications professional. Her expertise includes programme communications, supporting project planning and implementation, reporting and coordination, material development & content writing, stakeholder coordination and workshop facilitation. Prior to BFP-B, she worked as Manager of Strategic Planning and Reporting, for Friendship NGO, looking after cross-departmental strategic action planning, reporting and documentation, implementation of activities and workshop facilitation. Anima holds a Masters degree in Operations Management and a Bachelors in Economics & Finance.