James Liton Halder

Maya Kuthir, House No-14/B, Taltola Road,

Khulna-9100, Bangladesh.

Cell : (+880) 1711 06 58 16

E-mail:   [email protected]

Carrier summary
Serve as M&E staff over last 10 years with many organizations. Managed and implemented all M&E activities as ;Manager, M&E’ of ‘Nobojatra’ project under FFP of USAID implemented by CODEC collaboration with Winrock International and provided necessary technical assistance in quality execution of agriculture and livelihood component. Coordinated M&E activities of entire ongoing projects of Rupantar as ‘Central M&E Coordinator’ through supportive supervision of assigned M&E staffs. Provided necessary technical support in delivering projects like WASH, Child Protection, Governance and Women’s Political Empowerment’ supported respectively by Water Aid Bangladesh, UNICEF, USAID-Justice for All and Swiss Agency for International Development and Cooperation (SDC). Played key roles of organization particularly ensured necessary project deliverables like reports and other write-up in line with their given templates as well as produced Annual reports for the organization. Assisted with fund raising team in construct project proposal for timely submission of RFQs to the donors. Another significant involvement as M&E Officer with World Vision Bangladesh in ‘Area Development Program’ comprised with four projects of economic development, health, education and sponsorship management. Currently I have been serving as M&E Officer in ‘Self-reliance project of BRAC under Humanitarian Crisis Management Program funded by World Food Program for Forcedly Displaced Mayanmer Nationals (FDMN) communities at Cox’s Bazar in providing necessary technical support through ensure beneficiary profiling, conduct base-line survey, developing result chain, M&E Framework and monitoring tools as well.

Core professional competencies
·         Masters of Commerce major in Management

·         A total of 10 years experiences inclusively on M&E field with different N/INGOs with supervisory and managerial roles.

·         Proven expertise on developing M&E plan, M&E framework, monitoring tools, and implement accordingly.

·         Hands on experience in conducted monitoring and successfully deal with data through collected, diagnosed, categorized, analysed and interpreted monitoring data.

·         Design survey/study, determine data collection methodologies, developing questionnaire, collect and clean data and generate reports.

·         Develop project proposal including construct logical frame work and ToC. M&E plan, Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP), M&E Framework and Indicator Performance Tracking Table (IPTT).

·         Organize and facilitate public events like training, meeting, workshop, orientation with strong inter-personal communication and facilitation skills.

·         Experience of work on the given design and reporting templates of some renowned donors like SDC, UNICEF, USAID, GCERF etc.

·         Have necessary operating skills MS Ward, Excel, Power Point, manage MIS data base, online data collection through use Kobo tool box and ODK, use SPSS.21

·         Able to capture best practice, generate lesson learn with clear understanding on Collaborative Learning Adaptation (CLA) Approach.

·         Reporting skills.

Work experiences
Humanitarian Crisis Management Programme-BRAC
01/01/20 to still yet
Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
Cox’s bazar
Roles & responsibilities: Overall planning and implementing of all M&E activities of ‘Self-reliance’ project funded by WFP comprising agriculture and skill development components. Develop project M&E frame work and result chain. Proceed beneficiary survey process and manage all survey data with cleaning, organizing and profiling. Develop ToR for conduct base line survey internally, develop questionnaire, orient enumerators, determine sampling, data collection, analyse and report generation. Develop monitoring tools and collect monitoring data regular basis and submit monitoring report. Plan and implement pre-post assessment of intervention undertake for the FDMN community. Data quality assurance, progress tracking, capture and document lesson learn and share with operation staffs. Ensure necessary compliances of WFP, BRAC and Humanitarian Accountability Programming (HAP) standards.

Significant achievement: Developed project result frame work, successfully collected and cleaned 20,000 beneficiary data and organized accordingly.

Community Development Center (CODEC)
20/03/19 to 28/12/19
Manager, Monitoring & Evaluation
Dacope, Khulna
Roles & responsibilities: Managed entire M&E activities of agriculture and livelihood components of USAID funded food security project Nobojatra’ with technical partner Winrock Internationals. Conducted quality progress monitoring regularly and submitted monitoring report. Ensured Data Quality Assurance through regular conducted data quality assessment in accordance with USAID Data Quality Standards. Ensured necessary process and progress documentation and evidence building by the program staffs. Managed complex data base incorporated 52,000 beneficiaries with unique identification numbers. Designed mini scale survey/studies to evolve the changes of homestead and value chain vegetable producers with different commodities, developed questionnaire in accordance with the measurement scale of Performance Indicator Reference Sheet (PIRS), sampling, data collection, data analysis and reporting. Ensured monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and annual quantitative and qualitative progress reports. Captured case study, lesson learned, challenges and shared with other stakeholders. Coordinated other implementing and technical partners particularly with M&E sector personnel.  Assisted with external consultants in evaluation and assessment process. Ensured compliances of related parties including CODEC, Winrock, World Vision and USAID. Rolled out project accountability framework.

Significant achievement: Successfully meet all the deadlines with different periodic reports. Successfully conducted 2 short-term study among value chain producers and homestead vegetable producers and ensured reports. Properly faced external DQA.

Christian Service Society (CSS)
14/09/18 to 19/03/19
Monitoring & MIS Officer
Tilok, Rupsha, hulna
Roles & responsibilities: Implemented monitoring activities of WAS project. Developed Sani-mart (local sanitation material entrepreneurs) profile, assisted in their organization building, provided strategic support to the program staffs for engage public and private sector in WASH field, arranged cross- learning visit for WASH entrepreneurs, developed monitoring checklists, conducted activity monitoring and reporting. Conducted System Change Monitoring involved with project stakeholders. Ensured data quality, captured case studies and lesson learned, documentation.

Significant achievement: Conducted System Change Monitoring to explore progress against base line status and reported accordingly. Developed Sani-mart profile.

Rupantar
01/09/14 to 28/02/17
Monitoring & Evaluation Coordinator
Khulna
Roles & responsibilities: Managed entire M&E activities of the organization as central M&E Coordinator. Developed M&E plans, PMP, IPTT of organization as well as individual project, assisted in develop ToR for external consultants and hired them to conduct base line/end line surveys of different projects, contributed in organizational development (OD) process, anchored proposal writing and submission process, reviewed project reports, produced annual report, gender and governance (GenGov) assessment organization as well as projects and submitted reports, took part in periodical context analysis process, represented organization in different forum and platforms, met donor visits, assisted in develop monitoring tools.

Significant achievement: Developed complete ToC, M&E plan and PMP for organization, shouldered number of survey including community satisfaction survey, conducted Gender and Governance assessment and reporting, context analysis and reporting, produced annual report for organization.

E-Zone HRM collaboration with Action Aid Bangladesh
02/02/14 to 31/08/14
Programme Audit and Monitoring Officer
Khulna
Roles & responsibilities: Provided technical support to partners in developing plan, quality programming and reporting purpose, monitored partner’s intervention, capacity assessment of ‘People’s Forums’, took part in project end line evaluation, data quality assurance, captured case studies and lesson learned, reporting.

Significant achievement: Completed capacity assessment process of people’s forum.

Nabolok Parishad
01/10/13 to 31/01/14
Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
Paikgacha, Khulna
Roles & responsibilities: Developed monitoring checklists and conducted process monitoring and submission monitoring report, developed guidelines for different community based groups, developed pro-poor user manual of municipality pipe line water supply system, update progress data into MIS, submitted progress reports.

Significant achievement: Developed pro-poor user manual of municipality pipe line water supply system.

World Vision Bangladesh
16/08/08 to 30/09/12
Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
Muksudpur, Gopalganj
Roles & responsibilities: Carry out all M&E interventions in ‘Area Development Program’ comprised with four projects of economic development, health, education and sponsorship management. Developed monitoring tools, conducted monitoring and submitted monitoring reports. Conducted short-term studies of different specific interventions in different projects, strengthened capacities of ‘Community Based Organizations (CBOs), shouldered mid-term evaluation by external consultants, anchored programme re-designed process including submission of complete project proposal, submitted progress reports, ensured progress data into monitoring software, captured most significant changes (MSC) and lessons, updated IPTT.

Significant achievement: Successfully anchored programme re-design process including mid-term survey, developed modality with video documentation of a climate smart agricultural technology ‘Floating Vegetable Cultivation’.

Institute of Development Initiative (IDE)
03/01/06 to 31/03/07
Training Facilitator
Muksudpur, Gopalganj
Roles & responsibilities: Implemented contractual training events on ‘Participatory Planning’ and ‘Gender and Governance’ issues for ‘Village / Slum Development Committees’ of SHOUHARDO-phase I project implemented by care Bangladesh at Haor region. Developed training materials like module, prepared training plan and calendar, organized training by the support of partner organization and delivered training, submitted training reports.

Significant achievement: Successfully achieved the target of deliver number of training at hard to reach area within the time frame.

Shushilan
01/11/05 to 31/05/06
Upazila Training Officer
Assassuni, Satkhira
Roles & responsibilities: Developed training plan and calendar, Implemented planned training events of the WASH project funded by Water Aid Bangladesh, delivered training for project front line staffs, volunteers, Community Based Group members and Local Government Body members. Produced training completion report, training follow-up monitoring.

Significant achievement: Successfully established office set-up in Union Parishad Office through built healthy working relationship with LGIs. Developed capacity of fresh hand front line staffs.

World Vision Bangladesh
05/11/01 to 30/09/05
Community Awareness Trainer
Satkhira
Roles & responsibilities: Implemented planned WASH activities of USAID Title-I Food Security Enhancement Initiative (FESI) project executed by World Vision Bangladesh. Mobilized community people on WASH issue and organized community based support groups, delivered training for support groups and LGI members, facilitated community situation analysis through used PRA tools, established demonstration of ‘Low Cost Sanitation Facility’, provided sanitary latrine and water options, facilitated Participatory Monitoring Process, reporting.

Significant achievement: Declared ‘total sanitized village’ in 16 working villages, effectively engaged communities in WASH interventions.

Educational qualification
Name of  the Exam.
Group/Subject
Board/University
Year
Obtained Class
M. com
Management

National University

2005
2nd class
B. com (honours)

Accounting
National University
1997
2nd class
HSC
Commerce
Dhaka Board
1993
2nd division
SSC
Science
Jashore Board
1991
1st division
 

Professional Training and/ Workshop
Training title and duration
Institute
5 days Training on ‘Radicalization & Counter/Preventive Violence Extremism(C/PVE)’ on 2016 at Hotel Six Season, Gulshan-1, Dhaka
Strategic Edge, GCERF
5 days Training on ‘Monitoring, Programme Audit and Research’ on 2014 at RRTC, Dhaka
AAB
3 days Training on Lot Quality Assurance Sampling(LQAS) on 2012 at Khulna
WVB
3 days Training of Trainer on 2012 at Khulna
BRAC
3 days Training on Monitoring and Evaluation on 2010 at Dhaka
BRAC
7 days Workshop on ‘Project/ Programme Design’ on 2009 at CBCB center Dhaka
WVB
3 days Training on ‘Community Based Advocacy’ on 2008 at Hope centre, Savar
CCDB and Interaction
3 days Training on ‘Impact of Unexpected Changes of Climate’ on 2007 at Hope centre, Savar
Dept. of Geography, JU
3 days Training on Effective Communications and Report Writing on 2007 at CCDB, Mirpur-10, Dhaka
CCDB and Rapport Bangladesh
10 days Training on Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) on 2006 at Satkhira
WAB and DASCOH
5 days Training on ‘Strategic Program Review & Participatory Community Based Monitoring & Evaluation on Safe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion’ on 2002 at Mymensingh
WAB
Personal information
Name
James Liton Halder
Father’s Name
Late Kumud Halder
Mother’s Name
Shandha Halder
Permanent Address
Village: Ramdebpur, Post: Bharashapur, Sub-district-Rampal, District-Bagerhat, Bangladesh.
Nationality
Bangladeshi by birth

Date of birth
10-05-1976
Marital Status
Married

Blood Group
B (+)ve
Religion
Christianity
National ID #
3523203140776
Birth Registration
19768728204033933
Driving license
SHA-KHA 0430141HA- SHA
# of dependents
Five

vi. References:

Particular

Reference: 01
Reference: 02
Name
:
Abdus Salam
Md. Moktatherul Haque
Organization
:
HCMP-BRAC
MaMoni-MNCSP Save the Children in Bangladesh
Designation
:
Sector Lead
Manager-MIS
Address
:
Annex-3, Hatchery road, Colatoly, Cox’s Bazar
Civil Surgeon Office, Feni 3900, Bangladesh.
Mobile
:
+88021847-455723
+88 01718065796
E-Mail
:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Relation
:
Professional
Professional
vii. Certification: I am the undersigned, declare hereby that the above information have correctly described from the best of my knowledge and belief.

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JAMES LITON HALDER