faruque hossain

* Major Responsibility includes * Lead the global capacity building initiatives of BRAC International (BI) for Head office and 10 countries. Support to design and implement training and development intervention, days and events celebration; * Talent hunt, recruitment and performance management system and Country Relationship management. Provide fresh impetus to gender related awareness. * Facilitate the Young Professional Program (recruitment, module development, organize training, placement, and learning monitoring, etc.) and intern management; * Manage continuing education through the development and deployment of learning reinforcement, initiatives through assisting country trainers regarding staff development initiatives in countries and manage training MIS; Organize and facilitate new staff orientation and update orientation package as per need of BRAC International.

As Manager, Capacity Strengthening Unit under Gender Justice and Diversity of BRAC. I am responsible for supervising and capacity development of 42 Gender Trainers in different location of Bangladesh, also responsible for Training Facilitation, Training projection and Coordination of national and international training for different level of staff, training program implementation, and implementation of Gender Equality Goal (GEG) of the world largest development organization. My team is responsible to implement Gender related capacity Strengthening of 45,000 BRAC staff.

After completion of my training, I have been working with the Gender Justice & Diversity (GJD) Program of BRAC since November 2009 until now at a managerial position. GJ&D Program is a special wing of BRAC, which ensures gender equality within the organization and also directs policy advocacy and lobbying at the national level. Working with this program offers me a holistic understanding and direct exposure to issue of my interest. For example, I received special training on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) issue and Entertainment Education (Edutainment) from Croatia along with Men and Masculinity, from Nepal which includes concerns of transgender community.

* Entire training need assessment and accumulation of all training information of Practical Action * Training scheduling and support for on time smooth training conduction * Archiving of all training modules, materials of Practical Action * Support to roll-out staff capacity development initiatives, i.e. safeguarding, gender mainstreaming, orientation on organization’s vision, mission and strategic business plan.

Right after completing my M.S.S. I joined BRAC in November 2008 as Young Professional. BRAC takes initiatives to promote a cadre service group which is dedicated to train excellent managers and leaders for the organization. I got into this program which directly relates to my academic background. I, along with 20 other Young Professionals, underwent a one year intensive training on management and leadership in NGO and development sector. During our training period, we were placed at grassroots level for field operation for six months and spent six months at class room sessions. This training offered me on-hand experiences of the rural Bangladesh and also familiarized me with gendered dynamics of social hierarchies that prevail in such areas. For example, during my field placement, I assisted destitute women in getting government’s development subsidies, incentives and other financial benefits.

BRAC is a development success story, spreading solutions born in Bangladesh to 10 other countries around the world – a global leader in creating opportunity for the world's poor. What started out as a limited relief operation in 1972 in a remote village of Bangladesh has turned into the largest development organisation in the world. Organising the poor using communities' own human and material resources, BRAC (formerly Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) catalyses lasting change, creating an ecosystem in which the poor have the chance to seize control of their own lives. We do this with a holistic development approach geared toward inclusion, using tools like microfinance, education, healthcare, legal services, community empowerment and more. Our work now touches the lives of an estimated 126 million people, with staff and BRAC-trained entrepreneurs numbering in the hundreds of thousands, a global movement bringing change to 11 countries in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean.

* Design and development of training/development intervention to address the development areas. * Implementation of training/development intervention (supervise/support/coordinate development programmes such as, gender awareness, team building, leadership development, organizational culture and values development, provide TOT for countries, facilitate training programmes) * Coordinate to conduct training effectiveness assessment. (qualitative and quantitative analysis) * Manage continuing education through the development and deployment of learning reinforcement initiatives. * Search the talent and initiatives to hire for different position especially YPT. * Continuously track the international development trend to maintain world class standard of organization development and implement external programs as suited.

I have completed my high school and higher secondary from Sylhet Cadet Colleage.

I have completed my Master of Social Sciences (1 Year) and Bachelor of Social Sciences (4 Years) from Women and Gender Studies Department, the University of Dhaka. I got lot of national and international exposures during my undergraduate and graduate studies. When I was a third year student, I attended a special training on Gender and Development at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok funded by the Royal Netherlands Embassy. I also received other gender and development related trainings and participated in workshops on Men and Masculinities, Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR), Transgender rights etc.