Anisur Rahman

Anisur Rahman Chowdhury did Masters in Management and Business Administration (major: Marketing) respectively in 1988 and 2005, has a total of 24 years experience (9 years in senior management, 8 years in mid-level and 7 years in the lower mid-level positions) in the national and international development sector. For around last 14 years he has been directly involved with the Private Sector Development (PSD) field and supervised and facilitated a multi-disciplinary team to develop, field test and demonstrate customised and need based business services for micro and small enterprises. He has been active with 6-7 on-farm and off-farm value chain development work (namely rural pottery, small holder dairy, small holder beef production, tomato, pond fisheries, banana and papaya at 3 hill districts) with the NGOs and private business service providers in the north and southern part of Bangladesh. His networking skills and capacity to work with a cross-section of peoples and organizations are well developed. He pioneered in establishing Rural Sales and Service Centre (RSSC) as a centre for backward and forward linkage services for sustainable off farm and on farm production and facilitated linkage with corporate sector like ACI, Bengal meat, Milk vita etc, He demonstrated his success as an able and efficient Senior Manager in the group (at 11 countries of Practical Actions presence) by implementing a 3.2 million euro project within 21 month by reaching 15000 farming households in the 6 Upazilla under 2 districts, which was supported by EU under the Food Facility project during 2009-11, which has been possible because of his exceptional ability of managing and engaging of a multi-disciplinary team of around 75 professional and also for wider networking with the 4 different line ministries and research organisations and achieved expenditure rate above 96%. I am particularly looking for a senior to mid level position in any social or community development organisation for at least 2 years duration.