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Why Wealth Management is Important

by Aimer Merchants December 23, 2022 0

Are you one of those who think money does not grow on trees? Well, if you want to increase your wealth, then it’s time for you to start looking beyond the tre... Read more.

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Parveen S. Huda is a widely recognized professional of Bangladesh with 30+ years of experience in Human Resources Management & Development, Project Management, Entrepreneurship Development and Skills & Employment fields with leading organizations both as a professional and consultant. Parveen has so far provided support to various local and international clients, including the Asian Development Bank Technical Assistance for SPCSSECP Project, BRAC International, Handicap International, MainLevel Consulting (Germany), World Food Programme, TFO Canada, the British Council, Asia Indigenous People’s Pact Foundation (AIPP based in Thailand), RTI International (USA), Sesame Street (USA), Primark UK, PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC, UK), , ILO, GIZ (previously GTZ), ITC (International Trade Centre – Geneva), ActionAid International (Vietnam & Pakistan), etc

Before becoming a full time consultant – she worked for various organizations for 12+ years (from 1994-2006) with her last full time job as the Head – HR & IT in ActionAid Bangladesh. Before that she worked in CARE Bangladesh, OTOBI Ltd., Square Pharmaceuticals Ltd., and BEXIMCO group in reverse chronological order. Parveen has also been teaching at various private universities since 2000 and started public training from 1999 and has so far trained and educated thousands of professionals and young students.

With her HR Development focus – she is capable of designing and implementing skill development programs for multiple sectors with practical experiences in the Development Sector, Ready Made Garments, Construction and Pharmaceuticals Industry. She is very passionate about the development of youth, females and Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) and works with in projects which help people to develop their skills to enter into meaningful employment. She is currently working as the National Gender Specialist for Asian Development Bank funded, and Bangladesh Bank managed Supporting Post COVID-19 Small Scale Employment Creation Project (SPCSSECP) as a part of their Technical Assistance component.

In her 30 years of career, she has developed numerous training modules and manuals, especially for young people. She completed two Training of Trainers for BRAC International for their new project Mastercard Foundation Accelerating Impact for Young Women (AIM) program, one in Uganda and the other in Sierra Leone in 2022. She was engaged to develop a Training Manual for developing the Leadership skills of female worker leaders working in the RMG sector to ensure their workplace rights for ActionAid Bangladesh. She has worked with Care Bangladesh to develop training modules for managers and supervisors of RMG and Ceramic sector to ensure women’s empowerment in their respective factories. She was engaged with CREA as a Feminist Mentor for NGO female Executive Directors.

She was supporting TFO Canada to assess and train the women-owned SMEs by their various programs to develop their capacity for export. She recently (2023) helped to assess Agro-food producers for their potential to export, after they have received training from Women in Trade for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth (WTISG) project, where she also worked as a trainer, on behalf of TFO Canada. She has completed a role as a Co-Trainer in 2020 for Export Launchpad Bangladesh, managed by TFO Canada along with the Business Promotion Council of the Ministry of Commerce, funded by ITFC and Global Affairs Canada, where she helped to assess 25+ Trainers to train women led enterprises to export to Canada and beyond. She also worked with TFO Canada in 2019 as a Trainer for ITC SheTrades Commonwealth project to provide training to female entrepreneurs to increase their export earnings.

She had been validated as a Core Skills trainer for the British Council’s Global Education Programme – Connecting Classrooms, Phases 3 & Phase 4 since 2015 up to 2021, through this program, she has trained hundreds of teachers and head teachers of secondary schools to incorporate core skills in their teaching methods to make their students develop as global citizens. Between 2018-19 she worked with the Centre for Peace & Justice of BRAC University to train 320 female students to two public universities in “Peace Building, Leadership & Entrepreneurship” for UN Women’s “Empowering Women: Peaceful Communities” project. She worked as the Deputy Policy Advisor for the DFID & SDC initiative titled Skills and Employment Programme – Bangladesh (Sudokkho). Parveen has completed 3.5 years as the Country Manager, Bangladesh of Business Innovation Facility, which is a UKAID funded project managed by PricewaterhouseCoopers UK. She was engaged with the Research and Professional Development Center (RPDC) of BRAC Business School as a Project manager to develop the curriculum of an international trade and business post graduate diploma course.

Parveen has also worked with various government projects which started in 2008, with Export Promotion Bureau for a project titled “Bangladesh Quality Support Programme (BQSP II)” to develop export diversification with the support from ITC (Geneva) and funding from European Commission. In 2019 she engaged through Enroute International for a project funded by Nutrition International as the HR Consultant to review the HR plans and Capacity Assessment of 22 GoB Ministries to deliver the National Action Plan for Nutrition. She was a Technical Assessor for the Prime Minister’s Office project a2i (Access to Information) for their Service Innovation Funds for 4/5 years. Now she is working with a2i (Aspire to Innovate) as they become an agency to help them develop Results Frameworks for their teams to align their Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with their Monitoring & Evaluation Framework.

She is a passionate and lifelong learner and has so far attended 70+ trainings and workshops, and numerous seminars and conferences. She attended a 3 days Training of Trainers on Convening and Facilitating Multi-stakeholder Dialogues in Value Chain Development; organized by Value Chain capacity Building – Network, funded by IFAD and organized by Helvetas Vietnam in October 2018 in Thailand. She had received an Australian Government Fellowship offered by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to attend a 3 weeks course in Australia titled “Women Empowerment through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Sustainable Development in Nepal and Bangladesh”; organized by the University of Southern Queensland. She has completed the Partnership Brokering Course Level One Certification from The Partnering Initiative (TPI) of International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF), UK. She had received an ILO scholarship to attend a training program at the ITC (International Training Centre) of ILO on Turin, Italy on Tackling Discrimination at the Workplace. She is an ITC (Geneva) Certified Supply Chain Management Trainer for DCCI (Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industries), Bangladesh. In addition she has attended various training and conferences in UK, Australia, Italy, Thailand, South Korea, UAE, Kenya, South Africa, Vietnam, Malaysia, Nepal, India and Sri Lanka. She has received an MBA degree from IBA, DU.

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