KRISHIBID GOUTOM KUMAR GHOSH

Address: Goutom Kumar Ghosh, S/O Late Bikash Chandra Ghosh,

Village & P.O.- Tala, Upazila- Tala, District- Satkhira, Bangladesh

Mobile No: +88-017********

E-mail : ad44bz@r.postjobfree.com

Career Objective:

Ensure food security and improve livelihood of the marginal and poor households by creating new innovative and applicable interventions based on local context and find out income generating activity interventions. To work for climate smart aquaculture & biodiversity conservation. To work for transforming agriculture and improving livelihoods by efficiently utilizing water and land resources. Interested to work for management of water, land and related resources to maximize agricultural productivity, economic and social welfare for the sustainability of the ecosystems and the environment.

Career Summary:

Develop Capacity building; facilitate different training, seminar, and workshop. Prepare annual plan & different reports. Plan, implement & monitoring different livelihood development & food security projects in the field level. Develop different supply chain and working with different market actors. Establish and implement different entrepreneurship, identify different IGA and implement IGA. Develop linkage with GOB departments, INGO, NGO and private sectors. Worked for protection and biodiversity conservation of Sundarbans Reserve Forest. Supervise and manage staffs efficiently.

Special Qualification:

1. Able to work under pressure & have team spirit and also have good experiences to work with PNGO, Private & Public Sector.

2. Very good communication skills & working with the team members & Very much sincere, honest, and dedicated to work

3. Have vast experiences to work in the Southwest coastal areas, livelihood development, food security & shrimp sector

Employment History:

Total Year of Experience: More than 26 Years

1.District Coordinator, Bagerhat & Gopalganj District (1 July, 2022 to 31 December, 2023)

Sustainable Coastal and Marine Fisheries Project (SCMFP), Solidaridad Network Asia, Department of Fisheries (DoF), Funded by World Bank

Duties/Responsibilities:

1.Responsible for cluster formation, mobilization and upscale knowledge and skill of shrimp farming clusters in the assigned district of SCMF project.

2.Maintain day-to-day communication with DPD, DFOs and SUFOs for smooth operation of the project

3.Design, planning and execution of orientation/training events for the field level DoF officials, enumerators, cluster facilitators and respective shrimp farming clusters towards achieving the project goal.

4.Assist shrimp farming clusters in developing cluster business plans for SCMF Project matching grants.

5.Encourage potential private and public sectors to participate and invest in supply chain interventions.

6.Participate in process documentation, data collection and compilation & prepare case studies and project reports.

2.Programme Officer- Shrimp Supply Chain (November 01, 2021 to 30 June, 2022)

Sustainable Agriculture, Food Security and Linkages (SaFaL II) Programme, Solidaridad Network Asia, Funded by Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN)

Duties/Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for providing marketing and business support and linkages to the SaFaL supported households to become successful agro entrepreneurs in the assigned area.

2. Work closely with local, regional buyers to facilitate the sale of farmer’s produces

3. Forecast demand and supply by collecting data from producer groups and make bridging between buyers and producer

4. Identify challenges that restrict the market and sectoral growth in the assigned location and explore possible solutions as per local context in consultation with management

5. Support to establish and operationalize collection centers and agro input shops for creating market access of quality product and strengthen capacities of the entrepreneurs to develop those as successful business entities

6. Take part in process documentation, collection and compilation of information and development of project reports.

3.Aquaculture Development Officer (January 05, 2021 to 30 June 2021)

Safe Aqua Farming for Economic and Trade Improvement (SAFETI), WINROCK INTERNATIONAL, Funded by USDA

Duties/Responsibilities:

1.Work in coordination with the Senior/District Manager and staff of the PNGOs to implement field activities for increasing farm productivity and income of the project beneficiaries through adopting improved technologies.

2.Work closely with PNGOs staffs in identifying proper locations, direct beneficiary farming households, market actors and service providers for implementing project activities.

3.Assist and guide IPNGO staffs in selecting and organizing direct beneficiary farmers into a group/cluster for effective dissemination of improved technologies, better access to quality inputs (PL, feed etc.), output market and information.

4.Promote sustainable, market-driven production systems, compliant with GAP and food safety requirements.

5.Submit monthly, quarterly, six monthly and annual reports of achievements, challenges and lessons learned.

6.Take part in review meetings with program team members and wider stakeholders to share experiences and results.

4.Master Facilitator (February 19, 2020 to December 31, 2020)

Integrated Farm Management Component- 2nd Phase (IFMC II), DAE- DANIDA

Duties/Responsibilities:

1. Facilitate in TOTs, different trainings and workshops

2. Responsible for the training quality and performance of FFs

3.Maintain work relation with UAO, AEO, SAPPO and Tag SAAO & Report on activities in their target Upazila

4. Submission of monthly work plan and quarterly and annual progress reports

5.Backstopping support of FFs and monitoring Farmer Field School (FFS) activities & Trials & Monitoring of FFS field day

5.Programme Officer- Supply Chain (January 8, 2014 to February 15, 2020)

Sustainable Agriculture, Food Security and Linkages (SaFaL) Programme, Solidaridad Network Asia, Funded by Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN)

Duties/Responsibilities:

1. To establish Shrimp & Prawn demo farms & provide technical support to the farmers & facilitate training sessions

2. Support Producer Group (PG) members to ensure Safe food production based on market demand

3. Regular backstopping support of PNGO Staffs, Lead Farmers and PG members and follow-up SaFaL suggested practices

4. To develop linkage with MKA Hatchery & Desh Bangla SPF Hatchery so that farmers can get Quality SPF PL

5. To develop linkage with DoF and other public & private sector

6. Develop sustainable business plan of Agri-input shop & established Agri-input shop & developed linkage with private sector

7. To prepare action plan & budget for commercially Golda PL production in the earthen pond & implement in the field

8. Prepare Quarterly Activity Plan and monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and yearly reports

6.

Project Officer ( February 12, 2013 to September 30, 2013)

SmartFarm Project, Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Program, WorldFish

Duties/Responsibilities:

1. Identify most suitable communities and target beneficiaries

2. Support selected communities in developing and implementing their own development goals and innovation agendas

3. Provide support in designing, implementing farmers’ participatory monitoring and reporting on the field activities

4. Provide monthly and other reports and information as required by CCAFS and management

5. Write articles, case studies. take regular photographs of field activates

6. Provide effective leadership, guidance and people management expertise to assist in the development of project staff

7.

Project Coordinator ( November 14, 2011 to July 30, 2012)

Strengthening Resilience of Climate Change-affected communities in South -Western Coastal area of Bangladesh Project, Practical Action Bangladesh, Funded by UNDP

Duties/Responsibilities:

1. Coordinate project activities including programme planning, revision, & execution, and budget management.

2. Coordinate and review the progress of the project-specific activities and other targets according to the outcomes and outputs of the project.

3. Follow up, monitoring and evaluation of the project activities & Facilitate coordination meeting, workshops and seminar.

4. Maintain liaison with Project Manager (PM) and Team Leader (TL) in strategic management and deliver required information

5. Prepare reports, and contribute to knowledge products & prepare training module, session plan and training schedule.

6. Facilitate training on climate change, biodiversity conservation and participatory monitoring, sustainable shrimp culture

8.

Project Officer ( June 1, 2010 to November 9, 2011)

Household Economic and Food Security for Extreme Poor (HEFS)-SHIREE Project, Save the Children UK, Funded by UKAID- Shiree (1 June 2010 to 30 September 2011), Save the Children International (1 October 2011 to 9 November 2011)

Duties/Responsibilities:

1. Ensure verification of extreme poor household, HH profile collection, HH micro plan, analysis of input schedules, monitor input procurement and input delivery to the selected BHHs

2. Facilitate technical services in terms of planning, target setting, training, organizing events

3. Responsible to develop courses and modules and roll out specific training for PNGO staff, community mentors and follows up skill/orientation to HH members as per input schedule.

4. Assess local situation and demand of livelihoods option, marketing and linkage, value chain development, climate resilient input for the selected BHH

5. Support PNGO staff to create and maintain Upazila level HH data base and input data entry and MIS

6. Analyze livelihoods input of BHH & asses the milestone indicator & participate in various assessment & conducting case studies & generate reports and updates for the partners and Save the Children Field Units for feedback, management decision

9.

Site Coordinator (Munshigonj Site, Sundarbans Cluster) ( May 3, 2009 to May 28, 2010)

Integrated Protected Area Co-Management (IPAC) Project, CODEC, Funded by USAID Bangladesh

Duties/Responsibilities:

1. Coordination of program implementation at the cluster level with the IPAC Central Management Team.

2. Technical support and oversight of IPAC activities in and around the designated protected areas (Sundarbans).

3. Effectively engage and communicate with key stakeholders of the IPAC program, including local government authorities and technical departments, NGOs, CBOs and civil society.

4. Coordination and assistance to technical specialists assigned to support program implementation.

5. Supervision and oversight of technical guidance to site facilitators and other field staffs.

6. Accountable for the timely submission of all required inputs for program planning, progress reporting

7. Coordination of administrative and financial management.

10.

Project Officer ( February 1, 2008 to April 30, 2009)

Regional Fisheries & Livestock Development (Barisal Component), (RFLD-BC), A GOB-Danida Project

Duties/Responsibilities:

1. To form Farmer Field School (FFS) & organize and facilitate training for field staffs and other stakeholders.

2. To coordinate all stakeholders for making CBOs with the help of Ups & to supervise & monitor field staffs.

3. To prepare monthly activities report and all sort of technical report.

4. To visit field regularly and technical support to the target farmers.

5. To liaison and coordinate with the GoBs, DOF, DLS, Research Institute, NGOs, Union Parishad (UP) and private sector.

11.

Extension Officer ( June 1, 2006 to September 30, 2007)

Shrimp Quality Support Project (SQSP), WorldFish Center, Bangladesh Funded by USAID

Duties/Responsibilities:

1. To select potential area for shrimp culture & identify and select potential shrimp farmers and organize farmers meeting.

2. To form Farmer Field School (FFS) or group.

3. To train selected farmers and assess training courses.

4. To visit field regularly and technical support to the target farmers.

5. To prepare monthly activities report and all sort of technical and monitoring report.

12.

Project Officer ( April 3, 2005 to December 31, 2005)

Patuakhali Barguna Aquaculture Extension Project (PBAEP), Danida Technical Assistance

Duties/Responsibilities:

1. To provide technical support to the co-operating NGOs.

2. To plan, design and conduct training for partner NGO Staff on Integrated Pond farming, Fry Nursery Management, Fresh Water Prawn Farming, Catfish culture, Gender and Development.

3. To conduct training for Extension Trainers, School teachers, Block Supervisors, Local NGO Staff, Fry Nurserers & Fry Traders

4. To follow up PNGO Staffs activities at field level & organize and facilitate different workshops, seminars etc.

5. To liaison and coordinate with the GoBs, DOF, research institute, NGOs, Union Parishad (UP), private sector

13.

Extension Officer ( July 11, 2001 to March 28, 2005)

Fourth Fisheries Project, Department of Fisheries (DoF)

Duties/Responsibilities:

1. To implement aquaculture extension activities of the Fourth Fisheries Project.

2. To follow-up, in the second year, the activities of the ``Fishery Village`` program.

3. To conduct the training sessions for the farmers of the ``Fishery Village``& conduct the base line survey of the Upazila.

4. To prepare monthly, quarterly, six monthly and annual reports as well as other reports.

5. To organize training for the selected NGO members, school teachers, fry traders and DAE staff.

14.

Program Officer ( January 1, 1997 to June 30, 2001)

Uttaran

Duties/Responsibilities:

1. To assist program development ensuring participation of group members and the team.

2. To monitor field activities, collect data and to prepare report for management decision.

3. Transfer appropriate & sustainable technologies for open water & pond fisheries for the community and the group members.

4. To organize and facilitate training for the farmer groups for fisheries and eco-friendly agriculture in the wetland area.

5. To work in team in conducting action research for eco-restoration in the coastal wetland area.

Academic Qualification:

Exam Title

Concentration/Major

Institute

Result

Passing Year

Duration

Achievement

Master of Science

Fisheries

Khulna University, Bangladesh

CGPA:3.26

out of 4

2003

3 terms

Very Good

B.Sc (Honors)

Fisheries

Khulna University, Bangladesh

First Class, Marks :62.05%

1996

4 Years Course

Very Good

HSC

Science

Tala Govt. College, Tala, Satkhira

First Division, Marks :64.6%

1991

2 Years

Very Good

SSC

Science

Tala B. De. Govt. High School, Tala,

First Division, Marks :72.9%

1989

10 Years

Excellent

Training Summary:

Training Title

Topic

Institute

Country

Location

Year

Duration

Lead Trainers Training on Food Safety in Aquaculture Value Chain

Food Safety in Aquaculture Value Chain

FAO

Bangladesh

Dhaka, Bangladesh

2015

4 days

Develop Supply Chain

Supply Chain

SNA

Bangladesh

Jessore

2015

3 Days

Agricultural Technologies Promotion and Resource Management Training

Practical Action Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Rangpur

2010

3 Days

Enterprise Development & Value Chain Analysis

SME

AFE& Oasis

USA

Dhaka

2009

6 days

Communication Training

Communication, Outreach

IPAC & Asiatic

Bangladesh

Dhaka

2009

3 days

Nursery Management Cour

Golda nursery

DoF

Bangladesh

Mymensingh

2003

5 days

Environment and Environmental Law

BELA

Bangladesh

Dhaka

1999

5 Days

PRA

PRA Tools

CDI

Bangladesh

Satkhira

1997

5 days

Software Packages: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point. Can use Internet

Motor Driving: Can ride motorcycle and have valid driving license

Language Proficiency:

Bengali: Can read, write and speak excellent

English: Can read, write and speak excellent

Personal Details :

Father's Name

:

Late Bikash Chandra Ghosh

Mother's Name

:

Kalpana Ghosh

Date of Birth

:

October 8, 1974

Gender

:

Male

Marital Status

:

Married

Nationality

:

Bangladeshi

National Id No.

:

913-***-****

Religion

:

Sanatan

Reference:

1.Indu Bhushan Roy

Senior Programme Manager

Solidaridad Network Asia

Apt.# A1 Merrydale, 1st Floor, H: 32, R: 10/A,

Dhanmondi, Dhaka- 1209, Bangladesh

Mobile: +88-017********

Email: ad44bz@r.postjobfree.com

2. Ashoke Adhikary

Regional Project Manager

Gender-responsive Coastal Adaptation (GCA)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Level 3, Parijat, House 31, Road 6, Sonadanga R/A (1st Phase), Khulna- 9000, Bangladesh

Mobile: +88-017********

Email: ad44bz@r.postjobfree.com

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