ABHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE STRATEGY AND DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT

An experienced team leader, strategic thinker, senior manager, facilitator and coach, with deep international track record and solid experience in NGOs, UN Agencies, and donors. With over thirty years of experience in managing multi-cultural teams in different countries and providing high-quality consulting services bringing in evidence-based thinking and policy inputs for senior organizational leaders and managers, Abhijit specializes in organizational performance and programme strategy, strategic reviews, evaluations and organizational capacity building strategies. Previously worked as Oxfam’s Country Director in Iraq, Regional Manager for Middle East & North Africa, and later as Oxfam’s Deputy Director for Asia, Middle East/North Africa and Former Soviet Union.

SPECIALIST SKILLSStrategic leadership, management and facilitation: Leading and managing teams; setting goals and visualization for senior leaders; organizational assessments, diagnosis and developing strategies; planning and performance monitoring; training and facilitation in change management and related areas.Programme reviews, evaluation and project cycle management: Programme and project evaluations; Policy evaluations; Joint evaluations; Country-led evaluations; Humanitarian evaluations. Use of result-based management frameworks (RBM) in project planning and implementation, impact evaluation and real-time evaluation. Poverty alleviation and vulnerability reduction: Programme design and strategy for poverty alleviation, livelihoods and agricultural development programmes. Disaster management, vulnerability reduction and resilience: Expert in disaster management operations and strategy; linking development, disaster risk reduction, recovery and climate change adaptation.

EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY

August 2002 - till date: Founder-Director of Results Matter Consulting, UK:Set up a small consulting firm providing training, coaching and consulting services to international organizations on organizational reviews and evaluations, change management and strategy development. Clients include: UNDP, UNICEF, World Food Programme, UNOCHA, UNRWA, UNHCR, WFP, Department for International Development (DFID), European Commission Humanitarian Office, Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI)/KPMG, CARE International and International Committee of the Red Cross.

August 2000 – July 2002: Programme Director, Resource Alliance, UK:The Resource Alliance is a non-profit organization building management, communication and resource mobilization capacity of civil society institutions throughout the world. Abhijit had the overall responsibility for planning, delivering, monitoring and impact assessment of the organization’s global capacity building programme. Led a phase of organizational development and expansion of programme through development of strategic partnerships globally. Developed impact assessment methodology and indicators for Resource Alliance’s capacity-building programme for non-profit organizations in fundraising. March 1989 – July 2000: Oxfam GB (in various positions and locations as below):

January 1997 – July 2000: Deputy Director for Asia, Middle East, FSU & Eastern Europe and Regional Manager for the Middle East & North Africa Region. Directly managed nine (9) country offices in the area and led the regional teams towards

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developing strategically coherent programme which addressed new organizational priorities using rights-based framework for programme development. Was additionally responsible for initiating, overseeing and fundraising for major humanitarian operations in Occupied Palestinian Territories, Yemen, Lebanon, Saharawi refugee camps etc. Reviewed management structures and systems in the entire area, and as part of organization-wide change management, led the process of regionalization in Asia, Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe. Led the process of development of Oxfam’s global programme standards.

July 1996-December 1996: Consultant for Oxfam Caribbean region, Kingston, Jamaica. Developed and implemented strategy to support the regional management in change management involving major restructuring and strategic planning.

June 1995 – June 1996: Country Director, Iraq (based in Baghdad). Was responsible for overall management and strategic direction of Oxfam's post-war recovery and resettlement programme focusing on food security and shelter provision covering both Northern and South/Central Iraq, which were implemented mainly through government departments. Senior level representation. Developed project proposals and raised funds from multi-/bi-lateral donors. Commissioned and managed a review of the country programme which led to major changes in Oxfam’s operations in Iraq.

March 1989 – May 1995. Deputy Country Director, India. Overall responsibility for strategic planning and management of operations, including major emergencies; managing all field offices in the country and senior level representation and resource mobilization.

September 1988 – February 1989: Evaluation Consultant, PLAN International, South Asia.

January 1986 – August 1988: Programme Officer (Agriculture & Rural Development), Aga Khan Foundation, India.

1982 – 1985: Agriculture Specialist, a local NGO in India

RELEVANT CONSULTING ASSIGNMENTS

Capacity building, organizational review and strategy development

Government of Bangladesh/UNDP (current) Team leader: Review of National Plan for Disaster Management (2010-2015) and drafting of next five-year plan for resilience in line with priorities and national targets emerging from World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction and forthcoming Sustainable Development Goals Agenda.

Aga Khan Foundation Bangladesh (2014) Strategy Consultant: Development of ten-year Strategic Framework and Implementation Benchmarks for an NGO partner which is the second largest NGO in the country, employing over 7,000 staff and a budget of US$ 40 million.

UNDP Maldives (2013-14) Capacity Development Consultant: Strategy development and implementation of capacity building support for development of civil society in Maldives – training and coaching of 25 NGO leaders over a period of one year.

UNDP/ DFID China (2012-15): Training, facilitation and development of logframe and M & E framework for ‘Sharing and Learning on Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction

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and Community Resilience Initiative’ between the Government of China and the Department for International Development (DFID), UK.

UNICEF (2010-11) Team Leader: Institutional capacity review for Haiti earthquake response: reviewed UNICEF’s global deployment, HR, needs assessment, programme management, decision-making and capacity for major humanitarian response, and working with the corporate senior management, developed recommendations for key actions for UNICEF’s future management of emergencies.

IFRC, Europe zone & Central Asia (2010) Team Leader: Strategic Review of Federation’s capacity building support to of National Red Cross/ Red Crescent Societies in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Moldova.

UNICEF (2009) Team Leader: Review of UNICEF-DFID Phase III Programme of Cooperation to strengthen UNICEF’s global humanitarian capacity and engagement with humanitarian reforms.

IFRC (2009): Facilitation of Strategy 2020 Implementation Framework Development through series of workshops and meetings for the International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent.

ECB Project/ CARE International (2008): Design assistance on Pilot Project to Develop Tools for Joint Emergency Assessments and share Learning from Evaluations & After Action Reviews.

Canadian Red Cross (2008) Team Leader: Development of options and strategy for long-term work in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India building on the capacity and lessons from post-Tsunami recovery programme in risk reduction, livelihoods and health sectors.

IFRC (2007): Conducted feasibility study for IFRC and Grameen Bank partnership for setting up joint microfinance institutions in Africa, and made recommendations on institutional strategy to the Governing Board.

IFRC (2005) Team Leader: Reviewed management structure and system of IFRC headquarters for disaster preparedness and emergency response and developed recommendations for disaster management coordination and system.

Islamic Relief Worldwide (2005) Team Leader: Development of competency framework, reward policy and procedure for IRW headquarters.

UNHCR Iraq (2004): Capacity building programme for Ministry of Displacement and Migration, Government of Iraq: provided support on inter-agency coordination (UN agencies) of capacity building support to the Ministry, and developed a joint strategy for organizational development of this newly set up Ministry to deal with internally displaced and refugees.

International Union Against Cancer (UICC), Geneva (2004): Review of UICC’s governance structure and development of strategy for internationalization of this membership organization of 280 members, including government health authorities from about 70 countries, and advised on future strategy and implementation plans.

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International Committee of Red Cross (2004): Review of ICRC’s capacity building support to Sri Lanka Red Cross and lessons thereof for its cooperation programme.

Christian Children’s Fund, USA (2004): Facilitation of strategic planning workshop for Regional Funding Coordinators.

Ford Foundation, China (2003): Training workshop for China NPO (about 25 participants, 3 days) network (promoted by Ford Foundation, China) on NPO leadership and strategic planning skills.

Results-based Management, evaluation and project cycle management

World Food Programme (2014) Team Leader: Uganda Country Portfolio Evaluation.

UNDP Cambodia (2014) Team Leader: Terminal evaluation of Cambodia Community-Based Adaptation Programme (CCBAP).

CARE International/ DFID Yemen (2013) Team Leader: Final evaluation of DFID-supported consortium, Integrated Emergency Response Programme for emergency response and early recovery focusing on livelihoods and food security.

UNDP Afghanistan (2013) Team Leader: Outcome Evaluation of country programme outcome on poverty alleviation, livelihoods and private sector development.

UNDP Sudan (2012) Team Leader: Mid-term review of reintegration component of Sudan Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Programme.

UNDP Bangladesh (2012) Team Leader: Review of five-year funding to Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme (CDMP) of Government of Bangladesh and capacity building strategies at district and provincial level.

UNDP, Uzbekistan (2012) Team Leader: End of project evaluation of Area-Based Development Programme on capacity development of mid-level government officials for promoting rural livelihoods through business and agricultural development.

UNDP Sudan (2012) Team Leader: Mid-term review of reintegration component of Sudan Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Programme.

CAFOD (2011) Team Leader: End of Programme Evaluation: CAFOD-DFID GPAF007 Programme in Kenya and Zimbabwe.

UNDP (2010): Assessment of Development Results (ADR) for UNDP’s support to Somalia, including support to the Transitional Federal Government.

UN OCHA (2008): Evaluation of Central Emergency Response Fund – assessment of its results and reporting framework.

Independent Commission for Aid Impact, UK/ KPMG (2012): Evaluation of DFID’s support to Horn of Africa Drought of 2011.

IFRC, Europe zone & Central Asia (2010) Team Leader: Strategic Review of Federation’s capacity building support to of National Red Cross/ Red Crescent Societies in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Moldova.

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UNDP, Indonesia (2010) Team Leader: Review of UNDP’s support to Aceh Government Transformation Programme for building capacity for recovery and reconstruction programme.

IFRC (2010): Real-time Evaluation of Red Cross Red Crescent’s response to Haiti Earthquake.

CARE UK/ DFID (2008) Team Leader: Reviewed strategy, logframe and M&E system of a DFID-funded governance programme for strengthening interface between the Government of Sierra Leone and civil society institutions (ENCISS).

IFRC, 2006 (Team Leader): Strategic Review of Africa Plan of Action covering disaster risk reduction, food security, basic healthcare, HIV/AIDS and capacity building of National Red Cross Societies in the Africa continent.

QUALIFICATION & TRAINING

1981: M. Sc Agricultural Economics from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India.

1979: B. Sc Agriculture, with specialization in Agronomy, B.C. Roy University of Agriculture, India.

2009: Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner, The Coaching Academy, UK.

2003: Advanced Facilitation Skills Course, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, London.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP Member, UK Evaluation Society Former Member of the Board of International Childcare Trust, UK, and Chair of

Programme Committee. Certified NLP Practitioner and member of The Coaching Academy, UK. Observer Member, Action Learning Network for Accountability in Humanitarian

Programmes (ALNAP) of the Overseas Development Institute, UK.

OTHER SKILLS AND EXPERTISE

Well-versed in use of qualitative (NviVo) and quantitative analysis (SPSS) in social research and evaluations, besides use of standard iWork and MS office applications.

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