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Consultant Profile: Achyut Hari Aryal (Bangladesh)

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Contact Details

Address: House 58, 1st lane Kalabagan
Dhaka
Bangladesh
1205
Telephone: 88028112795
Fax: 88028113693
Email: achyutharyal@yahoo.com
Total Relevant Experience: 15 years
Date Available for Work: 1 Apr 2006
Type of Work: Long-term work
Summary of Qualifications: I have been working in the field of Microfinance for the last 15 years in different countries in Asia with different national and international organisation in different environment; poverty striken, conflict and post conflict. I have experience working with different donors: USAID, UNDP, DANIDA, DFID, IRISH Govt.etc. Community based microfinance is one of my areas experties.

Expertise

Main Areas of Expertise: Impact study / Village banking / Self-help groups / Solidarity groups / Savings
Country Experience: Bangladesh / Indonesia / Nepal / Sri Lanka
Languages Spoken: English / Other
Nationality: Nepal
Academic/Professional Qualifications: 1. MA in Agricultural and Rural Development, Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Netherlands, 1995
2. MBA Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu Nepal 1987
3. Post Graduate Diploma in Rural and Regional Planing, Institute of Development studies, Israel 1992

Experience (5 select experiences)

District Development Advisor, UNDP UNOPS, Nepal (July 1996-July 1998)
-Assist District Development Committee (DDC)in preparing participatory District development Plan
-Promote Community Organizations (CO), Selfhelp groups in villages to initiate savings&credit activities.
-Assist in networking DDC with different offices
-Help institutionalize Participatory planning DDC level
-Access Ruralfinance need
-Social Mobilization in selected Villages
-Explore and foster the public and private partnership
-Enhance COs's capacity for its viability.
-Regular monitoring
-Link COs to formal credit
-Ensure regular saving and credit activities at COs
Microfinance Expert and Team Leader, Pact Inc., Nepal (April 1999 - December 2000)
-Assess capacities of NGO partners in the line of MFI
- Assess the Microfinance Training need of partners.
- Design Micro finance/Micro enterprises and village banking(VB) related training to partners that work as intermediary for VB groups
-Organize networking workshops among stakeholders
-Help partners obtain MFI license from Centralbank.
-Financial Management
-Conduct research savingsled VB model to recommend for improvement.
-Develop BDS related materials
-Organize training Financial Viability for MFI.
-Advocate Savingsled VB model
-Reporting
Program Advisor-Microfinance, Danish Refugee Council, Sri Lanka (January 2001-February 2004)
-Identify savings&credit activities and methodology that fit to the Internally Displaced Person (IDP)
-Promote savings products for IDPs
-Help promote selfhelp group
-Enhance the capacity of NGO, partners, CBOs and staff
-Develop microfinance guidelines
-Help identify quick income generating type of Mircoenterprise
-Help develop MIS system
-Help identify non financial service for IDPs
-Help build ROSCA system
-Organize workshops seminars
-Help organize social mobilization process
-Advocate for Microfinace good practices in post conflict situation
Technical Advisor-Microfinance, Concern Worldwide, Bangladesh (April 2004 to date)
-Devlop Microfinance institutilisation strategy
-Identify operational issues in the existing Microfinance program and help address such issues
-Identify and promote savings products to fit with the Extremely Poor People
-Enhance the capacity of NGO partners, CBOs & local staff in icrofinance Best practices
-Help develop MIS and FIS system
-Help develop CBO's institutional set-up and help link with banks
-Explore opportunities to leverage savings
-Help identify other nonfinancial services that are important to EPP
Trainer ad Researcher, Agricultural Development Bank, Nepal (June 1992- August 1994)
-Design and organize Training related to project planning, preparation and appraisal, viability and sustainability of micro credit activities, delinquency management, microenterprises etc,
-Training Need Assessment
-Planning and Programming of annual training
-Evaluate of the training, Identification of the research areas based on the burning issues especially in the area Micro credit, Microenterprises.
-Organise Training of Trainers (TOT)
-Conduct research activities especially in the area of effects and impacts of the rural finance.
-Prepare training manual

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