Md. Azmal Hossain Email & Phone Number

Dhaka, Bangladesh

- Leading urban health portfolio for UNFPA Bangladesh- Leading different teams like equity team, innovation team, and focal point for mental health, climate change and fund raising - Leading and managing 8 sexual and reproductive health focused on urban health projects - Managing GAC supported an US$11-million dollar 4-year project in Cox’s Bazar”

Dhaka, Bangladesh

- Led the External Relations and New Business Development team in the external relations strategy and workplan development process to meet the communications and funding targets of Marie Stopes Bangladesh- Provided strategic guidance to 4 Project Managers on the implementation of the following projects

Dhaka, Bangladesh

- Served as the Agreement Officers Representative (AOR) for $40 million Accelerating Universal Access to Family Planning Project managed by Pathfinder International- Served as the Agreement Officers Representative (AOR) for $15 million Ujjiban Social and Behavior Change Communication Project managed by Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs- Served as the Contract Officers Representative (COR) for $4 million Early Childhood Development Mass Media (Sisimpur) Project managed by Sesame Workshop- Provided advisory support to USAID’s $50 million contribution to the World Bank Trust Fund - Provided SBCC technical support to 9 different projects on manternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health, family planning, nutrition and tuberculosis in USAID Bangladesh

Dhaka, Bangladesh

- Led a 10-member Policy Advocacy, Organizational Growth and Private Sector Team in researching, designing, planning and implementing policy advocacy activities - Led the development and management of EngenderHealth Bangladesh Country Strategy for Sustainability and Business Plan - Led the business development, project proposal writing and proposal management initiatives—4 successes and 8 rejected - Advocated successfully to change 16 reproductive health/family planning policies in Bangladesh- Contributed to the development of National Family Planning Manual; Bangladesh Population Policy; National Ministerial Action Plan for Population Policy; Bangladesh National Strategy on Improving the Uptake of LA/PMs in the Family Planning Program; Community Based Misoprostol Distribution Strategy in Bangladesh; National PPFP Action Plan for Bangladesh

Dhaka, Bangladesh

- Led the strategic communication and visibility related activities of EngenderHealth Bangladesh- Led the development and management of EngenderHealth Bangladesh Visibility and Communication Plan- Led the design, development and implementation of 2 Family Planning Campaigns in Bangladesh - Supported EngenderHealth HQs in planning, writing and editing funding proposals in accordance with fundraising guidelines and standards

Dhaka

- Led a 13-member Gender, BCC and Visibility Team in researching, designing, planning and implementing gender, BCC and visibility related activities - Led the design, development and implementation of 2 national campaigns to promote Long Acting and Permanent Methods of Family Planning in Bangladesh - Provided Technical Support to the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MOHFW) in the design, implementation and monitoring of Behavior Change Communication (BCC) Campaigns related with the prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage (PPH) and the promotion of Long Acting and Permanent Methods of Family Planning (LA/PMs) - Led the development and implementation of strategic communication and visibility plan for the prevention of Post-Partum Hemorrhage (PPH) at the community level and revitalizing the use of long-acting and permanent family planning methods in Bangladesh - Worked as a gender focal person of the office to ensure that all activities of the organization are gender sensitive

Dhaka, Bangladesh

- Provided technical assistant to the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to strengthen commitment, policy support and enabling environment for long acting and permanent methods (LA/PM) of family planning services in Bangladesh - Contributed to the analyzing, revising and updating of the National Population Policy - Led the piloting and scaling up of bottom-up contraceptive projection through client segmentation

Dhaka, Bangladesh

- Led the design and implementation of facility walk-through for the elected local government representatives - Led the design, and implementation and scaling up of the projects on o Young Married Couples intervention in SRH Serviceso Using Satisfied FP Acceptors to promote LA/PMso Involving Religious Leaders in the promotion of Family Planning in Bangladesh o Organized and conducted different trainings on reproductive health services in Bangladesh.

Dhaka, Bangladesh

- Led a 7-member team in the design, implementation and nation-wide scaling-up of the project on Use of Misoprostol to prevent Post-Partum Hemorrhage at the Community Level - Contributed to the development of the National Strategy to Community based distribution and use of Misoprostol to prevent Post-Partum Hemorrhage - Led and supervised a 7-member project team to implement the project

Dhaka, Bangladesh

- Contributed to the identification of advocacy issues, preparing supportive advocacy documents - Designed and conducted community based advocacy campaigns with community influentials including teachers and local government representatives- Organized, conducted and facilitated trainings, seminars, symposium, orientation meetings- Led the design, development and airing of TV and Radio talk shows on Family Planning - Formulated BCC strategies and produced BCC materials on Family Planning- Innovated working modality for involving religious leaders in the promotion of Family Planning in Bangladesh - Coordinated advocacy campaign with the Islamic religious leaders - Developed advocacy materials including booklets on Family Planning in the Light of Islam

Dhaka, Bangladesh

- Led a 52-member team to implement ILO supported project on ‘Prevention of the Worst Forms of Child Labor’- Formulated advocacy strategy for the elimination and prevention of child labor working in the brick-fields and brick/stone breaking industries - Withdrawn 443 child labors from the brick-fields and brick/stone breaking industries and mainstreamed them in formal education and appropriate vocational industries - Documented project performances and reported to ILO/IPEC and OSDER core management.

Dhaka, Bangladesh

- Helped the Chief Investigator in analyze research proposal and developing date collection tools - Conducted focus group discussions, in-depth interviews and reviewed secondary data sources - Supervised 7 data enumerators to ensure data quality, data checking, verification and editing - Assisted Chief Investigator in analyzing the data and information and writing the research report

Khulna, Bangladesh

- Facilitated community meetings, court yard meetings, etc. on personal hygiene and related WatSan behavior - Helped the technical persons (engineer/physician) for alternative, safe, accessible and affordable water and sanitation points - Prepared and documented lesson learned, shared the learning and experiences with the management and undertook corrective measures for future activities

Master Of Science In Public Health, Health Systems Management And Policy

Master Of Public Health (Mph), Reproductive Health

Master Of Social Science, Public Administration