Robila Agha Email & Phone Number

Cambodia

The role focuses on developing and delivering Good Return's Inclusive Finance strategy, ensuring systemic changes in financial services for marginalized populations. This includes refining the strategy, preparing annual business plans, and reporting on implementation. The manager designs and implements projects with partners, conducts due diligence.

Pakistan

• Stakeholder Mapping: Identified and engaged key stakeholders in the electronic vehicle industry, including public, private, donor, and corporate sectors.
• Fundraising Promotion: Actively promoted Charged Vehicles among venture capitalists and other funding sources, successfully securing financial support for company initiatives.
• Synergy Building: Developed and maintained partnerships with national and international organizations, fostering collaborations that support the company’s growth and sustainability.
• National/International Registrations: Secured memberships and registrations with climate-friendly and energy conservation organizations, enhancing the company’s environmental credentials.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

• Facilitating Financial Inclusion: Designed and implemented strategies to integrate financial services for GRASP beneficiaries, focusing on underserved and marginalized groups.
• Women’s Financial Inclusion: Ensured that financial products and services were accessible to women, piloting innovative financial solutions tailored to their needs.
• Liaison with SheTrade: Collaborated with SheTrade to incorporate gender inclusion strategies within the GRASP project, aligning with international standards for gender equity.

Lahore

Led Training Unit, managing bank's all capacity building initiatives

Conducted Trainings for Returnees for the titled project

Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan

Led technical advisory function for Access to Finance from Program Office Islamabad. Maintain relationship with main financial partners and provide quality control. Liaise with the financial service providers to identify customized products for the target SMEs. Oversee policy advocacy with the relevant Govt. authorities for facilitating easy access to.

• Challenges Assessment: Conducted comprehensive assessments of the challenges faced by women MSMEs in accessing finance, identifying key barriers and opportunities.
• Product Development: Collaborated with banks to develop tailored credit products and services that meet the specific needs of women entrepreneurs.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Engaged with a wide range of stakeholders, including banks, chambers, donors, and apex organizations, to support the program’s objectives.

Lahore

Lead and implement the access to finance objective of Project by strategizing modus operandi to linkages Credit Providers to the farmers, monitoring results, benchmarking against best practices, and coordination with the relevant stakeholders.

(Involved as advisor to bank since conception 2010)The role envisions building capacity of bank in MF practices and models as well as to liaison with external stakeholders/investors/projects based out of President and Chairman Secretariat. I helped the bank with strategic direction and link to understand development sector.

Pakistan

Lead all operations of both projects to empower entrepreneurial women in five districts of Multan; Toba Tek Singh; Faisalabad; Sheikhupura and Gujranwala based on the donor contracts. Key accomplishments include successful completion of both projects with provision of Microcredit to clients amounting to PKR 90 Million as well as developed skills of 10000.

Pakistan

The key purpose of PMN is capacity building of the staff of national MFIs working. It is on this basis that Microfinance Training Initiative (MTI) was established, as a Training Manager at the inception of the organization conceptualization, design, budgeting, delivering and evaluating training programs was the major challenged handled at that critical.

Pakistan

Responsible for a portfolio of clients whom I advised on the liability of their products related needs. Managed assets of personal banking customers, actively involved in deposit mobilization& providing services to existing customer base, cross sold the Bank’s financial products to wide range of clients, trained sales staff on Quality Service Delivery.

Mba, Finance

Bachelor'S Degree, Statistics