Fabliha Zarin Tasnim
Gender Justice Lead
Highest degree :
Masters
Field of study :
Law
Location :
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Citizenships :
Bangladeshi
Experience :
6 Year(s)
Countries :
Bangladesh
Gender :
Female
Sectors :
NGO, UN Agency, Gender, Vetting
Project Manager – Gender Justice & Community Rights
Dhaka
Naripokkho (National Women’s Rights Organisation)
July 2023
-Present
• Provide strategic leadership to a national-level gender justice and community rights programme, with a strong focus on marginalised women, sex workers, and grassroots feminist movements. • Key Responsibilities & Achievements • Led the design, delivery, and oversight of a gender justice programme focused on strengthening community-led movements and challenging harmful gender norms, aligned with feminist and rights-based principles. • Acted as technical lead on gender justice, supporting standalone gender programming while embedding gender mainstreaming, protection, and inclusion across project activities. • Co-developed programme strategies, results frameworks, indicators, and impact measurement tools, ensuring alignment with organisational values and donor priorities. • Managed and strengthened partnerships with sex worker-led organisations, community-based organisations (CBOs), and advocacy networks, supporting organisational development and movement sustainability. • Facilitated gender justice training, leadership development, and organisational strengthening initiatives for women leaders and community activists. • Led policy dialogue and advocacy engagement with the National Human Rights Commission, policymakers, and media actors to advance gender justice narratives and influence public discourse. • Ensured systematic documentation of learning, evidence generation, and reflective practice, feeding programme insights into advocacy and organisational learning processes. • Maintained donor accountability with Women’s Fund Asia, including narrative reporting, financial oversight, and adaptive programme revisions. • Conducted regular field monitoring across multiple regions, ensuring contextual relevance, safeguarding compliance, and feminist accountability.
Legal Assistant – Programme Governance, Compliance & Safeguarding
Dhaka
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
April 2019
-August 2022
• Worked within a global humanitarian organisation, supporting programme governance, partner compliance, safeguarding, and risk management across multi-sector projects. • Key Contributions • Provided technical advisory support on programme agreements, partner contracts, and compliance systems, ensuring alignment with donor, organisational, and safeguarding standards. • Reviewed and strengthened gender, protection, PSEA, and accountability clauses in project agreements and MoUs with implementing partners. • Supported organisational responses to sensitive issues, including sexual exploitation and abuse, gender-based risks, power imbalances, and staff welfare concerns. • Conducted policy and legal research on protection, inclusion, and organisational accountability, translating findings into practical guidance for programme teams. • Collaborated with programme, finance, procurement, and HR teams to strengthen institutional systems and risk mitigation. • Contributed to organisational learning by identifying compliance gaps and recommending system improvements.
LL.M
Dhaka
East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
August 2017
-August 2018
Master's at International Law
LL.B
Dhaka
BRAC University
August 2012
-April 2017
Bachelors at Law
