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Fabliha Zarin Tasnim

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

Experience

Project Manager – Gender Justice & Community Rights

Dhaka

Naripokkho (National Women’s Rights Organisation)

July 2023

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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

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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.

Education

LL.M

Dhaka

East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

August 2017

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August 2018

Master's at International Law

LL.B

Dhaka

BRAC University

August 2012

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April 2017

Bachelors at Law