A Few Words
BARCIK TEAM
Asia Akter has been working with BARCIK as a Field Facilitator at BARCIK Mainkgonj Resource Center, since 2018. The responsibilities she holds as an Field Facilitator of the organization include: arranging meetings, dialogues, human chains, press conferences, visits, information collection, communication with government and non-government service delivery organizations, field day observation, national day observations, documentations, facilitate to arrange fairs, trainings etc. Asia Akter works with women, youth groups, civil societies and different professional groups. She has completed her Master Degree from National University.
Rina Akter has been working with BARCIK as a Project Facilitator at BARCIK Mainkgonj Resource Center since 2018. The responsibilities she holds as an Project Facilitator of the organization include: arranging meetings, dialogues, human chains, press conferences, visits, information collection, communication with government and non-government service delivery organizations, , national day observations, documentations, facilitate to arrange fairs, trainings etc. Rina Akter works with women, youth groups, transports workers, civil societies and different professional groups. She has completed her graduation on Bachelor of Social Science (BSS) from National University.
Sonjita Kirtuniya has been working with BARCIK as a Field Facilitator at BARCIK Mainkgonj Resource Center, since 2020. She currently studying Master degree on Management in National University. The responsibilities she holds as a Field Facilitator of the organization include: arranging meetings, dialogues, human chains, yard meeting to create awareness about the negative impact of chemical and pesticides in her working area. She mainly works with farmers, youth groups to create awareness and motivates them reducing the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in crops’ lands.
Sharmin Akter has been working with BARCIK as a Field Facilitator at BARCIK Mainkgonj Resource Center, since 2018. The responsibilities she holds as a Field Facilitator of the organization include: arranging meetings, dialogues, human chains, yard meeting to create awareness. She produces monthly report based on her works. She mainly works with farmers, youth groups to create awareness and motivates. She has completed Higher secondary School certificate (HSC) from Debendra college of Manikgonj.
Ananna Akter has been working with BARCIK as a Field Facilitator at BARCIK Mainkgonj Resource Center, since 2020. The responsibilities she holds as a Field Facilitator of the organization include: arranging meetings, dialogues, human chains, yard meeting to create awareness about the negative impact of chemical and pesticides in her working area. She mainly works with farmers, youth groups to create awareness and motivates them reducing the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in crops’ lands. She has completed honors and is currently studying Master degree on Marketing in National University.
Beauty Akter has been working with BARCIK at Manikgonj Resource centre since 2018 as office cum documentation assitant. She has completed Higher secondary school certificate. She is responsible to look after the official documents and maintain the office and composes all documents.
Rukhsana Rumi works as an associate program officer of BARCIK at Rameswarpur Resource Centre in Atpara, Netrokuna. She was affiliated with BARCIK from 2007 working as field officer to document indigenous knowledge based agriculture practices as well as to gather information about the life and livelihood of the community people. Previously she worked for Polly Mangal and Gharani. She was graduated from National University.
Noni Gopal Dalu has been working for BARCIK since 2012. The responsibilities he holds as a program officer of accounts and management include: coordinate the accounts, prepare financial reports, checks bill and voucher, conduct internal audit of the financial activities, maintains the daily expense and budget, prepares different formats associated with accounts and management. He has received training on accounts and management, audit, financial report preparation etc. He has a post graduated degree on accounting from National University.
Parboti Rani Singh has been working with BARCIK since 2012. The responsibilities she holds as a program officer of the organization include: conducting advocacy, assist farmers and other occupational groups forming organizations, assist and train farmers about livestock rearing, facilitate farmers and women groups conserving seeds, practicing indigenous knowledge based agricultural works etc. She received training on climate change adaptation, mitigation, sustainable agriculture, gender, report writing which help her to carry out the assigned duties properly. She has a post graduate degree from National University.
Goonjon Rema has been working with BARCIK since 2012. The responsibilities he holds as a program officer of the organization include: Coordinating the program in Upazila level, conducting advocacy, assisting farmers and other occupational groups forming associations, facilitating the indigenous communities to fight for their rights, assisting farmers and women to conserve seeds, prepare organic manure and pesticides and encouraging them to practice indigenous knowledge based agricultural works etc., arranging workshop, seminar and press conference and documentation. He received training on climate change adaptation, mitigation, sustainable agriculture, gender, report writing which help him to carry out the assigned duties properly. He has a post graduate degree from National University.
Khairul Islam has been working with BARCIK since 2012. Presently he holds the post of associate program officer and stationed in Kalmakanda sub-district of Netrakona. As an associate program officer he facilitates the community to form associations, assists them to establish seed bank, seed conservation, and organic manure preparation and encourage them to avail services and entitlements from the government department etc. Apart from this, he is assigned to arrange meetings, facilitates to arrange workshop, seminar, and press conference and collects information for digital documentation. He completed graduation from the national university. He received trainings on different thematic issues that include: training on climate change resilience, gender, report writing and people led development process.
Sohel Rana has been working with BARCIK since 2012. He has completed higher secondary school certificate and has been engaged with BARCIK over the last 10 years. As an associate program officer he arranges meetings, household meetings, and yard meetings, collects information, and documents the livelihoods struggles of the rural people. He also facilitates the women and farmers to conserve local varieties of seeds, practice sustainable agriculture. He assists the communities to establish seed banks as well. Mr Rana also responsible in organizing workshop, campaigns, seminars and press conferences to familiarize as well as to press the problems that rural communities face. He received trainings on sustainable agriculture, people led development, participatory varietals selection and climate change adaptation.
Abdur Rob has been working with BARCIK since 2012. He is mainly responsible to look after the applied research of BARCIK in Netrakona region. He facilitates the farmers to conduct participatory varietals selection, seed conservation, and seed multiplication, updates the seed register books and prepares reports based on the findings of the action research. As an assistant researcher Mr. Rob conducts meetings, discussions and facilitates different types of dialogues in the working area. He also partly oversees the office management related activities in Netrakona and coordinates the office management related activities accordingly. He received training on sustainable development, agroecology, gender, climate change adaptation etc. He has completed graduation from National University.
Tohura Akter has been working with BARCIK since 2012. She is a community facilitator and facilitate the youths to make them aware regarding the impact of climate change and their role. She co-facilitates training on climate change, resilience building and conflict transformation. Her responsibilities also include: arranging meetings, yard meetings, discussion, workshop and information collection. She received training on climate change adaptation, conflict sensitivity, gender and sustainable development. She has completed higher secondary school certificate.
Nirmol Chandra Sorkar is community facilitator of BARCIK working in Netrakona district. He has been involved with BARCIK since 2013. He particularly works to create awareness among the fisher community I Netrakona region assisting them to develop leadership, voice for their rights, access to wetlands and avail facilities as fisher communities. He facilitates to arrange meetings, discussion, training and workshop which aim to motivate and encourage the fisher communities forming association so that they themselves could fight to ensure their control over r ivers, canals and wetlands. Mr. Sorkar has completed higher secondary school certificate and has received training on different thematic issues that include, rights based approach, gender, sustainable development etc.
Sumon Talukder is field facilitator of BARCIK who facilitates farmers in various ways. He trains and encourages farmers to practice sustainable agriculture, produce organic manure and conserve seeds to adapt to change situation due to climate change. He closely works with the youths and motivates them to conserve biodiversity through their day to day works. Mr. Talukder thus arranges meeting, discussions and workshops and ensure the participation of youths and farmers. He also facilitates to organize different campaigns based on the some thematic issues such tree plantation and food security, sustainable agriculture. He has completed diploma in agriculture and received trainings on different thematic issues such as climate change adaptation, food security, sustainable agriculture and people led development etc.
Nayan Mia has been working with BARCIK since 2011 as community facilitator. He facilitates the local farmers to conduct action research with the aim to find suitable crop varieties for the area. In his supervision, farmers of the area thus conduct participatory varietals selection (PVS) with different crops comprise rice, vegetable and pulse. Nayon Mia himself is a farmer and has been practicing sustainable agriculture for years. He does not have formal educational qualification but he can write and read.
Nurul Haque has been working with BARCIK since 2012 as a community facilitator. As community facilitator he facilitates farmers and other occupational groups to form associations through which they can voice for the rights and access. In order to create awareness among the communities he arranges meetings, yard meeting, discussion and campaign. He also prepares news, features and reports based on the result of his work. Nurul Haque has completed Fazil (equivalent to secondary school certificate, SSC). He received training on climate change, sustainable agriculture, people led development (PLD) etc.
Lucky Akter Marufa has been working with BARCIK since 2021 as a community facilitator. As community facilitator she organizes meetings, discussions, sharing and other sorts of interaction with the community people. She motivates them to form their own associations and through which they can share their concerns and fight for their access to services and entitlements provided by both public and private institutions. She has received trainings on people led development, gender, climate change adaptation and sustainable agriculture. She has completed graduation from the National University.
Rubi Chowdhury has been working with BARCIK since 2019 as community facilitator. She visits working areas and facilitates to the community, youths and farmers through arranging meetings, discussions and sharing. She closely works with the community in the haor (wetland) areas and motivates them to practice sustainable agriculture to cope with the climate change condition. She inspires youths of the area to plant local and climate adaptable trees in the roadsides, fallow lands and homestead areas so that they could reduce loss due to climate induced disasters. She received trainings on climate change adaptation, food security, gender and sustainable agriculture etc. She has completed secondary school certificate (SSC).
Sima Akter has been working with BARCIK since 2022 as a community facilitator. She is responsible to facilitate the community in the Haor (wetland) region. She arranges meetings, discussions and sharing to help the community cope with climate change condition and build their resilience. She also prepares monthly reports based on the results of the facilitation. She received training on climate change adaptation, resilience, gender, sustainable agriculture etc. She has completed graduation from the national university.
Reshmi Rongkheng has been working with BARCIK since 2022. She has been stationed in Kalmanda sub-district of Netrakona and closely works with the indigenous people living in the hilly region. She arranges meetings, discussions and other sorts of facilitation to create awareness among the indigenous communities and helps them to build their resilience to climate change. She received trainings on climate change, adaptation and mitigation, sustainable agriculture, gender and food security issues. She has completed post-graduation from the National University.