Yasmin Begum

Country Experience: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Somaliland, South Sudan, Yemen, Sudan (Khartoum & Port Sudan), and Poland.

Yasmin is a specialist in supply and logistics, as well as partners’ capacity development. She has more than 15 years professional experience on supply chain and logistics management; this includes more than 9 years of international working experience in low-income countries and fragile states.

Yasmin’s experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, emergency and post emergency planning, and long-term development. She has worked in several African and Asian countries and the Middle East, as a Logistics Manager and a Logistics Coordinator. Her main focus was on supply chain and logistics functions management, from opening to closing phase of programme set-up, assessment and external coordination. She was also responsible for IT functions and administration management, both in emergency and development programmes.

Yasmin holds a Masters of Business Administration and a professional degree in Supply Chain and Logistics Management-Certification in Humanitarian Logistics from Fritz Institute/CLIT (UK). She has received intensive external training in logistics (LRT training with WFP), Security (SAFA/HEAT with ILS), Need Assessment Training (NAT) RedR, India  and various Oxfam internal training  CTP (Cash Transfer Programming – The Fundamentals), Training of Trainers ToT -PARCEL(Partner Capacity Enhancement in Logistics), Information Security Awareness , Anti- Fraud and Corruption,  safeguarding and safe programming .

Yasmin is able to speak and write in Bangla and English, as well as being able to speak and understand Hindi and Urdu.