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A g r i c u l t u r e a n d W a t e r M a n a g e m e n t Consultants International Limited

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Company Background 02 Company General Information 03 Our Areas of Expertise 04 Our Consulting Services 04 Project and Program Management 05 Socioeconomic Studies 05 Performance, Monitoring and Evaluation 06 Agricultue, Water Management and Rural Development 07 Infrastrucre, Roads and Transportation Commmunication 08 Water Supply and Sanitation 09 Environment and Disaster Management 09 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) 10 Training and Capacity Building 10 Company Managment and Advisors 11 Company Organizational Structure 13 Company Strength and Capacilities 14 Company Clients and Partners 15 Company Experiences 16

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BACKGROUND

Creative Consultants Int’l Limited is a multi- disciplinary consulting fjrm registered in

• Bangladesh. Creative Consultant’s objective is

to provide professional and specialist services to their clients from both local and international market to ensure international standard of professional practices. Creative Consultants has built up within itself management and professional capability compatible to the needs

• f International Consulting standard.

Creative Consultants maintain a pool of renowned specialists in most of the professional

• areas. All the stafg are renowned professionals in

their fjeld of specialization and have experience to work in multinational and multi-cultural team. The Management of Creative Consultants is presently vested with a Board of Directors comprising of six members. All the Directors have a proven outstanding professional career record with high-level management capabilities. The Management is well known to and familiar with the relevant development sectors in Bangladesh as well as with the regional and the international

• markets. Creative Consultant’s services are stand

alone based on the following core values: Client focus: The Company includes an extensive network of professionals and academicians and is active in many disciplines of services. This ensures diversity in company ofgers and expertise whereby Creative Consultants can always follow its clients. The emphasis will therefore be on strengthening our own knowledge centers and expertise areas. Result-orientation: Creative Consultants strategy is expedited towards generating the fjnancial results required to ensure the continuity and growth of the company. Top expertise: A sound professional background enables us to conceive the best possible solutions to clients needs. Creative Consultants highly qualifjed stafgs are strongly focused on personal and professional development. Respect: Creative Consultants allows room for personal wishes. Tasks are appointed on the basis

• f individual skills and talent, and stafgs have a

large measure of responsibility in structuring their works. We respect other viewpoints,

• pinions and cultures, and we are conscious of
• ur role in the society as a whole.

Integrity: We advise clients from an independent perspective and honour the principles of integrity.

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Mission Our mission is to provide the best innovative and unique creative consultancy services and solutions to our valuable clients. Vision To become one of the professional and development consulting fjrms in Bangladesh.

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: : Creative Consultants International Ltd. : : : : : : : : : Name of the fjrm Status of the fjrm Trade License No Phone E-mail Website Company Registration No Income Tax GIR No Address Name of Bank Existing Offjce space Yeas of Establishment Country of Incorporation : Limited Company Mailing address: Dipti Palace (5th Floor) House 151/1-D (4th Floor) Jonaki Road, Ahmed Nagar Mirpur-1, Dhaka-1216 Bangladesh Project Offjce: 70-71 Prattasha Building Janata Housing Society Adabor, Dhaka 01676099960 (mobile) creativenconsulting.bangladesh@gmail.com www.creativeconsulting-bd.com Incorporated under the Companies Act (Act XVIII)

• f 1994, No: C-72451 (493) / 08

TIN-714-100-6858/circle-237 (ass. 2016-17) 0734621 / 2015-16 Dutch Bangla Bank Ltd, Mirpur-1 Branch, Dhaka 2500 sft 2008 Bangladesh

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General Information

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Creative Consultants International Limited, a multi-disciplinary consulting fjrm in Bangladesh, had its beginning in 2003. Over the 14 years, Creative Consultants gathered experiences in difgerent fjelds, working in the country and abroad. We have track record in and have successfully completed development projects in Bangladesh. Our broad range of clients includes national and regional governments, international organisations, NGOs and public and private sector companies.

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AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Agriculture, Water Resources Management and Rural Development; Socio-Economic Development through Employment Generation Activities Social studies and project evaluation Irrigation and Drainage Project Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Trade and Commerce Finance, Credit and Savings Infrastructure development Water supply and sanitation Gas and power Energy effjciency Land Reclamation and Soil Conservation Forestry, Fisheries and Livestock Survey and Mapping Local-Level Planning Human Resources Development (HRD) Public Administration and Management including Stafg Development Environmental and Disaster Management Services Our services and priority areas are constantly evolving in line with the evolving demands of

• ur clients. Creative Consultants experts from

difgerent sectors cooperate closely to deliver integrative and interdisciplinary solutions that correspond to the challenges in the fjeld. Our departments are structured into the following services:

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We provide support to Government in their efgorts to project management to setting up and

• perationalizing Project Management Units (PMUs) for a large number of projects. Our main approach

is to promote and ensure locally driven project implementation to achieve ownership and the sustainability of projects. Establish project management support units Develop work processes, including

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Provide training, monitoring, and capacity building in project management Strengthen project monitoring and reporting in a systematic manner Detect challenges, risk factors and mitigating risks in advance for projects Promote lesson learning, knowledge transfer and exchange Cost engineering Facilitation (business) Project management simulation Resource allocation Scientifjc management Systems engineering Total cost management Workfmow management

PROJECT / PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

Baseline Survey Impact Evaluation Project Assessment Performance Evaluation Project Reviews Mid-Term Evaluation Project End line survey Stakeholder analysis Availability of reliable information is a prerequisite of good planning for any development initiative. Generation of reliable data is thus very important. Creative Consultants has extensive experience in socio-agro-economic surveys, and it has longstanding reputation of generating quality data. It has in its portfolio experienced social scientists and agronomists, who supervise and guide the enumerators in the fjeld surveys. We have a well qualifjed team of experts who bring considerable experience and expertise in the following socioeconomic areas:

SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDIES

In order to meet these objectives, Creative Consultants provide support in the following ways:

PERFORMANCE, MONITORING AND EVALUATION

Our approach to improved performance management involves working with organizations to translate thinking in terms of inputs and outputs into efgective consideration of outcomes and

• impact. We have a well qualifjed team of performance management experts who bring considerable

experience and expertise in the following areas:

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Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks Creative Consultants provides consulting services for the purpose of monitoring and evaluating the progress of projects from initial project and programme planning through to post-implementation review. We also work to analyze trends throughout the implementation process, promoting systematic project management in order to reduce risks of project under-performance or failure. In particular, we have ground-breaking experience in the introduction of new information technology techniques into the fjeld of monitoring and evaluation in the development sector. Benchmarking Benchmarking can be understood as a systematic process of evaluating performance, undertaken by comparing existing performance in specifjc areas to appropriate best industry or sectoral practice in order to identify possible

• improvement. Analyzing areas for improvement

and developing change management strategies. Project Reviews, Mid-Term Evaluation and Assessment Our approach to evaluations and assessments mainly integrates the following: Defjning standards against which programmes are to be evaluated Investigating the performance of the selected activities / processes to be evaluated based on these standards Synthesizing the results of this analysis Formulating recommendations Providing advice on implementation of recommendations and programme review action plans Research and Knowledge Management We have carried out scoping assessments, research studies, best practice documentation in a diverse range of sectors. We have strong competence in carrying out fjeld research and action research integrating participatory

• methods. Our approach to carrying out

research and studies will be based on: Identifying the assessment parameters Developing the research framework based

• n the parameters

Identifying the most suitable methodology for data collection, information gathering and desk research Ensuring appropriate sampling and representation Carrying out in-depth analysis Presenting fjndings and outcomes in a structured, useful manner Give the importance of lesson learning, identifying best practices for scaling up and replication of successful development interventions, Creative Consultants places important emphasis on knowledge management including documentation, learning and sharing experiences as well as through developing knowledge portal and learning systems.

Creative Consultants ofgers expertise in the following fjelds of activities: Flood Control and River Bank Protection Irrigation, drainage, and water management, agricultural development Participatory Water Resources Management Capacity Building Surveys, investigations and reconnaissance studies Project Identifjcation, Supply Chain Development Planning, Preliminary Designs Techno-Economic Analysis and Feasibility Studies Construction Supervision of Canel Contract Management Management and Training Advice Monitoring and Evaluation

AGRICULTURE, WATER MANAGEMENT & RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Food production must increase signifjcantly to feed the growing world population. Yet, most of the world’s poor are living in rural regions, water is sourced mostly in rural areas, biodiversity deserves protecting and agricultural and forest related activities have a signifjcant impact on the world greenhouse gas emissions. The symptoms of inadequate rural and environmental planning usually become apparent long after it is virtually impossible to remedy them. In the past, too often technical solutions were applied to mere symptoms, without considering how the various problems are interrelated. In rural and regional environments, problems are multifaceted and interrelated: population growth, poverty, dwindling natural resources, soil degradation, desertifjcation, lack of capital, rural exodus. Individuals are not the only ones to sufger these issues afgect whole nations and their economies. Economic competition is not only present between nations but increasingly between regions. Creative Consultants deeply involved in the agriculture and water resources management in the country.

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Creative Consultants believes in team work and an integrated approach involving Engineers, Agronomists, Aqua-culturists, Economists, Sociologists, Environmentalists, Extension Personnel, Credit Specialists and many other specialists for making a project success.

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INFRASTRUCTURE, ROADS AND TRANSPORTATION COMMUNICATION

Creative Consultants services are comprehensive and experience is vast. The stafg includes: engineers, architects, traffjc engineer, transport planning & modeling engineer, traffjc impact analyst, environmental and planning regulations and municipal civil engineer, quantity surveyors, project managers, construction supervisors, material specialists, accountants, estimators, attorneys, and other experienced construction professionals to provide construction-consulting services including project management, evaluation

• f construction claims, critical path method

(CPM) scheduling, facilities consulting, training, management consulting, litigation/mitigation, and value engineering. Creative Consultants provides the following services for infrastructure projects starting from the initial concept planning and preliminary design through to construction supervision and assistance in management and maintenance. Architecture and Planning Transportation Planning including Traffjc Origin-Destination Survey Transportation Related Training Highway Planning and Programming including Rural Feeder Roads (Farm to Market) Site Selection and Land Use/Environmental Studies Geotechnical Investigations including Subsurface Exploration by Drilling and Geophysics, In-situ and Laboratory Testing Improvement and Reconstruction of Roads including Primary, Secondary and Rural Feeder Roads and Access Tracks Design and Engineering of Roads, Bridges, Appurtenant Structures Financial Analysis, Costing and Tarifgs Quality Control of Construction and Supervision Development impact studies, planning, design and implementation of rural infrastructure e.g. markets, culverts / bridges and rural roads for connectivity for sustainable economic development including environmental and social impact assessment and monitoring and evaluation Structure and master planning, detailed area planning, urban infrastructure planning and feasibility studies, detailed engineering and construction supervision with social and community development and environmental management.

WATER AND SANITATION

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Water Supply Sanitation, Sewerage and Urban Drainage Environmental Management Wastewater Treatment Social Assessment Climate Changes & Adaptations Creative Consultants ofgers expertise and experience in the following fjelds: Creative Consultants provides technical assistance and support for developing and implementing strategies for water and

• sanitation. The team’s support ranges from

strategy development and monitoring implementation of activities at the fjeld level. Water Supply: Water Resources Studies, Water Master Plan Feasibility Studies, Rural and Urban Water Supply, Industrial Water Supply. Wastewater Treatment: Domestic and Industrial Waste Water Treatment Sanitation, Sewerage and Urban Drainage Integrated Rural Water Supply / Sanitation Solid Waste Management Sewerage and Urban Drainage Soil and Groundwater Pollution. Environmental Management: Environmental Surveys and Impact Assessment; Environmental Policies and Management Plans. Social: Social Studies, Social Impact Assessment (SIA), Resettlement Action Planning (RAP), Land Acquisition Planning (LAP) Climate Changes: Climate resilient Infrastructure Planning, Climate adaptation studies & Planning. Environmental Management Social Environmental Assessment Climate Changes & Adaptations Environmental Surveys and Impact Assessment Environmental Policies and Management Plans Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Climate resilient Infrastructure Planning Climate adaptation studies & Planning

ENVIRONMENT AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT

For far too long climate change was considered a luxury problem and environmental protection a burden on business development and incongruous with economic growth. Today, there is not

• nly international consensus about the devastating threat of climate change and the costs of

environmental degradation and pollution to society, but there are new opportunities for innovative approaches and competitive advantages are identifjed. Creative Consulting is able to provide a total capability throughout the environmental and disaster management issues. Creative Consulting ofgers expertise and experience in the following fjelds:

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TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING

Creative Consultants has international experts and provides international training on Monitoring & Evaluation, Impact Measurement and building M&E capacity through our M&E courses, workshops and seminars. We are here to help with all areas of M&E whether you want us to design an M&E system, train your stafg in M&E, conduct an evaluation

• r measure your impact. A current focus

is sharing our knowledge and expertise of Impact Investing through our Impact Investing Courses. Creative Consultants conduct national and international training in partnership with IMI Australia and SfED, New Zealand. Monitoring & evaluation systems development Project management information systems Inventory management systems Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Mobile application development Website design, development and hosting Web based content design and management E-learning materials development Training module design Creative Consultants has been providing a range of ICT and E-Government consultancy services both in nationally and internationally since 2008, as well as project management and logistic services. Creative Consultants has played a role in providing a range of ICT and E – Governance services to a range of clients and funders.

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

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MANAGEMENT & EXPERTS

The management of the fjrm is vested in a Board of Directors. The Managing Director maintains the day-to-day afgairs of the fjrm in close consultantion with the Directors and with the assistance of the manager and supporting stafg. Directors are highly professionals and with long experience in respective consultancy services; they help maintain the technical, advisory and administrative activities of the fjrm.

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• Md. Abdul Mannan
• Managing Director and CEO

Israt Jahan Fancy

• Dirctor
• Md. Fazle Rabbe
• Diector

Managing Director & CEO Local Advisers & Experts International Advisers & Experts Support Staff Director Engineering Director Agriculture & Water Resources Management Director Socioeconomic Studies and Surveys Director Information and & Commmunication Technology Director Admin and Finance Senior Manager Business Development Managers Business Development Senior Executives Project Management Assitant Manager Technical Support and Documentation Executives Offjce Management and Support

Organizational Structure

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Strength and Capabilities

Creative Consultants has a full functional offjce located at Dipti Palace, House 151/1-D, Jonaki Road, Ahmed Nagar, Mirpur-1, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh and is well equipped with all modern computer and communication systems. Creative Consultants is capable and provides logistical supports to all of their projects offjces if necessary.

Logistics Facilities

Desktop Computer : 12 Nos Laptop : 4 Notebook : 1 Laser Printer : 2 Colour Printer : 2 Scanner : 1 Photocopier : 1 iPad : 1 Air Conditioner : 2 Mobile Phones : 6 Offjce Space : 2500 sft Internet : High speed broadband connection with Wifj router Web server : 100 GB USA based dedicated web server

Financial Strength

Creative Consulting Limited is fjnancially solvent and maintaining a current account which is below: CREATIVE CONSULTANTS INTERNATIONAL LTD DUTCH BANGLA BANK LTD MIRPUR-1 BRANCH, DHAKA-1216 A/C NO: 115-110-0030090

Facilities available with the Firm

The fjrms have completed number of consulting assignments in the country and abroad. A considerable number of consultants/experts along with a pool of highly qualifjed senior advisers in various disciplines have been working with Creative Consultants and its’ partners for a long time. The team members are well-renowned specialists having Ph.D degree on the respective fjeld. Creative Consultants has own offjce with modern facilities including Computers, Printers, Photocopiers, Scanners, Telephone, Fax, Internet Facilities, Transports, Computer Programmers, Statisticians, Data Analysts, Data Entry Operators and Enumerators. Creative Consultants is able to provide consulting services effjciently and efgectively.

Capabilities of the Firm

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CLIENTS & PARTNERS

Agristudio S.R.L, Italy 1. BioDiversity International Ltd, UK 2. e.Gen Consultants, Bangladesh 3. HV Associates, Bangladesh 4. IMA International, UK 5. Impact Management International, Australia 6. Project Planning Management, Bulgaria 7. Operations Research Group, India 8. PME Academy, Australia 9. Pranon Global Ltd 10. Services and Solutions International Ltd, Bangladesh 11. Socioconsult Ltd, Bangladesh 12. Technoconsult International Ltd 13. The Environment and Resource Analysis Centre Ltd (ENRAC) 14. The Green Infrastructure Consultancies 15. The Sunjin Engineering Company Ltd, Korea 16. The Voyents Solutions Private Ltd, India 17. Uniconsult International Ltd 18. Sher-e-Bangla Agriculture University 19.

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Major Project Experience

Creative Consultants International Limited is an independent, multi-disciplinary consulting fjrm and has extensive experiences in baseline survey, mid-term survey, impact assessment, impact evaluation study, performance, monitoring & evaluation (M&E), planning and implementing, research and development consultancy services in social, economic, agricultural and rural development fjelds. Ex-post Evaluation of the project “Sundarbans Environmental and Livelihoods Security (SEALS)” 1. FWC SIEA 2018 – LOT 1: “Sustainable Management of Nnatural Resources and Resilience” ACA/2019/404-715 (April-May 2019) In-depth Monitoring of Year Round Fruits Production and Nutrition Improvement Project, 2. IMED, Ministry of Planning, Bangladesh (on-going) IMI-Ministry of Health, Solomon Islands - 3. Develop an M&E System for Ministry of Health, Solomon Islands, funded by the EU (2016-2020) GRM (now The Palladiam Group), UK - 4. Technical Assistance to conduct International Conference and Training (2014-2015) IMI, Australia - 5. Design and management and implementation of Travel eGuides, Funded by IMPACT Management International, Australia (2008 - ongoing) PME Academy, Australia - 6. Technical Assistance to PME Academy for conducting M&E Training for International Development (2016-ongoing) IMI-Department of Water and Sanitation, Papua New Guinea - 7. Develop an M&E System for the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Programme, Papua New Guinea (2008-2013) IMED-ADB - 8. Impact Evaluation Study of “Fortifjcation of Edible Oil in Bangladesh” , Ministry of Planning, Government of Bangladesh, IMED-ADB (completed) IMED–IDA - 9. Impact Evaluation Study of “System Loss Reduction of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited (TGTDCL)” , Ministry of Planning, Government of Bangladesh (completed) World Meteorological Offjce (HQ), Geneva, Switzerland - 10. Design an M&E System for the World Meteorological Organisation, Switzerland (2011-12) GoB - Structural Assessment and Report on Data Centre of National Household Database at 1st Floor at 11. Parishankhyan Bhaban, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (completed) MoP-GoB - 12. Impact Evaluation Study of Promotion of Digital Krishi Information on Livelihood Improvement through Agricultural Information and Communication Centre (AICC) (1st Revised)”, IMED, Ministry of Planning, Bangladesh (completed) BRRI-IRRI-WB-DFID- 13. Development and Management of Bangladesh Rice Knowledge Bank (BRKB) under Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) (2004 - ongoing) EDG Group, UK - 14. Technical Assistance to conduct “Efgective Deveopent Conference” , Bangkok, Thailand (2014) IMI, Australia & SfED, NZ- 15. Conducting 2nd Result Based M&E Forum and Training held at Bangkok, organized by IMI-Austrlia and SfED-New Zealand (2013), IMI, Australia & SfED New Zealand (2013) IMI, Australia - 16. Conducting 1st Result Based M&E Forum and Training held at Bangkok, organized by IMI-Austrlia, SFED, New Zealand (2012) Kingdom of Netherlands - 17. End of Project Assessment for Profjtable Opportunities for Food Security (PROOFS) Project , PROOFS (completed)

Dipti Palace (5th Floor) House 151/1-D (4th Floor), Jonaki Road, Ahmed Nagar Mirpur-1, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh Mobile: 01715008191 E-mail: creativeconsulting.bangladesh.com Website: www.creativeconsulting-bd.com

Offjce address:

www.creativeconsulting-bd.com

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