Based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Papia Ferdousei is the senior manager for monitoring and evaluation and management information systems for BRAC’s education program. The organization, which also runs programs in health care, microfinance, and gender equality, is the world’s largest provider of private secular education and provides lifelong learning opportunities through schools, early childhood development centers, adolescent clubs, and community learning centers.
MIS — the study of people, processes, and technology within organizations — is a relatively new addition to Ferdousei’s portfolio after it was incorporated into the organization's M&E strategy last year.
The M&E part of the job sees Ferdousei in charge of planning what type of performance indicators the team will use to capture the impact of BRAC’s education programs. On the other hand, MIS is less concerned with data management and more about innovating and creating a platform for effective analysis of that information, she explained.