Mashuda Khatun Shefali
Mashuda Khatun Shefali is the Executive Director of Nari Uddug Kendra (NUK), meaning Centre for Women's Initiative. NUK works to promote gender equality, human rights and personal and political empowerment, of women and girls in Bangladesh. Before founding NUK, she worked in development secore for the Bangladesh Ministry of Womens Affairs, citezen sector organizations and women groups and donors. This period concluded with a position in the Canaduian International Development Agency, where she managed development funds for a large number of local NGOs throughout the country. Shefali us currently the founder and Managing Director of the Kishorgonj Eye Hospitals and Agarashindur Community Hospital in Kishorgonj. Her latest creatiuon is the Bangladesh Women's Fund, which works for the fundrasing and grant making for the local women NGOs towards investing on women and girls rights and equality. Her areas of expertise are gender, human rights programming and labour rights.
Mashuda Khatun Shefali has a Masters in General History and International Relations from the Jahangir Nagar University. She has completed a Certificate course on 'Women, Men and Development' from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK in 1987, Gender matters in development from the University of East Anglia, Norwich,UK and Advocacy training from Advocacy training institute, Washington D.C. and the Diplomacy training from the University of New South Wales, Australia.
See the work of NUK in pictures.
Watch a video of Mashuda explaining how NUK is responding to women's rights issues in Bangladesh.
