Noriya Mahin Chowdhury is a Research Associate at BRAC Institute of Governance and Development, BRAC University.
As part of her MSc field placement, Noriya served as a Guest Lecturer in the Department of Development Studies at the University of Makeni in Sierra Leone, where she taught undergraduate courses on Natural Resource Management and Development Theories and Perspectives. She holds an MSc in Environmental Change and International Development from the University of Sheffield, UK, and a BBA in Finance from the University of Dhaka.
BIGD established the MELA (Monitoring and Evaluation for Learning and Adaptation) initiative to support the development organizations and donors to find the right balance of management coordination where learning the roles of M&E are promoted without compromising the accountability requirement for development effectiveness.