Innovision Consulting

Innovision Consulting Innovision is an international advisory and management consulting company.

We provide research, technical assistance, project management, monitoring and evaluation, and capacity development services to design, manage and scale systemic solutions. With offices in Bangladesh, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom (UK), we have been serving development partners and organizations, businesses and government agencies, and start-ups in Asia and the Pacific, Middle East and North Afri

ca (MENA), Southern Africa and West Africa. If you are a private sector, we are helping you to design and scale your products to reach the untapped market at the bottom of the pyramid. If you are an NGO or a social business, we are helping you to design scalable and systemic solutions to poverty. If you are a development partner, donor or an impact investor we are helping you with research, technical assistance, project management and capacity building services to achieve inclusive and systemic impact against your investments.

Bangladesh's female labour force participation sits at just 38.6%, against 80.4% for men. The gap is not about skills or...
10/06/2026

Bangladesh's female labour force participation sits at just 38.6%, against 80.4% for men. The gap is not about skills or willingness. It is about the conditions women have to navigate every single day.

In "Bangladesh's $30 Billion Problem | Why Women Are Leaving the Workforce? | EconoMix | EP 14", Tasmiah Rahman, Portfolio Advisor, Inclusive Growth at Innovision Consulting, joins South Era Network (SEN) to break down the structural barriers keeping women out of formal employment.

Key issues include:
• Harassment on public transportation
• Unsafe and male-dominated workplace cultures
• Inadequate sanitation facilities and the health consequences that follow
• The care burden falling disproportionately on women
• Vulnerable and informal employment as the default for working-class women
• The respectability trap for educated middle-class women

If women participated in the workforce at the same rate as men, Bangladesh could add up to $30 billion to its economy every year. The potential is clear. The reforms needed are clear. What remains is the will to act.

🎥 Full interview by South Era Network (SEN)

🔗 Learn more: https://innovision-bd.com/blog-news/bangladeshs-30-billion-problem-why-women-are-leaving-the-workforce-economix---interview-with-sen

Bangladesh's f-commerce boom proved what women could build with a phone and a following. But informality has a ceiling. ...
09/06/2026

Bangladesh's f-commerce boom proved what women could build with a phone and a following. But informality has a ceiling. The Porshi Project was built to close that gap.

A last-mile micro-retail initiative, implemented by ShopUp in partnership with Innovision Consulting, and funded by Mastercard Strive and the Gates Foundation, Porshi connects rural women in Rangpur and Dinajpur to formal supply chains, digital tools, and real income opportunities.

Over 3,800 women were trained. The results:
→ 94% reported an increase in monthly income
→ Household financial decision-making: 33% to 87%
→ Family recognition of their work as valuable: 9% to 95%
→ In Rangpur: 100%

We wrote about what f-commerce got right, what it couldn't solve, and what happens when you give that same hustle a structure.

Read the full piece here: https://innovision-bd.com/blog-news/going-once-going-twice-going-viral

Did you know Bangladesh produces enough vegetables to be a major exporter but sends less than 0.3% abroad? 🌿This World F...
07/06/2026

Did you know Bangladesh produces enough vegetables to be a major exporter but sends less than 0.3% abroad? 🌿

This World Food Safety Day, we are breaking down why Bangladeshi vegetables fail export standards long before they board a flight, and what fixing it actually looks like.

From pesticide overuse to broken cold chains, the problem is systemic. But so are the solutions.

🔗 Read our latest knowledge piece on Innovision website: https://innovision-bd.com/blog-news/food-safety-starts-at-the-farm-lessons-from-bangladeshs-vegetable-export-crisis

𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 | 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗟𝗼𝗮𝗻𝘀, 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗗𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀Join us for an engaging book talk featuring Small Loans, Big Dreams by Alex Counts — ...
04/06/2026

𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 | 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗟𝗼𝗮𝗻𝘀, 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗗𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀

Join us for an engaging book talk featuring Small Loans, Big Dreams by Alex Counts — a compelling exploration of how women in Bangladesh quietly shaped a legacy of economic empowerment and resilience during the late 80s and early 90s.

📅 Date: June 22, 2026
🕓 Time: 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
📍 Location: The Alliance Building (3rd Floor), 63/ka Pragati Sarani, Baridhara, Dhaka 1212

Discussants:
• Alex Counts
Author, Small Loans, Big Dreams

• Md. Rubaiyath Sarwar
Managing Director, Innovision Consulting

Registration is required to attend.

Please complete the form to confirm your participation: https://forms.gle/RVVtfqkSNasxQN5B7

You can buy both Bangla and English versions of the book on the spot.

Tamanna Mastura, an Associate in our Economic Growth Portfolio, is currently in Pokhara, Nepal, representing Innovision ...
04/06/2026

Tamanna Mastura, an Associate in our Economic Growth Portfolio, is currently in Pokhara, Nepal, representing Innovision Consulting at the Joint Public–Private Workshop on Private Sector Investments in Seed Health Testing & Implementation of ISPM 45, organized by APAARI under the STDF/PG/755 project.

Tamanna is participating as part of Innovision's role as the independent evaluation team for this multi-country initiative, covering Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Her engagement at the workshop is helping us:
• Gather first-hand insights from public and private sector stakeholders
• Assess progress on phytosanitary capacity building and seed trade facilitation
• Inform the Endline Analysis with evidence straight from the ground

Innovision remains committed to supporting agricultural development across Asia-Pacific, and it's through engagements like this that our evaluations stay grounded, relevant, and impactful.

𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗜𝗟𝗢) 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲-𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹...
03/06/2026

𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗜𝗟𝗢) 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲-𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝘅'𝘀 𝗕𝗮𝘇𝗮𝗿!

Cox's Bazar is home to one of the world's largest refugee settlements, placing enormous pressure on host communities and local resources. Farming households in the region continue to face rising input costs, limited market access, and growing climate risks, making sustainable livelihoods increasingly difficult to secure.

Building on our previous collaboration with the আন্তর্জাতিক শ্রম সংস্থা - International Labour Organization (ILO) in the region, Innovision will now work to strengthen agricultural market systems across five priority value chains: poultry, fish, maize, and commercial and gourd vegetables, creating real and lasting economic opportunities for host communities.

Innovision will be working to:
• Connect farmers to better inputs, markets, and digital tools
• Establish women and youth-led aggregation hubs to reduce post-harvest losses
• Introduce innovative microfinance solutions to improve access to credit
• Ensure the most vulnerable groups, including persons with disabilities and marginalized youth, are included through dedicated livelihood schemes

We are proud to bring our expertise and on-the-ground presence in Cox's Bazar to help farming communities build stronger, more resilient futures.

Together, we can create lasting agricultural opportunities that leave no one behind.

Following our field visits with dairy and goat farming communities in Rajshahi, Pabna, and Sirajganj, our team extended ...
01/06/2026

Following our field visits with dairy and goat farming communities in Rajshahi, Pabna, and Sirajganj, our team extended the work to Bangladesh's coastal belt under the same Financial Resilience in Agriculture (FRA) initiative.

This time, Innovision Consulting, in partnership with the Department of Fisheries (BD) (DoF), conducted field visits and community engagements across Patuakhali, Barguna, Bagerhat, Khulna, Satkhira, Cox's Bazar, Chattogram, Feni, and Cumilla, engaging small-scale fish farmers, mariculture operators, and marine boat owners.

Innovision Consulting is collaborating with United Nations Development Programme - UNDP under the FRA initiative to design climate-responsive and inclusive agri-insurance solutions for vulnerable farming and fishing communities across Bangladesh.

The field visit was attended by Sarker Muhammad Rafiqul Alam, Deputy Director (Rescue Monitoring and Alert Response); Dr. Muhammad Tanvir Hossain Chowdhury, Deputy Director (Blue Economy); Md. Khademul Islam, Upazila Fisheries Officer (Reserve); and Md. Rakib Hasan, Senior Scientific Officer, representing the Department of Fisheries, Ramna, Dhaka.

Key findings highlighted:
• Cyclones, salinity shifts, and heat stress (up to 38°C) causing severe seasonal losses
• Viral outbreaks (EMS, WSSV) devastating shrimp farms; boat damage and fatalities at sea
• Wooden artisan boat owners and small aquaculture producers structurally excluded from insurance
• Strong demand for DoF and public bank-anchored schemes with transparent, simple claim processes

The insights from these engagements will help us develop inclusive, farmer-centered insurance solutions, including parametric products for heat and salinity risks, that strengthen resilience, reduce financial vulnerability, and support sustainable fisheries livelihoods across Bangladesh's coastal communities.

As we celebrate Eid ul-Adha, we are reminded of the values that unite us: devotion, generosity, and gratitude.May our sa...
27/05/2026

As we celebrate Eid ul-Adha, we are reminded of the values that unite us: devotion, generosity, and gratitude.

May our sacrifices be accepted, and may this blessed occasion bring peace and prosperity to you and your families.

Eid Mubarak from all of us at Innovision Consulting! 🌙

In J&J Fireside | Episode 4, macroeconomist Jyoti Rahman and Md. Rubaiyath Sarwar, Managing Director of Innovision Consu...
26/05/2026

In J&J Fireside | Episode 4, macroeconomist Jyoti Rahman and Md. Rubaiyath Sarwar, Managing Director of Innovision Consulting, examine the debt overhang quietly constraining governments across the Global South, a conversation that feels just as urgent today as when it was first recorded.

Originally featured on Counterpoint, this episode was set against the backdrop of Bangladesh's February elections, with the hosts dialling in from Cairo and Dhaka to unpack what fiscal reality looks like when the books are finally opened.

From the ground and macro lens, they unpack:
• Why debt-to-GDP ratios can be misleading when the revenue base is weak
• How Egypt's infrastructure borrowing pushed interest payments past 70% of government revenue, and what that signals for Bangladesh
• The hidden liabilities, contingent debts, and undisclosed fiscal risks inherited from the previous regime
• Why fiscal adjustment almost always hits low-income and middle-class households hardest

At the center of the discussion is a core question: can any government govern credibly without first confronting what is inside the fiscal closet?

For Bangladesh, the conversation points to a priority that has not changed: transparency before ambition, and restraint over promise, in a moment where every paisa of discretionary spending carries real consequence.

As the debt crisis casts a longer shadow over the Global South, what matters more right now: fiscal honesty or political confidence?

Watch the episode: J&J Fireside | Episode 4: https://innovision-bd.com/blog-news/economic-policy-in-the-shadow-of-the-debt-crisis-j-j-fireside---episode-4

885,000 graduates are unemployed in Bangladesh. Graduate unemployment has more than doubled in the past decade. Among th...
23/05/2026

885,000 graduates are unemployed in Bangladesh. Graduate unemployment has more than doubled in the past decade. Among the 15-29 age group, 17% remain without work for an average of 2 years. The problem is not a shrinking economy. It is a growing pool of graduates whose qualifications no longer set them apart.

In this latest piece, Md. Saifullah Al Taheri, Junior Associate, Business Development and Communications at Innovision Consulting, breaks down what Bangladesh's graduates actually need to stay competitive in today's job market, and why the window to build those skills is narrower than most realise.

Read the full analysis: https://innovision-bd.com/blog-news/scan-before-you-strike-what-bangladeshs-graduates-must-learn-now

We'd love to hear your thoughts:
What do you think is the most underrated skill fresh graduates in Bangladesh need right now?

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