The World Bank, Washington DC

Industry: International Development

Mr. Hussain (The Principal) is associated with The World Bank in Washington, DC, for over ten years carrying out numerous accounting, auditing, and advisory assignments in the US and internationally in East Africa and South Asia regions.. As the designated Financial Management Specialist from the World Bank, he supports the project teams in the borrowing countries in improving their financial management performance and capacity to provide reasonable assurance on the use of the World Bank’s loan proceeds. His recent portfolio of projects with the World Bank has a combined funding value of over USD 1 billion. A summary of some selected assignments in these countries are listed below:

Kenya

Developed the Institutional Risk Management Framework for Hunger Safety Net Program (HSNP)
Developed and then monitored implementing a Consolidated Action Plan (CAP) for National Safety Net Program (NSNP), Kenya, focusing on addressing the financial management and fiduciary gaps identified in the external audit reports and donor assessments.
In phase II, supervised the implementation of the recommendations and action items from the CAP.
Provided recommendations for improvements in the design of the consolidated MIS for NSNP and carried out the user testing for various modules. MIS.
Developed the financial policies and procedure manual for beneficiary payments for the NSNP project.
Developed the reconciliation framework for beneficiaries' payments made by Payment Service Providers (PSPs) and reconciled the payments from inception to June 2017 for NSNP.
Developed the financial policies and procedure manual for the beneficiary's payment Kenya Economic and Social Inclusion Project (KESIP).

Rwanda

Developed financial management improvement plan for Strengthening Social Protection Project (SSPP), focusing on addressing the financial management and fiduciary gaps identified in the external audit reports and donor assessments.
In phase II, supervised the implementation of the recommendations and action items from the proposed improvement plan.

Ethiopia

Developed technical specifications for a big data analytics platform (for beneficiary payments) for the Productivity National Safety Net Program (PNSP), Ethiopia.
Reviewed MIS systems and technical specification documents and gave recommendations on areas of improvement.
Suggested improvements in PASS (Woreda level beneficiaries payroll system) system upgrade, and also carried out user testing after software development.
Developed financial management improvement plan for PSNP focusing on addressing the financial management and fiduciary gaps identified in the external audit reports and donor assessments.
In phase II, superviseed the implementation of the recommendations and action items from the proposed implementation plan.

Pakistan

Supervised teams for the design, development, and implementation of a data analytics platform for the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP), which is the largest social safety net program in South Asia;.
Supervised teams for the design, development, and implementation of an automated country-level payments processing and verification interface for quarterly social security payments to 5.2 million recipients of the Benazir Income Support Program. The automated process resulted in decreasing the payment processing cycle from 90 days to only seven days.

Bangladesh

Design and implemented fiduciary & financial controls resulting in improving fiduciary risk ratings from the independent assessments carried by the World Bank Income Support Program for the Poorest (ISPP), Bangladesh.
Reviewed MIS systems and technical specification documents and gave recommendations on areas of improvement, and also carried out user testing after software development.
Developed the financial policies and procedure manual for the beneficiary's payment for ISPP.

Sri Lanka

Developed a country strategy for introducing electronic cash transfers for Social Safety Net program for Sri-Lanka.