Apurba Deb Roy is a senior development professional with extensive experience in WASH,  livestock, agriculture, social research, market infrastructure, and enterprise-based projects across Bangladesh, South Asia, and East Africa. With over 20 years of experience working with non-profits, INGOs, UN, USAID, World Bank, and UK universities, Apurba has contributed significantly to USAID’s Feed the Future (FtF) program, particularly in leading initiatives related to Livestock and agriculture, livelihood and resilience, gender, social, climate change, and community development.

Worked as Social Development and WASH Expert with Community Let Total Sanitation (WASH), Climate Change in Agriculture and partnership community development for UDAID funded FTF Agriculture, Livestock and Nutrition Activity in the zone of resilience & influence in South Asian Countries, Pre-feasibility, socio-economic, youth & gender study for livestock & climate change & sustainable  Agriculture programs, Targeting criteria development Strategy on for community development and driven programmes.

He has played a pivotal role in managing large-scale projects and capacity building, especially in livestock and agriculture, social and natural resource identification for new project formation in hair (Greater Sylhet and Kishorgonj, mainland-north west, east and coastal belt char, and forest-Chottogram).

Apurba has been instrumental in leadership development for Program Managers and project staff across 12 districts in Bangladesh, working on diverse projects focused on social and women empowerment, nutrition, technology transfer, agriculture extension, and markets. His expertise extends to inclusive governance, urban resilience, WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene), and market-based approaches to ensuring food security and enterprise incubation for livestock and crops. Apurba is also proficient in promoting gender equality, particularly within the empowerment framework of CARE-USA and CARE-Bangladesh, focusing on changing structures, agencies, and relationships, inclusive youth and gender in mainstreaming in the program.

Moreover, he is highly skilled in measuring the impact and outcomes of development projects, utilizing his advanced Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) knowledge to assess social accountability in several empowerment and social development initiatives.