Mr. Aryal was the technical team leader for a USAID-funded Women’s Empowerment Program that helped to economically empower 125,000 poor women across 21 districts of Nepal using a savings-led village banking approach. Using those experiences, he was able to design and successfully implement savings-led microfinance programs in Sri Lanka (during conflict period), Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Nepal. In Bangladesh, he successfully brought the ultra-poor into savings groups.  Currently, he is an active member of Grassroots Finance Action.