Experience

Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund

• Pakistan
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• • Sep 2015 - Present

  Key Responsibilities• Provided support and direct technical assistance to develop responsive climate-smart strategies and plans for the environment and social safeguard.• Provided technical support to the programme and result-based monitoring and evaluation.• Screened sub-projects according to screening criteria defined in the Environment and Social Management Framework of PPAF focusing on sectors of social mobilization, community physical infrastructure, health, education, microfinance, livelihoods, and other innovative projects.• Carried out training on integrating Environmental and Social safeguard principles in sub-projects.• Conducted environmental and social audits of the sub-projects and recommend measures for mitigation against any adverse social impacts caused by interventions financed by World Bank, the Italian Government, and KFW. • Ensured compliance with ESMF and World Bank’s Indigenous People’s Policy Framework. • Build the capacity of PPAF and POs staff to implement and mainstream social and environmental safeguards across the project life cycle of PPAF and to build capacities of PPAF staff and POs staff on the effective implementation of ESMF and Indigenous Peoples Policy Framework for Project for Poverty Reduction (PPR-funded by Italian Government).• Screened PPAF sub-projects implemented in the disaster-prone (both manmade and natural) regarding Environmental and social safeguards.• Provided technical support to conduct Third-Party Validation of ESMF.• Conducted joint outcome monitoring missions.• Conducted spot-checking of different third-party studies/validations.• Produced dissemination knowledge products, such as case studies, best practices, success stories, and environmental and social news items.• Assisted the PPAF ESM champions in implementing and auditing activities prescribed under the Environmental and Social Management Framework and ensuring the effective practice of PPAF’s Environment and Social Policy. Show less

• • Sep 2009 - Present

  • Incubated community institutions that demonstrate a potential to grow through sequential steps corresponding to the project cycle and performance of a CO/VO (Community/Village Organization) and third-tier union council level organization.• Managed a stronger integrated, multi-sector approach to building inclusive intermediary and community institutions and enabling them to manage their development, and access services through improved linkages to local government, other development programs, and markets for sustainable service delivery.• Assessed/appraised the institutional capacity of the partner’s organizations submitting proposals for grants and suggested the partnership's nature, volume, and tenure.• Mainstreamed environmental and social safeguards at the operational level, building the capacity of partner organizations to implement safeguards, and planning and implementing institutional development plans in line with qualitative and quantitative indicators.• Project designing and financial planning of social mobilization projects.• Added the value of social mobilization to social issue-based management, thereby making ‘relevance of community institutions’ in relation to regional social differentiation such as disaster preparedness, conflict, displacement, peace, pluralism & internal migration, and urban-rural divisions etc.• Designed capacity-building plans for communities and integrate them with social safeguards and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)• Undertaking a rigorous process of institutional analysis focusing on potential social risks such as lack of inclusion, elite capturing, and others emanating from the political economy, ensuring implementation of grievance redressal mechanism etc.• Prepared grant agreement along with business plans to ensure its further legal process.• Conducted initial reviews of the statement of expenditures (SOEs). Show less



Sustainable Livelihoods In Barani Areas Development Project (ABAD)-Asian Development Bank

• Social Impact Officer

  • Mar 2005 - Aug 2009

  • Ensured implementation of the Project Social Impact Assessment Framework and Guidelines to identify any potential social problems animating from project interventions. • Coordinated and liaised with the NRSP/PRSP (for the targeted poverty alleviation component) and the Domestic NGOs (for the skills-based training component) working in the Project Area to overview the implementation of their agreement with the Project. • Assisted the Domestic Gender and Community Organization Specialist in the preparation of the Gender Action Plan. • Ensured meaningful participation of all vulnerable groups, particularly women with attention to their capacity-building needs. • Assisted in determining practices and procedures to deal with possible social impacts for different types of project interventions. • Assisted in determining the kind of interventions likely to be proposed by the project beneficiaries for implementation under the project. • Developed a framework for monitoring literacy through a skills training component in consultations with RSPs, locally recruited NGOs, and participants of the literacy programme. • Designed a social impact checklist for the project’s interventions to identify and avoid any social problem during the formulation and implementation of the scheme. • Analyzed the scheme in the light of social impact checklists. • Assisted in project briefing of the Union Council Development Component (UCDC)/Poverty Alleviation Component (PAC) in the Project Area. • Reviewed documentation received from the UCDC, RSPs/NGOs in the Project Area to ensure the full and successful implementation of the component. Show less



UNDP

• United States
• International Affairs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Social Organizer

  • Jul 2005 - Sep 2005

  • Organized workshops and training for capacity building of the communities, project, and government staff. • Prepared periodic progress reports and work plans. • Build up development plans together with the communities. • Collected socio-economic data of the community groups; prepare area profiles and formation of CBOs. • Organized workshops and training for capacity building of the communities, project, and government staff. • Prepared periodic progress reports and work plans. • Build up development plans together with the communities. • Collected socio-economic data of the community groups; prepare area profiles and formation of CBOs.

• Group Promotor

  • 2003 - 2003

  • Trained/organized workshops for community members, activists, and staff members for their capacity building. • Developed village development plans in consultation with the COs. • Introduced the concept and approach of participatory development and conduct initial dialogue with the rural communities to motivate and create awareness for community organization formation. • Organized, conducted and managed the visits of UNDP, IFAD, and WFP missions, etc. • Assisted in linking COs with local line departments for the provision of services and maintaining regular follow-up. Show less



National Rural Support Programme

• Pakistan
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Social Organizer

  • 2001 - 2002

  • Trained local social organizations/groups, activists, and staff members for enhancement of their managerial and professional skills development. • Planned, designed, and conducted a training program for the village activities, line agencies, and staff members. • Contacted and organized local communities into social organizations. • Prepared periodic reports and work plans. • Appraised the existing capacity of the local groups to identify the potential for partnership in development. Show less