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Summary
Dr. Mithani is a senior social sector professional with progressive experience focusing on collaboration and partnerships at the highest levels of the Government, Donors and Organizations nationally and internationally on establishing strategic consortiums, fundings propositions, regional country collaborative partnership, co-designing and developing program and project, project Implementation nationally and internationally, research, monitoring and evaluation, and policy, strategic and institutional development.
With over a two decades of experience in child rights, education, social and child protection, learning achievement, early year’s programming and operations while working with donors, government, international NGOs, civil society organizations and academia.
His recent assignments include:
- Technical Consultant with The World Bank and Pakistan Institute of Education (PIE) MoFEPT on strategic partnerships, capacity and systems development, improving the National Assessments Processes, Research and the Institutional Capacity Building of PIE on student learning achievements, policy linking SDG mid-term review and research. Developed a technical write-up on future of National Learning Achievements for Pakistan.
- Senior Consultant with Oxford Policy Management on developing Federal and Provincial Child Protection Policy in Pakistan, including Child Safeguarding and Data Protection & Confidentiality, Capacity Building of Social Service Workforce. Punjab Child Protection Policy was adopted and approved by the cabinet in June 2024. In addition, developed Monitoring Framework for the Pilot Project with Punjab Skills Development Foundation.
- Aga Khan University – Institute for Education Development as the member of the research committee, and
- As the Board Member for Democratic Commission for Human Development.
His professional career began at the Aga Khan University managing grants and contracts for Community Health Sciences Department that matured into working as a research fellow and as Assistant Professor with Aga Khan University – Institute for Education Development after his doctoral degree. His professional pursuits led him to assume Senior Management Position with the Aga Khan Education Service as Chief Academic Officer and as Chief of Monitoring Evaluation and Research Team. With Aga Khan Foundation, he served as the program advisor for USAID funded program leading collaborations with AKU-IED and AKU-EB and with the Ministry of Education.
He served as the Senior Director – Program Development and Quality, and Education and Child Development leading multi-thematic portfolio in Education, Health, Nutrition, Advocacy, Food Security and School Construction in development, humanitarian and post humanitarian contexts. His Early Learning program in Pakistan was globally recognised as the “Signature Program” validating the partnerships with the government and communities in generating evidence-based research using quasi-experimental design, a seminal work in the context of Pakistan.
He has served as the Chief of Party in Kyrgyz Republic on USAID project – Time to Read. His portfolio also includes review of laws on children enacted by federal and provincial governments in Pakistan against UN-CRC for National Commission on Human Rights and UNICEF. He led the team to conduct Midline Early Grades Reading Assessment with Management Systems International in Pakistan.
All his endeavors have worked in partnership with governments and has successfully sought funding and maintained active engagement with corporate and bi-lateral donors including: DFAT, USAID, DFATD, EU, Dutch, and other European donors.
Experience
Senior Consultant
Senior Consultant
Senior Consultant
1. Child Protection Policy Development
Development of Child Protection Policy for Federal and Provincesl/Regions
Development of Child Safeguarding and Data Confidentiality supplements
Conduct stakeholder CP Policy Validation workshops
Capacity building of provincial and district.
2. Development of M&E Framework for pilot project for PSDF on OOSA
Senior Consultant
PROGRAM EVALUATION CONSULTING ASSIGNMENTS
Rural Support Program Network – Team Lead on Baseline/Situational Analysis for ECW MYRP ALP Programme.
International Rescue Committee – Team Lead on end of the project evaluation of TEACH – ALP and skills development program in five districts of Balochistan. 2022 on-going
Global Development Pakistan – Team Lead on end of the project Evaluation on Promoting and Protecting the Welfare of Women and Girls Project, Funded by British High Commission. 2022
Technical Consultant with AAN Associates on mid-term formative evaluation on Alternate Learning Pathways, project funded by UNICEF Pakistan & Norway and JICA across the four provinces. 2022
terre de homme – Team Lead mid-term evaluation of project on “preventing child labour in Pakistani textile industry by improving the working conditions and quality of education, especially for children, awareness and advocacy work” for a German NGO financed by Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Democracy Reporting International (DRI) - Project Development & Fund-Raising Expert (Consultant)
KITAB/SAHE/USIP – Development of pre- & post interventions tools to measure perceptions among children on diversity, empathy, and conflict prevention.
Team Lead - Evaluation of animated children\\\'s literature on pluralism, empathy, culture and diversity for United States Institute for Peace - stories developed by KITAB and SAHE.
Team Lead - Mid-Term evaluation of Promoting Child Rights and Participation in Pakistan (PCRPP) for Juvenile Justice Reform project conducted by Group Development Pakistan –, Project Funded by British High Commission.
ECORYS, UK. KESP II third party multi-year program evaluation, policy objective 1 lead and cross policy objectives research lead, June, 2017 – December 2017
Save the Children, Pakistan Country Office, Technical expert in-country on proposal development for USAID-LGL, June 2017
Save the Children, Pakistan Country Office, Development of program briefs and strategic partnership January 2017.
Care International Pakistan, Research on Girl’s Education in Pakistan, November 2016.
Plan International Pakistan, third party initial assessment of local organizations on Institutional and Financial Sustainability of DIFD funded South Asian WASH Program on behalf of Avicenna Consulting, 2016.
ActionAid, Oxfam Novib, SPARC, ECHO Children of Peace HIP proposal development, January 2016.
CARE International Pakistan, Proposal development for DFID funded Implementation of KP Education Sector Plan II, December 2015 – January 2016.
SCI AFCO, ECHO Children of Peace HIP proposal development, December 2015 - January 2016.
Plan International Pakistan, third party Mid-Term Evaluation of Pakistan Approach to Total Sanitation Project, September-December 2015 Representing AAN Associates Consulting.
UNICEF funded Child Protection Systems Mapping and Assessment for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, May-June 2015 on behalf of AAN Associates Consulting.
IKEA Foundation/UNICEF, third party Mid-Term Programme Evaluation of multi-sector program in Punjab, Sindh and Baluchistan working on social and child protection, education, health and WASH, May-July 2015 on behalf of AAN Associates Consulting.
Country Director
Chief of Party
Lead and Manage USAID funded \'Time to Read\' project in 900 schools across Kyrgyzstan.
Team Lead
Team Lead for Early Grade Reading Assessment, February to November 2017
Development Sector Consultant
· ECORYS, UK. KESP II third party multi-year program evaluation, policy objective 1 lead and cross policy objectives research lead, June, 2017 – December 2017
· Save the Children, Pakistan Country Office, Technical expert in-country on proposal development for USAID-LGL, June 2017
· Save the Children, Pakistan Country Office, Development of program briefs and strategic partnership January 2017.
· Care International Pakistan, Research on Girl’s Education in Pakistan, November 2016.
· Plan International Pakistan, third party initial assessment of local organizations on Institutional and Financial Sustainability of DIFD funded South Asian WASH Program on behalf of Avicenna Consulting, 2016.
· ActionAid, Oxfam Novib, SPARC, ECHO Children of Peace HIP proposal development, January 2016.
· CARE International Pakistan, Proposal development for DFID funded Implementation of KP Education Sector Plan II, December 2015 – January 2016.
· SCI AFCO, ECHO Children of Peace HIP proposal development, December 2015 - January 2016.
· Plan International Pakistan, third party Mid-Term Evaluation of Pakistan Approach to Total Sanitation Project, September-December 2015 Representing AAN Associates Consulting.
· UNICEF funded Child Protection Systems Mapping and Assessment for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, May-June 2015 on behalf of AAN Associates Consulting.
· IKEA Foundation/UNICEF, third party Mid-Term Programme Evaluation of multi-sector program in Punjab, Sindh and Baluchistan working on social and child protection, education, health and WASH, May-July 2015 on behalf of AAN Associates Consulting.
Aga Khan Foundation, Afghanistan. Third-party lead evaluator for Tutorial Assistance Program, March 2005
Senior Director Program Development and Quality
Senior Director Education and Child Development
Program Advisor - ED-LINKS Project
Chief Academic Officer & Chief of Monitoring, Evaluation and Research
Assistant Professor
Graduate Assistant & Community Program Associate Finance & Grants
