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Summary
Sharafat Hussain is survey and database expert with vast managerial and staff management skills and he leads the Survey Systems Unit and staff from and within the Pakistan office of C4ED. With more than 20 years of experience in managing large-scale CAPI surveys in several countries, he has led numerous major surveys and developed extensive computerized systems for enumerator monitoring, performance, reliability, efficiency and data quality, including listing operations with several million households. Given his experience of management of liaisons with the Government of Pakistan and all the provincial governments, he is the one in charge of representing the organisation and obtaining No Objection Certificates (NOCs) from the relevant government departments. He has an extensive experience of more than 10 years of managing the process of obtaining NOCs while working first for the NRSP and then for C4ED. Moreover, he is responsible for managing and supervising all the departments from HR to research of the Pakistan office. At C4ED Pakistan, he has been the brains behind strategic planning, budget forecasting and comparisons, project management, supervision of qualitative and quantitative data collection, supervision of enumerators, networking with donors and aligning local legal policies with international legal policies. Furthermore, he is an expert in android based programming of questionnaires and has demonstrated capacity to lead CAPI systems, solve technical problems and provide local field support.
Besides C4ED, he has been working for other organizations, including the European Union, the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the World Bank, the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) and the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF). He has expertly managed large-scale android-based surveys, such as the BISP poverty scorecard survey covering 4.5 million households and managing a team of over 1,000 field staff. Additionally, Sharafat Hussain has successfully managed the baseline Census undertaken in 08 districts of Sindh (Larkana, Qambar Shahdad Kot, Jamshoro, Dadu, Matiari, Tando Allah Yar, Tando Muhammad Khan and Sujwal) under the EU funded SUCCESS Programe through which data collection from 1.2 million households was made possible via android survey. Other projects that he has effectively managed include a survey of 7,400 households in Punjab and Sindh for Adolescents lives in Pakistan, child labour surveys in the five different provinces of Pakistan, baseline and end-line surveys of 6,500 households for the Health Protection Programme in GB and KP. Moreover, he has successfully managed projects such as school surveys in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and a baseline census covering more than 33,000 households for a social mobilization project for the World Bank including Karachi, Hyderabad and Tando Muhammad Khan. Furthermore, he has recently coordinated the Child Labour Survey Project in Gilgit Baltistan and Punjab in collaboration with the Planning and Development Department GB and the Bureau of Statistics, Punjab.
Sharafat Hussain has led large teams and database of potential enumerators in all provinces of Pakistan, in addition to hiring, training (including Training of Trainers), and monitoring of the field staff. He has devised and managed entire field operations, designed and written field plans, implementation manuals, reporting and monitoring tools and arranged documentation of the processes. In addition, he developed and maintained the tools for computer-assisted data collection, i.e. via tablet computers, including android application, monitoring dashboards and quality assurance processes, and provided support to IT teams regarding system development, and daily progress and quality reporting. He has also designed and implemented a number of surveys, poverty scorecards, as well as ME systems, procedures and plans. During the COVIC-19 Pandemic, he expertly managed a large-scale survey in KP, Punjab and Sindh over telephone by arranging a VPABX using JAZZ business line and virtual call centre setup. Through this project, enumerators conducted telephonic interviews remotely for more than 20,000 households.
Experience
Senior Research Manager - Country Manager
Core responsibilities include:
Management including liaison with Govt. of Pakistan and Provincial Govt.
Acquiring NOCs, Permission for smooth implementation of project activities in all provinces
Managing all departments, supervision of department heads including Finance, HR, Acquisition, Business development, Research and Evaluation Department
Strategic planning, budget v/s actual comparisons, dashboard reporting, CBAs, forecasting on the bases of available funds and arrangement of future fundings
Ensure organizational self sufficiency in terms of costing of staff times and overheads
Managing large scale projects, project designs, budgeting and hiring strategies
Data collection, survey planning in Pakistan and other countries, quantitative and qualitative -methods, Monitoring, data quality, remote and in-field, entire planning, supervision, training of enumerators.
Representing organization in front of Govt. including Chief Ministers in all provinces
Compliance with Head Office (Germany), Attending global meetings, support other countries for various operations
Local policies development and align the local policies with international policies (Germany)
Introducing, piloting and implementing innovating methods in various field (IT, Hydroponic, SurSol)
Situation handling in conflicts and emergency decisions in favor of best interest of organization
Networking with donors, sister organizations, Govt. departments.
Data Analyst - Programme Officer MER
Being a Data Analysit cum Programme Officer in NRSP i Designed various surevey tools (Questionnaire, Data Entry sheets, Monitoring plans etc) including Rollout and Data anlysis.
Providing statistical data for monthly, Quarterly & Annual report for core programme and reporting to various National and International Donors including World Bank, ILO, UN Agencies etc.
Compilation and analysis of Monthly progress reports from all over the Pakistan (60+ programme districts).
Conduction of Evaluation studies, impact assessment studies, baselines and project completion reports as a routine work in NRSP in different part of the country including Baluchistan, AJK, Punjab,Sindh & KP.
Project Coordinator
A Research project funded by World Bank in Bahawalpur, Hyderabad, Mianwali & Nowshera (KP) on Social Mobilazation and Community investment Fund.
I was working in all implementation of project and was a part in Orientation workshop to final reporting. i am still reporting to world Bank for their day by day queries regarding data.
i provided services in Monitoring Evaluation and Research, Social Mobilization, Finance, Construction of CPIs. Total cost of the project was more than Rs.900 Million
Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
A project on Micro Health Insurance and Child Labor by ILO-UN with National Rural Support Programme.
Conduction of Inception Workshop, Regular follow up during the survey and monitoring project activities. Major activities of the project was including Household Surveys, Panel Hospital's data and regular reporting to Donors. i was involved in every process. Project successfully ended timely.
Programme Officer M&E
Regular Reporting of Core programme, Data compilation, data analysis, Core MPRs, QPRs, Field Visits, Rollout of different Surveys. Monitoring project activities including Health & Education Projects and Natural Resource Management Projects
Consultant (Entrepreneurship Development)
Conduction of Entrepreneurship Training of selected Entrepreneurs in Paras (Mansehra).
I worked as individual consultant as being a trainer.
Entrepreneurship Development Officer
A project funded by World Bank, i attended 32 days ToT from a World Bank's partner organization (ECI) on Enterprise Development and conducted more than 17 training events of the selected 500+ participants.
Close coordination with the community, World bank, PPAF and all other partner organizations during the project period.
