Nutrition Coordination || Community Mobilization || Project Management || Consultancy on Primary health care and Nutrition || Monitoring & Evaluation || Qualitative & Quantitative Researcher || Master Trainer
I am a highly dedicated and performance-driven professional with extensive experience in humanitarian programs/projects development and management, monitoring and evaluation, policy creation, and community development.
+10 years of experience delivering projects with international NGOs, govt. organizations, /departments at the federal, provincial or district levels as well as community-level interventions focusing on Health, WASH, Nutrition & Community Mobilization.
I am expert in providing support to the program team in developing high-quality health & nutrition-related proposals concept notes, and other humanitarian documents required for fundraising and capacity-building initiatives. Instrumental in implementing different plans under MNCH services project, facilitating LHW program in conducting training on SG, CMAM, and IYCF methodology and CHW in uncovered areas, ensuring the quality of Partnership Defined Quality PDQ implementation and formation of QITs. Partnered with all humanitarian actors and govt. agencies for programs integration across humanitarian responses, clusters, and respective implementing partners while ensuring timely and effective technical support delivery.
Staff Capacity Building & Training
Fundraising & Grant Management
Community Mobilization:
Implementation Partners Collaboration:
Monitoring & Evaluation:
Project/Program Management:
My key skills include Research • Policy Building & Editing • Financial Management • Project Planning & Implementation • Report Writing • Nonprofit Organizations • Community Mobilization in MNCH Project • Administration • Coordination • Microsoft Office • Leadership • Community Outreach • Facilitation • Training & Development • Grant Management & Fundraising • Monitoring & Evaluation Nutrition • Master Trainer on NMIS Tool • Master Trainer of Tab Misoprostol • Master Trainer of PDQ, CHX, CMAM and IYCF, Tab. Misoprostol, NMIS tool, NIMS, and BFHI • Master Trainer of CHX Application • Nutrition Specific approaches with CMAM surge activities • Capacity Building • Case Management • Child Protection Community Emergency Response Team Management • Program Planning & Analysis • Warehouse & Inventory Management
My professional background and great industrial exposure coupled with an excellent track record makes me an ideal candidate for executive roles. As such I would welcome a discussion regarding opportunities with your organization that fit my background.
Participating in the training on baseline and outcome analysis by the HEA
Conducting FGDs and KII for the baseline and outcome analysis of the HEA with communities from different wealth backgrounds and actors in the different livelihood zones of Sindh and Balochistan as per the HEA-designed tools.
Data collection compiling and entering in the online HEA baseline and outcome analysis tool.
Ensure that respondents understand uniformly questions the way intended, as explained in training given to the researcher before carrying out the data-collection.
Support and cooperate with the supervisor in team building and better coordination.
Ensure all the FGDs/KIIs are planned for a day.
Inquire about a variety of specific information shared in the FGDs and KIIs and translate it according to the tools and spreadsheets.
Gather information, record and encode correctly, information from the survey
Ensure informed consent and respect the confidentiality of information received.
Deliverables:
Conduct Focus Group Discussion with different wealth background groups in two livelihood zones of Sindh and Balochistan.
Key Informant Interviews of different actors of the FSL sector in the targeted livelihood zone
Data compilation and Consultation meeting for the livelihood zoning
Data entry in LIAS, Dashboard.
Design, develop, and execute programs for Improved Nutrition in Sindh (PINS) Donor integrated community farm in European Union (EU), Planning & Development Department (PDD), and Govt. of Sindh. An external monitoring consultant for EU PINS implementing a six-year multi-sectoral Sindh executed by Govt. of Sindh through the Planning & Development Department (PDD). Guide external monitoring of EU PINS integrated community farm in European Union (EU) and to Planning & Development Department (PDD), Government of Sindh.
Key Contributions:
Enhanced community-level access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation. Monitored Trained communities to practice climate-resilient small-scale kitchen gardening and growth.
Optimized and accelerated the Action Plan for reducing Stunting and Malnutrition (AAP), to reduce the stunting rate from the existing 48 percent to 40 percent by 2021.
Steered efforts to improve the nutritional status of children under five, pregnant and lactating women (PLWs) in Sindh as per the second target indicator of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No 2.
Expected Result (ER) 3 component includes nutrition-sensitive interventions i.e. Water Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) and Agriculture & Food Security (AFS). Sindh Rural Support Organization is the implementing partner.
Managed acute malnutrition and trained health-team to ensure protocol adherence to SFPs, OTPs, and NSCs as operated within quality indicators. Actively coordinated the nutrition program M&E with an emphasis on quality and proper implementation. Built synergies between PHC &Nutrition Projects as well as with local authorities, donors, partners, national NGOs & International NGOs. Adapt nutrition program approaches and policies to fit the changing environment. Rendered a keen eye for details to investigate and implement appropriate nutritional initiatives, with particular reference to advancing community nutrition approaches in coordination with donors.
Key Contributions:
Provided technical guidance to Field-Nutritionists (FN) teams for the direct implementation of the nutrition interventions.
Partnered with the Area Health Managers, Area Coordinators in all field sites as well as the program/project coordinators to devise an integrated nutrition approach across sectors while coordinating between PHC & Nutrition.
Led piloted community nutrition approach in collaboration with the Field Nutritionists, Field Medical Staff devised strategies in line with the changing environment to ensure their effectiveness in improving child nutritional status.
Searched and worked on different verticals to carry out CMAM surge activities, Surge dashboard, maintained morbidity and malnutrition chart, seasonal calendar, and also shared monthly reports for alert and emergency phases.
Led and performed the analysis of political, social, economic, and cultural issues within the project, their impact on suffering, and alleviation of the project with the Country Nutrition Coordinator.
Developed in-depth understanding of monitoring methodologies, data collection instruments, and data collection plan, also contributed in the Team Planning Workshop (TPW) in Islamabad/Karachi. Collected high-quality data and carried out field activities as per the data collection plan and the instructions of the field manager/assignment manager. Recorded interviews and translated notes in English in the required format and provided feedback to the team lead/field /assignment managers.
Key Contributions:
Monitored the ongoing activities i.e. training, sessions, meetings, etc. using appropriate tools. Conducted key informant interviews (KIIs) with stakeholders including government officials and beneficiaries of the activities.
Conducted FGD with beneficiaries and community stakeholders.
Built instrument tools and submit them weekly to the perform assignment manager for data cleaning, coding, and analysis, also completed a daily online tracker to update the field manager on the work done.
Liaised with the Implementing Partners activity managers, government counterparts and representatives of various DO 5 committees; performed tasks assigned by field manager/assignment manager for completing the study.
Defined work plans for community mobilization activities implemented under MNCH services project in target District, supported LHW program in organizing trainings for SG methodology and CHX e.t.c. Devised MNCH Services project activities in coordination with local MCH partners; supported LHW program in monitoring Support group meetings, and strong referral mechanism in LHWs covered and CHWs uncovered areas. Share feedback reports at all levels. Executed Project activities to achieve the project objectives, performed SWOT analysis of for the effective implementation of the project and grant.
Key Contributions:
Expertly monitored the project activities and shared feedback reports at all levels, devised action plan prepared by QIT, engaged in monthly meetings of QIT prepared and communicated progress reports and other project reports.
Ensured the quality of PDQ implementation and formation of QITs, and facilitated “Save the children” for effective implementation of the project grant and technical assistance in respect to the contract.
Improved knowledge through attending awareness sessions regarding early marriages, birth registration, CNIC/Vote registration, Health and Hygiene, and decisions.
Identified defaulters and readmit them, trained community lady health volunteers about CMAM & IYCF, and kept lady health volunteers abreast with the importance of Complementary Breast Feeding and Exclusive Breast Feeding. Compiled and articulated the statistical data (admission, default, cured absent, death) and draft a report on activities.
Key Contributions:
Built a team of volunteers on CMAM and IYCF and controlled all CMAM and IYCF activities. Ensured referral cases from the community to OTF/SFP and SC centers.
Followed the treatment of the beneficiaries during visits at home in line with current protocol, added the activities linked to health and nutrition education in the protocols also analyzed the nutrition situation.