Experience: more than 10 years of experience with INGOs and NGOs specialising in disaster risk reduction, resilience and emergency preparedness programming in Sindh and KP provinces.
Project management: managed DRR and resilience projects by providing leadership in their design, implementation and successful phase-out in Sindh and KP provinces funded by Irish Aid, ECHO, DFID, and OFDA. Conducted programme kick-out meetings, annual reviews, partnership reviews, risk analysis and management, and strong coordination with donor and stakeholders.
Budget management: managed large budgets including €5 million and €3 million (separate grants) and compliance of donors including budget planning, forecasting, expenditure monitoring and financial reporting.
Planning, M&E and research: prepared programme M&E strategies including results frameworks and logic model. Solid experience in RBM based M&E and research including design, preparation, coordination and supervisions of baselines, evaluations and research studies.
Technical Assistance: Provided technical support to partners, government departments (DDMA, PDMA) on DRR, resilience and emergency preparedness. This included support in DRM planning, capacity vulnerability analysis, hazard assessment, stakeholder analysis, resilient infrastructures, and contingency planning, gender mainstreaming and safeguarding compliance.
Partnership management: experienced in programme delivery through partners; managed sub-contracts with local NGOs, academia, consultants and government partners and their capacity building.
Reporting: Prepared monthly, quarterly, biannual and annual reports for Trócaire management, head office and donors. Facilitated annual programme reviews and prepared detailed results framework, risk registers and narrative reports for donors
Educational qualfications include MA in Development Studies from KDSC Dublin and IDHA from Fordham University New York.
• Leading a multi-sector programme on water resource management in Sindh with 2 national partners and annual budget of Euro 2.5 million funded by Irish Aid.
• Developed long term integrated programme strategy for multiple sectors water resource management, resilience, disaster risk reduction, humanitarian response and preparedness along with implementation model and approaches to integrate multiple sectors in programme design and management and achieved synergistic outcomes.
• Managed 6 partnerships including identification, appraisal, selection and monitoring of partners and consultants, contracting, grants management, compliance and capacity building.
• Developed strategic partnerships with Sindh Irrigation and Drainage Authority (SIDA) on water policy development for Sindh province and with Ministry of Human Rights on research study.
• Produced high quality reports for donors including documentation of lessons learned, success stories and good practices.
• Facilitated annual reviews to capture progress & challenges, reviewed risk registers and results frameworks.
• Designed advocacy strategy for programme including stakeholders mapping, problem analysis and resource planning.
• Provided technical support in the design and implementation of DRR and resilience strategies, interventions and their implementation.
• Guided partners in gender mainstreaming, safeguarding of programme participants and donor compliance.
• Designed annual Emergency Preparedness Plan (EPP) and Contingency Plan and rolled out initiatives for capacity building of roster partners.
• Designed and organised national level visibility/ programme promotion events in close coordination with federal, provincial governments, academia and civil society.
• Managed a team of 6 professionals including recruitment, performance management and capacity building.
• Developed 2 multi-stakeholders’ consortia including UN, INGOs, NGOs and research partners and submitted proposals to donors.
• Designed and implemented a long-term disaster risk reduction (DRR) programme in two provinces (Sindh and KP) of Pakistan in collaboration with 4 NGO partners, 3 district disaster management authorities (DDMAs), Provincial Disaster Management Authorities (PDMAs) and Pakistan Meteorology Department (PMD).
• Managed programme budgets (€3 million) including planning, monitoring, forecasting and reporting
• Designed humanitarian strategy, emergency preparedness (EPP) and contingency plans while continuously reviewing of humanitarian situation, capacity building of staff and partners on EPP.
• Managed M&E and research component including RBM based M&E system, baselines, evaluation and research studies.
• Managed partnerships with 4 NGOs and 4 government authorities including their selection, monitoring, coordination and capacity building.
• Provided technical guidance on designing and implementing of DRR plans: hazard mapping, vulnerability, capacity assessment, mitigation schemes, trainings and early warning system.
• Guided partners in gender mainstreaming, safeguarding of programme participants and donor compliance.
• Produced high quality reports for donors including documentation of lessons learned, success stories and good practices.
• Facilitated annual reviews to capture progress and challenges, reviewed risk registers and results frameworks.
• Coordinated and represented Trócaire at forums such as PHF, DRR Forum, NHN and government and carried out advocacy on humanitarian issues through these fora.
• Managed procurement processes (hiring of external consultancy services, partners and goods)
• Developed proposals and budgets for various donors (Irish Aid, AusDFAT, START Fund, USAID, ECHO, OCHA) on disaster response, risk reduction, protection, food assistance, livelihoods and resource rights.
• Led the management and coordination of long-term sustainable livelihoods programme with a strong DRR and resilience component
• Facilitated the development of exit strategy and successfully executed sustainability plans for 7 projects
• Conducted capacity building of 7 programme partners in the areas resilience programming, DRR and emergency preparedness planning through trainings and technical support.
• Planned and monitored programme budgets of $1 million (financial reports and budget forecasting)
• Managed partnerships with 7 local NGOs and 2 technical partners including DDMAs, PDMA and line departments.
• Produced high quality reports for donors including documentation of lessons learned, success stories and good practices.
• Facilitated annual reviews to capture progress and challenges, reviewed risk registers and results frameworks.
• Guided partners in gender mainstreaming, safeguarding of programme participants and donor compliance.
• Managed and coordinated emergency assistance to Pakistan flood affectees programme at national level (Trócaire/ Caritas Int./ D&P Canada/ CAFOD, SCIAF and Irish Aid, €2.5 million) with a focus on emergency food/ NFI aid, child protection, rehabilitation of livelihoods and water and sanitation and emergency preparedness and planning
• Managed the development and implementation of 20 emergency and recovery projects
• Designed, implemented and managed Trócaire’s emergency preparedness strategy including capacity building of staff and partners in KP and Sindh provinces.
• Produced high quality reports for donors including documentation of lessons learned, success stories and good practices.
• Facilitated annual reviews to capture progress and challenges, reviewed risk registers and results frameworks
• Guided partners in gender mainstreaming, safeguarding of programme participants and donor compliance.
• Designed contingency plans at organizational level by involving all stakeholders.
• Prepared funding applications for livelihoods recovery, food assistance, NFI, shelter, WASH for UN ERF, ECHO, Irish Aid, CAFOD and SCIAF.
• Built partners capacities on emergency response, HAP and Sphere standards.
• Coordinated emergency response interventions with UN Clusters, NGOs and government
• Supervised the implementation and management of 1) Emergency Response Project in flood affected areas of KP (Trócaire €380,000: Aug-Oct 2010), and 2) Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction in earthquake affected areas of Mansehra (Trócaire, €60,259: March 2009-Sept 2010)
• Managed field office operations and management including supervision of a large team of 20 staff members
• Trained local volunteers and government officials on hazard mapping, vulnerability and capacity assessments, and disaster risk reduction planning.
• Managed project finances including preparation of budgets, forecasts and reports for donors
• Represented and coordinated project interventions with DDMA, local government and line departments.
• Supported the development of monitoring and evaluation system, i.e. Monitoring and Evaluation Plan, M&E Framework.
• Conducted field monitoring visits and produced quality M&E reports
• Designed data collection and analysis tools for compiling beneficiary data and reporting to management and donors.
• Facilitated internal evaluation / review of recovery projects and conducted monitoring visits
• Implemented a child protection project in earthquake affected areas of District Bagh, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) by contributing in overall and day-today planning and ongoing monitoring of various activities with funding support of UNICEF. Designed and delivered capacity building activities, formation of community groups and establishment of child friendly spaces.