Fiza Qureshi

Fiza Naz Qureshi

Islamabad, Pakistan

Skype: fiza.naveed

email:fizaqureshi044@gmail.com

KEY ATTRIBUTES

Ms. Qureshi is a development professional. She possesses more than 15 years’ experience in development profession with special focus on research, project/program management, advocacy, lobbying, networking, and capacity building.

She is currently pursuing MPhil degree leading to PhD in development studies. She has got MA in Sociology, MBA, LLM and MA (Sindhi).

Currently she is working as Manager Programmes Implementation in Indus Consortium, which is working with women and marginalized groups in 1700 villages in 17 districts of Pakistan. She is managing the tax justice project “Finance For development” and she is coordinating the Tax Justice Alliance and the trained groups of journalists and bloggers in Sindh and Punjab.

She has worked with renowned advocacy based organization Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum to work for the rights of poor fishing communities in Pakistan as Regional Program Manager- South. During this period, she worked actively for Mangroves’ issue in coastal belt, DRR in Thatta district, water rights, natural resources depletion, alternate livelihood, right to livelihood, right to education and right to health.

She has also strived for good governance and democracy in Pakistan. Recently she has rendered her services as Provincial Coordinator Sindh for Democracy Reporting International (DRI) to work with parliamentarians and civil society regarding Local Bodies Elections. In current elections 2013, she worked as lead trainer by Election Commission of Pakistan with the support of IFES to train master trainers regarding electoral process. In 2008 elections, she worked with UNDP as Provincial Coordinator for Sindh to conduct the trainings of polling staff. Afterwards, she has worked with Free and Fair Election Network ( FAFEN) in 2009 to train the staff for Democratic Governance Program and strengthening transparency and accountability in public sector. She has participated in the social awareness campaign and practically worked for the right of having CNICs, birth registration certificates and names registered in elector roll. She has also rendered her services to train the women councilors and local leaders of Benazir Income Support Program with ACT International and Aurat Foundation. She has worked on training manuals for good governance, advocacy, lobbying, women rights, Human rights, Right to Information and Gender mainstreaming.

She has worked with Sindh Rural Support Program (SRSP) initially as Program Manager and attained the position of the Executive director.

She is an alumnus of the Wilton Park’s conference (UK) on Reducing Poverty: The Roles of Parliaments, Government and Non-State Actors (2006). She possesses work/travel experiences of UK, Nepal, Bangladesh, Germany, Netherlands, Dubai, France, Italy, Rome, Vatican and Thailand. Her research paper on Gender sensitivities in Disaster Relief was accepted in IDRC 2008, Davos, Switzerland. She worked as principal researcher for Bonded Child labor in Thar Carpet Industry with PILER- Anti Slavery International. She has written several research reports, proposals and contributed articles and blogs to the leading Sindhi newspapers and sites on development issues.

She has addressed gender issues of different areas of Pakistan including earthquake areas, where she worked as gender specialist to assess the situation after 1 year of earthquake in Saran valley and Balakot, Mansehra. She has worked as social researcher throughout Sindh including Thar and Nara desert, Kohistan and coastal belt of Karachi, Thatta and Badin. She has conducted several baseline studies and third party evaluations.

She has worked with several environmental agencies as gender expert for instance Halcrow, Hagller Balley, GEMS, Teckcellent & SGS to protect the environment and environmental rights.

She has participated in several workshops on political activism, power politics, and skills for rural journalists, women trafficking, child sexual abuse and labor rights. She has delivered her speeches, presentations and lectures on Discriminatory Laws against women, child rights, Socio- economic gender sensitive indicators, Socio- economic status of women, Leadership and Conflict Resolution from the platforms of University of Sindh, Jamashoro; ActionAid, SRSP, LHDP,HRCP and SGA. She has organized provincial level events on honor killing and International Women’s’ Day.

Ms. Qureshi is the certified master trainer of International Finance Corporation (IFC).  She has ample experience to organize and impart trainings, develop or customize training material and also conduct Training Need Assessment.

 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Manager Programmes Implementation, ; Indus Consortium , April 2014 – continue

• Coordination , technical guidance and supervision of field staff of 17 districts
• Directly managing the projects of Finance For Development, Water Governance, Women Empowerment, Women Voter Registration, Empowering Youth for Enterprise and Employment and Enhancing Water and Sanitation Governance, Access in two union councils of Badin Sindh.
• Donor Coordination with Oxfam, VSO, USAID, DAI and UNDP
• Coordination with consultants to ensure the assigned tasks well in time with quality outputs
• Event Management
• Coordination with donor
• Social network building
• Develop and submit project reports to donor
• Identify new areas for intervention and develop concept papers, EOIs and proposals
• Media coordination
• Technical input in strategic documents and policies of the organization
• Co- signatory and assigned the role of acting National Coordinator
• The member of recruitment committee

Provincial Coordinator, Sindh; Democracy Reporting International (DRI)

• Conduct meetings with parliamentarians., election commission and other stakeholders to assess the issues regarding local government act and elections
• Online reporting on daily basis

NGO Coordinator, Sindh; The Agribusiness Project, Agribusiness Support Fund (ASF), USAID, Karachi , 15 November 2012- 30 June 2013

• Provides technical guidance to the implementing partner in Sindh to implement the Farmers Enterprise Groups(FEGs) Formation successfully
• Manages subcontracts to the implementing partners
• Compliant and effective grants procedures of Farmers Enterprise Groups (FEGs)
• Ensure proper implementation plans with partners, regular review and reflections to steer the implementation process more consciously and logically to achieve the agreed objectives. 

Regional Program Manager, South; Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF), 2011-2012

• Technical and management input on implementation of the following projects:

o   Just & Sustainable Livelihood Project, OxfamNovib

o   CBDRM & Livelihood Program,PKNC 44, Jati: OxfamGB & EC

o   Improving Fishing Communities Quality Life: P & D, Sindh Government

o   Acceleration of Education in flood affected areas in Badin: UNICEF

o   Support Flood Affected families in Badin: World Food Program(WFP)

o   Sustainable Community Investment Plan for Coastal Communities of Sindh: Eni Pakistan

o   Protecting Climate Friends: Mangrove Forests: Korea Green Foundation

• Coordinated all aspects of budgeting and programming
• Strengthen relationships with partners
• Interaction and engagement with legislatures and policy makers to maneuver and lobby for proper provincial fishing policy of Sindh and Baluchistan and ensure implementation of card system on water bodies.
• Engagement with Federal and provincial ministries for favorable policies regarding fishing, livelihood, education and natural disasters at different levels
• Developed policy papers on priority issues like Illegal cutting of Mangroves, Zulfikarabad issue, Destructive nets, Participation of females in livelihood activities etc.
• Coordinate closely with other programme managers of DRR, MEAL for building synergies and effective programme delivery
• Effective people management with strengthened team work, optimally using staff potential
• Ensure adequate funding for programmes and campaigns by identifying potential funding opportunities, and interacting with donors

Projects Manager; Global Environmental Management Services (GEMS), April 2010 – October 2011

• Conduct IEE/ EIA and Baseline studies and environmental audits
• Finalize reports
• Manage field staff
• Develop EOIs and Proposals
• Coordination with clients

Program Manager ( Executive Director); Sindh Rural Support Program (SRSP), 2005 – 2008(2009)

• Technical and management input on implementation of the following projects:

o   Food For Work Project, WFP, 2009 ( Arid Zone, Sindh)

o   TBAs’ Training Projects , BP Pakistan

o   Livelihood Support to Vulnerable Communities of Jhuboo & Nerriri Lagoon, WWF

o   Poverty Reduction Pilot Project (PRPP), GoS(ADB)

o   Sindh Coastal Area Development Project (SCAD – II), PPAF

o   Private Sector Agriculture Extension Services, ASF

o   Voter Registration Campaign in Sindh, UNDP

o   Citizens’ Community Board Mobilization Trainings, DTCE(UNDP)

• Coordinated all aspects of budgeting and programming.
• Effective people management with strengthened team work, optimally using staff potential
• Develop and maintaining contacts with donors, especially their local offices
• Ensure proper documentation and record keeping of programme and non-programme matters
• Ensure adequate funding for development programme and campaigns by identifying potential funding opportunities, and interacting with donors

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES (CONSULTANCIES)

• TRAININGS conducted

o   Training of Trainers on Tax & Budget Advocacy to 25 CSOs of Sindh & Punjab. Indus Consortium; 29 & 30 September 2018

• Training on Safer Schools (DRR) to SMC members, LHDP Badin; Indus Consortium; 17 – 21 January 2014 & 24 – 28 February 2014

o   Trainer, MICS5 Survey, Beureau of Statistics; 25 September 2013 to 31 December 2013; Working as trainer in Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) with Bureau of Statistics having technical support of UNICEF. The team of trainers will train about 300 interviewers on three type of questionnaires including Household questionnaire, individual women questionnaire and children under 5 questionnaire. In this assignment, I have conducted the pre-test of the tools, revised them, translate the manuals of interviewers and supervisors and editors in Sindhi , develop the training content management and deliver the trainings.

o   Training on Rights Based Approach to SMC members, LHDP Badin; Indus Consortium; 7,8 & 9 November 2013

o   A 2- day training on Gender Mainstreaming to LHDP staff Badin; Indus Consortium; January 2013

o   Three One Day Training Workshops for BBC’s Women Leaders and Councilors in Benazir Income Support Program,  Act International / Aurat Foundation; 8,9 December 2012 and 19 January 2013

o   Lead Trainer, IFES & Election Commision of Pakistan, 2013; Trained more than 100 master trainers to train Presidings, Assistant Presiding Officers and Polling Officers on electoral processes.

o   Master Trainer, Free & Fair Election Network (FAFEN), Democratic Governance Program, Sep – Dec 2009; Developed Training manual, conduct Trainings in the fields to the constituency Coordinators and communities.

o   Master Trainer of Community Based Distribution, Promotion & Sales Model, Pakistan Safe Drinking Water & Hygiene Promotion Project, USAID, MArch 2009.

o   Training on Effective Communication in Leadership & Conflict Resolution , Training Program to FOs, CRDC – SIDA, University of Sindh; 2006

o   Training Need Assessment for Musalihat e Anjuman, Sindh Development Society (SDS), Local Government, May 2006

o   Training on Proposal and Report writing to LHDP staff Badin; 2006

o   Training on Project Cycle Management, staff of Sindh Graduate Association (SGA), Khipro, 2005

o   Training on Socio- economic gender sensitive indicators, CRDC – SIDA, University of Sindh; 2005

• Other Assisgnments
• Gender Specialist, WSIP study in three Area Water Boards in Sindh, MDC- World Bank, 2018
• Provincial Coordinator ( Sindh), Democracy Reporting International (DRI); Supporting Advocacy For Electoral Reforms Project & Improving Parliamentary Performance in Pakistan (IP3), November 2013 -March 2014
• Project Y3 Evaluation, Basic Skills for Life Project in Thatta & Muzaffargarh; Plan Pakistan & MDC; January & February 2014
• Project Evaluation, Partner Call Project in Sindh and South Punjab, Welthungerhilfe Pakistan; October- November 2013
• Provincial Coordinator (Sindh) SNEP Project, UNDP; Dec-2007 To Mar-2008; I supervised 685 training for 16,992 Presiding Officers in 27 districts and 126 talukas (sub-district units) for holding free and fair elections held on 18th February, 2008. Under this project, I managed the team of 39 divisional, district and deputy district coordinators and 149 master trainers in Sindh
• Final Assessment of DA 17, MDC & ActionAid; March – April 2006
• Sociologist/ Gender Expert, Initial Environmental Examinations (IEEs) & Environmental Impact Assessment ( EIAs), Hagller Bailly , Halcrow, Teckcellent and SGS; 2006 – continue

PAPERS/PUBLICATIONS

Year	Title	Publisher
2016-2017	Sindhi Translation of Bright Star Community Dialogue Tool	Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP)
1994 – 0nwards	Articles on current socio-economic & political issues, women issues , political awareness and sensitization	Daily local Sindhi newspapers and magazines e.g. Daily Kawish, Daily Ibrat, Subuh Thendo(Morning will rise),Ibrat Magazine, Wesah magazine
2013	Sindhi Translation of Training Manual on Article 19- A Right to Information	Friends Development Society
2012	Sindhi Translation of Report on ” Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction in Schools’ Curricula ( Analytical Instrument for Policy Advocacy), 2012″	Indus Consortium
1995	Translation of report on ” Violence Against Women in Pakistan, 1994-95 by Farzana Bari, Women Studies Department, Islamabad”	Kawish Magazine
May 2016	Blogs on SDGs and situation of Pakistan and Transportation issue of Karachi; Climate change; Model of EU;	http://indusblog.com.pk/?p=19161 http://indusblog.com.pk/?p=19165 http://indusblog.com.pk/?p=19336 http://indusblog.com.pk/?p=19378

RESEARCH WORK

• Research Associate for Feasibility study of the small dams in Nangar Parkar; ADB, Sindh Irrigation Department, Jul 2009.
• Research Associate for Poverty Assessment for the up gradation of Naseer division; ADB, Sindh Irrigation Department, Jul 2009.
• Study Coordinator for Baseline Study for Integrated Child Rights Programme in Cotton Growing Districts of Pakistan; Management and Development Centre, Save the children, Jan – Feb 2009.
• Project Coordinator & Gender Specialist for Situation Analysis of Micro finance in Sindh; Sindh Microfinance Network, Mar – Jul 2007.
• Researcher on Bonded Child Labor in Thar Carpet Industry; PILER-ASI, Aug-Dec 2006.
• Gender Specialist, study on Livestock Management, Diseases and Cure, Marketing , Current Situation in Dadu; MDC & TRDP, Dec. 2005 – Jun 2006.

 

ADDITIONAL SKILLS & COURSES

Proficiency in Windows, Excel and Microsoft Word, Internet browsing, website development on wordpress

MOOC: “Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities by Lund University on Coursera. Certificate earned on June 1, 2016”.

MOOC: “Understanding Research Methods” by on Coursera. Certificate earned on June 2016

URL: https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/verify/LKFQ4F4MGHT2

License: LKFQ4F4MGHT2

MOOC: “Write Professional Emails in English” by  Georgia Institute of Technology on Coursera. Certificate earned on July 2016.

URL: https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/verify/9SEKLJ335ZMG

License: 9SEKLJ335ZMG

MOOC: “Speak English Professionally: In person, Online and on phone” on 23 August 2016

https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/5EGRCM4SRWM2

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

Global Legal Empowerment Network

The Water Network

LANGUAGES

English (Spoken: fluent; Written: fluent)

Sindhi (Spoken: fluent; Written: fluent)

Urdu (Spoken: fluent; Written: fluent)

Siraiki ( good understanding)