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Our Work

Knowledge & Work Experience of the Director, Crossroads Advisory

Governance and Public Policy

  • Poverty, Vulnerability and Social Protection: The Case of Pakistan” for UNDP Pakistan June 2023 Available online
  • “The Challenges of Social Protection: Extending Exclusion or Ending Exclusion?” in Development Challenges Confronting Pakistan based on personal experience and knowledge of working on social protection

Humanitarian Issues

  • Crossroads Advisory and University of Peshawar MOU for developing a Humanitarian Observatory and Interactive online archive of gray literature
  • ListenH: Livelihoods in Humanitarian Crisis. 4-year project on the role of humanitarian actors and improving humanitarian response
  • Solutions for Afghan refugees and humanitarian aid. Women’s Rights Program, Open Society Foundations
  • Various evaluations and discussions on refugee crisis, camp conditions, and solutions for protracted crisis under the auspices of UNHCR

Gender

  • “Financing for Gender Equality: Tackling Poverty, Institutional and Financing Challenges for Gender Equality” for the National Commission on the Status of Women, Government of Pakistan.
  • “SDG-5-Gender Equality: Gaps, Challenges and the Way Forward” for UNDP, March 2023 Available online
  • “Transformative WASH for Women and Girls” for WaterAid Pakistan Country Strategy. (listed under Scoping & Evaluations)
  • Beijing +25, strengthening women’s movements and civil society; Advising Women’s Rights Program, Open Society Foundations
  • Gender Mainstreaming in International Trade, Conceptualized, designed and delivered trainings for senior bureaucrats from Sindh and Balochistan under the auspices of the International Trade Center (ITC). (Listed under Trainings)

Labour Issues

  • UNDP-Development Policy Unit, “Home-based Women Workers and Social Protection in Pakistan” June 2022 Available online
  • “Challenges of eliminating child labor in Pakistan,” in Post-Flood Impact on the Worst Forms of Child Labour. For SDPI, Pakistan.
  • “Mainstreaming Child Labor Issues in Crisis and Disasters Policy and Programs.” For ILO Pakistan.
  • “The Impact of Children’s Work on Education,” for ILO, Pakistan.

Child Rights

  • Produced Draft Child Protection Policy of the Governments of Balochistan and Azad Jamu Kashmir through a consultative process for UNICEF, Pakistan.
  • Produced the Draft Child Protection Policy for the Government of Pakistan through a consultative process for UNICEF, Pakistan.

Scoping, Project & Program Development & Evaluations

  • Country Gender Strategy, “Transformative WASH for Women and Girls” for WaterAid Pakistan.
  • 10-Year Evaluation of Dastak’s Child Rights Unit (CRU) work from 2008 2018. The purpose was to provide  recommendations to the Board and staff of Dastak CRU for changes in decision- making processes and scope of work relating to child protection issues.
  • “Documentation of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) through Local Support Organizations: Study and Strategic Planning” for the Rural Support Program Network, Islamabad. This report formed the basis for OSF-Pakistan’s intervention  for legal empowerment of the poor and the training and deployment of para-legal staff at the community level
  • Lead Researcher, Assessment of HomeNet work with Home-Based Workers in Pakistan, research commissioned by WEIGO.
  • Review and Assessment of the following Unicef commissioned studies: Draft Child Protection Policies for FATA, and Punjab; Pakistan Case Study on Decentralization and Equity for Child Rights in South Asia; Vulnerability Assessment Study, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa; Social Exclusion and Children in Pakistan.

Trainings

Focus Areas

  • Conceptualizing, Designing and Delivering Trainings on Gender, Development, Conflict, Security and Peace.

Gender Trainings

  • January 2023, International Trade Center (ITC), Conceptualized, designed and delivered trainings for senior bureaucrats from Sindh and Balochistan on Gender Mainstreaming focusing on Gender and Trade.
  • Gender and Conflict in Pakistan for Senior Gender Trainers, Mobariza Network, Islamabad
  • Gender Sensitization and Awareness, SDPI staff, Islamabad.
  • Gender sensitization workshop conducted for senior staff of Forest Department, KP, under the auspices of CIDA
  • Gender and Development (GAD) Training; module: “Approaches to women and development” National Center for Rural Development (NCRD), Islamabad

Trainings on Conflict, Peace, Development

  • Training entitled, “Conflict, Peace-Building and the Role of Civil Society; one-day module: “Understanding Conflict: Cross cutting Gender Perspectives” for ActionAid
  • Young Leadership Program ‘Development and Peace;’ a 4 day training for 25 participants from conflict zones in KP (formerly the NWFP) for the BKTEF with a focus on peace building. Training was conceptualized, designed and delivered at the Higher Education Commission, Peshawar.
  • “Peace, Violence and Development.” A 3-week training aimed to strengthen young professionals’ conceptual and analytical abilities in the  research and policy arenas. Course Director, SDPI,
  • “Women, Development and Environment” with Azra Talat Saeed and Karin A Siegmann.
  • “Training for young professionals on critical analysis of development” lead trainer with other professionals. SDPI. Islamabad.

Child Rights

  • “Child Trafficking: Unraveling the Push and Pull Factors in the SAARC Region.” SAARC Human Resource Development Center, Islamabad.