Director General - Zainab Alert Response and Recovery Agency (ZARRA), Ministry of Human Rights, Government of Pakistan
(2021-10 - 2024-10)
Strategic leader overseeing national child protection efforts, with a particular focus on missing and abducted children.
- Develops and implements comprehensive policies and procedures to ensure the safety and protection of children (SOPs and Rules)
- Leads capacity building initiatives for stakeholders at national and provincial levels
- Coordinates and monitors the implementation of ZARRA's programs/Projects and initiatives
- Manages the National Helpline 1099, providing legal advice and support to victims of child rights and GBV violations
- Policy recommendations and report writing
- Developed National Database and Referral Mechanism
Member Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, National Commission on the Rights of Child - National Commission on the Rights of Child (NCRC), Ministry of Human Rights, Government of Pakistan - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
(2020-02 - 2021-09)
- Examine, review laws, policies, inquire into violation of child rights
- Advise the Federal Government to sign, ratify or accede to any proposed International treaties, protocols and core conventions
- Monitoring and Complaint handling/GBV Fact finding
- Coordination with parliamentarian/legislature and NHRIs
- Project Management and implementation
Local Consultant Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Child protection case management and referral mechanism - Oxford Policy Management (OPM) - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
(2019-01 - 2019-03)
- Social mapping of stakeholders and coordination
- Identity gaps in implementation
- Organized and facilitated consultation meetings and FGDs
- Logistic management and planning
- Report with recommendations
Education Project for girls/boys Learning is Fun - Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC)
(2017-04 - 2019-12)
Leadership overseeing the management and implementation of all activities (Programs, logistic/financial, training, coordination, planning, implementation, supervision, community engagement/mobilization, monitoring, need assessment, data analysis, and Report writing) for achieving the following objectives:
- Enroll out of school children spatially girls/Promote child friendly classroom environment
- Train teachers and community in selected schools on improved teaching techniques and quality education
- Assess and provide basic educational facilities in 60 selected schools of Abbottabad and Haripur
- Child protection system strengthening in the province
- Selected schools show improved learning outcomes amongst students and increased enrolment rates
- Lobbying and advocacy with parliamentarians for legislation of Compulsory education and prohibition of corporal punishment legislation and laws related to human and child rights
- Coordination with line departments
Regional Manager Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - Save the Children - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
(2000-12 - 2017-03)
Being a Regional Head, provided strategic direction to achieve the overall goals of organization/project to improve the plight of children in Pakistan through various interventions. Overseeing the implementation of all activities (Programs, logistic/financial, training, coordination, planning, implementation, supervision, community mobilization and monitoring, Need assessment, data analysis, Report writing) for achieving the objectives of the following projects:
- JJS Project (Juvenile Justice System): Project Management, Conduct training of police, Bar council, Probation officers, jail staff, Judges and CSO working on child rights, Juvenile Justice System
- Provide legal aid to juvenile through pro bono lawyers on district level
- Jail visit and collection of juvenile data from jail department
- Provide missing facilities in jail
- Supervise computer center in central jail Haripur
- Non official member of CJCC of district Peshawar
- Support Govt in Policy and legislation on borstal Institution
- Supervising TDH project for Juvenile in Central Jail Peshawar
- Organizing Sports activity and medical camps for Juvenile
- Life skill and Hygiene promotion
- Mobile repairing and Non-formal education for Juvenile
- Coordination with jail administration and stakeholders
- Violence against children Program/Project supervision: Conducted baseline survey of teacher
- Teacher training on alternative to corporal punishment
- Monitor and Formation of child Rights club
- Introduce Redressal/complaint mechanism in selected school
- Support Govt in establishment of child protection commission
- Handle GBV cases
- Coordination with national and Provincial Managers/coordinators
- Strengthen and mobilization of Child Right Committees movement in the Pakistan
- Capacity building of Child Rights committees and civil society to promote child rights in the region
- Emergency Project (Child Protection in Emergency): Project Management, Monitoring and supervision of Internally Displace Persons (IDPs), Flood and Earth quick emergency Projects
- Monitor Relief staff activities and Child Friendly Spaces in effected areas of KP
- Supervision and logistic support
- Coordination, Lobbying and developed referral mechanism for recovered and un accompanied/missing child
- Logistic and financial management
- Capacity building of emergency staff and stakeholders
