Azra A. Cader

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Business Advisor, Entrepreneurship Program @ ISSofBC Career Services
Surrey, BC, CA
Azra A. Cader's Location
Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, Canada
About Azra A. Cader

With experience in the non-profit sector (including humanitarian and development sectors), I am a passionate and skilled professional specialising in gender equality, feminism, human rights, and post-conflict issues. I have wide-ranging experience in this field and have worked with a range of organisations at the international, regional and national levels. I have demonstrated strong analytical, report writing, and workshop facilitation skills, as well as the ability to work with diverse stakeholders and adapt to changing contexts. I am committed to advancing the rights and well-being of women and girls, especially those who face multiple forms of discrimination and violence.

Azra A. Cader's Current Company Details
ISSofBC Career Services

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Business Advisor, Entrepreneurship Program
Surrey, BC, CA
Azra A. Cader Work Experience Details
  • Issofbc Career Services
    Business Advisor, Entrepreneurship Program
    Issofbc Career Services
    Surrey, Bc, Ca
  • Issofbc Career Services
    Service Assistant, Spark And Ignite Program
    Issofbc Career Services Mar 2024 - Present
    Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
    Managing client information, maintaining records, and supporting client needs throughout the program.Preparing materials and marketing material and creating and distributing client surveys.Organizing program events, including meetings, workshops, and marketing activities.Collaborating with case managers, ISSofBC staff, service providers, and community organizations to address information needs, facilitate referrals, and foster positive working relationships.
  • Women’S Fund Asia (Wfa)
    Consultant - Country Briefs For South Asia
    Women’S Fund Asia (Wfa) Oct 2023 - Dec 2023
    Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
    o Developed eight country briefs for countries in South Asia focusing on thematic areas - movement and labour, autonomy, decisions, and sexual rights, access to justice, environmental justice and strengthening feminist voices.o Consolidated resources by country and thematic area and reviewing and extracting information to be analysed within each paper. o Provided guidelines and analysis to inform WFA’s decision making and grant making strategy in the region.
  • United Nations Population Fund (Unfpa), Afghanistan
    International Consultant - Child Marriage Assessment, Afghanistan
    United Nations Population Fund (Unfpa), Afghanistan Apr 2022 - Sep 2023
    Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
    o Design and oversee the implementation of an assessment on child marriage and related programming in Afghanistan, working closely with national consultants, UNFPA and United Nation’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF) country teams to finetune the scope and components of the study. o Data collection for the assessment, including developing training material for enumerators, documenting the field process and supporting primary data collection. o Data analysis and report writing, including suggesting targeted intervention strategies for prevention and action on child marriage.
  • Women’S Fund Asia (Wfa)
    Thematic Lead (Autonomy, Decisions, And Sexual Rights), Consultant Grants Manager
    Women’S Fund Asia (Wfa) Feb 2023 - Aug 2023
    Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
    o Grants management, including drawing out learning, and compiling mid-term/annual report reviews and grant closing of assigned grants and supporting partners' engagements.o Donor reporting by contributing grants-related information, managing processes, and compiling reports. o Organising an online partner inception meeting and supporting all aspects related to its implementation. o Grantmaking, including proposal reviews, grant processing, providing inputs and supporting granting processes.
  • German Technical Cooperation (Giz) In Sri Lanka
    Research And Strategy Consultant – Sri Lanka Barometer
    German Technical Cooperation (Giz) In Sri Lanka Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
    Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
    o Undertaking research to ascertain public opinion on progress on reconciliation in Sri Lanka since the end of the war in 2009 and in the present context.o Undertaking data analysis and reporting of second round of the survey, including a comparative analysis of round 1 and 2 by working with South African partner and other Consortium members to obtain inputs to research analysis. o Supporting activities related to outreach, including developing content for outreach material.
  • Prog For Strengthening Reconciliation Processes In Sri Lanka (Srp), German Technical Cooperation
    Advisor – Sri Lanka Barometer
    Prog For Strengthening Reconciliation Processes In Sri Lanka (Srp), German Technical Cooperation Oct 2019 - Feb 2022
    Sri Lanka
    o The survey aims to ascertain diversity of social attitudes and beliefs (also known as the Barometer). The Barometer aims to ascertain public opinion on progress on reconciliation in Sri Lanka since the end of the war in 2009 and in the present context of discourse surrounding peace building, reconciliation, dealing with the past and more recent challenges of religious extremism.o Undertake overall coordination of a public perception survey on reconciliation and being responsible for coordinating all tasks related to the survey including organizing and facilitating meetings with internal staff and consultants to conceptualize the survey, consolidating inputs and developing the research tool, engaging and coordinating with the survey company to implement the survey, preparing for analysis and developing an outreach/advocacy plan for the findings.o Undertaking survey company selection including drafting the document detailing the Expression of Interest (EOI) and Call for Proposals including the proposal outline, expected responsibilities of the company and reviewing the documentation for selection, coordinating the review processes, reviewing proposals, and developing scoring and review formats.
  • Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre For Women
    Programme Manager, Monitoring And Evidence Generation For Change
    Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre For Women Jun 2017 - Sep 2019
    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    o Particular focus on data on SRHR indicators, situational analysis on girls (across 11 countries in Asia-Pacific region), Sustainable Development Goals and youth, reproductive rights (in 5 countries focusing on stigma, access to information and services). o Evidence generation activities (at regional and national levels) with a view to improving the availability and use of evidence to ensure SRHR in regional and national spaces, including developing indicators to monitor progress against SRHR within the SDGs. o Regional and national project co-ordination and management ensuring conceptual and substantive clarity, deliverables are timely and project activities monitoring, reporting, strengthening partner capacities for national and sub-national activities, and grant management. o As part of the programme management team, contribute to the overall effectiveness of the organization in meeting its goals and objectives and fund raising.o Engaging in advocacy in regional and international spaces including human rights spaces.
  • Asian-Pacific Resource And Research Centre For Women
    Senior Programme Officer - Inter-Faith Advocacy For Sexual And Reproductive Health And Rights
    Asian-Pacific Resource And Research Centre For Women Mar 2014 - May 2017
    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    o Project Co-ordination and management of 10 country project (MENA, South and South East Asia) ensuring the development and implementation of work plans, project review, partner management and support to partners across ten countries in the global south, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms, preparation of reports, budget monitoring, and organising facilitating and inputting into of project meetings and capacity building workshops. o Evidence generation on the interlinkages between socio-cultural and religious influencers on SRHR to inform advocacy at the national, regional and global levels. o Supporting national advocacy processes and engaging in regional and international advocacy on SRHR in UN spaces – identifying opportunities, conceptualising and making interventions, writing statements, and networking.
  • United Nations Resident Coordinator'S Office - Sri Lanka
    Gender Specialist
    United Nations Resident Coordinator'S Office - Sri Lanka Aug 2013 - Feb 2014
    Colombo
    o Providing support to the normative assistance, advocacy and programming focusing on mainstreaming gender across UN agencieso Facilitating and co-ordinating the Gender Task Group and its work (encouraging sharing across agencies and collaborative work)o Supporting the UNRC and UN Country Team on gender related advocacy, communications and resource mobilization o Mainstreaming gender into development initiatives in Sri Lanka implemented by the UN, including the UNDAF 2013-2017 (project supporting local economic development and district level development planning)o Facilitating research and advocacy activities (Review of the Beijing Platform for Action and GBV)
  • Transition Recovery Programme, United Nations Development Programme Sri Lanka
    Senior Information Analyst/Head Of Communications And Reporting
    Transition Recovery Programme, United Nations Development Programme Sri Lanka Dec 2011 - Jul 2013
    Colombo, Sri Lanka
    o Developing and implementing a communications strategy, including facilitating donor engagements and targeting specific audiences, synthesising and sharing of lessons from the Project Management Unit within the Peace and Recovery Cluster at UNDP, donors, Project Board, and Government entities. Ensure that lessons and best practices can be captured by developing and administering systems to obtain and document evidence from the field, results-based analysis and reporting. o Results based communications products to donors, senior UN officials, and government as well as development practitioners on livelihoods, social transformation, conflict sensitivity and gender.o Web based and other social media outputs engaging audiences and sharing achievements, lessons and challenges. o Lead and support M&E staff in Colombo and in 6 districts affected by conflict to undertake results-based M&E that capture changes brought about project environments, developing tools to feed back into project steering and learning exercises (indicator tracking, outcome measurement, case studies, human stories etc), and managing evaluations. o Donor reporting against activities and outcomes within a range of projects implemented in post war regions in Sri Lanka. The project provides beneficiaries with traditional and non-traditional livelihood support, livelihood and social infrastructure development, local economic development, capacity development and social transformation.
  • Centre For Poverty Analysis
    Team Leader, Communications And Policy Programme
    Centre For Poverty Analysis Nov 2010 - Nov 2011
    Sri Lanka
    o Leading programme development on understanding poverty, knowledge management and communications, staff managing, and fund-raising. o Information dissemination within the organisation and to other state and non-state stakeholder, event organisation (including liaising and networking with state officials), South Asia regional networking (with regional organsiations), capacity building (of development professionals), policy reviews and reviewing policy influencing processes. o Undertaking social research in order to improve the evidence base on thematic issues and engage in policy influence.
  • Centre For Poverty Analysis
    Team Leader, Poverty Assessment & Knowledge Management Programme
    Centre For Poverty Analysis Jan 2006 - Oct 2010
    Sri Lanka
  • Centre For Policy Alternatives
    Researcher, Social Indicator Polling Unit
    Centre For Policy Alternatives 1999 - 2002

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Azra A. Cader attended International Institute Of Social Studies (Iss) Of Erasmus University Rotterdam, International Institute Of Social Studies (Iss) Of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Institute Of Social Studies, International Institute Of Social Studies (Iss) Of Erasmus University Rotterdam, International Institute Of Social Studies (Iss) Of Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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