Ghulam Ali Email & Phone Number

Kathmandu, Bāgmatī, Nepal

Katmandu

Increasing knowledge, practices and innovation around: Value Chains, Entrepreneurship and Resilience for improved Livelihoods. ICIMOD is knowledge organization working for well beings of mountains and its people with a troika of knowledge, policy and practice for SAARC member countries - as it is an inter-governmental organization. My roles is to help create means to promote and diversify livelihoods options of the people living with less uncertain situations - be it due to climate change,disaster, poverty or any other situation. I am engaged with designing, implementation and monitoring of number of value chains including Eco & responsible tourism. One of my role is to promote entrepreneurship to ensure sustainability & private sector engagement. I do have to play role in creating capacities, resilience, policies and networks within the communities, variety of civil society institutions, authorities and policy makers. To create knowledge content/ products as a snapshot of the situations about future prospects and challenges. To run the process to create tools, content and approaches including mentoring.

Islamabad

o To lead the market development team and sectiono Lead the process of planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and reportingo Coordination and liaison for the better flow of communication and processeso To be among the team player to acquire new resourceso To get the results as per the years planso Be an active member of senior management teamo To come up with new ideas, approaches, resources and networkso Mentoring of the teamso Reporting and meeting donors and institutional requirementsMeeting Stakeholder expectation

Islamabad

• Responsible for designing, managing and implementing multi million dollars cash transfer programming - funded by USAID, DEC, AUSAID to help affecttees of floods 2010 in Pakistan.• Managing food vouchers, cash grants, enterprise grants and cash for work from design to implementation and monitoring• Technical lead on effective project /Program management – design, implementation, monitoring, learning and evaluation for long terms development projects to reduce poverty and child labour • Conducting assessments, market survey and need analysis• Design, implement, monitor and evaluate vocational and employable skills for income and employment• Promotion of entrepreneurship skills among working children families through enterprise incubation /support• Women empowerment though value chains - Product innovation and design innovation and appropriate linkages and education for sustained income and market activity• Market access for parents of working children• Work on market development, value chains for inclusive businesses – farm and off farm both • Developing implementation strategies, ensuring implementation of Standard operating procedures and quality standards• Tracking the interventions for results and effectiveness (financial, programmatic and impact level) • Advocacy for legislations and implementation of laws• Gender Analysis and role of family members to reduce child labour and improving lives• Leading, managing and motivating the teams to get the maximum results • Managing, improving and maintaining the quality and impact of the program on the ground.• Designing systems for effective implementation of cash transfer programming, economic empowerment, child protection and other interventions• Enhancing capacities and capabilities of implementing partners• Strong team player, coordination and management• Systems Development and strong support Management

Hunza Gilgit Baltistan

• Program cycle management, leadership and stewardship for communities• Board coordination and strategic planning, management and resource mobilization • Evolved, promoted and branded a small grass root organization into a trusted and capable organization of choice to work with and to learn from.• Communication and better coordination with donors, communities, stakeholders• Leadership• Strategic planning• Civil Society• Program Management• Women empowerment• Donor and community communication• Systems Development and Management• Support function – HR, admin, Finance, policy designing and implementation• Community Development• Proposal writing• Resource mobilization• Donor reporting

Hunza Gilgit Baltistan

Project Manager ICT4D a Project of KADO Jan 2005 to August 2006Information and communication Technology for Development project was pioneering step to introduce internet and computer technology for village planning, tourism promotion, distant learning and setting the culture in the region to use the technology for the mountain people in difficult terrains;• With the core responsibility for: project planning including design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. • Successfully implemented the project with the result:• Wider use of Internet at households, offices, schools became increasingly prevalent and interesting – due to our interventions as action research; • Hundreds of the students learned how to use Internet, more than 4000 girls and household women learned how to use the computer – as a part of women empowerment through skills, • 10 to 20% of the girls’ availed local jobs and some of them embarked on online work with Sama Source (www.samasource.com). • Managed more than 40 centers means 40 teams (15 computers, training 90 girls in three months. • Developed community based IT infrastructure in even small villages

Hunza Gilgit Baltistan

o Business planning, skill development, product development, marketing, assessments and evaluations, analysis and strategy development o Worked comprehensively on the Value Chain for handicraftso Helped achieving exponential growth in sales from only Rs. 15,000 pa in 1996 to 6,000,000 pa in 2000 by bringing skills, local resources and women together. Best time for the spurring growth in cottage industries and women participation in economic endeavors; o Increased the breadth of the products from 3 to more than 100; o Developed marketing and sales channels for the products. In a phase of difficult time after 9/11 designed marketing strategy to be remained the same level of sales and results; Development of brand a distinguished name, Thread Net Hunza, the only recognized name in the market; o Successful managed and turned the donor-funded project into independent women owned businesses where women are not that much literates;o Worked on Ecommerce selling traditional crafts online weblink: (www.idrc.ca/en/ev-9816-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html)

Gilgit

Worked on research enterprise promotionMarket Development