The Integrated Social Protection Development Program (ISPDP) is a $627 million results-based lending initiative designed to strengthen Pakistan’s social protection systems and expand support to alleviate poverty, particularly for women and their families. The program focuses on improving targeting, procurement, financial management, and governance to enhance the efficiency and transparency of both Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCTs) and Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs). Key areas of intervention include education support for out-of-school children, adolescent girls' nutrition, behavior change communication, and mainstreaming climate resilience.The program is structured around three key outputs:- Institutional capacity for social protection and climate resilience strengthened.- Access to education for girls and boys from poor families expanded and improved.- Health services and nutrition access enhanced for women, adolescent girls, and children.Expertise Applied:- Adaptive Social Protection Systems- Program Coordination & Management- Monitoring & Evaluation- CCTs in Education and Health/Nutrition- UCT Delivery SystemsIn this capacity, I work closely with ADB, BISP, and program consultants to ensure smooth program implementation in alignment with the Program Implementation Document. I identify and escalate delays or challenges promptly, facilitating solutions to keep the program on track.

The International Trade Centre (ITC) is the joint agency of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and theUnited Nations (UN). It is the only multilateral agency fully dedicated to supporting the Internationalization of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). ITC's mission is to foster inclusive and sustainable growth and development through trade and international business development. ITC projects and programmes contribute to the global efforts to achieve UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development and the Aid for Trade agenda. ITC works at three levels:- Strengthening the integration of the business sector of developing countries and economies intransition into the global economy.- Improving the performance of trade and investment support institutions for the benefit of small andmedium size enterprises (SMEs) and enhancing their abilities to better support them.- Improving the international competitiveness of SMEs.I have M&E and MIS portfolio of GRASP, a six-year project designed to reduce poverty in Pakistan by strengthening small-scale Agribusinesses in two provinces: Balochistan and Sindh. GRASP is implemented by the International Trade Centre with active participation from local partners. The project is funded by the delegation of the European Union to Pakistan with a budget of up to $48,500,000. GRASP will conclude by September 2025.

The National Socio-Economic Registry wing aims to bring data-driven reforms and innovation in the Government of Pakistan's ability to implement policies and programs aimed at preventing or reducing poverty, vulnerability, and inequality in society. NSER feeds data for a range of targeted benefits or services provided to the ones in need. It involves means-testing based poverty assessment which is used for determining the eligibility for financial or in-kind support programs. Under direct supervision of Director General (NSER), as an Operations Design & Planning Specialist (ODPS), I have exercised overall responsibility of the registry's management and technical functions, including planning, implementation, management, monitoring and coordination. I have performed both strategic level engagements within the organization and outside the organization with Federal and Provincial entities, and technical and operational management of the day-to-day activities.Brief highlights:• Dynamic National Socio-Economic Registry's design and implementation and annual workplan development• Technical lead for NSER application design and development• Designing and development of training curricula for census data collection staff• Values-based leadership and management of survey technical team comprising social scientists, demographers, data analysts and researchers• Operational management of country-wide 4000+ regular field staff members including onboarding, training and performance management• Development of MOUs, agreements, reports and presentations• Technical member of NSER Data Sharing committee• 3-tier M&E framework development and implementation for the national registryKey Achievements include: •• Project management of national rollout of trainings to 37000 Government Teachers•• Technical resource person for designing and technical backstopping of cash-transfer based targeted subsidies/emergency response worth PKR 139 billion (~ USD 500 million)

Worked closely with the WHO Division of Pacific Technical Support (DPS) and the Republic of Marshall Islands Ministry of Health and Human Services, while I designed and developed the data collection instruments, supervised data collection, performed data analysis, prepared individual health worker portfolios and drafted assessment report to improve the workforce management, succession/HR planning, gender mainstreaming, and effective use of human resource information systems (HRIS). The data collection used a census survey approach where personal interviews and self-administered questionnaire methods were applied for collecting data on the following points: • Density (Health worker density, Health worker density at sub-national level)• Activity (Health worker density by activity level, Activity ratio)• Demographic characteristics (Distribution by sex, Distribution by age, Median age of health workers, Dependency on foreign health workers)• Distribution (Health worker distribution by facility/ institution ownership, Health worker distribution by facility type, Geographical distribution of health workers)

Completed Evaluations as the Evaluation Assignment Manager• Higher Education (Focus areas – Industry-focused applied research, Private-public partnership focused interventions, Gender empowerment in energy/engineering domain in Pakistan) – Evaluation of five-year-long USAID funded G2G CAS Project in Pakistan – 2018• Safe Charity (Preventing Violence and Extremism) – Assessment of the Safe Charity Project Activities in Pakistan – 2019• Irrigation (Sustainable Agriculture, Social Safety) – Midterm Evaluation of Gomal Zam Command Area Development in Pakistan – 2019Duties and Responsibilities:• Review performance management plans and performance reports.• Conduct data quality assessments identify appropriate performance indicators and assist in training USAID staff and implementing partners.• Help technical teams develop/articulate the program theory of change or development hypotheses and critical assumptions.• Advice on data collection, reporting methodologies, and instruments used by USAID/Pakistan.• Convene adaptive learning sessions with USAID/Pakistan staff.• Track and analyze the data gathered and suggest ways to improve USAID/Pakistan’s performance.• On a quarterly basis, work alongside the Mission’s M&E Specialists to update the Mission’s Performance Monitoring Plans, progress tracking against DOs and IRs (under the Mission’s Strategic Results Framework including Operational Framework).• Provide technical support in the preparation of evaluation and assessment related Scope of Work.• Support design/conduct baseline studies, institutional assessments and large scale surveys.• Support, develop and implement quasi-experimental evaluation designs or fully randomized research trials.• Provide support in the planning and execution of Evaluations, Assessments, and Special Studies.• Review of technical information and prepare draft reports that meet PERFORM and USAID reporting standards (ADS guidelines).

I was engaged for the design, development and in-country implementation of the Tuvaluan MedicalRegistration Board’s Licensing and Regulatory Database. The system was designed in consultations with the WHO HRH technical team and the Tuvaluan Ministry of Health, Social Welfare and Gender Affairs staff. The system was developed with open-source technologies.

Evaluation of Distance & Flexible Learning ProgramThe online distance flexible learning (DFL) program review was carried out in order to see the adaptability of the platform to changing technologies, public health information, course contents, and teaching techniques. The review cycle looked at three essential aspects, which include students, faculty and the learning management system (including the quality of instruction learning). The review implemented exploratory surveys with current and alumni students, faculty members and in-depth assessment of the LMS. It helped the DFL platform in a thorough revision of its systems, which was first since its establishment.

POLHN is an online learning platform jointly operated by the World Health Organization and Pacific health ministries. POLHN aimed to address the need of health professionals in the Pacific to access continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities and up-to-date health information. In collaboration with a POLHN Secretariat based in the Division of Pacific Technical Support, WHO, I have worked as an e-learning consultant for designing and development of digital courses to meet the compliance, regulatory and continuing education needs for Pacific health workers, ministries of health, licensing and regulatory boards.• Prepared electronic courses using third-party development tools (HTML, SCORM, and Adobe) based on existing content materials provided by WHO. • Provided technical support to develop and transform assessments into electronic delivery methods for each module, to test students on their knowledge of key course competencies;• Ensured that the electronic course and assessment is of the highest quality level;• Utilized adult learning models, implemented multiple teaching and learning styles to maximize learner success;• Worked with WHO officers and course instructors to identify opportunities for improvement through a continuous cycle of evaluation and feedback;• Developed supporting materials, including course overview, expected number of hours per module, a brief description of each module, a brief description of core competencies gained, and links or electronic copies of relevant reading materials.

During these years, I was more focused on MEL activities, including conducting periodic reviews, MTRs and end of the project evaluation exercises for various projects/programmes. This included over 20 consultancy projects by either leading teams or taking part as a team member in diverse thematic areas. The work included the following:• Developed M&E frameworks including theory of change, logic models, and data collection mechanisms, conducted data quality audits and designed dashboard at various levels of reporting.• Organized consultative sessions and developed indicators for data collection, designed data collectiontools/ templates, and assisted for regular data collection/information generation process.• Liaise with partners to develop agency specific M&E framework and data quality assessment tools of allprojects.• Designed and implemented various quantitative and qualitative field studies through CAPI based datacollection methods.• Spearheaded the implementation of research surveys, 3rd party monitoring, spot-checking in multiplemonitoring, evaluations, assessments, and organizational reviews.• Prepared TORs for co-consultants’ engagement as well as the development of MOUs for outsourcing or consortium/alliance building for different consulting assignments.• Developed liaison with the consulting clients, potential JV/consortium members, donor organizations, and project level stakeholders for creating linkages and building relationships for planning and execution of consultancies.• Worked with diverse teams on performing spot checks, beneficiary feedback surveys, operational reviews, impact evaluations, and organizational capacity assessment.• Prepared training manuals and capacity building of various professionals of development sectororganizations.

• Scoping, designing, and quality assurance of new organization-wide automation systems.• Implementation of HR and Finance systems and processes for Care Partners (AWAZ CDS and IDEA) working in Education and WASH sectors.• Worked with Country Office, Field, and Department Teams on situation analysis and automation need assessment.• Portfolio Management of 7 Automation Systems (complete lifecycle leadership) • • Personal Activity Reporting System • • Procurement Tracking Management System • • Online Security Clearance & Movement Tracking System • • Fleet Tracking and Management System • • Opportunity Tracking and Proposal Management System • • Postal Incoming and Outgoing Mail Tracking System• Redesigned of the Care Pakistan website and development• SEO Audit of Care’s branding and web systems• Provided on-going support to strengthen the use of databases throughout Care International in Pakistan programming and operations. This included: • • End-user training. • • System user documentation. • • End user admin /technical training. • • Admin/Technical system user documentation. • • On-site testing for any required updates.

Banckle Collaborative and Social - Aspose Venture - an Australian technology company, offers online business collaboration and social applications to all businesses for better customer service 2.0 experiences. I have worked as a Technical Support Analyst/Trainer and my main responsibilities included:• Performing system analysis, database architectural design and user interface mock-ups.• Providing 2nd tier support for technical queries.• Scheduling and coordination of bug report fixes and application feature releases.• Assistance to the Project Manager and Venture Technical Lead in performing project management activities.• Assessment and feasibility analysis of an application upgrade, feature change, and client service requests.

Kirtas/ Outreach Unit is a corporate level unit in the University of Queensland which caters to the needs of digitization requirements of corporate clients from across the globe. I have worked under the supervision of Digitization Supervisor and performed the following responsibilities:• Digitization of the research papers, thesis and published books using Kirtas Robotic Scanning system.• Review and quality assurance of the digitized material.• Listing and uploading on E-space (webserver) and review of library’s E-space published records.• Reported performance logs and analyzed global downloading patterns using Alpha Miner 2.0.• Monitored team members technical performances and provided hands-on support in meeting the digitization targets.

This was a UNDP managed NEX project, known as Devolution Trust for Community Empowerment (DTCE).The core area of responsibility was to assist in designing, development, and administration of Monitoring systems and MIS for the Project Management Unit. Under the guidance of the National Project Manager, the responsibilities included:• Capacity Building of over 1500 professionals on field reporting, data collection, and use of organization data management, monitoring, and reporting systems.• Performing quality assurance of the systems developed for local government systems, community policing, and press & bar.• Traveled over 25 districts for training and implementation of Citizen Community Boards' M&E systems.• Worked with executive officers in Education, Health, and Local Government at the district level for addressing their capacity development needs.• Maintained a systematic record of the progress and the development of the M&E data and information.• Monitored and tracked the progress of back-end efforts preceding planned output/interventions with the concerned stakeholders, such as Collaborations, Integration, Exchange of Concept Notes, meetings, reports, working papers, etc. • Developed specifications for database and preparing data registry format for all levels of the Project Management Information System.• Conducted training and orientation on the newly developed databases. Assisted users with access and queries to all key databases.

As a corporate trainer, I conducted classroom trainings and workshops of several organizations, including the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, US Embassy, British Council, and UNDP.