Sustaining Power: Women's Struggles Against Contemporary Backlash in South AsiaUnderstanding the movement of home-based women workers in Pakistan's major cities with a focus on historical origins, backlash and strategising for increase in wages, and recognition of women's informal work. For more details:https://supwr.org/

Endline evaluation of the USAID funded project, 'Road to Decent Jobs for All Afghans' implemented by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Balkh province of Afghanistan. Final report is available here: https://www.samuelhall.org/publications/ilo-a-road-to-to-decent-jobs-for-all-afghans My role as PL was to - lead coordination with the client (ILO)- manage project and ensure timely submission of deliverables- contribute to development of research tools (qual and quant)- conduct high level interviews with key stakeholders - analyse data - contribute in report writingEndline Learning report for Norwegian Refugee Council's Recovery, Reintegration, and Resilience (R3) Consortium in Afghanistan. The R3 consortium comprising of different implementing partners aimed to provide a range of interventions (such as WASH, cash for work, cash for food, health and nutrition) to vulnerable and disaster affected communities of Afghanistan. As PL I was responsible for the qualitative component of the endline evaluation including- conducting key stakeholder interviews with project partners in the region- development of KII tool- data analysis and report draftingFramework used (Market Systems Development)In addition to my role in the above mentioned projects, I also undertook proposal writing (leading the technical sections of the proposals) for the social equity pillar which led to the winning of two projects (one is a qualitative study on green livelihoods in Somalia and the other was a multi-country baseline study on rural livestock markets in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia). I also participated in selection interviews representing the technical team alongside operations and business development teams of Samuel Hall. I also led the development of an Urban Position paper for the team which focuses on migration and displacement in urban areas.

'Rethinking the network': As part of the Karachi Water Project, I am studying the urbanisation of water in the context of 'off-grid' infrastructures in Lyari. The objective of this study is to document the spatial, governance, political aspects through which various modes of water are provided in a low-income settlement of Karachi.

Course designed and taught: Water infrastructures and development in southern citiesThis course investigates major debates around water infrastructures in the context of urban ‘development’. With a particular focus on global South cities, where access to water for a majority of the poor is neither universal nor a straightforward process, we reflect on various theoretical conceptualisations that explain unequal access. We place contextual information beyond notions of water scarcity and instead focus on power struggles, informality, and colonial legacies. Towards the end, we reflect on current debates on privatisation, and the role of donor institutions in the water sector of global South cities.

Understanding local government responses during the recovery stage of COVID-19 in Karachi and Mumbai's informal settlements.

Decentralised Cooperation and Local Government: Addressing Contemporary Global Challengeshttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/17085Bhopal Smart Cities Project

Selected projectsSindh Social Protection programme, Government of Sindh, Pakistan- mapping out health services within the province, coordination with govt departments, assistance to lead researchers in the design of mother and child support programme- producing reports from fieldwork in different sites in Sukkur district (Sindh) to update senior researchers on social protection programmes and interventions running in the district (by various NGOs)Maintaining Essential Services after Natural Disasters (MAINTAINS), DFID UK- literature review and interviews with key informants within local and international NGOs to understand health service provision in the context of disasters or shocks Project Management tasks cutting across projects - Editing blogs - Maintaining minutes from team meetings - Planning fieldwork trips to different districts of Sindh- Planning local and international workshops

Research projectsLeveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), DFID UK- survey design using Computer Assisted Performance interview (CAPI) such as Kobo Collect; working with an experienced survey designer; design of field research instruments such as quantitative surveys; training of field researchers; quality checks of baseline and endline surveys (10 percent sample coverage); cleaning, coding and analysis of baseline and endline datasets to arrive at descriptive statistics using STATA and SPSS- Cleaning and coding of quantitative data (creating variables, merging variables, writing codes in SPSS and STATA)- Producing descriptive statistics and reports in STATA - Designing presentations and preparing meeting minutes - engaging with local and international policymakers as well as stakeholders (individuals working in agriculture and health themes) in South Asia - Qualitative study on Public Service Delivery in Informally Settled Areas of Karachi, World Bank- designed of research instruments; key informant and household interviews; analysis of qualitative data; report writing Political Risk Assessment of Benazir Income Support Program (BISP), World Bank- literature review; archival analysis using relevant news items from the country’s largest newspaper (DAWN); report editing