Professional Experience:
18 years’ experience in the development field across Pakistan with long terms projects of USAID included CNFA-ILED, MEDA ENTRENEURS, CIMMYT, and ILO, SDC, DHV Group Netherland. Short term assignments with USAID, UNIDO, UNDP, IFAD, GIZ, SDC, local NGOs, and owned firm “Innovative marketing Services”. Managed partnership with private sector organizations like Herbion, Qarshi, and Nestle (e.g. established buying and selling centers for farmers with 70% cost share of the private sector). Worked as senior director, manager, trainer and advisor. Experienced in project management, entrepreneurship, gender, marketing, partnership management, grant management (managed 120 grants with public, private and NGOs), planning, coordination, procurement under USAID rules and regulation, capacity building (designed modules 10 modules, TNA, trained more than 5000 women and man entrepreneurs, approximately 500 staff of different organizations). Developed work plans, MOUs, RFPs and technical reports under the donor’s guidelines. Besides, designed and conducted surveys, assessments and feasibility studies in different field and wrote analytical reports.