I am currently serving as a Policy Specialist at one of the leading think tanks in Pakistan - PILDAT. Here I am engaged in various youth, women and children empowerment projects. As a social policy graduate of the London School of Economics (LSE), I have made a strong mark in the social and international development sector in Pakistan through contributing towards improving the social policies in Pakistan. I have also remained as a Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and recently selected by the Children's Parliament Scotland as an Unfeartie. I also write for different international blogs at LSE on the issues like education, inequality, poverty and climate change. I hold a bachelors degree in economics and so having a background in economics and social policy has given me a strong grip on both the quantitative and qualitative skills, including rigorous analytical and strong numerical skills which I have been actively utilising for the socio-economic and political development of my country. I constantly remain eager to improve my skills and be a part of those organisations in which I can excel and improve my existing knowledge and skills as well as can contribute my expertise to work for a better Pakistan.
Research & Capacity Building Assignments:
Lead author of the Annual Report 2019 which covers CSC\'s achievements from the last 30 years since its establishment in 1989.
Wrote a successful proposal for CSC\'s selection in the World Bank Pakistan\'s competitive Girls Learn Women Earn (GLWE) National Initiative.
Author of Project Completion reports for CSC\'s projects Livestock Value Chain (LVC) and Enterprise Value Chain (EVC) which provided skill based trainings to aspiring and new women entrepreneurs.
Part of the team carrying out Strategic Planning Process for some of the key initiatives at CSC, such as the Women Ride With Pride, Solar Energy Loan and Taleem (Education) Loan.
Responsible for making work plans, identifying key donors, writing grant proposals, updating financial segments of the proposals, expression of interests (EOIs) and supervising interns.
Responsible for coordination and reporting to different partners such as the U.S.Consulate, KFC, Careem, GharPar, Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) and State Bank of Pakistan on various projects of CSC.
Assisted the PhD Project team from Stanford University in their Pilot Experiment which assessed CSC\'s women clients\' freedom to vote, their knowledge of the Pakistani political system and mobility freedom.
Conducting Qualitative and Quantitative research for donors and partners through field visits, data collection, focus group discussions, surveys, client interviews, case studies and data analysis.
Keeping a track of MIS data through disbursement reports, loan demand form reports and active clients etc.
My role also involves conducting awareness sessions with marginalized women communities on various issues like: International Women\'s Day, Gender based violence against women, importance of WASH facilities for women and making mobility safe for women.
Representation at Conferences & Discussion Forums:
Speaker at All Pakistan Women Movement\'s session to speak on \'How to Make Mobility Inclusive for the Marginalized Groups in Pakistan?\' with Pakistan\'s Motor Bike Girl (Zenith Irfan).
Advocated for Girls Education, Health and Female Employment at the World Bank Pakistan Headquarters on International Women\'s Day Ceremony 2020.
Exclusive part of a Focus Group Discussion for British Council\'s \"Meaningful Participation of Women in Leadership (MPWL)\" project.
I assisted my GC University Professor as a Research Assistant in his PhD dissertation: \'Islam, Domestic Violence & Intra household behaviour: A Field Experiment from Pakistan\' for University of Wuppertal, Germany. I designed questionnaire to investigate how the interconnection between religion, culture and society boost domestic violence against women in South Punjab which prevents their labour force participation.
Under the joint research project of GC University, Lahore and PCSW: \'Why Women Entrepreneurs are Unable to Make Progress in Pakistan Despite Taking Micro finance Loans?\' I led the team of six researchers and travelled across different cities of Punjab to conduct an extensive survey aimed at inquiring the challenges women entrepreneurs face in acquiring loans from Akhuwat and Punjab Rural Support Programme (PRSP).
I worked on the CERP\'s Women Mobility Project with the Department of Social Policy, which aimed at facilitating working women in Pakistan by providing them free transportation to workplaces. I assisted the training and capacity building team at CERP in organizing various capacity building sessions to boost evidence based policy design in various sectors of Pakistan. I also managed the datasets of National Floods Project.
I was responsible for managing datasets and documents related to inward and outward remittances controlled by SBP. I also wrote an internship report titled:\'Introduction to Private/Commercial Remittances\' for which I was awarded an A+ Grade by SBP-BSC Lahore.
I interned in the Health department at P&D, Punjab where I assisted Assistant Chief of Health in drafting meeting minutes and reviewing reports like:\'Acute Malnutrition among Women & Children in Punjab 2015\'. I also prepared a working paper on the PC-1 of project \'Reconstruction of Lady Wellington Hospital, Lahore\'.