Foreign Explosure

Familiarity with South Asian Region / networking with international organisations- details regarding NFE experiences,  professional groups and fund raising

Research Fellow at the Unesco Institute for Life long Education, Hamburg where I developed A Frame work on LLE for the Developing Countries.

Visited India , Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines on study tours related to NFE programmes

·         worked and attended  conferences in almost all the South Asian countries.

·         consultant reviewer of professional papers published by the NIE, Singapore

·         a member of the Inter Agency for Emergency Education (INEE), Paris, an organization of UN and NGOs working for the development of education , protection of girls, propagating human rights and rights of women and girls. Their protocol includes advocacy on  multiculturalism, human rights and providing assistance for disadvantaged groups. INEE is focused in developing minimum standards for education in emergencies (MSEE). This looks at several issues of a cross cutting nature which includes rights, gendre, disability and vulnerability. I was a member of the Task Force which developed Teacher Training Resource Kit for all countries ( 2005)

·         a member of the Adolescent and Youth Task Team  (AYTT), an arm of the INEE

·         Granting of funds to implementing partners (INGOs and NGOs in Pakistan and Afghanistan ) was one of my responsibilities  while with UNESCO/ UNHCR and later with CIDA in Pakistan.

·         Fund raising was a main task while serving as Technical Advisor for GTZ which involved me with donors like UNHCR, UNESCO, UNICEF, The World Bank, CIDA , other side of coin. The activities involved in writing proposals, meeting personnel of the above organizations, preparing reports to donors and supervision of the implementation of the projects by the GTZ staff. In addition attending GTZ meetings in Frankfurt and other places were some of the other responsibilities.

Capacity to work on the following since I have worked for UN agencies, INGOs, NGOs specifically related to Afghan programmes.
I was also involved in similar activities in Bhutan, Nepal, Viet Nam  and earlier in Sri Lanka

·         Develop procedures, directives and manuals required for efficiency and better results

·         Develop strategies to align In-service teacher training offered by NGOs, INGOs and private sector

·         Establish a capacity-development mechanism for MoE to work closely with GIZas well as implementing agencies to be coupled with a gradual phase out of NGOs

·          Coordinate and lead assessment of teachers’ and school administrators’ training needs

·          Develop budget, financial plans and oversee all financial transactions

·         Conduct research projects on Afghan refugee teachers in collaboration with Afghan and other NGOs

·         Evaluate foreign funded international education projects for the Ministry of Education, Afghanistan

I had coordinated similar projects like the ‘UNESCO Joint Innovative Project on Raising the Quality of Primary Education in Sri Lanka’, as part of an 8 international education project in Asia.

As part of the activities I had developed training manuals for principals, teachers and trainers both in Sri Lanka Pakistan and Afghanistan to bring higher quality into the system.

Afghanistan – Basic Education Advisor –UNHCR/UNESCO Planning of educational policies and implementing these through INGOs /NGOs , including monitoring and supervision and recommending financial support 1994-2002

1.     Pakistan – Technical Advisor for GIZ Refugee Education Project, Worlds Largest Education Project of UNHCR GIZ, UNHCR- 2002-2003

2.     Pakistan- Served UNESCO in Pakistan . Collaborated with a number of NGOS on Educational Issues, trained personnel  while most of the development of materials for Afghan Refugee schools were conducted in Pakistan, also collaborated with the University of Peshawar on a study on the development  of new curricular for primary schools in Pakistan, travelled widely in all the Provinces to conduct TOTs for both Afghan refugee and Pakistani educational personnel

3.     Canadian Government  – Coordinator of CIDA funded Refugee Education Project, Pakistan, 2003

4.      Bhutan- UNICEF and Royal Govt. Of Bhutan, Study of Primary Education Issues of Bhutan- study, report and training of personnel 2002

5.     Vietnam- Trainer training programmes and development of Hand Book for Directors of Schools on Disaster Risk Management – 2011

6.     Sri Lanka, Consultant , National Institute of Education, GIZ, Sri Lanka, Small Schools Development Model Project (SSDMP) , 2009-to date – conceptualising, planning, developing and implementing process, currently piloted in a few provinces

7.     Sri Lanka, Development of a Hand Book for all personnel involved in the SSDMP- 2012