Farzana Farzana, Consultant

Farzana Farzana

Consultant

Alert International

Location
Pakistan - Islamabad
Education
Master's degree, Political Science
Experience
15 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 1 Months

Consultant at Alert International
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • My current job since January 2017

Working as short term research consultant for ‘Inclusive Media Pakistan: Responsible and Objective Journalism to promote tolerance’.

Project Coordinator at Centre for Social Justice
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • June 2016 to December 2016

Worked with CSJ as Project Coordinator on IECCO funded ‘Everyone Counts’ census project. My
responsibilities here include to monitoring and evaluation of project activities. Donor reporting, press briefings and networking with stakeholders. Also, assisting on a research study ‘Materializing protection of religious minorities in Pakistan on Supreme Court order June, 2014’.

Program Coordinator at Strengthening Participatory Organization
  • Pakistan - Multan
  • October 2012 to March 2016

October 2012 till March 2016 Worked with Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO) in different capacities as follows:
Programme Coordinator/ Punjab Education Sector Reforms Project 2
May 2015- March 2016
As Programme Coordinator, PESP 2 I was responsible for the overall implementation and
Monitoring of the project in assigned district, managing data and field teams and continuous
Reporting, Stakeholders’ management particularly with education departments and CSO was
also my responsibility.
Program Specialist/ Umeed e Jawan Project
September 2014 till May, 2015
This USAID funded project was to build capacity of the local NGOs, CBOs and CSOs in terms of proposal development through a process of trainings and provision of technical assistance. I was responsible for developing and refining training manuals and proposals.

Programme Officer
October 2012 to September 2014
As Program Officer, my responsibilities were to design and plan trainings for the community partners, political party workers. Designing and launching Advocacy Campaigns, develop linkages and liaison with local government institutions and other stakeholders.

Assistant Project Manager at ECHO Project
  • October 2010 to August 2012

October 2010 to August 2012 Worked with Caritas Pakistan, Multan in different capacities as follows:
Assistant Project Manager - ECHO Project

Project Coordinator at M&E, Shelter
  • August 2011 to August 2012

Project Coordinator/ M&E, Shelter
August 2011 - August 2012
The project was focused on rehabilitating shelters for flood affected people of Muzaffargarh and Rajan Pur. It was a Caritas-Germany funded project.

While working with Caritas Pakistan, Multan I was responsible for smooth implementation of these projects in field areas as well as managing a system of the project that include key project reporting and learning documents, M&E tools, tracking and reporting forms, monitoring reports, proposals, donor requirements and reports, evaluations and other program information.
Developing tools and processes for project activities when new activities are added to the project, according to the project objectives and the organizational objectives.
During this course of time, I was also engaged in capacity building initiatives as and when required.

Project Manager at CBHA
  • February 2011 to July 2011

Project Manager - CBHA
February 2011 - July 2011
The project was funded by DFID and managed by Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies (CBHA) . Caritas was partner of Care International in this project. This project also focused on Cash for work and was implemented in flood affected areas of Muzaffargarh and Rajan Pur.

Project Manager - CBHA
  • October 2010 to February 2011

October 2010- February 2011
The project was funded by ECHO and implemented through Care International in partnership with Caritas. The project mainly focused on Cash for Work and was implemented in flood affected areas of Muzaffargarh and Rajan Pur.

Field Officer at Farmers Development Organization
  • April 2010 to September 2010

April 2010 to September 2010 Worked as Field Officer with Farmers Development Organization (FDO) in USAID funded 'Creating Jobs for Youth' project. My major responsibility here was to develop curriculum for jobs creation, identify jobs opportunities and linking qualified youth with those opportunities and reporting of the project activities.

Coordinator, Women Desk at Justice and Peace Commission
  • Pakistan
  • May 2009 to March 2010

May 2009 to March 2010 Worked as Coordinator, Women Desk with Justice and Peace Commission, Multan and worked with minority rights promoters groups in Rahim Yar Khan

at 3 days training on Career Guidance by Care International
  • January 2009 to December 2009

- 3 days training on Human Rights and Democratization By JPC-CWS, Spetember 2009
- 3 days training on Career Guidance by Care International, September 2010
- 3 days training on Trauma Counseling by Camlian Task Force, June 2011
- 1 day training on Gender Streamlining by Care International, March 2011
- 4 days training on CBDRM by Caritas Pakistan, March 2012
- 2 days training on social Media by ENEWS, October 2012
- 3 days training on woman Peace and security by Aurat Foundation, March, 2013
- 3 days training on basic humanitarian practices in emergencies by SPO, July2013

Trainings Conducted: - 2 days training on Trauma Counseling at Caritas Pakistan Multan, Oct 2011
- 1 day training on Gender Streamlining in projects at Caritas Pakistan Multan, June 2011
- 2 days training on CBDRM at Caritas Pakistan Multan, May 2012
- 1 day training on Leadership at SPO Multan, July, 2013
- 1 day training on Gender at SPO Multan, September 2013

Education

Master's degree, Political Science
  • at Islamia University
  • January 2008

Specialties & Skills

Event Management
Logistics Planning
MIS Reporting
LIAISON
PROJECT COORDINATOR
PROJECT MANAGER
PROPOSALS
SECURITY
TRAINING
Logistics
Event Management

Languages

English
Intermediate
Urdu
Native Speaker

Hobbies

  • singing, Drawing and reading books
    I have been a lead singer singer in Catholic Church choir since my early age. good so many prizes in school singing competitions. moreover I have judge the school singing competitions as well.