Senior Management Team

Name:  Zia Ur Rehman—————————————————————————————–
Designation: Founder & Chief Executive—————————————————————————————–
Qualification:

Masters in Mathematics & Postgraduates Diploma in NGO Leadership & Management with a specialization in Strategic Planning Postgraduates Diploma in Social Enterprise Development with a specialization in Managing People’s Organizations. 

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Experience and expertise:   

Zia ur Rehman is a social & human rights activist since his young age when he founded, AwazCDS-Pakistan in 1995. He is performing his responsibilities as Chief Executive of the organization since 1995 and utilizing his leadership skills in the management of the organizational affairs smoothly.[read_more id=”1″ more=”Read more” less=”Read less”]

Zia Ur Rehman is well known as development advocate and lobbyist, civil and political rights activist, writer and poet in the development sector especially in Asia and around the globe. He has conceived and conducted many studies on different social issues related to women, girls and young people and their rights in Pakistan. He is member of different National, Regional and Global Networks and has the credit of representing the organization at various Regional and Global platforms including United Nations.

He remained served as Global Steering Committee member of Transparency, Accountability and Partnerships –TAP Network, Global Council member of Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP), Asia Development Alliance (ADA) and Facilitation Group member of Action for Sustainable Development (A4SD).

Email:zia@awazcds.org.pk, mzrawaz2019@gmail.com[/read_more]
Name:  Marium Amjad Khan—————————————————————————————–
Designation: Program Team Lead—————————————————————————————–
Qualification:

MPhil Applied Psychology

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Experience and expertise:    Marium is a Program/ Campaign Manager in Awaz Foundation Pakistan and has an experience of around 8 years in development sector. She has joined the AwazCDS-Pakistan in 2013 and has served under different positions. Her core expertise is the management of SRHR/SGBV related programs[read_more id=”1″ more=”Read more” less=”Read less”]

She is an advocate for the rights of women, person with special abilities, transgender community, young people’s including education and reproductive health.As an advocate, Marium has worked to promote awareness on curtailing discriminatory practices in communities and doing policy advocacy for bringing constructive changes in current policies on early age marriages, domestic violence and endorsement of girls’/women empowerment with equality. She is a vigilant advocate for girls right to quality secondary education, she is advocating for better governance, financing and accountability mechanisms in education sector in Pakistan through NGOs, education champions, policy-makers, parliamentarians, media and community people. She is also a National Focal Person for Pakistan Development Alliance to work together with 100+ civil society organizations for making SDGs a reality in country. She is also leading Ujala Network for building movement on SRHR across the country.

Email:    maryam.amjad@awazcds.org.pk[/read_more]
Name:  Shafqat Ali—————————————————————————————–
Designation: Manager Operations & HID—————————————————————————————–
Qualification:

MBA  Finance

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Experience and expertise:                                            

Mr. Shafqat Ali has 13 years’ experience of working with different organizations. He has served as Finance Officer with Mustashaar Social Development Advisors from July, 2006 to June, 2013, as Finance Officer with Community Uplift Program from Aug, 2013 to Sep, 2016.

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He has joined the AwazCDS-Pakistan in Sep, 2017 and performing his responsibilities as Manager Operations. He is leading the organizational logistical and procurement processes including auction, tendering, working as Secretary of procurement committee, managing the internal purchases and procurement for the Organization and ensures that quality equipment /material are procured within the budget;

He is also managing different Vendor’s and building linkages with new vendors across the country.

He also assists and coordinates with Finance Unit in setting and reviewing programs budgets and managing cost. He ensures his efforts for the smooth administrative Operations of the organization.

Email:    operation@awazcds.org.pk [/read_more]
Name:  Syeda Mujeeba Batool —————————————————————————————–
Designation: Gender Advisor—————————————————————————————–
Qualification:

Master Degree in Genders Studies

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Experience and expertise:   

Syeda Mujeeba Batool is human rights activist and specializes in advocating for women’s and child rights. She has over 20 years of experience in development sector. Her experience mainly concentrates in gender and development, women, children and human rights, minority rights, peace and interfaith harmony program planning and management, development, research, advocacy communication, monitoring and evaluation and capacity building. She has several researches on her credit regarding women’s rights, girls education, honor and child marriages, transition to girls secondary education, women and migration as well as has done academic research on “Mera Jism Meri Marzi: Sexuality and Moral Construction of Pakistani Society.

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She is published author of two academic articles in two international  journals Her “Historicizing Feminism in Pakistan” has been published in an Indian Journal “Feminist Research” (https://gathacognition.com/article/gca102) and another “Bringing the Focus Back: “Aurat (Women) March and the Regeneration of Feminism in Pakistan” has also been published in the International Journal of Women Studies. Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol22/iss9/21.  In addition, have translated a book, “Feminism for the 99 %: A Manifesto” by Cinza Arruza, Thithi Bhatacharya and Nancy Fraser into Urdu language which was published periodically on Digital Platform,  Hum Sub  لبرل فیمینزم ناکام ہو چکا – Page 2 of 4 – ہم سب . She has Master degree in genders studies and is a gold medalist from Quaid e Azam University. She is a certified trainer and has conducted dozens of trainings on gender mainstreaming, inclusion of women in development projects as social safeguard consultant at PPAF.

Email:    communications@awazcds.org.pk [/read_more]
Name:  Shazia Nawaz—————————————————————————————–
Designation: Advocacy Manager—————————————————————————————–
Qualification:

Master Degree in Genders Studies

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Experience and expertise:   

She is serving development sector from last 10 years and advocating to drive change at the local and national level by identifying, collaborating with key stakeholders to promote [read_more id=”1″ more=”Read more” less=”Read less”]Gender equality and fundamental rights of all children, young people, men, women, transgender and elder community.

Email:    advocacy@awazcds.org.pk [/read_more]
Name:  Mahnoor Khan—————————————————————————————–
Designation: MEAL & HID
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Qualification:

Master’s degree in Industrial Biotechnology

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Experience and expertise:   

Mahnoor is a highly motivated and accomplished individual with a diverse range of expertise and experiences. She holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Biotechnology from the NUST, Islamabad, where she demonstrated exceptional academic proficiency with a focus on agricultural innovations. As a passionate advocate for sustainable development and climate action, Mahnoor actively engages in various volunteer work, including being a member of the FXB International Climate Advocate program, where she presented her climate advocacy project on 3R and climate change mitigation. Additionally, [read_more id=”1″ more=”Read more” less=”Read less”]Mahnoor has been actively involved in research and report writing, being member of ISEST, UK. Her dedication to promoting quality education is evident through her work with Awaz CDS Foundation, where she contributes to empowering women agriculture workers and fostering vocational and life skills. Mahnoor’s commitment to social and environmental causes, as well as her achievements, including being granted an award of 5 lacs by PCSIR for her Masters research project, showcases her exceptional drive and potential to make a lasting impact in the field of sustainable development and beyond.

Gender equality and fundamental rights of all children, young people, men, women, transgender and elder community.

Email:    p.associate@awazcds.org.pk [/read_more]
Name:  Rida Malik—————————————————————————————–
Qualification: Masters of Business Administration in Finance

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Experience and expertise:    Ms. Rida Malik has Masters of Business Administration in Finance from FUUAST, Islamabad. She has worked in department of Admin & Finance at various development and corporate organizations[read_more id=”1″ more=”Read more” less=”Read less”]

Ms. Rida Malik has joined the AwazCDS-Pakistan in March, 2022 as Manager Finance. She is providing services in preparing and maintaining account books in accordance with AwazCDS-Pakistan accounting and financial management policies and procedures. She leads the process of preparation of budgets of organization and Program/ project proposals and donor financial reporting.

She leads the internal, external and donor audits and maintaining finance related records. She also leads the process of preparing financial statements, maintaining cash controls, preparing the payrolls and management of accounts payable and accounts receivable.

Email:    finance@awazcds.org.pk [/read_more]