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.
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
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
Marium Amjad Khan
Program Team Lead
MPhil Psychology
Marium Amjad Khan is an experienced Program Team Lead at Awaz Foundation Pakistan, with over a decade of professional engagement in the development sector since 2013. Her core competencies include strategic program management and advocacy within the domains of Human Rights, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), Education, Democratic governance, Civic-space strengthening, Women’s empowerment, Social Protection and Child protection.
She is a committed human-rights advocate, working actively for the empowerment and inclusion of women, persons with disabilities, transgender communities, and young people. Marium has led impactful community awareness and policy advocacy initiatives aimed at challenging discriminatory practices and influencing progressive legislation on early marriages, domestic violence, and gender equality.
She works closely with NGOs, education champions, policy-makers, government departments, parliamentarians, media, and community stakeholders to promote improved governance, financing, and accountability mechanisms within Pakistan’s development and social sector.
Marium also serves as the National Focal Person for the Pakistan Development Alliance (PDA), coordinating efforts of 100+ civil society organizations to promote transparent governance, accountability, and participatory development across Pakistan.
Email: maryam.amjad@awazcds.org.pk
Shafqat Ali
Manager Operations & HID
MBA Finance
Mr. Shafqat Ali has 19 years’ experience of working with different organizations. 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
Syeda Mujeeba Batool
Gender Advisor
Master Degree in Genders Studies
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.
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
Shazia Nawaz
Advocacy Manager
Master Degree in Genders Studies
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 Gender equality and fundamental rights of all children, young people, men, women, transgender and elder community.
Email: advocacy@awazcds.org.pk
Rida Malik
Manager Finance
Masters of Business Administration in Finance
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.
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