Senior Management Team

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

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

She is also working as Focal Point of Pakistan Development Alliance National Secretariat.

During her employment career with the organization, she has been managing different projects on women and youth health rights with special focus on their reproductive health & rights.  In her recent role as Manager MEAL & HID, she is responsible to support multi-functional team and develop, recommend and monitor program’s implementation. She also contributes in the development of monitoring tools, frameworks and due diligence and performance assessment process of the partners. She is also managing the Human Resource Section of the Organization.

As a National focal point of Pakistan Development Alliance, she manages the interventions and campaigns related to the SDGs, remains in close coordination with Pakistan Development Alliance members. She is managing the Alliance by inviting new partners for the membership, engaging members as per their expertise, organizing their meetings and sharing the relevant updates and information to keep all members engaged in the Alliance.

Email:    huma.aziz@awazcds.org.pk

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

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 %: 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 

Email:    advocacy@awazcds.org.pk