Gender:: Male
Country/Countries I have worked in:: Pakistan
More Details: Hussain Ali Sina
Office address: UNICEF Office
19 Park Road University Town Peshawar Pakistan
Email:hussainalisina@yahoo.com
Cell: 0301-8537322
DOB: 20/02/1973
Permanent address: Swat Matta Roringar NWFP
Areas of Expertise:
• Project Management, Result Based Monitoring, Evaluation, Programming
•Education ( Policy, Planning, Management, Capacity building)
• Child Rights Programming
• Child protection in emergencies
• Youth Development
• Juvenile Justice (restorative & informal justice)
• Gender & Development
• Social Mobilization/Community Development
• HRD/Organizational Development
• Research and advocacy
• Conflict management
• Disaster risk management and preparedness
• Peace and Development
Academic Qualification:
• Master in International Relation from university of Peshawar
• Master in literature from university of Peshawar
• MSc in Gender Studies (Continued)
• Bachelor in social sciences from university of Peshawar
Internship:
Completed twelve months training in social organization through Intern Scheme, managed by DFID British council, Peshawar. Which is a training and education program run as joint initiative between the Departments for International Development funded NWFP-PEP Project and the Frontier Education Foundation under the umbrella of the Govt of NWFP Primary education Program.
Certifications:
• Completed one year certified teaching training (CT) from Elementary teachers training college Peshawar.
• Completed one year primary teaching training (PTC) from Alama Iqbal Open University Islamabad.
Career Objectives: To work in such a cerebral and congenial environment where I can groom and utilize my innovative, dedicated and dynamic skills and potentials for the development and welfare of humanity
Professional Experiences:
1: Child Protection officer
Child & Adolescents Protection Program (CAPP) Jan 2009 ……Present
UNICEF Peshawar Pakistan
Key Tasks:
• Make regular contact with provincial officials in order to advocate UNICEF policy in NWFP on the concerns of improving Child Protection & Women rights projects.
• Undertake ongoing visits to UNICEF projects sites, assess local conditions and resources, and monitor UNICEF inputs. Communicate with local counterpart authorities on project/programme feasibility and effectiveness including monitoring the flow of supply and non-supply assistance.
• Collect and analyze data for Situation Analysis, programme/project planning, management, monitoring and evaluation purposes.
• Undertake follow-up action on programme implementation activities and give feedback and forward back to relevant persons. Draft changes in programme work plans as required.
• Attends technical cooperation meetings, prepare notes and undertake follow-up action related to assign programme implementation and monitoring.
• Assists in identification and selection of technical supplies and equipment.
• Selects and compiles training and orientation materials for those involved in programme implementation including donor and media visits.
• Draft relevant sections of reports (required for donors, management, annual Reports, etc).
• Technical support to juvenile justice reform project on policy/laws development and amendments
• Monitoring and implanting the restorative justice, informal justice, diversions and non custodial process facilitation with IPs and counterparts
• Capacity building of the probation department, prisons staff and community members on restorative justice
• Develop structures for Diversion of Juvenile Offenders from the Formal Criminal Justice System
• Provide technical support to IPs in Piloting Diversion Program: Community service as an alternative to custodial sentences
• Develop Rehabilitation Programs for children at risk of offending
Specific Monitoring and Evaluation Takes:
• Support initial and regular assessments of all projects assessing needs, impacts and quality of programmes
• Give feedback to field team on the assessment findings and make recommendations to team including work plan for quality improvement
• Hold workshop for all staff in all sites giving on feedback on findings and making recommendations for programme improvement
• Identify, strengthen the use or develop a monitoring and ongoing evaluation tool specific for field sites, in collaboration with field staff
• Report quarterly on the progress of the program
• Contribute to logical frameworks and programme design for the on-going and future programmes.
• Validate the quality of collected data
• Conduct analysis and provide additional information from available data sets
2: Program Officer (Community Based Child Protection Program)
Save the Children Sweden Abbottabad June 2007…Oct , 2008
Key Tasks:
• Guide and supervise the team of Assistant Program Officers of the Integrated Child Rights Program in the re-organization and development of community structures and organization of activities through a participatory approach.
• Organize capacity building Programmes for the local communities, NGOs and other Stakeholder.
• To Conduct Protection needs assessment in the target and surrounding communities, especially the children and youth with an aim to initiate Programme intervention.
• Monitor and supervise the work of Assistant Program Officers, Community Mobilizers and provide guidance and support to them in performing their duties.
• Conduct training needs assessment of the target groups and organize training events for the Assistant Program Officer, Community Mobilizers Community Volunteers and other target groups.
• Responsible for the compilation of project field data, Progress report and achievements and assist the Country Program Manager by providing him the require information for the reporting to SCS and donors.
• Promote close coordination at the field level with local authorities, NGOs, INGOs and communities regarding provision of service to the affected communities and effective implementation of SCS Programme.
• Responsible for Mobilizing and organizing the target communities and to ensure their active participation in Programme activities.
• Responsible for identification and verification of most vulnerable families and children, adolescents in the affected communities and properly ensuring their access to economic and other inclusive support services.
• Responsible for over all program management, supervision, monitoring and follow ups,
• Responsible for the youth mobilizations and ensuring their participation in youth development initiatives.
• Program reporting to donors and SCS head office and properly maintaining the program record.
• Designing livelihood programs for the vulnerable families and enhancing their economic condition.
• Linkages development of the vulnerable families with other support services for responding to their social and economic needs and issues.
• Project planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation;
• Conducting field trips for information gathering and assessment
• Providing technical assistance for the writing of policy documents and design of training materials;
• Delivering capacity building training to government counterparts including policy makers and practitioners;
3: Education Policy Researcher (Consultant)
International Rescue committee (IRC) Mansehra NWFP Pakistan, Jan 2007…May 2007
The nature of consultancy to investigate the root causes of teacher’s absenteeism in earthquake hit areas of Mansehra district and make possible recommendation for policy amendments as well as for women teacher professional development
Key Tasks:
• Policy framework development according to set objectives
• Conducting policy dialogues with all stakeholders
• Education Policies analysis and identification gaps in implementation
• Focus group discussion with all stakeholders
• Report compilation and finding recommendation for policy amendments according to identified needs and priorities
4: Assistant Project Officer Child Protection and Empowerment of Adolescent (UNV Specialist)
United Nation Children Fund (UNICEF) Bagh AJK June: 2006 to Dec 2006
Key Responsibilities:
• Undertaken ongoing visits to UNICEF projects sites, assesses local conditions and resources, and monitors UNICEF inputs,
• Attends technical cooperation meetings, prepare notes and undertakes follow up action and coordination related to programme implementation and monitoring
• Evaluate and analyze financial and supply reports to ensure appropriateness of documentation, expenditures are within allocation, report to the supervisor/head of office the out come of reviews
• Ensuring all CP projects activities in targeted area through implementing partners or by UNICEF technical support
• Capacity building of the stakeholders on CRC/CRP
• Assessing the capacity of potential IPs for CP intervention and finalization of (PCAs)Project Cooperation Agreement
• Ensuring proper referral of the most vulnerable children to appropriate services
• Monitoring and evaluation of the IPs according to key performance indicators and developing comprehensive monitoring reports
• Monitoring/Supervising various adolescent empowerment initiatives
• Providing technical support to SWD regarding establishment of child protection unit
• Facilitating child protection networks meetings and circulation of minutes
• Technical and programme administration support provided to the counterparts to ensure good planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the assigned sub-projects and activities.
• Pilot alternative care models developed, implemented and evaluated to inform policy or for scaling up.
• Information and data on project work systematically collected and project reports produced to support monitoring of program/project progress.
• Training courses conducted, resulting in improved capacity of counterparts
• Project financial assistance is well managed and utilized.
• Quality technical inputs into inter-agency coordination, office taskforce and program meetings.
• Relevant materials to brief UNICEF external partners and donors produced and visit organized.
• Inputs to or project proposals and donor reports drafted, contributing to ensuring sufficient resources for program and projects.
5: Child Protection Officer for Education
International Rescue Committee (IRC) District Shangla/Mansehra Dec 2005 to June 2006
Key Responsibilities:
• Need assessment of the affected communities and developing comprehensive child protection strategies for the vulnerable children
• Establishment of the support mechanism for the affected children e.g. community based child care, access to basic services, child protection committees, child councils, child forums, psycho social support
• Monitoring and supervision of the child friendly spaces activities
• Documentation of the program related activities success/failures case studies/lesson learnt/best practices
• Conducting child protection situational analysis
• Conducting capacity building trainings for the facilitators of CFSs on child protection and development
• Modules development for the capacity building of teachers in emergency
• Conducting trainings for teachers on Minimum standard of education in emergency, mentoring, gender and development, CRC, inclusive education, reflective learning, happy learning approaches, child centered teaching techniques
• Promoting community participation in education through PTSAs and PTCs
6: Field Coordinator
Save the Children Project executed by Khpal Kor Foundation at Swat April, 2005 to Nov 2005
Key Responsibilities:
• Situational analysis of the project area on child rights violation
• Promotion of child rights through community mobilization
• Organizing and facilitating child participation activities, including formation of child and youth committees, child councils, scouts units, child protection committees and children exposures
• Capacity building of the teacher on elimination of corporal and psychological punishment from Gov/Private Schools and as well as from madrassas
• Awareness raising about the negative impact of corporal punishment
• Capacity building of the duty bearers regarding child rights and child protection
• Ensuring the community based care of the vulnerable children
7: District Supervisor (Gender Mainstreaming Program)
Institute for Development Studies and Practices IDSP Pakistan April, 2004 to March 2005
(Quetta) Balochistan
Key Responsibilities:
• Ensuring the communities participation in the designing, planning, implementation and monitoring of all gender based activities on district level
• In consultation with all stakeholders including civil societies develop a consensus on gender mainstreaming and propose strategies to enable and facilitate women access to public services including education, health and justice.
• Providing technical advice and support to design and implement project activities related to women participation in Local Governments and Citizen Community Boards (CCBs
• Capacity building of the young women on gender issues and strengthening their capacity to take active role in community development plan with close consultation with local government
• Conceptualizing and developing gender based courses on district level for addressing gender needs and priorities
• Providing assistance/inputs in gender sensitive planning and management to learners/interns on district level
• Supervising the learners researches during the practice phase on district level
• Organizing district based seminars.dialogue,discourses,campaigns,walks/theatres on gender issues institutionalizing the mentoring approach in district campuses
• Supervising the education policy/ planning team on district level and developing Distt Edu Plan.
• Supervising various educational interventions with collaboration of stakeholders
• Education polices analysis and identification gaps in implementation
• Findings documentation of the policy planning dialogues and properly reporting to head office
8: Program Associate
Institute for Development Studies and Practices IDSP Pakistan
(Quetta) Balochistan April, 2003 to March 2004
Key responsibilities:
• Providing assistance in program planning and out reach activities
• Organizing and facilitating program activities for ensuring its dynamism for seeking innovative ideas and strategies support for shaping human resource
• identification and engagement of the resource persons and resource material for stimulating the learning process
• Maintaining liaison with other institutional programs for streamlining programmatic activities
• Conducting/coordinating/facilitating various courses/trainings modules for the capacity building of learners/interns
• Responsible for the processing application for the internship in IDSP and finalizing selection and recruitment
• Supervision/facilitating and providing assistance to learners during the field and follow up their researches
• Facilitating meeting, exchanges and linkages among academic and developmental organizations
Documentation and Monitoring
Monitoring, , reporting on activities and evaluate the programme periodically with indicators by involving partners, team members, and providing disseminating relevant information on success ,failures and lesson learnt
9: Coordinator
Green Hills Development Society Swat
May 2001, to March 2003
Key Responsibilities:
• Mobilization of the targeted communities around project objectives
• Formation of the village development committees and community based organization
• Conducting socio economic survey in various rural communities
• Mass mobilization around needs for the uplift of marginalized communities
• Conducting Participatory Rural Appraisal PRA trainings for community members
• Communities needs assessment through problems tree approach
• Reporting to Team Leader and developing presentations
• Developing linkages with other support organizations
10: Intern Social Organizer (Education)
DFID-British Council Peshawar (Intern Scheme) March 2000 to March 2001
Key Responsibilities:
• Ensuring community participation in education
• Formation and strengthening the capacity of PTAS
• Conducting trainings on mentoring approach
• Conducting teacher trainings on child centered teaching techniques
• Initiating various recreational activities with children
• Collection of successful case studies from schools and communities
• Enabling teachers to evaluate their own practices and performance
• Formation of child associations on the school and community level
• Organizing training for the education mangers on district level
Conducted Trainings/workshops as Trainer/Facilitator
• Organizational Development (OD) * Community Mobilization
• Case Studies development * Gender and Development
• Child Protection and Development * CRC/CRP
• Inclusive/Reflective and child centered approach * Mentoring as an alternative learning approach
• Participatory Rural Appraisal., Result Based Monitoring and Evaluation.
• Community Development
• Life Skills and psycho Social support
• Child protection monitoring.
• Restorative justice/diversion
Trainings Workshops obtained
• Human Rights Based Approach, Result Based Management from (NIPAL) ,Project Management Planning and Proposal Writing * Gender and Development/Gender Sensitization *Gender frame work analysis * Participatory Rural Appraisal * Effective Presentation/Facilitation/Communication skills * Partnership Building * Monitoring and Evaluation *Community Development *Social Mobilization * Child Rights/CRP * Organizational Development, * Result based Management *Psycho social support, youth development through economic initiatives, vulnerability assessment,
Participated in dialogues/discourses
• Modernization and cultural conflict, Islam is a source of development, schooling and education in the light of frairian approach. Globalization, Co relation between culture and development. Pakistani education system and our ground realities. Alternative to conventional development. Education is a source of empowerment. Youth role and current challenges. Religious misinterpretation and realities. Challenges to Peace and development.
Professional Achievements/Awards
• Received best Mentoring award from IDSP Pakistan
• Received excellent trainer certificate from IDSP Pakistan
• Received best performance award from DFID British Council
Voluntary Services:
• Worked as volunteer during the earthquake rescue phase with UAE united front org
• Worked as United Nation Volunteer since June 2006 in earthquake affected areas of Pakistan AJK
Computer software & hardware and other professional skills
Ms Windows Office+ Automation Microsoft Office Urdu composing+ Access+ Excel Power Point
Languages:
English Fluent (Written+ Spoken) * Pashto (Mother Tongue) Urdu Fluent (Written Spoken)
References:
• Raziq Faheem
Director
Institute for Development Studies and Practices (IDSP)
Quetta Balochistan
Mobile: 0092-3008389495
Email: raziq2000@yahoo.com
• Ghulam Qadri
Program Manager
Save the Children Sweden Pakistan
Mobile: +92- 3339257414
Email: ghulamq@sca.savethechildren.se
• Farman Ali
Child Protection Officer
UNICEF Peshawar Pakistan
Mobile: 0092-3005926377
Email: farali@unicef.org
