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Athar Ali Shah Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Pakistan

Educational Qualification

I have eighteen years of education. I took four years Bachelors degree in Sociology from University of Sindh, Pakistan, in Dec 2010. Topic of my Bachelors thesis was “Socio-economic Conditions of People Living in Myani Forest”. It was environment related research, to know how socio-economic conditions of people living in Myani forest affect upon logging.

From 2010 to 2017 I worked in different NGOs. In June 2019 I took Masters in Anthropology from East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. Topic of my Master’s thesis was “An Anthropological Study of Dress Fashion of Men”. Main objective of this research was to know how dress creates nationalism and gendered differences.

Working Experience

Cumulatively I have seven years of working experience in the field of research, monitoring and evaluation. I have monitored following programs:

1)      Malaria Case Management:

2)      Education

3)      Nutrition

4)      Food Security and Livelihood

5)      Water Supply Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion

6)      Non Food Items and Food Items Distribution during flood emergency

Currently I am working as a Research Monitoring and Evaluation Officer in Institute of Rural Management (IRM). Here I have to monitor livestock program, aiming to reduce mal-nutrition in Sindh, through capacity building for livestock management.

Trainings

•       Five days; Methods Summer Workshop-Chinese University of Hong King July 2018

•       Introduction to minority rights, regional human rights mechanisms, and minority rights advocacy.

•       Multimedia Graphics at Hyderabd-Year 2010.

•       Report Writing and Tool Development- Year 2010.

•       Proposal Writing at -Year 2009.

•       Disaster Management at jamshoro-Year 2009

•       MEAL Training Module (Open University UK-Online)

•       Child Safeguarding (Save the Children LMS-Online Database).

•       Towards Resilience Principles in Practice (Save the Children-Online)

 

International Exposure

I have been in China for two years to take M.Phil in anthropology. I visited Hong Kong to attend five days training on Research Methods.

 

Education

from 18 September 2017 to 11 June 2019 Masters at East China Normal University
1 Jan 2007 to 31 December 2010 Bachelors Degree at University of Sindh

Experience

23 August 2019 to present Research Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Institute of Rural Management

• Proposal Writing
• Developing M&E Tools
• Training and supervision of data collectors, data analysis and report writing.
• Training of Staff on quantitative and qualitative data analysis and report writing
• Data analysis and report writing

13 July 2015 to 30 June 2017 Program Quality and Accountability Supervisor at Action Against Hunger

• To Monitor WASH, FSL and Nutrition Projects
• Monitoring of community awareness sessions
• Training and supervision of data collectors, data analysis and report writing.
• Team Management
• Budgeting
• Managing complaint and response mechanism

6 December 2012 to 30 June 2015 Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning Officer at Save the Children

• To conduct frequent visits to government hospitals for monitoring of Malaria Case Management as per WHO Treatment Guidelines.
• Monitoring of community awareness sessions
• To ensure coordination between IPs, PPHI, District Health Staff & DOMC.
• Monitoring of IRS, LLINs and BCC activities.
• Managing and analyzing complaint and response mechanism

18 March 2012 to 1 December 2012 Designing Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at World Vision

• Developing checklists and monitoring of Cash for Work and Food for Work sites and food/cash distribution points.
• Training of data collectors for PDM, data analysis using pivot table.
• Managing and analyzing complaint and response mechanism

11 November 2011 to 4 March 2012 Field Monitoring Officer NFI Distribution at Muslim Aid

• Monitoring of Assessment of flood affectees
• Hiring of data collectors for PDM
• Training of Data Collectors for PDM mentoring team in field.
• Data analysis in Pivot Table.

1 April 2011 to 7 November 2011 Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Mehran Research and Development Society

• Monitoring of two primary schools
• Training of data collectors, monitoring of data collection/data entry.
• Assessment of the primary schools.
• Training of teachers to promote learner centered environment.