Mr. Shareef Hussain, a development professional who brings strong expertise in planning and designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating complex, multi-layered, geographically dispersed projects at national and provincial level. Shareef has 8 years of diverse experience in urban planning, monitoring and evaluation, accountability and Learning, Baseline surveys, applied researches, policy & strategy development, application of geographic information system (GIS) in urban and regional planning, database development, designing & implementation of multi-sectoral & multi-donor development program such as urban planning, Livelihood, Rule of Law, CBDRM training and capacity building, advocacy and community development, DRR and Emergency Responses.
Shareef has worked in various capacities; urban planner/GIS analyst with PEPAC Pvt. Limited, GIS Officer/Programme officer DRR in FOCUS Humanitarian Assistance (AKDN), Research Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at Coffey International Development, Urban Resilience Expert in SDPI and Manager Urban Planning in City Pulse Pvt. Limited.
He is well-versed with the M&E System and reporting requirements of AusAid, DFID, RNE, EC, Oxfam GB, various government and private funders across Pakistan.
Besides this, I have conducted / managed different short term assignment/consultancies with different International and national organizations on different thematic areas
I have an analytical mind, solid planning and organizational skills. I am a strong team builder and facilitator, fostering an atmosphere that encourages creativity and problem solving. I always enjoyed pleasant working relationship with my colleagues and other stakeholders.
As a Deputy Director Town Planning and Estate Management, I am responsible for the development of organizational structure, TORs, policies, monitoring system, rules & regulations and planning standards to be implemented in the area of interest.
I am responsible to manage the functions of following wings:
1. Master Planning Cell
• Team Lead in preparation of Master Plan of the area
2. Building Control and Anti-Encroachment Cell
• Development of town planning Rules, regulations and policy for building control and sustainable development
3. Solid Waste Management Cell
• ▫ Monitoring of solid waste management team to ensure cleanliness in the area
4. Estate Management Cell
• Supervise the land revenue information and records of the client
As a Manager Urban Planning, I am responsible to deliver services of monitoring and evaluation of projects, planning and designing of housing schemes, approval of housing schemes from Capital Development Authority and Rawalpindi Development Authority, scrutinized architectural drawings of residential and commercial projects at various housing schemes for approval, supervision of housing schemes, application of GIS in urban planning and disaster management, Traffic Impact Assessment of commercial and apartments building
As Urban Resilience Expert, I am responsible for delivering the following activities on time and to the required quality: 1) development of proposals on urban resilience with respect to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation ; 2) development of logframe for urban resilience framework development for District Muzaffargarh Punjab and Dadu Sindh ; 3) Contribute to the finalization of a detailed Logframe and M&E framework for the programme; 3) Development of data collection tools i.e. qualitative and quantitative for disaster risk reduction and climate change data .; 4) Capacity building of field researchers ; 5) responsible for data analysis and preparation of urban resilience framework for District Muzaffargarh and District Dadu, 6). Supervising of Research projects of NUST students as External examiner
As RME Specialist, I am responsible for delivering the following activities on time and to the required quality: 1) Contribute in framing of comprehensive RME work plan for the entire programme to agreed timelines with the Programme Team; 2) Introduce MS project planner in work planning of all outputs of the programme; 3) Contribute to the finalization of a detailed Logframe and M&E framework for the programme; 3) Introduce spatial mapping in conducting cluster based sampling for various studies i.e. baseline survey, KAP survey, drivers of stability etc.; 4) Contribute to the development of the budget and expenditure system for the Research Innovation Unit ; 5) Focal point for consortium partners from RIU unit for programme implementation, and collection of Means of Verification, 6) Develop and implement training evaluation in programme; and 7) Progress reporting of programme to DFID
I have joined FOCUS Pakistan on 1st March 2011 as a Geographic Information System Officer /Town Planner. Later, I have been assigned the responsibility of Programme officer Disaster risk reduction of different projects during my tenure of service. The detail Term of Reference (TOR) of my job are as follow: -
Development of Hazards and Risk Assessment and Vulnerability mappings
Development Land use Planning Maps of villages
GIS Development for the land use Mapping for both urban and rural areas.
Decision making maps for Monitoring and evaluation department using GIS
Development of tool kits for Data collection of Hazard, Vulnerability, Capacity and Risk Assessments for GIS based Mapping
Preparation of Annual Activities and Budgeting for the coming year
Monthly Activities Plan and ensure their implementation by a team of 10 members
Database Management
Master Trainer in Disaster Risk Reduction and Land use planning
Pakistan Environmental Planning and Architectural Consultant (PEPAC) Limited, is a semi government consulting firm established on 1984 with aim to perform all the government and private consulting services in the fields of environmental planning and management, architectural engineering, town planning, civil engineering designing and construction supervisions, transportation engineering and planning, and planning surveys.
I have been selected as Town planner in the organization on September 2010. My key responsibilities during the service are development of proposals for town planning, housing designing, environmental planning and management, building construction and supervisions, Geographic Information System Development for various projects and disaster risk management trainings