Qaisar Roonjha

 

WANG Head Office –  Ahmed Abad Wang, Bela, Lasbela Balochistan.www.roonjha.com

 

 

 

 

 

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

  • Founder and Executive Director of WANG, a Pakistani-based social change initiative dedicated to developing young leaders and building their capacity to address their communities’ greatest social challenges. Developed and implemented a range of internationally funded programming to engage diverse, marginalized and underserved of youth from across the country. Conducted stakeholder outreach and engagement initiatives to build multi-sectoral partnerships and joint ventures.
  • Award recipient of a highly competitive fellowship from the Packard Foundation and Public Health Institute called “The Rise Up Youth Campion Initiative”, focused on improving the lives of young people by promoting innovation and quality in the fields of sexual and reproductive health, human rights and global justice. I was one of 21 professionals selected for this fellowship from across the globe.
  • Almost 10 years of experience in international development leadership, program design, project management, building local capacity, stakeholder engagement, public speaking and food security.
  • Proven success in grass-roots campaigning, high-profile event planning, fund-raising and proposal development, and successful collaboration with implementing partner organizations in the public, private and NGO sectors (e.g. UNFPA, British Council, IPPF, Girl Rising, Atlas Corps and USAID).
  • Areas of expertise include: Civic Engagement and Education, Social Advocacy, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Family Planning, HIV/AIDS, Youth Development, Human Rights, Girls Education, Gender Equality, Peace Building and Digital Media for social change.
  • Highly skilled and experienced facilitator and trainer in international settings reaching over 50,000individuals.
  • Creative and innovative content creator both in online and traditional media platforms. Published hundreds of articles, blogs, videos, pictorial/graphical products for diverse audiences and purposes. Award-winning global social photographer. Certified community theater artist with hundreds of performances under the profile.
  • Served as Consultant and Youth Advisor for the Gates Foundation’s Global Advisory Board, Pathfinder International, UNFPA, British Council’s Active Citizen Program and others.

EDUCATION

Brandeis University, Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.                                                                                       Completion: August 2019

Masters of Sustainable International Development (Scholarship Award)

University of Balochistan, Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan                                           March 2012 – December 2014

Masters of Arts in Sociology

University of Balochistan, Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan                                         January 2010 – December 2011

Bachelors of Arts in Sociology

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Prime Minister Pakistan’s National Youth Council, | Member.      May 2021- May 2023

• Advising Prime Minister’s office on meaningful youth participation in nation building.

• Focal person for sub-group on Youth Sexual and Reproductive health in the country.

• Engaged in active dialogue with relevant ministry for incorporating youth voices in policy making process.

• Linkage development with youth led organizations in country with Prime Minister’s advisor on youth

development office.

• Advocating national and provincial ministries for incorporating Life Skills based skills curriculum in national

curriculum.

• Officially representing youth of Pakistan at various national and international platforms.

 

WANG Pakistan, Founder & Executive Director                                                           August 2012 – Present

  • Founded the organization with the aim to struggle for fairer society by engaging young people.
  • Raised almost USD $325,000 from international donors over a 4-year period.
  • Designed and implementing 10 years strategy for sustainability of the organization.
  • Developed partnerships with huge non-for-profit organizations, state governments, and academia to
  • execute joint ventures.
  • Developed and executed programs in the toughest atmospheres to engage diverse groups of
  • youth across the country.
  • Developed Standard operating procedures for the smooth running of organization activities.

 

Girl Rising, New York, USA                                                                                                      May 2016 – May 2017

Fellow Campaign Manager

  • Co-led joint venture of Let Girls Learn with White House and CNN on our documentary “We will rise” for Girl Child Day 2016 featuring Michele Obama and others.
  • As Atlas Corps fellow, implemented an awareness-raising campaign across the USA, India, Nigeria and Democratic Republic of Congo by strengthening the partnership engaging new multi-sectoral partnerships.
  • Developed and updated tools to improve and expand the campaign and stakeholder engagement initiatives.
  • Designed and implemented a successful Pakistan pilot project by developing and improvising the curriculum for Pakistani schools’ system around the over all girls rising campaign.
  • Developed, launched and oversaw implementation of a new youth-focused curriculum with partner schools in Brooklyn, New York.
  • Produced and disseminated online content for Girls Rising community engagement initiatives on diverse social media platforms.
  • Managed and evaluated the data of over-all campaign impact through the film and provided critical insight to higher leadership about the campaigns.

 

Emerging Global Leaders InitiativeAtlas Corps, Washington, USA                                    May 2016 – May 2017

Fellow

  • Selected for the prestigious fellowship program as an emerging leader.
  • Participated 3 Global Leadership labs around the year in Washington DC.
  • Developed networking with global non-profit leaders from across the world.
  • Awarded as most engaging fellow of the year.

Chanan Development Association, Lahore, Pakistan                                              September 2015 – August 2018

Chairman

  • Designed and implemented numerous projects across Pakistan in collaboration with major donors to engage 10,000 individuals annually through our interventions.
  • Designed and launched 8 National Peace Festivals and 1 South Asia Youth Peace Festival in past 9 years. Engaging thousands of youth activists, policy makers, journalists and Peace-builders.
  • Launched network of peace-builders across the 63 districts in Pakistan of engaging 88 youth organizations. Building their capacity and helping them develop strong linkages between organizations.

Youth Peer Education Network (Y-PEER), Lahore, Pakistan                               February 2012 – December 2017

 National Focal Point In-Charge

  • Launched and established the network in Pakistan.
  • Lead, organized and facilitated 8 national Training of Trainers programs on Peer education on Sexual Reproductive and Health Rights.
  • Led collaboration with 4 provincial governments to launch youth friendly youth polices.
  • Engaged and advocated policy makers in consultations and roundtables on SRHR friendly policies with special focus on early age marriages access to family planning services.
  • Developed partnerships with government and non-government organizations and extended our programs to wider audiences.
  • Developed and disseminated content to engage online community through social media platforms.

 

 

FELLOWSHIPS

  • UNOSDP, South Korea/Pakistan April 2014 – December 2015

Sports for Development Fellow

  • Served as fellow at United Nations office on Sports for Peace and Development. Designed and executed projects around engaging young girls as leaders through sports.
  • Designed sports-based projects for WANG as part of fellowship, engaged 450 students in 8 schools of Lasbela.
  • Organized district level sports festivals to build the capacity of young sports persons on leadership, empathy, peace building and social cohesion.
  • The Do School, Hamburg, Germany/Pakistan     March 2013 – April 2014

Global Theater fellow

  • Participated in global theater academy, learned about techniques of community theater, developed proposal the innovative idea to tackle the issue of conflict in Balochistan through street theater pitched the idea donors /funders won the grant and executed the project in Pakistan.
  • Soliya Global Fellow, Virtual/Pakistan January 2011 – December 2011
  • Spent one-year learning about conflict resolution, co-existence, cohesion & peace-building intercultural and interfaith harmony.
  • As part of assignments have produced 3 short documentaries content around the topics of religious extremism in Balochistan during the fellowship.
  • Global Changemakers, UK/PakistanJuly 2010 – June 2012
  • As first ever Pakistani won award of global changemaker, learnt project management and community engagement through continuous personal development.
  • Designed and Executed 3 Community action projects, engaged 430 young people in Lasbela Town.
  • Facilitated South Asia Youth Summit 2011 in India.

GLOBAL FACILITATION, TRAINING and PUBLIC SPEAKING EXPERIENCE            Jan. 2010 – Present

More than five years of experience working with hundreds of organizations including UNFPA, UNICEF, Oxfam GB, Rutgers, British Council, Pathfinder, Malinda and Gates Foundation and many othergovernment and non-government organizations as facilitator/consultant to build capacity of their hundreds beneficiaries from diverse backgrounds on the topics of leadership, community engagement, youth development, citizen journalism, SRHR, HIV/AIDS, Sports for Development, civic education, conflict resolution, negotiation skills.

DIGITAL MEDIA and LANGUAGE SKILLS

  • In-design, Microsoft Office, Final Cut-Pro, Adobe Premier, Adobe Photoshop, Word Press web development and Arc Geographic Information System. MailChimp. Base Camp, Capsule, Workday.
  • Languages: Urdu (native speaker), English, Hindi, Balochi, Sindhi.

 

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