Result-oriented monitoring and evaluation professional with Masters degree in Economics, Development Studies and International Relations, having over 12 years experience of designing, implementing ME system in development and humanitarian sectors. Have sound command of establishing result-based monitoring system and designing and implementing qualitative and quantitative ME tools like performance management plan, log-frame, indicator tracking sheets, case studies and complaint feedback mechanism (CFMs) to ensure accountability, quality service delivery and assess the outcome and impact of the interventions.
Experienced in partnership building with stakeholders in sectors including migration management, reintegration, direct assistance, humanitarian assistance, COVID-19 response, climate change, public health system strengthening and service delivery, education, WASH, livelihood, TVET, poverty reduction, inclusive governance, gender and youth development across Pakistan. The main donors of the projects included FCDO, USAID, PPAF, KFW, Save the Children, Phillip Morris International, Italian Government and Danish Government.
· Led initiatives to operationalize the UN Network on Migration (UNNM) in Pakistan.
· Provide technical inputs related to Global Compact on Migration (GCM) and UNNM, including the Regional Migration Review Forum and International Migration Review Forum, in coordination with relevant stakeholders in Pakistan and consultation with IOM’s regional office and HQ.
· Act as the focal point for government GCM implementation and provide support for coordination and engagement with government authorities to identify needs or gaps and provide continuous feedback to senior management to improve the relevance and effectiveness of interventions.
· Support the roll-out of Network tools and guidance in thematic areas for the application of the GCM.
· Facilitate work on capacity building for the UN country team and support GoP and stakeholders on UNNM and GCM implementation plans.
· Oversee activities relating to mainstreaming migration into development planning processes, through close coordination with external experts and consultants, IOM’s internal thematic experts, and relevant government representatives.
· Draft inputs for regular reports, including insights, lessons, and best practices on how to best implement, follow-up, and review the GCM, and prepare TPs and briefing materials on GCM and UNNM as required.
· Prepare content for internal and external visibility materials in coordination with relevant units and in adherence to IOM’s communication policy, IOM data protection policy, and the visibility guidelines of the donor governments.
· Strengthening strategic partnerships with relevant government entities, civil society, private sector organizations, United Nations agencies, and other stakeholders.
· Represent IOM at relevant meetings, briefings, events, forums, and conferences, as well as liaise with donors, governmental partners, project partners, think tanks, and policy centres at the international and national levels.
· Developed and implemented strategies, policies, and procedures for the effective implementation of UK’s Home Office Reintegration Programs (HORP).
· Oversaw the planning, coordination, and execution of reintegration activities at the national level, ensuring they aligned with organizational objectives and donor requirements.
· Monitored and evaluated program effectiveness, identified areas for improvement, and proposed appropriate adjustments.
· Built and maintained effective partnerships with relevant government agencies, international organizations, local NGOs, and community stakeholders.
· Collaborated with stakeholders to enhance coordination and maximize resources, promoting a comprehensive and integrated approach to reintegration.
· Provided leadership and guidance to the reintegration team, ensuring the implementation of high-quality services and adherence to best practices.
· Managed and mentored a team of reintegration specialists, caseworkers, and support staff, fostering a positive work environment and professional development.
· Developed program budgets, monitored expenditures, and ensured efficient utilization of resources.
· Identified funding opportunities and contributed to the development of project proposals and grant applications.
· Established and maintained robust monitoring and evaluation systems to track program progress and outcomes.
Leading the process of development of M&E targets, tracking systems, tools, and templates that enhance efficiency and effectiveness of the outputs, while ensuring donor’s requirement are adequately incorporated.Support implementation of M&E tools according to project result matrix, ensuring quality assurance of all data (completeness, reliability, validity, timeliness, and integrity).Managing implementation of field visits to monitor progress on activities, including meeting with project counterparts and beneficiaries and timely provide verbal and written reports to the project team.Provide technical feedback to project team on M&E findings and follow up on utilization of monitoring results stated in the “Results Monitoring Framework”.Lead the monitoring progress of project’s implementing partners and service providers as per developed M&E plan and wherever applicable, provide technical feedback on design and implementation of their data collection tools for surveys, focus group discussions (FGD), interviews, and similar activities.Responsible for the orientation of project staff on all M&E requirements of the project and their role in ensuring an effective M&E system.
Coordination of data collection processes such as activity monitoring (AM), post-activity monitoring (PAM), joint activity monitoring (JAM), post-distribution monitoring (PDM), and similar activities.
Development and implementation of M&E tools according to project log frame and in ensuring quality assurance of field data (completeness, reliability, validity, timeliness and integrity).
Implementation of the NDC beneficiary feedback mechanism, including support for regular monitoring, analysis, and reporting of beneficiary feedback data.
Conducting needs assessment and analysis, ensuring beneficiary participation, including adequate attention given to the needs and challenges by gender and of vulnerable groups
Collect and organize all M&E-related data and files, ensuring that all records are properly organized and stored.
Compilation of the program information and documents, including but not limited to the documents related to NDC quarterly reports, situation reports, briefing and information required by the donors and other entities, information, and data in support of programme development initiatives.
Maintain contact with appropriate NDC member agencies, as required and appropriate.
Planning and implementation of the field visit to project sites, including support for the site visit reports.
Keeping a record of assessments and reports produced by other agencies and organizations and extract of relevant and important information for reference and use by the programme.
Support senior management and rest of the team in program development efforts, including support for data analysis, as required.
Implemented M&E tools and processes in line to the project priorities and organizational requirements in close collaboration with Delivering Accelerated Family Planning in Pakistan (DAFPAK) staff.
Ensured to collect data on standardized tools including data validity, integrity, precision, reliability and timeliness of the collected data and enter in the relevant database
Analysed and interpret data in close collaboration with district and provincial technical team members for planning and execution of the programme intervention
Provided timely feedback to the intended stakeholders (staff/partners and district health department and PWD) in collaboration with the DAFPAK PSSD project team
Conducted periodic data verification and spot checks for identifying gaps and enabling the technical teams to improve further the quality and accuracy of the collated data
Maintained DAFPAK PSSD project database with timely inputs from the district officers within the agreed timeframe in efficient manner
Coordinated with Project MIS focal point to maintain the DAFPAK PSSD Management Information System
Assisted input in the implementation of quantitative/qualitative assessments, evaluations and sample surveys.
Coordinated and work closely with provincial and district health and PWD counterparts and ensure a smooth working relationship with them
Understood well existing government data management including flow and feedback mechanisms, particularly DHIS, LHW-MIS, CMW-MIS and cLMIS
Represent DAFPAK PSSD to the external stakeholders including donor and government agencies.
Developed and managed the roll-out of MEAL plan for Hygiene & Behaviour Change Coalition (HBCC) project.
Build strong relationships with colleagues and implementing partner’s staff and provide support as required to ensure MEAL system is understood and supported at the field level.
Collected data and other information to generate high quality progress reports for HBCC project as per donor templates
Designed and conducted post distribution monitoring (PDM) to gauge the satisfaction and utility of non-food items distributed in project target areas.
Maintained project database, supported and ensured that it complements and forms part of the overall MEAL system
Collected qualitative information, success stories, case studies, lessons learnt and other relevant information, ensuring that they are appropriately packaged, stored, shared and encouraging their application;
Managed and generated reports using child profile database, registration and other technical components.
Prepared and edited quarterly and annual reports, briefing papers, and other documents as necessary
Shared relevant learnings and information with partners, stakeholders and other parties through Share-point, Web page and other virtual communication channels
Designed and conducted workshops to organize learnings, knowledge sharing, and experience sharing events.
Implemented M&E tools and processes in line to the project priorities and organizational requirements in close collaboration with Delivering Accelerated Family Planning in Pakistan (DAFPAK) staff.
Ensured to collect data on standardized tools including data validity, integrity, precision, reliability and timeliness of the collected data and enter in the relevant database
Analysed and interpret data in close collaboration with district and provincial technical team members for planning and execution of the programme intervention
Provided timely feedback to the intended stakeholders (staff/partners and district health department and PWD) in collaboration with the DAFPAK PSSD project team
Conducted periodic data verification and spot checks for identifying gaps and enabling the technical teams to improve further the quality and accuracy of the collated data
Maintained DAFPAK PSSD project database with timely inputs from the district officers within the agreed timeframe in an efficient manner
Coordinated with Project MIS focal point to maintain the DAFPAK PSSD Management Information System
Assisted input in the implementation of quantitative/qualitative assessments, evaluations and sample surveys.
Coordinated and work closely with provincial and district health and PWD counterparts and ensure a smooth working relationship with them
Understood well existing government data management including flow and feedback mechanisms, particularly DHIS, LHW-MIS, CMW-MIS and cLMIS
Represent DAFPAK PSSD to the external stakeholders including donor and government agencies.
Developed M&E plan, processes and reporting formats for output/outcomes/impact levels to ensure constant monitoring feedback is being reported to project management periodically.
Carried out both process and progress monitoring of project activities to ensure that implementation partners (IPs) are following the agreed SOPs for program implementation.
Conducted field visits periodically to assess progress towards achieving objectives, ensured program compliance and effective implementation according to work plans and timely providing recommendations for improvement.
Ensure program implementation is meeting the needs of target groups together with gender analysis and are consistent with CARE’s accountability framework, Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) guidelines, USAID protocols, and mitigation measures.
Ensure that the complaints response mechanism is in place and properly implemented.
Together with project team, conduct regular lessons learned workshops to highlight best practices as well as key challenges along with the recommendations.
Facilitate the process of After Activity Reviews (AAR), development of evaluation studies and facilitate USAID monitoring missions as and when required.
Ensure proper, regular and timely reporting of progress and following up with the field operations.
Participate in coordination meetings with consortium partners, accountability working groups, and facilitate linkage development between these groups and management of CARE.
Managed and delivered all M&E aspects of the project, including support for M&E framework implementation, report writing, data collection and analysis.
Developed and strengthened organization’s role with local partners in order to advance the project through effective monitoring & evaluation framework and high quality reporting mechanisms.
Provided technical support to field teams in setting up and implementing programme monitoring systems at field level; strengthening the M&E capacity through the provision of on-job M&E training, mentoring and technical support.
Established of data gathering mechanism, consolidating data against the program goals, and ensure the timely and comprehensive flow of M&E information to relevant stakeholders in order to highlight areas of success, good practices, challenges and lessons learnt.
Developed implementation plans, budgets, procurement plans and concept notes on activities.
Carried out field visits to assess project performance in line with budget, work plans, and facilitation in order to ensure cost-effectiveness and efficiency in project implementation.
Managed online Management Information System (MIS) and generated progress reports, shared with donors and other stakeholders.
Carried out data collection and analysis from field visits, standardizing them across programmes, to feed into to programme performance monitoring
Designed assessments, surveys, baseline & end line studies and evaluations.
Administered collection of qualitative and quantitative data using surveys, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups; and developed easy-to-use forms.
Prepared and presented weekly and monthly analysis of data to plan, review, reflect, learn and re-appraise project interventions.
Data management and reporting of the key findings with section heads for in-time analysis and feedback.
Identified and reported problems, key improvement areas and proposed solutions for effective and efficient project implementation.
Ensured revenue recovery in Peshawar Electric Supply Company by establishment of highly effective and efficient commercial management mechanisms.
Facilitated re-engineering of commercial practices, improved data transfer from pay points to future implementation of an enterprise resource planning system.
Conducted field visits to monitor project activities for data collection, validation and reporting. n Capacity Building of project staff and government officials through on-job training in the understanding of customer online billing.
Resource management of the technical activity equipment assigned for the operation of project interventions.
Coordinated project tasks with respect to monitoring and evaluation of activities.
Ensured that M&E data are readily available to the management, all concerned departments and to other stakeholders, particularly on impact and lessons learned from Project activities.
Ensured availability & development of knowledge management material such as briefers, human interest stories, case studies and related material.
Contributed to the documentation of program events such as meetings, workshops, field monitoring visit reports throughout project life to support and verify project interventions.
Developed data management system using Excel, Access and SPSS; collated consolidated and prepared reports of project data, conducted basic data analysis and interpretation, as required for reporting.
Conducted periodic and unscheduled field visits to obtain beneficiary feedback and ensured timely, equitable and transparent delivery of assistance to project beneficiaries.
Liable for reporting, documentation and data management.
Organized workshops, seminars and focus group discussions.
Developed concept notes, proposals, budgets and fact sheets.
Documented field visit reports, note for records and monitoring reports.
Promoted awareness about the organizational goal through pamphlets, booklets and community dialogue.
Suhail Hussain is a seasoned M&E and project management professional equipped with market oriented skills and competencies. He is a good team player and have the competency to accommodative himself in any professional environment. I wish him best of luck and heaps of success in his future endeavors.