概要

Sharafat Hussain is survey and database expert with vast managerial and staff management skills and he leads the Survey Systems Unit and staff from and within the Pakistan office of C4ED. With more than 20 years of experience in managing large-scale CAPI surveys in several countries, he has led numerous major surveys and developed extensive computerized systems for enumerator monitoring, performance, reliability, efficiency and data quality, including listing operations with several million households. Given his experience of management of liaisons with the Government of Pakistan and all the provincial governments, he is the one in charge of representing the organisation and obtaining No Objection Certificates (NOCs) from the relevant government departments. He has an extensive experience of more than 10 years of managing the process of obtaining NOCs while working first for the NRSP and then for C4ED. Moreover, he is responsible for managing and supervising all the departments from HR to research of the Pakistan office. At C4ED Pakistan, he has been the brains behind strategic planning, budget forecasting and comparisons, project management, supervision of qualitative and quantitative data collection, supervision of enumerators, networking with donors and aligning local legal policies with international legal policies. Furthermore, he is an expert in android based programming of questionnaires and has demonstrated capacity to lead CAPI systems, solve technical problems and provide local field support.
Besides C4ED, he has been working for other organizations, including the European Union, the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the World Bank, the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) and the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF). He has expertly managed large-scale android-based surveys, such as the BISP poverty scorecard survey covering 4.5 million households and managing a team of over 1,000 field staff. Additionally, Sharafat Hussain has successfully managed the baseline Census undertaken in 08 districts of Sindh (Larkana, Qambar Shahdad Kot, Jamshoro, Dadu, Matiari, Tando Allah Yar, Tando Muhammad Khan and Sujwal) under the EU funded SUCCESS Programe through which data collection from 1.2 million households was made possible via android survey. Other projects that he has effectively managed include a survey of 7,400 households in Punjab and Sindh for Adolescents lives in Pakistan, child labour surveys in the five different provinces of Pakistan, baseline and end-line surveys of 6,500 households for the Health Protection Programme in GB and KP. Moreover, he has successfully managed projects such as school surveys in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and a baseline census covering more than 33,000 households for a social mobilization project for the World Bank including Karachi, Hyderabad and Tando Muhammad Khan. Furthermore, he has recently coordinated the Child Labour Survey Project in Gilgit Baltistan and Punjab in collaboration with the Planning and Development Department GB and the Bureau of Statistics, Punjab.
Sharafat Hussain has led large teams and database of potential enumerators in all provinces of Pakistan, in addition to hiring, training (including Training of Trainers), and monitoring of the field staff. He has devised and managed entire field operations, designed and written field plans, implementation manuals, reporting and monitoring tools and arranged documentation of the processes. In addition, he developed and maintained the tools for computer-assisted data collection, i.e. via tablet computers, including android application, monitoring dashboards and quality assurance processes, and provided support to IT teams regarding system development, and daily progress and quality reporting. He has also designed and implemented a number of surveys, poverty scorecards, as well as ME systems, procedures and plans. During the COVIC-19 Pandemic, he expertly managed a large-scale survey in KP, Punjab and Sindh over telephone by arranging a VPABX using JAZZ business line and virtual call centre setup. Through this project, enumerators conducted telephonic interviews remotely for more than 20,000 households.