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About Abida Naz

Abida is an Atlas Corps fellow from Pakistan. She is a non-profit professional with four years of diversified experience in the developing as well as the developed world. Her expertise includes planning, monitoring, evaluation, research, report writing and knowledge management. She earns a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Peshawar in Pakistan. Abida has worked with host communities, internally dislocated people as well as with refugees, in both development and emergency contexts. Through these experiences, she has acquired strong monitoring and evaluations skills, which are applicable across different thematic areas. Currently, she is serving at Empowered Women International as Monitoring & Evaluation Manager, under the U.S States department Emerging Global Leaders Initiative. She is responsible for developing and implement the monitoring and evaluation strategy for the organization and analyzing the impact of the organization. She is passionate about women’s empowerment, economic development, refugee crisis, promotion of Civil Society Organizations, rural development as well as the promotion of transparency and accountability in the non-profit sector.

Overseas Fellowship – Year Back Reflection

April 24, 2017 12:54 pm Published by Comments Off on Overseas Fellowship – Year Back Reflection

I applied for Atlas Corps fellowship program with an aim and purpose in my mind to improve myself to better...


M&E Basic Terminologies

March 30, 2017 3:54 pm Published by 1 Comment

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is a process that helps improve performance and achieve results. Its goal is to improve current and...


China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)

February 28, 2017 2:22 pm Published by Comments Off on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a 3,218-kilometer long route, to be built over next several years, consisting of highways, railways,...


Design Thinking

January 28, 2017 7:39 pm Published by Comments Off on Design Thinking

Design Thinking is a design methodology that provides a solution-based and human-centered approach to solving problems. It is extremely useful...


Theory of Change

January 28, 2017 6:08 pm Published by Comments Off on Theory of Change

Theory of Change is the description of how and why a desired change is expected to occur in a particular context....


Chitral-The Place of Beauty & Peace

December 27, 2016 9:04 pm Published by Comments Off on Chitral-The Place of Beauty & Peace

  Chitral is the most beautiful and peaceful district of Pakistan situated at the North most in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. It...


Thanks-Giving Day

November 26, 2016 2:33 pm Published by Comments Off on Thanks-Giving Day

Celebrating Thanks-Giving Day with my friend and local Ambassador Natalie Moore is also one of the amazing cultural explorations during...


Women for Women

October 31, 2016 10:31 pm Published by Comments Off on Women for Women

Marga Fripp, the Founder of Empowered Women International, was a well-known journalist and social activist when she moved to the...


A New Beginning

September 15, 2016 11:22 am Published by Comments Off on A New Beginning

  Despite belonging to a remote part of the world, I never stopped dreaming of exploring the world and believing...