About the webinar

Mrs. Uzma Shahid will discuss the new guidelines of Sphere for COVID-19 response oerations.

About the Speaker

Mrs. Uzma Shahid is a Disaster Risk Management (DRM) practitioner, capacity building expert, trainer, project management professional, manager of development, environmental, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction programs and development analyst. Her professional career spans over more than two decades (1998-2017). She has the credit of conception, designing, planning, execution, management, and supervision of over 30 projects and programs in the diverse fields of: Disaster Risk Management, Child Centered Disaster Risk Reduction, Child Protection, and livelihoods, Education particularly of girls, and Rural and Urban Development. She developed, coordinated and contributed to more than 100 knowledge products including: research reports, training manuals, IEC (Information, Education and Communication) materials and working models/frameworks in these fields. She has designed and delivered hundreds of trainings on participatory development approaches, child protection, child rights, child centered disaster risk reduction, livelihoods, cash for work, emergency response and many more. She has conducted Surge Trainings in Pakistan for Roster Member of Transforming Surge Capacity Project under DEPP funded by DFID and UK-aid. 

She has responded to various emergencies and disasters at international and national levels which includes Pakistan floods of 2010, 2011 and 2012 while at international level; as a child protection specialist responded to refugee crises of 2013 in Myanmar  and flood response of 2014 in Philippine.

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