About the webinar

NHN Pakistan in collaboration with ICVA present a briefing session on IASC guidelines for localization during COVID-19 response initiatives.

About the Speaker

Sana Zulfiqar – has considerable expertise in humanitarian coordination & her efforts mainly focus on negotiating local civil society space in the humanitarian architecture and advocating localization agenda on national and international platforms. She has done M.Sc. in Communication Sciences and has served in different positions for the last ten years at Earthquake Reconstruction & Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA), United Nation Volunteer (UNV), National Health Emergency Preparedness Response Network (NHEPRN), National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the National Humanitarian Network (NHN). She was awarded volunteer of the year in 2008 by the Government of Pakistan.

For the past seven years, she has been working on different keys positions in the National Secretariat of NHN Pakistan. She played a key role in streamlining network operational & strategic coordination; facilitated in development of network contingency, preparedness, advocacy and capacity building plans. On her credits, she conceived, designed and facilitated the first digital resource center (DRC) in-country and region as a one knowledge management window to galvanize communication for the humanitarian sector. She facilitated the development of the first national, sector experts roster titled as Surge Emergency Response Team (SERT) in Pakistan, development of Local Charter of Commitment derived from Charter 4 Change for Pakistan under localization agenda and introduced initiatives to capacitate females of local government and civil society as Women Leadership in Emergency Response.

She also managed and coordinated Pakistan Resilience Partnership (PRP) at the country level and remain communication focal point for Asian Preparedness Partnership (APP) managed by Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC). Currently, she is working as Project Coordinator at Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), Pakistan for Climate Adaptation and Resilience (CARE) for South Asia, initiative.

Presentation of the session (click to download)