Frequently Asked Questions about COVID-19 Session - 6

About the webinar

The webinar is organized to enhance the understanding about COVID-19 through a questions and answer session. The questions were pre-collected from the participants through email. The session was facilitated by Brig (Rtd) Sajid Naeem.

About the Speaker

Brig (Rtd) Sajid Naeem has over 39 years of experience in civilian and military set ups, on progressively responsible positions for tactical to strategic planning and action in a variety of emergency settings. Has Seven years of concentrated practical leadership experience in planning and managing pre-disaster preparedness, disaster relief, post-disaster recovery, transition to development initiatives and capacity building programmes. Performed as Member (Operation) in National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and supervised all activities related to disaster management.  Was head of Head of National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) and remained involved in capacity development of government functionaries and humanitarian partners in prevention of disaster and mitigation programmes. Presently he is Country Manager (Pakistan) and representing Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) as focal person for assigned project at the country level for coordination with Government, Local NGO partners and other stakeholder agencies.

Presentation of the session (click to download)


Video Recording

National Humanitarian Network Pakistan

A volunteer network, founded in 2010 in result of interactive dialogue in National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) “to act as an independent and vibrant voice to engage with stakeholders throughout Pakistan for promotion of humanitarian values by influencing policies and building capacities to ensure right based humanitarian response”. 172 humanitarian organizations are members of NHN from across Pakistan and it is open for all national and local organizations engaged in humanitarian assistance or disaster management advocacy.  NHN focus on “Effective and Accountable Humanitarian Governance” – mainly in Response and Disaster Preparedness through four major areas i.e. “Coordination/networking, Advocacy, Capacity Building and Information Management”.

NHN is a key network in Pakistan which is well connected with various stakeholders and demonstrated its effectiveness to do proper advocacy and lobbying for access, space and principled response. NHN supports stakeholders in collecting and timely sharing of critical information for preparedness and response as its members are spread across Pakistan and even in hard to reach areas.

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