Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
LANGUAGES
Training
COUNSELLING EXPERIENCE
Timeline
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Syeda Irm Bukhari

Syeda Irm Bukhari

Lahore

Summary

With 28 years of experience in human rights and gender equality, I am a passionate and results-driven social worker. I’ve held key managerial and administrative roles, leading women’s empowerment initiatives, capacity-building programs, and community development projects. Working with national and international organizations has shaped my ability to create lasting impact. I bring strong leadership, strategic vision, and a deep commitment to driving positive social change.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

Vite-N-Hope
  • Worked with “Vite-N-Hope” for basic rights of women particularly including FSW’s divorced, sexually exploited, destitute and neglected women.
  • Worked with “Vite-N-Hope” organization served intervention and recovery of Commercially Sexually Exploited Children from 23rd December 2005 to 29th November 2011.

Consultant

Contac International
03.2014 - Current
  • Consultant of Contac International of a project for the prevention of infectional diseases among women & FSW’s funded by PACP, from 01st March 2014 to till date.

Aurat Foundation
01.2001 - 01.2019
  • 28 years of practical experience in human rights gender issues, project formulation, implementation, policy development on gender. Women’s empowerment capacity assessment and training activities with different NGOs. Expert in activities formulation, implementation, coordination, budgeting, financial activities, monitoring and evaluation and reporting the achievement programmer objectives.
  • Vast experience for women rights since 1993 and professional experience in gender and social issues including gender planning, gender analysis, promotion of gender equality in women’s agricultural projects, training and research in the area humanitarian, food security, education and marriages.
  • Conducted numerous needs assessment, analysis and projects formulations, budgeting implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development projects.
  • Vast experience in field level, data collection and analysis.

UNICEF
04.2002 - 12.2005
  • Served “Women Health Project” by UNICEF from 13th April 2002 to 27th December 2005.

Education

MSC - Ecnomics

Bahauddin Zakariya University-BZU

LLB - undefined

Punjab University

Skills

  • DOS
  • MS Exel
  • MS office
  • Windows
  • Internet
  • Windows 98
  • MS Word
  • MS Power Point
  • Problem-solving
  • Team leadership & development

LANGUAGES

Urdu
English
Saraiki
Punjabi

Training

  • Participated as expert trainer in program organized by Vite-N-Hope on 1st December-2003 on the (ECC’s_ an integrated project of Vite-N-Hope and UNICEF.
  • Training experience of NGO’s working in different areas of health education.
  • Experience in Organizational Management and Planning of different activities of NGO’s working in Lahore.
  • Organized capacity building trainings of the different member organizations of PNPCR in 2008 and 2009 as expert trainer in program organized by Vite-N-Hope on 1st December-1998 with the collaboration of “Aurat Foundation” on the eve of World AIDS Day.
  • Participated as expert of Human and Women Rights and delivered a lecture on “preventative strategy”.

COUNSELLING EXPERIENCE

  • Provided counseling to the newly detected FSW’s and people of RLA-Lahore during two months point prevalence study (from 15th October to 14th December 1993) conducted by Vite-N-Hope with the collaboration of NACP.
  • Provided counseling to the FSW’s their clients agents and family members of RLA-Lahore from March 1998 to February 2000, during the “Women Health Project” executed by Vite-N-Hope with the collaboration of UNICEF.
  • Providing counseling to sexually exploited children (SEC) of sex workers from 15th October 2004, to during the project of “Intervention for Recovery and Re-Integration of Sexually Exploited Children in selected areas of Lahore, Pakistan.
  • Counseling experience to the raped girls at community level since October 2004, during the project of rehabilitation of sexually exploited women.

Timeline

Consultant

Contac International
03.2014 - Current

UNICEF
04.2002 - 12.2005

Aurat Foundation
01.2001 - 01.2019

Vite-N-Hope

LLB - undefined

Punjab University

MSC - Ecnomics

Bahauddin Zakariya University-BZU
Syeda Irm Bukhari