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Afsheen Ashraf

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Afsheen Ashraf                                                               

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Worked as researcher with applied knowledge of labour market concepts and data calculations according to the international standards, with best practice and having a strong experience of dealing in the financial and administrative tasks of the LMIA project run by the government of Pakistan with the collaboration of ILO and UNDP throughout the project period.  Completed internship in the Statistics Department of the ILO. Recently working as Labour Market Information and analysis expert in Pakistan.

   

Work Experience:

 

Feb-2013-Present

Country Office-ILO                                Islamabad, Pakistan

Consultant/Lead trainer-LMI

 

·         Technical assistance in producing Provincial Employment Trends Reports.

·         Capacity need assessment of LMI Units at Punjab and Sindh Provinces of Pakistan and prepared capacity development reports.

·         Training of LMI staff in Punjab and Sindh provinces of Pakistan on data computation, developing conceptual framework and structure of report, and statistical analysis for the production of employment trends reports.

·         Conducted a quantitative research study on “Minimum wages in Pakistan”

·         Prepared concept note for study on “Labour market outcome for TVET gradates in Pakistan”.

·         Produced report on “Improvement of data collection instruments for skill mapping”.

·         Supported different project activities i.e. preparing project brochure, drafting letters to stakeholders, review of reports, coordinating for feedback on reports, communicating with stakeholders for different project activities and conducting technical meetings with relevant stakeholders.

·         Coordinated with Statistics Department at ILO headquarters in Geneva for technical input on the request for such input by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).

·         Other support on request by ILO colleagues.

 

 

May-2013-Present

Country Office-Future Now Technologies                                                Lahore, Pakistan

Consultant –LMIS Application Development

 

·         Preparing LMIS indicators list, thematic areas, Report format and relationship development for indicators computation through the application developed for LMIS (Labour Market Information system) and labour law compliance and enforcement.

·         Data computation using Stata for the LMIS application.

·         Training of the LMI users and labour department to use, update and upgrade LMIS application.

 

 

May-2012-Dec-2012

LMI-TVET reform support program-GIZ                    Islamabad, Pakistan

Labour Market Analyst

 

·         Establishment of LMI Cell at National Vocational and Technical training Commission.

·         Labour market analysis to back up TVET policy, occupational counseling and career guidance.

·         Establishment of LM database for TVET planning.

·         Review of data sources on labour market.

·         Preparing questionnaires.

·         LMI related assessments.

·         Preparing work plan.

 

 

 

 

July-2011-December 2011

Statistics Department-ILO                    Geneva, Switzerland

Intern

 

·         Developing concept and operational definition of Green Jobs.

·         Worked on Methodological Survey on labour force surveys in the Asian Countries.

·         Calculating informal employment estimates from the Labour force micro data of Pakistan.

·         Coordinating in preparing technical comments on ADePT labour module of the World Bank database.

·         Calculated statistics from Micro data of labour force survey of Pakistan to test standards of employment and unemployment for the Working Group Meeting on short notice.

·         Preparing feedback and comments on the decent work indicators’ draft and preparing some country examples to include in the analytical part of the draft.

 

March-2007-June 2011

Ministry of labour and Manpower (Government of Pakistan).       Islamabad, Pakistan          

Research officer-Labour Economist

 

·         Technical contribution to the various issues of “Pakistan Employment Trends”

·         Data calculations of the labour force survey to establish labour market data base of       Pakistan as well as for the issues of Pakistan employment Trends.

·         Technical Report Writing on Employment Trends in Pakistan.

·         Preparation of technical suggestions to improving Labour Force Survey of Pakistan and school to work transition module attached to LFS.

·         Coordinating among the various Departments of the Government of Pakistan for   technical cooperation.

·         Coordinating in the execution of Labour Market Information and Analysis project the-Ministry of Labour and manpower Government of Pakistan.

·         Preparation of all financial and monitoring reports of the project.

 

Oct-2006-march-2007

Kashf Foundation (Micro finance Institute).                                          Lahore, Pakistan

Branch Manager

 

·         Management/administration  of the branch

·         Guiding the staff  to explore the potential female clients during field visits

·         Disbursement of loans

·         Field visits for audit purposes

·         Preparing financial and monitoring reports

·         Arranging skill trainings for the clients

·         Guiding clients to set up their businesses

 

Nov-2002-Aug-2003

Noor Degree College for women.                                                        Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Lecturer

 

·         Delivering lectures up to degree level

·         Guiding students in preparing their projects

 

Nov-2002-Aug-2003

Noor Degree College for women.                                                        Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Head of Economics Department

 

·         Management of the department  

·         Arranging study tours

·         Looking after the student affairs

·         Organizing extra curricular activities

 

Personal details:

 

            Date of birth:        04-04-1977

            Place of birth:        Punjab

            Nationality:        Pakistani

 

Education:

 

Nov-2010-oct-2011

        International Training Centre-ILO, Turin Italy.

        Master in Applied Labour Economics for Development

        98/110

Degrees Awarded by:

        Sciences Po, Paris France

        University of Turin, Italy

 

Dec-1999-June-2002

        International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan.

        Master of Science in Economics

        Cumulative G.P.A of 3.75/4.00

         82.00 % Marks

 

Language Skills:

 

Urdu        Native language

English        Excellent

Arabic        Basic

 

Computer Skills:

 

Microsoft Office

SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences)

Stata

 

Pakistan’s representation on international forum:

 

February 2, 2010-February 5, 2010

UN DevInfo inter-agency task force for Asia and Pacific                 Siem Reap, Cambodia

Using data in evidence based decision making and launch of DevInfo 6.0

Presentation on Using Labour Force data for Decision Making focusing on LMI database development in Pakistan.

 

Representation on national forum:

 

May4, 2010-May 5, 2010

ILO                                                 Islamabad, Pakistan

National Conference on from household to work place-Reshaping the lives of women through economic empowerment

Presentation on “Pakistan Employment Trends for Women”

 

Trainings by International Agencies:

 

March 5, 2007-March 14, 2007

International Labour Organization                                 Islamabad, Pakistan

Labour Market Information and analysis

 

Jan 19, 2009-Jan 23, 2009

UNFPA                                Islamabad, Pakistan

Gender Statistics

 

August 10, 2009- August 12, 2009

GTZ                                                                                       Islamabad, Pakistan

Gender Aware Project Formulation and Analysis

 

July5, 2010- July9, 2010

UN Inter-Agency DevInfo Support Group                       Islamabad, Pakistan                                 One week training Course on DevInfo 6.0           

 

Trainings by National Departments/Institutes:

 

11-12 December, 2007

Federal Bureau of Statistics Pakistan-Training Wing             Islamabad, Pakistan

Labour Market Information Indicators

 

 

 

Nov 22, 2007-Dec 18, 2007

Human Resource Development Network                Islamabad, Pakistan

Technical Writing Skills

 

June 18, 2008-July 26, 2008

Preston University                            Islamabad, Pakistan

Gender Mainstreaming in Planning and Development Division Pakistan approved PC-1 form-Capacity Building

 

Dec 15, 2008-Dec 18, 2008

Pakistan Institute of Development Economics            Islamabad, Pakistan

Gender Sensitive Project Planning Skills   

 

April 19 to April 24, 2010   

Pakistan Planning and Management Institute, Planning Commission Islamabad Pakistan

One week training on PC-1 and PC-2   

 

August 3 to August 6, 2010   

Pakistan Planning and Management Institute, Planning Commission Islamabad Pakistan

Four days training on “Project risk management”


Personal Publications:

 

March, 2010

PDR, PIDE                                    Pakistan

Skill, competitiveness and productivity

 

Selected for presentation, June, 2010

World Academy of Science and Technology                      Paris, France

Gender differential in education and its impact on economic growth

 

Thesis:

 

Informal employment in Pakistan-Empirical study

   

    Developed Conceptual frame work to measure informal employment from the labour force survey of Pakistan under the ILO guidelines on informal employment. Identified the determinants of informal employment in Pakistan through the multinomial logit model to come up with some policy suggestions to improve the labour market situation in Pakistan.

 

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