| S# | Name | Brief profile |
| 1 | Mr. Fayyaz Baqir Chairperson |
Fayyaz Baqir is currently the Director of Akhter Hameed Khan Resource Centre. During the past two decades he has worked on documenting, mainstreaming and supporting participatory solutions for improvement of environment, sustainable development and local governance. Mr. Fayyaz has served as the Unit Chief of UNDP’s Small Grants Program and consultant for UNICEF and numerous other development agencies. He has taught at various universities in Pakistan and the United States. He has also led missions to more than 25 countries within and outside Asia Pacific regions during the past decade. |
| 2 | Mr. Arif Hasan Member |
Arif Hasan is a well known architect/planner, academic, researcher and development activist. He studied architecture at the Oxford Polytechnic and has been a consultant and advisor to many local as well as international NGOs, and bilateral and multilateral donor agencies. Since 1982, he has been involved with the Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) and is the founder Chairman of the Urban Resource Centre (URC), Karachi. Among many major achievements, Mr. Hasan has been awarded the Hilal-I-Imtiaz for public services, an award which is the Government of Pakistan’s highest civil award for a living person. |
| 3 | Mr. Edwin Samson Member |
Children are today not tomorrow, is the belief of Mr. Edwin Samson committed for every child. Presently he is the Chief Coordinator of Adult Basic Education Society (ABES), Rawalpindi. His contribution as an educationist is commendable. He is successful in establishing ABES- Teacher Empowerment Centre through that thousands, teachers are trained on Multi grade Teaching’ Joyful Learning and Child Friendly Schools and Quality Education approaches and modern techniques. |
| 4 | Ms. Almas Shakoor Member |
She has 13 years working experience with national and international NGOs. She has working experience on development related research activities/projects include, mobility and health, participatory community development planning through Citizen Community Boards (CCB), Impact of Globalization on home based small-scale paddy processors, assessment of gender issues in flood prone areas, to find out environmental, social and economical factors of “Rawalpindi Environmental, Enhancement project (REAP). She has wide experience to organize, conduct and evaluate trainings events. She is an expert trainer on: disaster management, PRA tools, labor laws, consumer protection, time management, social mobilization, organizational management, health and hygiene, gender and disaster. Additionally, she has expertise in development of training manuals and modules for undertaking capacity building interventions at national level. She has extensive experience and expertise in community development, education, health and hygiene, projects and programme coordination, implementation and management. She has also experience to launch and implement advocacy and social mobilization campaigns, having experience of translation from English to Urdu on development issues include: Gender Dimension in Disaster Management, training manual on Community Policing, Rural Transport and Traction Enterprises for Improved Livelihood’ and ‘Planning and Designing Rural Markets. |
| 5 | Mr. Hamid ullah Trustee |
Since last two decades he is involved in uplifting the communities of marginalized areas of Rawalpindi. He is a community based activist leading a team working for improving sanitation conditions in Rawalpindi. Mr. Hamidullah is also attached with a research based NGO namely Children’s Global Network, Pakistan, implementing child cantered methodologies and creating democratic classrooms in Pakistan. |