Shahida Shah, is a Human Rights/Women Empowerment Professional and a research scholar who conducted academic research on Psycho-Social repercussions of 9/11 on Pakistan, a case history of APS School, Peshawar for M.Phil Degree. She is an active member of the civil society of KP and also a development professional who works on human rights and women empowerment in KP/erstwhile FATA. She led the first community forums for tribal women of FATA from 2012-2018, where the tribal women shared their issues and approached the authorities for solutions, and participated in the movement against the century-old black law called Frontier Crime Regulation (FCR). As a result, their achievements contributed to FATA Reforms and the FATA merger in KP.
Miss Shah has worked for Minority Women Rights in KP/ex-FATA and has supervised the legislation advocacy process with Parliamentarians, Politicians, Media Civil Society successfully. At the request of minority women, Miss Shah has also initiated public celebrations of the Non-Muslim religious ceremonies like Christmas in Landi Kotal (FATA), Raksha Bandhan, Deewali, Holi, etc for interfaith harmony minority rights.
Program Associate: Supporting the Women’s Economic Resilience project as a focal person in KP, in flood affected districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa i.e. Swat, DI Khan and Charsadda.
Assignment: 'Change Management and Communications Associate' to perform assigned tasks and plan provided by EY Ford Rhodes (a member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited- EYGL) in connection to EY's assignment of e-Governance (Digitalisation of workflow documents system) for its client "Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Revenue Mobilization & Public Resource Management Program" (KPRMP), Finance Department KP Government.
Job Description and Major Role / Responsibilities include:
· Coordination for the Change Management tasks in engaging with the key stakeholders of all the KP government departments & ministries to manage change through e-Governance i.e. digitization of their day-to-day operations through implementing a documentation flow management system.
· Executing change management and communication strategies based on considerations of the client's environment, stakeholder needs, and the desired future state
· Performing change impact analysis and gathering stakeholder impacts from the client's transformation initiative
· Designing and delivering high-impact communications and stakeholder engagement campaigns
· Evaluating training needs and creating training tools and materials that create ownership of the solution
· Conducting business readiness assessments, evaluating results, and developing appropriate mitigation strategies for sustained change.
Management of the project for women empowerment and advocacy against FCR & Riwaj in KP/FATA.
1: Convener of the first forum for tribal women of FATA called "Takrah Qabailee Khwenday" (TQK) from Sep 2012-Jan 2017)- (Volunteer)
2: Managed TQK forum as an Implementing manager for "Khwendo Kor" organization from October 2016-Jan 2017.
coordinated in KP, for the national project of "Minority Rights" by South Asia Partnership, Pakistan
Managed a project of Domestic Violence (Legal Aid & Psychological counselling) for Youth Resource Center.
served Khwendo kor for organization's communication tasks including internal/external communication of organization, proposal writing. compiling and disperse of KK's monthly newsletter and website management,
Internee with Samar Minallah Khan for Ethnomedia's advocacy against "Forced Marriage" (Swara/Vanni/Sang Chatti)