Farzana Ali Shah

2022 IVLP Award Project: Local Level Disengagement and RehabilitationPakistan

Farzana Ali Shah, Pakistan, has worked for more than 14 years alongside many national and international organizations in the development sector. Ali Shah has acted as a trainer, project manager, monitoring and evaluation expert, researcher and consultant in WASH, education, CVE and PVE, health, enterprise development, child protection, gender mainstreaming, community-based disaster management and safe conflict management. She has successfully implemented programs involving youth, women, children, religious leaders and government institutions. 

IVLP Impact Award Project: Local Level Disengagement and Rehabilitation

This project trained teachers, community elders and political leaders to encourage youth to seek out social cohesion and acceptance in the community. The project strived to create a peaceful environment that promotes conflict management while also building the capacity for young people's groups to resolve community issues. In total, 350 young people, teachers, and community members were trained to be agents of change in the community, focusing on grassroots movements towards peaceful conflict management. Through this project, many of the trained teachers replicated the activities for peace promotion, harmony, respect for other religious and sub-religious persons, and impulse control amongst students in their own schools. Also, a large number of female university students participated in sessions, which has an attractive impact on the upcoming era.

 

IVLP Exchange Experience 

Farzana was a participant in the IVLP Project A Global Moment in Time: Peace and Justice, organized by the U.S. Department of State and the Institute of International Education.

U.S. Communities Visited Virtually

Los Angeles, CA; San Diego, CA; Washington, DC; Atlanta, GA; Louisville, KY; Boston, MA; Detroit, MI; Minneapolis, MN; New York City, NY; Tulsa, OK; Philadelphia, PA

Country: Pakistan

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