Malik Mustafa
Manager Programs/ Team Leader
Malik Mustafa is a development professional working with the CRSS as Manager Programs/ Team Leader. This position implies enormously important roles and responsibilities to promote a discourse embedded in the global democratic values and ideals critical to social peace and cohesion. This is mainly achieved through advocating for respect for fundamental human rights and differences, exhibiting tolerance for diversity, equal citizenry, adherence to rule of law and primacy of constitution, as a measure of strengthening social fabric of the society. Through the course of his work as a non-profit leader, he believes in the change he is working for and is steadfastly striving for a just society where all the inhabitants are acknowledged as equal citizens and have access to fundamental human rights enshrined in the constitution.
The endeavors aim to address the critical contemporary issues – such as rule of law, democracy, governance, peacebuilding, social cohesion, counter-radicalization and cross-border engagement – falling within the ambit of the Center’s thematic focus.
This role complements the said organizational objectives; utilizing his skills/ expertise on devising, implementing and monitoring results based programs and strategies; manifest in strategizing, spearheading and evaluating over 15 different ongoing and completed projects on global democratic values, social cohesion, youth development, counter-radicalization, rule of law, governance, multiculturalism and cross border engagements, as part of Center’s strategic partnership with several international donor partners. This includes supervision of the programs such as i) Heinrich Böll Stiftung’s State, Religion and Democracy and ii) Governance, Community & Religion, iii) DFATD’s Balochistan Youth Forum and iv) Balochistan Democracy Awareness Initiative v) USAID’s Moong Qabail vi) UNICEF’s My Story, Our Voice vii) IRI’s Constituency Hour viii) Deutsche Welle Akademie’s Access to Information 2015 and ix) 2017 Chapters, x) USAID’s police reforms project Ulasi Police, xi) CIPE’s Fostering Public-Private Dialogue for Economic Reforms, and M&E services for USIP’s Harnessing Future Leaders, British High Commission, Islamabad’s track 1.5/ 2 project Beyond Boundaries phase 1 & 2.
Presently, he is supervising Public Affairs Section, U.S. Embassy Islamabad’s project on CVE (Ulasi Taroon); Center for International Private Enterprise’s (CIPE) project on economic reforms; monitoring British High Commission, Islamabad’s track 1.5/ 2 project Beyond Boundaries on improving Af-Pak bilateral relations; and Embassy of Netherlands’ CVE project Pakistan Center of Excellence (PACE). He also speaks at PACE and various partner universities on the role of future leaders and social cohesion, and motivation and youth.
He is accountable for the overall management and delivery of the programs, ensuring and monitoring the progress, steering program teams to the objectives, reiterating the purposes of the interventions, taking initiatives, team building, meeting the priority deadlines, presentations to the stakeholders, direct reporting to international partners, development of projects’ strategic documents and tools and directions to the team members for the duration of the project.
He is also one of the few Appreciative Inquiry (A.I.) Experts in Pakistan having implemented UNICEF’S A.I. oriented project.