Safdar Kazmi is an experienced education and management consultant with over 30 years of experience working with national and international organizations. He has served over 15 years in the development sector, managing projects related to education, health, and management. Safdar is skilled in areas such as curriculum design, teacher training, education management, and monitoring and evaluation. He strives to improve access to quality education and literacy programs through his work. Safdar possesses strong project management, communication, and leadership skills. He has worked on projects funded by organizations like USAID, the European Union, and the World Bank.

1. Safdar Kazmi -Education and Management Consultant
With over 30 years of experience of various professional arenas including national and
international organizations; Safdar Kazmi is a seasoned professional with specific interests in
the fields of education, health, and management. Having served more than 15 years in the
development sector and projects at most responsible positions, he is conversant with filed
project policies and framework development, implementation, design and conduct survey,
and monitoring & evaluation on different variety of projects.
Safdar is qualified and skilled professional who is passionate about creating the difference in
the society through education and capacity building. Having keen interest in education
management with his dynamic experience in curriculum design, Teaching and Learning
Material Development, training material (manuals/sample lesson plans etc), facilitated
teachers and teacher trainers in lesson planning, school development, and teacher
education, liaising with education department and institutions (both provincial & district),
evaluating teacher and students performance and preparing budgets for educational
programs, building excellent working relationships with international and national partners
and with education department, managed curriculum development team. He strives to a
lifetime career focus on providing sustainable, social development through improving
access, quality of literacy, and education programs.
Safdar possesses excellent Decision making, Project management, Time management,
Professionalism, Computer literacy, Communication, facilitating and presenting, People
management, Reflective, innovative and analytical, Being flexible and understanding,
Managing budgets and finances, Leadership and development skills. Besides all she
possesses excellent interpersonal and human relations skills which help her to communicate
and negotiate effectively with her audience whether at a training workshop or during other
assignments. This proves her diversity and adaptability while working as a teacher trainer,
researcher, or facilitating a session on various life skills.
With successful completion of courses from Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Washington USA and being member and affiliations of professional bodies like International
Readers Association (IRA) USA, American Institute of Research (AIR) USA; he has worked in
various capacities on projects by USAID, European Union, UNDP, World Food Program
(WFP), Baahan Beli and The World Bank. Recently conducted baseline study EGRA/EGMA for
Chemonics International and IRC International - USAID funded Pakistan Reading Program
(PRP) and Sind Reading Program (SRP), the biggest ever funding on educational program in
Pakistan.
Projects
 Education Sector Reforms Assistance (ESRA) - USAID
 Strengthening Civil Society to Promote Workers Right (Working Women & Child
Rights) - EU
 ED-LINKS - USAID
 Reproductive Health Education for Adolescence – WPF
 BBSYDP – (Management & Teacher Education Batches) – Ensign
 Sindh Reading Program (SRP) – USAID – Chemonics – VTT Global

2. EXPERTISE:
 Design and conduct training programs for professional development of primary
school teachers and head teachers.
 Design and conduct training program and capacity building for workers, community
members and member of NGO’s and CBO’s to defend workers rights specially
focused on bangle industry workers, garment industry workers etc (working women
and child rights) and strengthening civil society. (EU/ISCOS-CISL Italy)
 Designed and conduct training program “Office Management and Secretary” under
Youth Development Program (BBSYDP - Government of Sindh)
 Also conduct trainings, workshop for capacity building on Public Private Partnership.
 Presently conducting training for primary School Teachers “Teachers Education and
Educational Technology. (BBSYDP - Government of Sindh)
 Have experience of curriculum enhancement, revision and implementing teacher
education programs funded by USAID in Sindh, Balochistan & Islamabad Capital
Territory.
 Providing support to the Federal, Provincial & District education officials during
different educational/health projects/programs.
 Experience to provide (primary) education/health policy and development, reform
and management including financing, budgeting, planning and programming,
administration and management systems; institutional capacity assessment and
building; school management and curriculum and materials development.
 Planning & implementing follow up activities, pre and post tests, baseline
studies/surveys, gap analysis and needs assessment. Supporting schools and training
teams to enhance Community Participation in literacy and elementary education
programs, Organizing Conferences, Excel Camps and Professional Development
Forums.
 Providing support to establish a quality standard Library and Science Laboratories to
full fill the students needs and as per curriculum requirement to meet the 21st
Century educational standards.
 Curriculum development, school development (Planning & Budgeting) and
development of low cost no cost teaching materials.