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I am a communications professional with 20+ years of experience leading and supporting teams in Pakistan’s development sector. My work spans strategic communication planning, organizational knowledge management, media relations, social mobilization, and translation across local and international NGOs and programmes. I have designed policies, built capacity, and driven large-scale outreach campaigns, combining storytelling with evidence-based messaging to advance development outcomes. Over the years I have produced and edited multimedia content, led editorial initiatives, and mentored journalists and communicators. I am passionate about using ICTs and Indigenous insights to strengthen civil society, and I continue to develop programs that empower women, youth, and communities through narrative, training, and strategic engagement.…I am a communications professional with 20+ years of experience leading and supporting teams in Pakistan’s development sector. My work spans strategic communication planning, organizational knowledge management, media relations, social mobilization, and translation across local and international NGOs and programmes. I have designed policies, built capacity, and driven large-scale outreach campaigns, combining storytelling with evidence-based messaging to advance development outcomes. Over the years I have produced and edited multimedia content, led editorial initiatives, and mentored journalists and communicators. I am passionate about using ICTs and Indigenous insights to strengthen civil society, and I continue to develop programs that empower women, youth, and communities through narrative, training, and strategic engagement.

Aftab Iqbal

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I am a communications professional with 20+ years of experience leading and supporting teams in Pakistan’s development sector. My work spans strategic communication planning, organizational knowledge management, media relations, social mobilization, and translation across local and international NGOs and programmes. I have designed policies, built capacity, and driven large-scale outreach campaigns, combining storytelling with evidence-based messaging to advance development outcomes. Over the years I have produced and edited multimedia content, led editorial initiatives, and mentored journalists and communicators. I am passionate about using ICTs and Indigenous insights to strengthen civil society, and I continue to develop programs that empower women, youth, and communities through narrative, training, and strategic engagement.…I am a communications professional with 20+ years of experience leading and supporting teams in Pakistan’s development sector. My work spans strategic communication planning, organizational knowledge management, media relations, social mobilization, and translation across local and international NGOs and programmes. I have designed policies, built capacity, and driven large-scale outreach campaigns, combining storytelling with evidence-based messaging to advance development outcomes. Over the years I have produced and edited multimedia content, led editorial initiatives, and mentored journalists and communicators. I am passionate about using ICTs and Indigenous insights to strengthen civil society, and I continue to develop programs that empower women, youth, and communities through narrative, training, and strategic engagement.

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I am a communications professional with 20+ years of experience leading and supporting teams in Pakistan’s development sector. My work spans strategic communication planning, organizational knowledge management, media relations, social mobilization, and translation across local and international NGOs and programmes. I have designed policies, built capacity, and driven large-scale outreach campaigns, combining storytelling with evidence-based messaging to advance development outcomes.

Over the years I have produced and edited multimedia content, led editorial initiatives, and mentored journalists and communicators. I am passionate about using ICTs and Indigenous insights to strengthen civil society, and I continue to develop programs that empower women, youth, and communities through narrative, training, and strategic engagement.

Skills

Experience Level

Copywriting

Expert

Language

English

Fluent

Urdu

Fluent

Work Experience

Translator / Editor at UNESCO-Pakistan; Volvo Foundation (Sweden); USAID/Engro Foundation; KIIR; SPO

January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020

Translated and edited training materials; translated a Swedish story book into Urdu for education curricula (2020); translated/edited multiple modules including an entrepreneurship training manual (250+ pages) for USAID/Engro Foundation; contributed to KIIR project materials and narrative work.

Translator/Editor at USAID/Engro Foundation

January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019

Translated and edited a 250+ pages training manual on Entrepreneurship, later taught to more than 200 women entrepreneurs by IBA in Sindh; acknowledged as pivotal to project success.

Project Lead at Kashmir Institute of International Relations (KIIR)

September 1, 2019 - Present

Since September 2019, spearheading a project to develop a critical mass of young women leaders in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) capable of identifying and raising voices against socio-economic marginalization and gender-based violence through storytelling; approximately 250 young women leaders trained in story writing and narrative building techniques.