Who We Are?

mission

Our Mission

To partner with non-profit organizations to be an accountable, equitable, transparent, efficient, and effective movement for social and economic advancement.
vision

Our Vision

To envision thriving non-profit organizations’ delivering sustainable projects for disadvantaged communities.
value

Our values

Our Team

Dr. Sheraz Akhtar

Dr. Sheraz Akhtar

Dr. Sheraz Akhtar’s research focuses on refugee communities’ social, economic, and education development in emerging countries. His research seeks the ways in which NGOs, donor agencies, and marginalized communities can maintain transparency, efficiency, and effectiveness in humanitarian projects. He has been consulting, monitoring, and evaluating non-profit organizations’ projects in various locations and capacities. He is passionate about partnering and sharing his expertise with NGOs to deliver sustainable projects. He lectures at Indiana Wesleyan University (US) and Chiang Mai University (Thailand).

Maria is an academic and a researcher with experience of working in higher education and community welfare sector. In New Zealand she is involved with refugee communities especially with women to support the cause of women empowerment. She is also an oversight board member of Centre of Asia Pacific Refugee Studies. She has been involved as a researcher with philanthropic art sector in New Zealand working toward the goals of equity and social justice for understanding the kind of challenges, it is facing in surviving a highly competitive philanthropic landscape.

Dr. Temitope Adelekan

Dr. Temitope Adelekan is an ex-cofounder, ex-head of operations, and ex-business developer with contextual knowledge of businesses in Africa, the UK and New Zealand. He is a futuristic thinker, a strategist with a strong passion for improving life for all through building relationships, researching the connection between human and technology, solving problems, and creating solutions that can be applied across industries locally and globally. Temi currently works as a Programme Manager in the tertiary education space in New Zealand. Outside work, Temi administers quality assurance checks for individuals and businesses while also advising and implementing future-proofing strategies for start-up companies.

Jennifer Akhtar has more than 20 years of business management experience with established Fortune 500 companies such as OTIS Elevator Company and Marriott. She emphasizes on maintaining high customer service standards, building relationships, and increasing high sales volume. She deeply cares about promoting women’s rights and providing girls’ education, particularly in the rural areas in emerging countries. She is excited to share her wealth of knowledge and experience with NGOs and marginalized women to initiate small businesses for their socio-economic advancement.
Dr. Yagya Raj Pant works as a University Lecturer. He has wider work experience in teaching and research in higher education, community development, healthcare, child rights-based programming, community-based disability rehabilitation, and disaster risk reduction/management. Yagya was a research team member of Children and Youth participation and development effectiveness research project carried out in Nepal, Cambodia, Philippines, and Malawi funded by Australian Aid. He also has wider experience in project management including statutory donor reporting. Yagya has also contributed in national curriculum development, learning resource development, teacher training, evaluation and policy research areas in Nepal.
Dr. Uzma Pervaiz is a gynecologist and an expert on mother and child health care. She has previously worked as a District Tuberculosis (TB) Coordinator in Gujrat, Pakistan – a World Health Organization program – and as a Union Council Medical Officer at UNICEF’s polio eradication initiative. As a consultant, she has been training doctors, school health and nutrition supervisors, lady health visitors, and medical workers regarding public health management. She conducted numerous TB awareness meetings and breastfeeding initiative programs in collaboration with multiple NGOs. Her awareness movements, especially breastfeeding programs, personified into breastfeeding corners in all major medical facilities.
Dr Daniel Couch’s research explores the role of higher education within conflict-affected contexts, and higher education’s potential as an institution of peace within contexts affected by violent conflict. Additionally, Daniel’s research into PISA, and the assessment of Global Competence, is interested in the mechanisms which spread a particular educational agenda from country to country. As a former teacher and deputy principal in Aotearoa New Zealand schools, Daniel’s interest in education within emergency settings is grounded in his own experience as an educator. He has previously consulted for the World Bank, and Unicef.
Dr. Wendy Choo is a Professional Teaching Fellow at the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland. She holds a Master of Education (Curriculum and Teaching) and a Master of International Studies, both of which proved to be fundamental to her PhD work on citizenship in Myanmar. Her research seeks to understand young Myanmar citizens’ citizenship and investigates how Myanmar citizenship is produced. It takes a broad view of education and examines the educative process of citizens beyond formal schooling. She has been working with a Yangon-based NGO Teach for ASEAN since 2017 to develop training programmes for the youth volunteers and the English curriculum for T4A’s beneficiaries.
Dr. Imdad Ullah Khan is a university academic and researcher interested in social change, education and development, implementation of transformative education frameworks, and youth de-radicalization. His research explores socio-cultural aspects of English literacy in the multilingual context of Pakistan and its implications for social justice. As a consultant trainer for the British Council and USAID, Imdad has carried out interventions at school and college levels to build teachers’ and education administrators’ capacity for implementing transformative critical education models. His ongoing work with the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan and the Regional English Language Office (RELO) focuses on developing a plurilingual indigenous curriculum model and its implementation at the undergraduate level in all universities in Pakistan. His work as a consultant trainer in the NGO sector focuses on.
Over the last two decades, Matthias has worked on intercultural work environments in management, leadership, and advisory roles in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Myanmar. He is a development consultant and researcher with a distinct technical background that enables him to lead research projects on vulnerability, conflict analysis, livelihood/agriculture, basic education, and vocational training programs. His research focuses on developing capacity-building for local organizations, including the design of thematic research projects and conflict analysis. His current study explores the role of TVET in building capacities for peace among Myanmar’s youths (Ph.D. program). His work experience includes project evaluations, the design of livelihood, TVET, nutrition/health, and WASH projects, as well as capacity-building design and training. The building of local people’s capacities – including the capacity of local organizations – is his matter of the heart.
Regine works as a freelance international development consultant, and her research concentrates on intersectionality. She holds a master’s degree in Global Leadership (emphasis on Children at Risk) from Fuller University. Regine's research and consultancy service is grounded on her 20 years of intercultural work experience in gender equality, protection and inclusion, child protection, anti-human trafficking, and human development. Through her study and practice in the field, Regine developed her professional expertise in children and families at risk and in crisis, coupled with an emphasis on preventive health care practice. She has recently researched gender equality, inclusion, disability and supported NGOs in project development and policy design. Over the last two years, she designed and conducted project evaluations remotely for INGOs based on the international OECD-DAC standards.