"Establishing a comprehensive scalable program for the most marginalized girls (9-19) for access, transition and retention for post primary education, skills and livelihoods"
About Us
Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi
Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), or the “Centre of Education and Consciousness” Public Trust, was established in 2000. With humble beginnings in Lahore, ITA has expanded programs (capacity buileding, services, research, advocacy and policy influence) across the country with 23 offices and 131 staff. It is certified by the Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy (PCP) and has a tax-exempt status. It has been recently accorded special consultative status by the UN ECOSOC on April 27, 2017.
The mission of ITA is to advocate and demonstrate universal access to quality learning and standard setting in education as a comprehensive inclusive learning experience for human evolution. Since 2000, ITA has been engaged in the education sector through a rights-based partnership approach to improve quality and governance of education from school to state level, ensuring inclusive and gender mainstreaming approaches and evidence-based advocacy for policy influence (mainly within the public-sector space). It emerged both as a response to the deeply felt crises of learning and systems by its original sponsors, and also to the government’s demand to help improve failing public sector schools.
Our Team
Management
- Baela Raza Jamil, Chief Executive Officer
- Saba Saeed, Senior Program Manager
- Zain ul Abidin, Assistant Program Manager
- Fida Hussain, Manager Academics and Professional Development
- Faiza Malik, Manager TVET
- Joti Ghani, Manager Advocacy and Partnership
- Hasnain Zahoor, Manager Monitoring and Evaluation
MUZAFFARGARH
- Shaukat Hussain, District Program Manager
- Muhammad Waseem, Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
- Mazhar Hussain, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
- Meher Un Nissa, Health & LSBE Officer
- Misbah Hizulam, Social Mobilizer
- Rabia Perveen, Beautician Instructor
- Rehana Ramzan,Machine Embroidery Instructor
- Sadia Rubab, Domestic Tailoring Instructor
- Farhat Bibi, Computer Instructor
- Iram Ahmad, It Trainer & Facilitator
- Ayesha Munir, Academic Associate
BAHAWALPUR
- Zubeda Hassan, District Program Manager
- Muhammad Jamshaid, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
- Tayyab Sadiq, Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
- Hafiza Zainab Shah, Academic Associate
- Shagufta Bashir, Social Mobilizer
- Fatima Sajid Qureshi, Domestic Tailoring Instructor
- Saman Sanwal , Beautician Instructor
- Sana Fatima , IT Trainer & Facilitator
- Nadra Kanwal, Machine Embroidery Instructor
- Sidra Hanif, Health & LSBE Officer
RAHIM YAR KHAN
- Nadeem Wali Muhammad, District Project Manager
- Hafiza Ayesha Riaz, Assistant DPM
- Sahar Afshan, Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
- Naveed Aslam, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
- Amber Malik, IT Instructor
- Zeeshan Raza, IT Trainer & Facilitator
- Benish Fatima, Domestic Training Instructor
- Romana Yasmeen, Machine Embroidery Instructor
- Tayyaba Ashraf, Beautician Instructor
About The Program
"Advancing Action for Adolescent Girls" crafts interventions for accelerated learning, service delivery and capacity building of out of school and highly marginalized adolescent girls (aged 9-19), for overcoming social and economic barriers through the acquisition of basic education or literacy and numeracy skills, enabling them to transition to secondary school, gain certified skills for decent work and livelihoods with life skills.
Objectives
- Improving girls literacy, numeracy, skills through accelerated learning packages with technology-enabled blended-learning innovations to promote self-reliance
- Extending certified TVET skills along with enterprise development and financial literacy
- Empowering through life skills-based education to tackle harmful social and gender norms with concurrent engagement of parents/community members for support
- Mobilizing strategic partnerships with government and non-government institutions for scaling up and replicating systems-friendly solutions
