Profile
Arshad Mahmood is the director of
research, monitoring, and evaluation in the Population Council's office
in Islamabad. His responsibilities include evaluation, operations research,
knowledge management, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacity building of the
district staff in the USAID-sponsored Pakistan Initiative for Mothers and Newborns (PAIMAN). Mahmood has professional experience in designing specialized
monitoring systems to track quality, measuring the effect of quality
improvements in reproductive health services, and designing and
evaluating social and economic development programs. He has designed and
conducted several household baseline surveys such as that used for the PAIMAN
project in
ten
districts of Pakistan during 2005–06. More recently, after the
devastating earthquake in Pakistan, Mahmood conducted the
Earthquake Vulnerability Assessment for populations living in planned and
spontaneous tented camps in earthquake areas. This assessment is being
used as the basis for the preparation of the Government of Pakistan’s
rehabilitation plan for the vulnerable people.
Mahmood has designed comprehensive M&E
systems for different
organizations. In addition to creating the M&E plan for PAIMAN, he has designed M&E systems for
Pakistan's National Commission
for Human Development. Mahmood has more than 20 years of
public and private working experience in different aspects of
the
population, health, and education sectors. He also has served as an
author and discussant in several conferences and publications on
population and health issues in Pakistan and South Asia.
