Haroon Rafique

hrafique@gmail.com

Education

Experience Detail

Advisor on public policy, Support to Good Governance Project (UNDP)          Dec 05-

 Advice in reviewing and creating inventory of provincial departments; analysis of rules, functions, procedures and capacities of the structures of the government; design regulatory system for the new provincial-local government relationship; advise in drafting amendments in the laws and rules.

 Finance Division/ADB

Deputy Director

Director, Decentralization Support Programme                        Jan 2005- Dec 2005

Provide policy support under TA loan resources (local government performance enhancement and gender and governance mainstreaming). Implementation of work Plans (project management); preparation of consolidated budget; contract management and overall coordination.

 Deputy Secretary Finance, Governor’s Secretariat, Peshawar            February 2004- February 2005

Providing staff support to Secretary to Governor/Governor NWFP on all financial matters related to Tribal Areas; financial management- budgeting and expenditure of development and non development funds. Financial management of 72 nation building departments 7 Political Agencies and 6 FR regions; institutional restructuring – managing fiscal devolution in FATA and producing reports and background materials; presentations to the Governor NWFP; institutional support for the newly created Governor’s Secretariat.

Voluntary /Community Work, Melbourne                              June 2002- December 2003

Pparticipation in the field research project on Social Impact Assessment of forthcoming Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.

Completed a project evaluation exercise using the technique of participant observation.

Tehsil Municipal Officer/Administrator, Nowshera, NWFP                2001- 2002

Managing and administering five Municipal Committees in the district. The job entailed budget preparation, municipal services provision, local tax collection, building control, coordinating multi-sectoral local and donor funded projects; HRM of around 800 personnel. The job responsibilities also included managing the affairs of the district assembly and providing institutional support to the devolved municipal service delivery project.

 Assistant Commissioner/ Municipal Administrator                                       2000- 2001

Deputy Commissioner (June- August 2001)

The job responsibilities included maintenance of law and order, magisterial work, identification, monitoring and financial management of development activities, revenue administration, and municipal administration, coordination with district departments, protocol duties, public complaint redressal and conflict resolution.  Assist the provincial government in the transition to devolved local government system.

6. Assistant Commissioner Dassu, Kohistan                                                    2000

The job responsibilities included maintenance of law and order, magisterial work in revenue and forest administration, identification, monitoring and financial management of development activities, revenue administration, and coordination with district departments and conflict resolution. Contribution by articulating an integrated development programme of Kohistan that was approved for implementation.                                                          

Section Officer (NGOs), Economic Affairs Division, Islamabad                     1997

The job responsibilities included providing staff support to prepare a data base of NGOs applying for foreign funding, preparation of working papers for the meetings, following up on the decisions taken, liaison with donors, participation in proceedings leading to the holding of Local Dialogue Group seminar on decentralization.

 Section Officer (ADB), EAD, Islamabad                                                         1997- 1998

Rendering policy and office support. Preparation of policy documents, Maintain multi level dialogue and coordination with the governmental, non governmental and international development agencies for multi sectoral projects in health, education, irrigation, governance, environment and energy sectors. I also monitoring the contracts made with the ADB as per contractual obligations of the government and the ADB. Coordination of the programming of ADB’s assistance and country project review meetings, processed and managed ADB board documents including payment of subscription/contribution to ADF.  Processing of nominations of delegations of delegations from the GoP for ADB funded meetings and conferences abroad; submitting periodical reports on Prime Minister’s and President’s orders.

 Section Officer (External Finance), Finance Division, Islamabad                   1996-1997

The job responsibilities included assisting in articulating policies on foreign exchange reserves and their utilization; coordination with the State Bank of Pakistan regarding foreign exchange regulations; processing of cases of the government functionaries for allocable quota of foreign exchange.

Countries Visited/ Lived

Saudi Arabia, UAE (Dubai), Nepal, Malaysia, Australia.

Excellent command over, reading, writing and speaking English, Urdu, Punjabi, Saraiki, basic understanding in speaking and understanding Pushto, elementary level of French.

 Extracurricular Activities

 Writing, Watching movies and plays, watching Lawn Tennis and Cricket Matches, Reading

• Always figured among top 1% of students from 1^st grade to the university level
• First position in Peshawar University (Medal/shield winner) in PGD in int. HR Law.
• Exceptional grade in the research thesis at the Melbourne University.

• Second best prize by Governor State Bank in Banking Diploma Examination
• Qualified major national competitive exams of Pakistan
• Elected Member of the council of the University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association 2003
• Merit scholarships winner throughout the academic career.

Ausaid Scholar for a post graduate study 2002-2003

Policy fellow of centre for policy studies, Central European University, and open society institute, Budapest, Hungary, 2006-2007

Fulbright scholar, 2005 

Fellow at the Utah University on gender, macroeconomics and international economics fellowship, Salt lake City, USA, 2006.

Professional Trainings

·  Melbourne University, Professional Development Skills Training, Melbourne March- May 2003.

• Melbourne University, IT skills training, August – November 2003.
• Melbourne University, SPSS training, October 2002.
• NIPA, Environmental Preservation training, Lahore, 2000, Environmental policies
• National Rural Support Program- attachment, Micro Credit Schemes, AJK, 1999.

• Asian Development Bank, Project Analysis in Nepal, December, 1996.
• Pakistan Computer bureau, Islamabad, training in Microsoft Office, June 1998.
• Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Macro Economic Management Training in macro economic policy, planning and management, Islamabad, August 1998,
• Secretariat Training Institute, Specialised Secretarial Training, , in Secretarial Management, Financial Rules, Secretariat Instructions, Office and Linguistic Skills, Personnel Administration, Office Management, Policy and Legal Framework of state systems, Islamabad, May-August, 1996.
• Civil Services Academy, Common Training, Lahore, November 1995- June 1996.
• National Bank Staff College, Financial management and Banking Training, March 1994-October 1994.
• Wapda Academy, Technical and Management Training in project planning and implementation, Tarbela and Faisalabad May 1993-94                                                                 

• Project design for the third party gender evaluation of girl’s education under the education reform program of World Bank 2006
• Report and policy recommendations on provincial restructuring, UNDP-NRB, 2006
• Report on the principles of provincial restructuring in post devolution context, 2006
• Report on regulating the district governments through Local Commissions, 2006.

• Policy critique on policy papers to be published under the aegis of Decentralization Support Program 2005

    (i)  Public service management under the devolution plan;

    (ii)    Local level law and order under the devolution plan.

• Compiled hand book of Rules of Business for F&P departments in FATA, 2005
• Third Party Validation under PESRP education reforms of Punjab Government, 2004
• Policy Project of designing recruitment policy for the Governor’s Secretariat.
• Policy project of restructuring Finance department and data base development
• Procurements of equipment for Mobile Hospitals in FATA, 2004
• Assisting in implementation of devolution plan, 2002.
• Management and coordination of Local Government Elections, 2001.
• Disaster management Projects, 2001- 02
• Assisting in coordination and management, WB CIP Projects, 2001.

 
Haroon, R., 2005, “A hand book on background information and Rules of Business of Finance and Planning Departments in FATA”, Governor’s Secretariat, Peshawar.

Haroon, R., 2004, “Ethnic rights, state and the process of nation building in Pakistan”, paper submitted to the law college of Peshawar University. 

Haroon, R., 2004, “Proposed fiscal and administrative decentralization in FATA”, Presentation to the Governor NWFP.

Haroon, R., 2004, “It is Ideal but can community control police in Pakistan?”, Melbourne University Private Working Paper Series,  [Available at-

http://www.muprivate.edu.au/fileadmin/SID/Working_papers/Working_Paper_20.pdf]. 

Haroon, R. 2003, “Decentralization to the grass root level in Pakistan- Myth or reality”, Seminar Presentation at the Melbourne University Development Studies Department.

 Haroon, R., 2000, “Development Initiative: Tourism-Environment-Poverty initiative in Kohistan”, Dassu, District Kohistan May 2000,

 Haroon, R., 2000, “Policy Response to the proposed police reforms in Pakistan”, Dassu, District Kohistan, NWFP.

 Haroon, R., 2000, “The opportunity of cost of the implementation of devolution plan- HRM perspective”, Dassu, Kohistan.

 Haroon, R., 1999, “Policy Response to the proposed Devolution plan in Pakistan”.

 Haroon, R., and Nadeem, 1999, A .,Book Review.

 Haroon, R., 1996Ombudsman: a concept of administrative justice in Pakistan.

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