Allahdino M H Kango

Allahdino.M.H.Kango

20, St. 95, I-8/4 Islamabad 44000 Pakistan

Phone numbers (home: 09251 4444058, work, cell: +923435090629, other)

Email contact information: sainkango@hotmail.com

KEY QUALIFICATIONS: Governance as part of the government system (Local Government Institutions and Rural Communities), Economic development (Project preparation, management, monitoring and evaluation, Vocational Training, Livelihoods) On-farm Water Management (WUAs), Community Organization (CBOs for infrastructure development like RWSS, link roads, etc). Field experience of working with fast-paced USAID, WB, ADB-funded activities demonstrating ability to manage and motivate multicultural ethnic communities.

EDUCATION:

M.Sc (Defence and Strategic Studies) 1987 NDC Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad

B.E (Mechanical and Electrical Engineering) 1956 Karachi University, Karachi (Pakistan)

Post-graduate Diploma (Ag. M/c & Soil Conservation) 1964 CENTO Training Centre, Karaj, Iran

Pakistan Staff College Training in governance

Pakistan Institute of Management - Financial Discipline

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1991-todate Consultant and NGO Facilitator

Worked for World Bank CISP project preparation, Consultant for management services (AJK Government) NGO facilitator for vocational training, health and hygiene, sustainable livelihoods and economic development.

1988-1991 Member, Prime Minister’s Inspection Commission

Evaluation of Public Institutions and recommendation on ways and means to improve the institutional efficacy of establishments Management studies and recommendations of improvements

1987-1988: Joint Secretary (Operations), Ministry of Production

Training of personnel, Operation of Apprenticeship Scheme for Human Resource development, Automation and energy saving devices in steel, fertilizer and cement plants

Nominated Director, Board of Directors of 12 Public Sector Industries.

1986: Director (Banking Supervision & Inspection) Federal Bank for co-operatives, Islamabad.

Supervision and inspection of provincial banks and co-operative societies throughout Pakistan Budgeting for the funding operations Scrutiny of financial discipline

1986: Chairman, Sindh Road Transport Corporation

Operation a fleet of government owned passenger buses in the province of Sindh. Human resource development in transport sector, management of repair and maintenance workshops etc

1985-1986: Joint Secretary, Ministry of Science and Technology

Planning and development of scientific and technological projects relating to use of renewable sources of energy, electronics etc.,

1983-1985 Director General Water Management – Ministry of Food, Agriculture & Cooperatives

Ø Coordination of nation-wide on-farm water management projects, aided by US-AID, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and International Fund for Agriculture.

Ø Negotiations of aid/assistance and loans with these agencies.

Ø Preparation of training materials, operational manual instructions sheets and information leaflets.

Ø Preparation of feasibility studies and project reports etc.

Ø Monitoring and evaluation of projects.

Ø Human resource development in skills, technology and contractual services.

Ø Organization of workshops/seminar/symposia and field demonstrations.

Ø Secretary, High Powered Water Distribution Committee before Water Accord.

1978-1983 Director (Water Management), Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Cooperatives

As first Director (Water Management) initiated the USAID assisted on-farm water management project and expanded it to over

¨ Standards and specifications

¨ Water Users Associations,

¨ Local fabrication of equipment

¨ Private contractors

¨ Demonstration farms

¨ Farm plans and budgeting

¨ Water scheduling

¨ Drip/trickle/tank irrigation

¨ Conjunctive use of tubewells with canals

1977: Chief Planning Officer, Rice Milling Corporation of Pakistan

Improvement of rice mills and modernization of the equipment for improving the quality of milled rice

1976: Deputy Secretary (Rural Development)/Director, Social welfare, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Social Welfare

Rural development programmes, People’s Works Programme, social welfare rural roads, water supply, sanitation and improved housing facilities, Women’s development (Organized Women’s Week)

1975: Deputy Secretary (Co-ordination), Ministry of Labour and Manpower

Coordination, labour laws, essential services and workers participation fund. Industrial relations

1973-74: Project Director, Precision Land Leveling Project, Sindh.

Operation of USAID assisted PLLP in Sindh

¨ Developed standards and specifications

¨ Organized training courses for trainers, field workers and farmers

¨ Developed local fabrication of PLLP equipment

¨ Introduced cost sharing system with farmers for PLLP, and

¨ Published information leaflets on agronomic and irrigation aspects of PLL.

1967-1973 Professor and Head

Department of Agricultural Engineering and Farm Mechanization, Sindh Agriculture College, Tandojam,

¨ Teaching and guidance of research work at graduate and post graduate level in irrigation and agricultural machinery, optimu8m use of tractor power, tractor and agricultural machinery surveys.

¨ Assisted on Panels for “Spare Parts” and “Rain-fed-Agriculture” of the Farm Mechanization Committee.

¨ Acted as expert for evaluation of candidates for appointments to the posts of Professors, Associate Professors and Assistant Professors, Universities of Agriculture, Tandojam/Faisalabad and Peshawar.

1958-67 Agricultural Engineer/Superintendent Workshops/Store Officer/Assistant Agricultural Engineer, Government of West Pakistan.

¨ Field operations, repair and maintenance of tractors and heavy bulldozers.

¨ Installation of wells and tubewells for water supply and irrigation purposes.

¨ Hydrological surveys

¨ Training of tractor and tubewells operators’

¨ Maintenance of stores.

¨ Research in tropical agriculture and equipment suitable for the same.

LANGUAGES:

Sindhi Good (Mother Tongue)

Urdu Good

English Good

Persian Fair

Pashto Fair

GEOGRAPHIC EXPERIENCE: Pakistan, Iran and Turkey

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

¨ Registered Engineer, Pakistan Engineering Council.

¨ Member, Institution of Engineers, Pakistan

¨ Member, American Society of Agricultural Engineers

¨ Member, Pakistan Society of Agricultural Engineers, Pakistan

¨ Member, Pakistan Society of Scientists and Scientific Professions.

¨ Member, Asia Pacific Mountain Network, ICIMOD, Nepal

HONORS/AWARDS:

¨ UN Volunteer

¨ Ministry of Environment Volunteer

¨ Ministry of Population Welfare Volunteer

PUBLICATIONS:

i) Plan of Action – Sanitation in AJK

ii) Report: Survey of Disabled Children in AJK

iii) District Administration – Comparative Group Study

iv) Report: Failing Community Participation – A case Study

v) Report: Destiny Destruction – Havoc played by Shah Sultan Storm Drain in Muzaffarabad

vi) Precision Land Leveling – Jointly with USAID – Pakistan

vii) Water Users Associations in Pakistan – A model legal framework.

viii) Irrigation Water Charges.

ix) On Farm Water Management in Pakistan.

x) History of Irrigation in Pakistan

xi) Water Resources of Pakistan

xii) Monitoring of Water Supply Schemes

xiii) OFWM Manual, Five Volumes.

xiv) Tractor use in Pakistan