Nadeem Akhtar

Nadeem Akhtar is one of the multidisciplinary research professionals having experience in socioeconomic and political fields. He started his work in 2004, analyzed Election Commission's data on the five episodes of National and Provincial Elections of Pakistan, and played a key role in the first ever nationally representative national survey of 2005 on Local Government Elections. Later he worked with Population Council where most of his work was focused on formative research and Monitoring and Evaluation. He learnt advance monitoring and social surveying methodologies, as on-job training, and contributed to multiple baselines and end line surveys. He worked in USAID funded projects, coordinated with multiple stakeholders, a consortium. During a period from 2004 and 2012, he learned key skills on Monitoring and Evaluation of projects, data analysis and management using SPSS and STATA, drafted research papers and completed his MS Development Thesis where his own collected data was treated with Factor Analysis to develop Wealth Index. He analyzed panel data on family planning and sorted out LHWs role in uptake of FP in Pakistan.
Later on, he developed and taken on a Private Social Enterprise, Research Analytics International, to fill the gap on community level data and policymaking process. The foremost priority for Pakistan is to invest on Youth Bulge that should be a dividend rather a social disorder. His current research interests focus on community based availability of data to ensure inclusiveness in the policies.
His future research objectives are multifaceted but focused on future generations of Pakistan that should never by left aside due to lack of evidence on their socioeconomic and political variables. He is team lead for two main research projects at RAIPL. He is developing to pilot a Community Based Monitoring System (CBMS) in Pakistan and working to generate first ever evidence on Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship.
He is regular contributor to opinion pages of the Pakistani Newspapers and does academic research. He is also providing training to research and M&E professionals from development sector in Pakistan and Afghanistan. His training expertise starts from basic data analysis to advance model development; report writing to peer reviewed research paper development.