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For details of Dr. Fouzia Saeed’s work in the field of
Gender and Development kindly see her CV, where her
long-term assignments as well as short term work is listed.
Only a few examples are given here to highlight some
outstanding initiatives she took.
In 1995, Dr. Saeed was asked by UNDP Pakistan to develop a
full-fledged Gender Program as one of three substantive
areas of its new country programs. At the time, UNDP New
York was the only unit of the organization with a formal
Gender Program. Dr. Fouzia Saeed, being the gender expert
for UNDP developed the conceptual framework for the Program
and later mobilized the most relevant people in the country
on specific themes to develop initiatives and concrete
development interventions.
Out of all the initiatives in the Gender Program the most
vibrant was the Women’s Mobility project. Women’s mobility,
meaning the ability to move freely between the private space
of their homes to the public space for shopping, employment
or entertainment, particularly when using public transport
is one of the biggest issues in Pakistan.
Dr. Fouzia Saeed and her gender team organized all stake
holders associated with the issue in the city of Lahore,
including the Punjab Provincial Government’s Transport
Division, the Traffic Police, private sector transport
owners, drivers and conductors of the buses and the women
workers, teachers and students from the community.
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