About us
Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s provincial and local administrations are the focus of the Sub-National Governance Program (SNG). One of its main goals is to help these governments to improve their planning and budgeting processes as well as their ability to raise income transparently. More than 140 million people, particularly the poor, are expected to benefit from the SNG’s technical support in both provinces.
What we do
SNG-II recognises that reforms must be sustainable, and is supporting behavioural change across four transformations:
- Creating a performance-driven culture across the civil service
- Enabling true fiscal decentralisation on evidence-based local needs
- Improving fiscal efficiency and revenue collection to fund those needs
- Ensuring transparency for citizen to hold government to account
At the output level, SNG-II is working across four workstreams and a cross cutting area to achieve its objectives:
- Planning and budgeting: technical assistance to strengthen planning and budgeting capacities and processes in provincial and local government, including citizen engagement.
- Institutional strengthening (with a focus on post-Covid recovery and climate change): helping provincial and local governments improve institutional capacities to plan and deliver post-Covid recovery; support to plan and finance management of climate change.
- Fiscal Space Management: helping governments generate and free up more resources that can be utilised for the delivery of services.
- Innovative approaches: piloting and scaling up innovative approaches to improving evidence-based policymaking, and planning, governance and action-oriented research.
- Accountability, inclusion & transparency: supporting provincial and local governments in mainstreaming accountability, transparency and inclusiveness in governance and Public Financial Management
OUR WORK
Planning and budgeting
Improve how provincial and local governments plan and budget, and follow through with budget execution in an efficient, effective and transparent manner
Institutional Strengthening
Strengthen institutional capacity for governance and public financial management, with a focus on post-Covid recovery and climate change
Fiscal Space
Strengthen revenue policy and revenue administration for additional resource generation through tax and non-tax measures
Innovation & Action Research
Improve governance and public financial management through research and innovation pilots
X-cutting: Accountability, Inclusion & Transparency
Support the mainstreaming of inclusion, accountability, and transparency in government planning and budgeting processes
Team
Mujib Sadozai is a Principal Consultant at Oxford Policy Management with extensive experience in governance and public sector management reforms, through policy design and policy implementation at the national, provincial, and local levels. His focus has been on institutional development in areas such as development planning, devolution, and local service delivery.
Usman Ahmed Chaudhry is an experienced and committed professional with over 23 years of diverse experience in the public and development sector. During his professional career in civil service of Pakistan, he has worked at key leadership positions at all tiers of the government that include federal, provincial, and local levels. His areas of expertise include public financial management, development planning and institutional development.
Dr. Raheal Ahmad Siddiqui serves as the Provincial Manager for the SNG Programme in KP. He has over 30 years of diverse experience in public management and governance reform across sectors including education, subnational revenues, water and energy, and planning and development. Dr. Siddiqui specializes in implementing institutional reforms and enhancing governance effectiveness, leading to improved service delivery at the national, provincial, and local levels.
Dr Sophie Russo is a political scientist, specialized in the study of urban governance in Pakistan. Her work experience includes teaching political science in Paris for over six years and conducting extensive fieldwork in the Old City markets of Karachi, resulting in several research publications. She holds a PhD and MA in comparative politics from Sciences Po, and a BA in international relations from NYU.
Marvi Mahesar is a public health professional and researcher with over six years of experience in programmatic management, strategic development, and execution. She has a master’s degree in tropical medicine and international health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Marvi has a focused interest in public policy and implementation science, particularly in resource-limited settings.
Inayat Ullah has over 13 years of experience within the development sectors of Pakistan, Egypt and UK. He holds a master’s degree in development economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK and a post-graduate diploma in peace and conflict studies from University of Peshawar, Pakistan. Key areas of his experience include governance, law, institutional reforms, public financial management, social protection, microfinance, and culture and youth development.
Bushra Siddiqui has over 13 years of experience in project design, strategic planning, and evaluations. She has contributed her expertise to projects funded by the EU, World Bank, and GIZ in key areas, including governance, institutional reforms, public financial management, and gender mainstreaming. She also serves as an M&E expert on KP SPEED (Spending Effectively for Enhanced Development) and Independent Feedback, Operational Review, and Monitoring.
where we work
Punjab
KP
