Bashir Ahmed Tahir as Educationist, Researcher and Training/Capacity Development Expert, have more than 35 years of combined professional experience in education, teaching, training, research and management and administration of media and social development projects with a focus on education, human rights, conflict reporting, counter-extremism and counter terrorism and peace building, in conflict zones of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and United Kingdom. Besides that he has worked in Central Asian States, and USA.
He has implemented a number of national, regional and international projects with a focus on status of male and female children and youth in Pakistan, CRC and child rights, child labor, non-formal education for working children, and mother-child health care, etc.
He has extensive experience of fieldwork in the hard areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is well versed about the participatory planning and human and social development approaches and implementation process for the capacity building and empowerment of the communities and organizations.
He has been affiliated with various universities and professional training institutions for graduate and post-graduate teaching and in-service training and has developed a number of post-graduate and graduate level courses for the Mass Communications, Population Studies, and Environmental Sciences programs.
He has worked on and coordinated a number of donor funded projects as Country Representative, Program Manager, Coordinator and Consultant / Researcher, with a focus on Human Rights, Literacy and Basic Education, Gender and women development and Child Labor issues, besides media research, training and development.
Working with the Institute of Mass Education, Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), Islamabad, Pakistan; he has contributed in production of literacy and mass education training and teaching materials. He has also supervised M.Sc. level research and Thesis work at the Department of Pakistan studies, AIOU, Islamabad. Under his supervision 8 students of M.Sc., Pakistan Studies have completed their theses.
He has also travelled around the Globe. He was selected by the United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C., to participate in the International Visitors Program (IVP), in 1985, sponsored by the USIA and administered by the Institute of International Education, Washington, D.C. The Project was on American Studies and its duration was one month. This visit provided him an opportunity for a comprehensive tour of USA and to travel around the globe. A number of major educational and research institutions, including State Universities, colleges and research organizations and social/cultural events/sites were visited during the stay in the USA.
He is a good listener, communicator, and cooperative and active team member; a competent and skilled writer and has produced a large number of books, training manuals and reports. He has an appropriate competency in the computer and IT skills and can work independently. He is able to manage day-to-day office jobs and can produce documents, reports and other materials.
His principal research and training interests relate to development policy and planning, democracy and governance, human rights, education and gender justice, role of media for peace education and conflict management, counter terrorism, institutional capacity building, social and human development, impact of globalization and human rights movements and UN initiatives on the improvement of status of women and children and implementation of gender justice and women and child rights in the developing countries.