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The initiatives shared here are designed and implemented by Abid Jan in partnership with other key stakeholders. CommDev doesn’t provide any consulting services.

 
 
Abid Jan

Abid Jan

Abid Jan is a community development and community safety professional with 22 years + of experience working of a range of multi-million dollar projects from poverty alleviation to human resource development, natural resource management, GIS systems, organisational development, crime prevention and community economic development.

Abid Jan

… Abid Jan has extensive experience in Canadian and international development work. As an experienced nonprofit management executive, Abid has more than 22 years of experience in poverty alleviation, community economic development, project management, capacity building, and organisational development.

Abid Jan has 15 years of experience in executive leadership and senior management roles which involves working with local and international funding agencies. Abid has a successful record of leading organizational and community change initiatives and capacity building programs.

Abid’s work experience includes being CD consultant to the City of Ottawa, a former Executive Director of Integrated Regional Support Program in Pakistan, as an advisor with GTZ-German and as a consultant with UNDP, Unicef and World Bank. His extensive project management and non-profit capacity building experience enabled him to work with more than 200 organizations and various levels of government in Canada, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

Abid Jan is currently working with United Way East Ontario as Director Capacity Building since 2010. He has more than 20 years of experience with developing place-based approaches to community development, Collective Impact initiatives, and building cross-sector collaborative solutions to making Ottawa a safer and welcoming City for all. He has a wealth of experience and knowledge related to working with vulnerable people in Canada and around the world.

Abid is results-focused and has strong relationships within the Eastern Ontario social service partners and community groups. His history of developing well thought out, sustainable initiatives that encourage progress and improve conditions for the most marginalized was further enhanced by the release of the Neighbourhood Equity Index, and the launch of United For All, in 2019-2020. Abid created the vision and path forward for the 2 multi-partner initiatives while utilizing a shared leadership model.

United For All is a highly public initiative with strong community engagement that focuses on bringing the community together to respond to acts of hate and violence, while working over the long term to prevent hate and violence in all of its forms through prevention.

The Neighbourhood Equity Index maps data against common equity and vulnerability indicators to allow funders and planners to compare equity in neighbourhoods across the City and build on the previous community-building work of Community Development Framework that Abid Jan initiated with the City of Ottawa.

Both the NEI and United for All have become key resources in the community’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic response, and our response to growing Anti-Black Racism, and Anti-Indigenous Racism.

Throughout this work, Abid has shown excellent leadership, bringing grassroots and community volunteers and leaders, elected officials, and senior government officials to the table, facilitating discussions with strong results overall.

Abid’s leadership and contribution were recognized this year with Kindness Award by Kind Ottawa and was also recommended and accepted into United Way World Wide’s Leaders Engaged in Accelerated Development (LEAD) program.

Abid Jan has an MS in Environmental Management University of London and Masters in Applied Chemistry from the University of Peshawar. He has attended several training courses – recently completed a train the trainers course from Fiscal Institute Santa Fe in Result Based Accountability. Abid is AMPG Licenced project management specialist.

Over the years, he has regularly been a guest speaker at various national and international conferences, including presenting a paper at the Global Biodiversity Forum held in Sri-Lanka in 1999.  Abid’s work (community transforming  initiatives, books, training manuals) has been widely recognized.

Project Design & Management
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Conceptual Analysis
92
HRD & Capacity Building
85
Monitoring & Reporting
95
Program Design & Delivery
93
Research and Evaluation
85
Abid Ullah Jan
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+1 (613) 898-6915