Niaz Murat
Niaz Murtaza is a Pakistan-based humanitarian and development professional with nearly 30 years of experience across over 50 countries in Asia, Africa and the Americas. For more than 15 years, he has led and undertaken independent evaluations, organisational assessments, third-party reviews and research assignments for UN agencies, international NGOs and donor-funded programmes.
His experience includes work with UNICEF, UNDP, IOM, ILO, Oxfam, Plan International, the Disasters Emergency Committee, CAFOD, FCDO and the European Union. Earlier in his career, he held a senior global role with ActionAid International, supporting humanitarian programming across more than 40 countries an country level roles with Oxfam and IRC in Sudan, Ethiopia and Sri Lanka.
Niaz’s areas of expertise include humanitarian response, organisational quality and accountability, governance, disaster risk reduction, climate resilience, livelihoods, inclusion and programme evaluation. He is particularly interested in how evidence can help organisations improve their systems and remain accountable to crisis-affected people.
He holds a PhD in Sustainable Development from the University of California, Berkeley, an MS in Non-Profit Administration from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MBA in Finance and Management from the University of Karachi.
English and Urdu
Objectivity, Accountability, Global
After many years of evaluating individual humanitarian programmes, I became interested in the organisational systems that determine whether quality and accountability are sustained across an organisation—not just achieved in one project. Auditing allows me to combine field experience with rigorous evidence to help organisations identify systemic strengths and weaknesses and improve how they serve poverty-affected people across all their country programmes globally.