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Aga: So, Sehat Kahani essentially means story of health in Urdu, and it’s a general medicine platform – a general medicine-based organization – that me and my co-founder, Dr. Can you explain to our audience what it is that your organization does?ĭr. I’d like to start with an overview question about Sehat Kahani. Thank you so much for having me on board. Iffat Zafar Aga, again, founder and COO of Sehat Kahani. So, without further ado, I’m pleased to turn our first panelist who’s joining us online, again, from Karachi. Following my discussion with the panelists, I am going to be happy to open the floor to questions from all of you and we will – if you have a question please raise your hand and we’ll come to you with a microphone. I think it’s definitely the case that we could fill the entire hour with a conversation with one of these panelists, so I know that we will have a very rich and important conversation to follow. I’s spoken with each of them before this – in advance of this panel. And also Mellisa Horn Albuja, acting division chief of Protection and Community Capacities in USAIDs Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, also you are joining us on stage. Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, MBE, who is founder and CEO of the International Civil Society Action Network, or ICAN, joining us on stage. Iffat will be joining us from Karachi, very pleased to welcome her to our panel. Iffar Zafar Aga, founder and COO of Sehat Kahani. To discuss these topics we have assembled a world class panel including Dr. We’ll discuss these topics keeping in mind today’s theme of innovation in people, processes, and products. Today’s discussion will focus on ways women in crisis affected contexts can lead on designing and implementing services, and ways the humanitarian system can shift decision making power, funding, and influence to local women actors. I’m Caitlin Welsh, director of the CSIS Global Food Security Program and I’m very pleased to support the CSIS Humanitarian Agenda and my colleague and friend Jacob Kurtzer in today’s event. This panel will focus on elevating women’s leadership in humanitarian response. Good morning and welcome to this second panel of today’s Humanitarian Innovation in Action Conference. Panel 2: Elevating Women’s Leadership in Humanitarian ResponseĬaitlin Welsh: Hello.