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Perween Rahman
2011 interview screenshot
Born1957
Died13 March 2013
Cause of deathMurder
NationalityPakistani
OrganizationOrangi Pilot Project
Known forDirector of the Orangi Pilot Project

Perween Rahman (1957 – 13 March 2013) was a Pakistani social activist, director of the Orangi Pilot Project Research and Training Institute. She was murdered on 13 March 2013.[1]

Biography

Perween Rahman was born in 1957 in Dhaka, then situated in East Pakistan. She moved to Pakistan as a teenager. She obtained a Bachelor of architecture in 1982 at the Dawood College of Engineering and Technology[2], and a postgraduate diploma in housing, building and urban planning in 1986 from the Institute of Housing Studies in Rotterdam. She worked at a private architecture firm before being recruited by Akhter Hameed Khan to become Joint Director of the Orangi Pilot Project in 1983, where she managed the housing and sanitation programmes.[3] In 1988, OPP was split in four organisations, and Perween Rahman became director of OPP-RTI (Orangi Pilot Project – Research and Training Institute), managing as well programmes in education, youth training, water supply and secure housing.[3]

In 1989, she founded the NGO Urban Resource Centre in Karachi[4] and was also part of the board of Saiban, another NGO dedicated to low-income housing, and OPP-OCT (Orangi Charitable Trust, the microfinance branch of OPP).

She was teaching at the University of Karachi, NED University, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture and Dawood College of Engineering and Technology.[5]

Awards

Publications

  • Rahman, P., & Rashid, A. (1992). Working With Community: Some Principles and Methods.
  • Perween Rahman (2004). Katchi Abadis of Karachi: A survey of 334 Katchi Abadis.
  • Perween Rahman, 2009, Water Supply in Karachi, OPP-RTI.
  • Pervaiz, Perween Rahman & Arif Hasan (2008). Lessons from Karachi: The role of demonstration, documentation, mapping and relationship building in advocacy for improved urban sanitation and water services (Vol. 6). Earthprint.

References