Zoha Tunio

Zoha Tunio is a development practitioner focused on the intersection of climate, movement, and gender. Before joining GHD, Zoha worked as technical advisor for climate change at Pathfinder International. In this role she supported the development of a health national adaptation plan in coordination with Pakistan’s Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination. She also worked closely with stakeholders from the Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination in Pakistan to develop a Gender and Climate Equity Seal for private business in the country, as a means to encourage gender and climate sensitive business practices.

Prior to this she worked as Business Development Lead at the Pakistan Environment Trust leading a 26-member coalition of the country’s leading textile companies, supporting their decarbonization efforts and also mobilizing funding upwards of $250,000 to sustain these efforts.

In 2022 Zoha was selected as a Roy W. Howard Fellow with Inside Climate News. In this role, Zoha reported extensively about the impacts of slow and rapid onset climate change on vulnerable communities in Pakistan and South Asia at large. Her work on climate and gender vulnerability has been recognized through a fellowship with the Earth Journalism Network which took her to cover COP27 in Sharm-el-Sheikh.

After GHD, Zoha aims to continue working on climate related issues and hopes to center the knowledge of impacted communities in developing climate adaptation interventions.

Summer internship

This summer I worked as a research intern for Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation in Hanoi, Vietnam. I contributed substantively to the organization’s Anti-Trafficking in Persons department in developing a comprehensive political economy analysis of Vietnam’s trafficking landscape. For this report I conducted an extensive literature review of the economic and legal history of Vietnam and how it shapes the way trafficking networks work, which laws and regulations exist to address trafficking, and how society perceives threats related to trafficking. In addition to this I co-authored a report outlining the socio, economic, and political landscape of the Ca-Mau province in Southern Vietnam. For this document I looked specifically into migration patterns in the province and how climate change is impacting movement decisions in the communities living there. These reports will serve as foundational documents for Blue Dragon to use in expanding their work into new provinces and eventually across the entire country.