Sadiqa Salahudding

Founder and Executive Director of the Indus Resource Centre (IRC)

Sadiqa Salahuddin is the Founder and Executive Director of the Indus Resource Centre (IRC), a support organisation in Sindh, Pakistan that is dedicated to the empowerment and mainstreaming of marginalized rural communities. Ms. Salahuddin, the former director of the Non-Governmental Organization Resource Centre (NGORC), a project of the Aga Khan Foundation, worked on the capacity building (training, networking, information dissemination and research) and the creation of an enabling policy environment for civil society. 


Ms. Salahuddin is recognized as one of the leading development professionals in Pakistan and a prominent contributor to the enhancement of Pakistan’s civil society. Her early experience as a management trainer for senior government officials became the foundation for capacity-building initiatives across the civil society spectrum.