Zujaja Baig is a Research Associate specializing in poverty analysis, social protection systems, and child protection policy across South Asia. Currently, Zujaja serves as a Consultant with Oxford Policy Management's Poverty and Social Protection practice in Islamabad, where she leads proposal development for projects on social protection, child labor, and climate resilience initiatives. Recent work includes designing forecast-based cash transfer mechanisms for climate adaptation, developing provincial child labor eradication policies with detailed costing frameworks, and conducting scoping reviews on disability-inclusive social protection. Previously, she consulted for the World Bank's Poverty and Equity Global Practice, conducting micro-finance behavior analysis using Pakistan's Household Income Economic Survey and developing data visualizations on non-monetary poverty indicators. Earlier, as a Research Assistant with Innovations for Poverty Action in Ghana, she supported randomized controlled trial implementation for agricultural productivity interventions and conducted desk research on human trafficking. Her technical expertise spans both quantitative methods using R Studio and Stata for household survey analysis and qualitative approaches including stakeholder consultations, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews with government line departments and communities. She specializes in social protection program design, child protection policy frameworks, poverty measurement, and climate-adaptive social protection systems. Notable contributions include costing a 30 million Euro climate-adaptive social protection program for KfW, developing provincial and district action plans for child labor eradication across Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and designing birth registration interoperability models across all Pakistani provinces. Zujaja holds a Master of International Development Policy from Georgetown University as a Fulbright Scholar, where she served as Capstone Consultant to the World Bank on judicial efficiency reform in India, and an M.Phil. in Government and Public Policy from National Defence University. Beyond professional work, Zujaja has served nearly a decade in community-based voluntary service, including as Honorary Secretary with the Aga Khan Local Education Board in Rawalpindi, where she co-leads education portfolios and community engagement programs for Afghan refugees. At Manāra, she contributes poverty and social protection analysis, supports program design for vulnerable populations, and provides technical expertise on child protection and climate-adaptive social protection systems. When she has time away from data and fieldwork, she dabbles in baking and follows entertainment trends and the local music scene.