Baela is the founder of the Children’s Literature Festival (CLF) in Pakistan and Managing Trustee at the Sanjan Nagar Public Education Trust (SNPET). She serves on multiple national and international education forums. She is the Commissioner to the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity (Education Commission); serve as one of the 12 members of UK’s Foreign Secretary’s Platform for Girls Education. Baela is the Chair of the Global Alliance to Monitor Learning (GAML) SDG 4.2 at the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS).