Social Impact & Development

Sana Sharif

Program Management

Committee for the Welfare of Prisoners (CWP)

Karachi · Urdu, English

Biography

Sana Sharif is a legal empowerment and gender justice professional with more than 15 years of experience across legal aid, prison reform and programme management in Sindh. She works full-time in Program Management at the Committee for the Welfare of Prisoners (CWP). She has also worked with the Legal Aid Society (LAS), a sister organisation of CWP, in a consultancy capacity.

She designs and delivers training for prison staff, government officials, lawyers and community groups. Her work focuses on access to justice, women’s rights, child protection, detainee rights and prevention of gender-based violence. Sana has contributed to gender-sensitive curricula for Nikah registrars and Union Council officials, capacity building for prison staff, guidance on detainee rights and legal awareness resources.

She has also co-authored research on women and juvenile prisoners in Sindh and received the I AM THE CHANGE Impact Award from the Engro Foundation in 2020. Her professional experience includes regional learning and training activities in South Asia.

Areas of expertise

• Training design, curriculum development, and facilitation
• Adult learning and participatory training methods
• Legal empowerment, human rights, and social justice
• Gender equality, women’s rights, and gender-based violence prevention
• Child marriage prevention and implementation of the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act, 2013
• Capacity building for Nikah Registrars, Nikah Khawans, Union Council officials, lawyers, prison staff, and community groups
• Training of Trainers (ToT) for staff and lawyers
• Prison paralegal training and legal awareness for prisoners
• Training on the Sindh Prison & Correction Service Rules, 2019
• Stakeholder engagement and multi-stakeholder consultations
• Key informant interviews and focus group discussions
• Community engagement and culturally responsive programming
• Program development, coordination, and management
• Research, report writing, and presentation of complex information

Key achievements

• Developed gender-sensitive training curricula for Nikah Registrars, Nikah Khawans, and Union Council officials, aligned with the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act, 2013, and supported the provincial training rollout.
• Designed and delivered capacity-building training to more than 250 prison staff across Sindh on detainee rights and gender-based violence.
• Co-authored standard operating procedures on detainee rights and authored a Paralegal Guide.
• Delivered Training of Trainers sessions for Legal Aid Society staff and lawyers, and provided legal awareness training to prisoners through the prison paralegal program.
• Co-authored research reports profiling women and juvenile prisoners in Sindh.
• Received the I AM THE CHANGE Impact Award 2020 from the Engro Foundation.

International experience

Asia

Participated in Feminist Legal Theory and Practice training with regional engagement in Bangladesh and Thailand. Attended a South Asian regional meeting on food security, food sovereignty, poverty, gender and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Bangkok, Thailand (2013). Participated as a civil society member in the Beijing+20 engagement in Bangkok, Thailand (2014). Completed International Humanitarian Law training with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Kathmandu, Nepal. Participating three days’ workshop for “Paralegal Approach: Learning from Different Countries” by GIZ Bangladesh at Kathmandu, Nepal. 2019 Participating in the 10th Asia Democracy Network (ADN) Assembly held in Bangkok on 21-22 Nov, 2023. Participating a full day training program on “Brain Coaching (using Google Workplace and Artificial Intelligence) by Catalyst Consulting USA

Engagement interests

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