Biography 
Kishwar Sultana is director of Insan Foundation, whose programs focus on gender equality and women’s empowerment, advocacy and research, and children’s leadership development. At the age of 14, her family told her she was a leader and that she must be an example for her nieces and nephews; she became the first in the family to attend college. A consultant to numerous NGOs and international development organizations, Ms. Sultana is currently working as a gender adviser for Communication for Effective Social Service Delivery, which is undertaking a project on water supply and sanitation, education, and health in eight districts of the Northwest Frontier Province. Insan Foundation also works with 40,000 Afghan refugees in that region. Ms. Sultana is providing technical assistance to the Pakistani government for implementation of the Gender Reform Action Plan, mandated to mainstream gender in eight government departments, and is also a member of a government committee on post-conflict assessment.A member of UNIFEM’s Afghanistan/Pakistan Dialogue on Women, Peace and Security and Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 in Pakistan, Ms. Sultana is the author of a paper about UNSCR 1325 that focuses on issues of gender-based violence and refugee camps covered in Articles 10 and 12. She is an active member of the CEDAW Committee of NGOs, and her research on gender sensitivity in government employment will be part of CEDAW’s shadow report to the UN. From 2004 to 2008, she was gender and communication coordinator for the Canadian International Development Agency’s Devolution Support Project. Ms. Sultana is the author of several booklets on women and human rights issues. She is also an artist and illustrator of children’s books and has a master’s degree in geography from University of the Punjab. (01.2010)