Zafar Gondal

A former judge turned international development professional and policy adviser with more than 30 years of international and multicultural exposure, dedicated to making difference in the lives of people around the world and experienced in domestic implementation of international norms and practices and transfer of knowledge, skills and tools to others in a fairly reasonable way as mentor, strategic, operational, policy and technical adviser in reform, revision and drafting of democratic, stable and fair laws that underpin ROL, democracy, fair election laws, human rights and goodand human security harmonization and integration of criminal, humanitarian and commercial laws, procedures and practices to international and regional standards and practices. I institutional health check and capacity assessment in transitioning and developing judicial administration, judicial performance and code of ethics, design of institutional integrity mechanism and internal controls for state institutions reform and design of anti-money laundering, anti-fraud and anti-corruption programming, training, compliance, prevention, detection and response strategy and regulatory regime human trafficking, narcotics trafficking and other organized crime transparency, participation and accountability in institutions and processes monitoring and evaluation(M&E) of ROL projects. I and need assessment, governance institutions capacity building, human rights compliance, reform of judicial administration, codes of conduct, anti-corruption and AML laws and institutions reform and drafting of laws in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey, Moldova, Lesotho and Somalia and record of successful design and implementation of training modules for capacity building of judges, judicial personal, police, investigators and prosecutors in national and cross-border investigations and prosecutions of serious crimes, financial crimes, anti-corruption, alternative dispute resolution, victim and witness protection and trained the future trainers. I have excellent inquiry, data collection, analysis, report writing, adult training, presentations, facilitation, and strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills. I truly believe establishing rule of law, climate and human security, human rights and good governance is the most important job in the world. I have wide experience in public speaking, delivering training, imparting knowledge, making presentations, advising, strategic planning, programming, monitoring and evaluation of impacts, relevancy, effectiveness of reforms and projects, adult training methodology, capacity building, and havemodules, training handbooks, training procedure manual, training quality assurance manual, legislative review and analysis, legislative impact assessment and reform tools. I believe that establishing bridges, linkages and finding commons between different legal systems, establishing rule of law, making citizens particularly women partners, giving legal identity, and empowering the marginalized through enhanced awareness, engagement, inclusiveness and access to justice for all, making the law and the institutions work for all Core Skills &Knowledge Team leader experience: Team leader Ministry of Justice, Human Rights and Parliamentary Affairs, Team Leader Legal and Working Group of National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) Project, Component Manager F&CO Project on international legal and institutional framework against narcotics and psychotropic substances, Component Manager legislative drafting component for MOCI, Component Manager AGO Component of the Italian Project, Actingof Party of the Italian project and lead advisor and consultant UNDP Turkey. I have trained hundreds of judges, prosecutors, parliament staff, Committee staff and draftspersons. I have developed innovative, practical job training modules Gender mainstreaming experience: Gender neutral drafting courses, women and criminal law reforms; UN Women E-discussion: Enabling environment and legal incentives for women's employment, ABA-International Legal Resource Centre January 2014; participated in Online Discussion on Women in the Justice Sector: Roles, Challenges and Impacts, March 17-30, 2014, by the World Bank Global Forum on Law and Justice Development; studies in the 2030 Agenda and human rights, and developed paper on Gender Justice: Laws, Traditions and Practices for Somalia, help develop training manual for investigation and prosecution of sexualand training for the prosecutors. The 2030 Agenda for the SDGs, Climate Mainstreaming, climate and security sensitive programming: Training and in-depth studies in the 2030 Agenda for SDGs, mainstreaming, acceleration and policy support (MAPS) in national policy and planning, the SDGs and human rights connection and role of parliaments; the interrelations and inter-dependencies between the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in five critical dimensions of sustainable development: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace and Partnership; best practices to ensure coherence and mutual reinforcement between the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; existing tools and instruments to mainstream sustainable development and climate action into national development policies and planning; and, and programming; and anti-corruption in the context of the 2030 Agenda for the SDGs.