Shermin Moledina

Shermin Moledina is the Regional Safeguarding Lead for Funder Safeguarding Collaborative (FSC), where she supports the Regional Advisors for FSC’s communities of practice in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Shermin is passionate about social justice and challenging cultural norms that prevent women and children from living as equal citizens. She has a master’s degree in social work and 28 years of experience working on child protection, safeguarding, homelessness, and mental health programming with children, youth, and families. She has worked with nongovernmental organizations, primarily in East Africa and the US, leading, developing, and managing evidence-based programming on child welfare, protection, homelessness, and trauma-informed care. During the last ten years, Shermin has worked as a consultant supporting organizations and governments in developing interventions and methodologies in working with children, youth, and their families, with a particular focus on child protection, systems strengthening, family reintegration, alternative care, and safeguarding. Currently, Shermin is also a Safeguarding Advisor with Segal Family Foundation (SFF), providing support in enhancing SFF’s safeguarding policies and procedures and developing a strong safeguarding culture and practice for SFF and its partners.