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| Designing Land Registration Systems for Developing Countries |
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Academic Research | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | Land registration systems are addressed from the viewpoint government developing country Timing types and maintenance formal land also covered Recommended for rights toolkit | ||
| Case Management Form (Timap for Justice) |
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-Tools for Paralegals, -Tools for Program Directors / Designers, Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Community Paralegal Models | Timap for Justice | Middle East & Africa | This Timap for Justices Individual Case Record helps understand the populations they are serving document and detect trends their work keep track case progress supervision purposes paralegals maintain file each The consists Community LevelProblem Action Log party statements any otherdocuments materials related When opening new Fileparalegals complete Client Intake Section from then onlog all activities concerning copy CaseRecord with filled out also put folder picked upby Lead Paralegal delivered headquarters office Paralegals refer files when monitoring | |
| How to Develop a Monitoring System for a Community Rights Workers Program |
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-Tools for Program Directors / Designers, Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Community Paralegal Models, Land & Natural Resource Management | International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), Meredith Saggers, Krista Jacobs | English | This toolkit designed introduce the reader project monitoring and why essential component any community rights workers program The taken through stepbystep process develop system following these steps can create specific herhis own land organization Uganda used this design for its Luwero district Its experience example throughout provide realworld illustration Though qualitative feedback sessions with are also important sources valuable information focuses quantitative understand needs | |
| Legal Empowerment Evaluation: An Initial Guide to Issues, Methods and Impact |
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Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Other | Stephen Golub | Recent years have seen growing focus legal empowerment the use law rights specifically benefit disadvantaged international development agencies foundations policy institutes and nongovernmental organizations NGOs This has justifiably generated increased interest identifying ways ascertaining its impact Guide seeks contribute evolving understanding discussion this challenge Its four central purposes are address selected issues concerning much other evaluation suggest some evaluating otherwise reviewing work describe kinds provide examples actual coupled with research methods employed ascertain | ||
| Breaking Legal Inequality Traps: New Approaches to Building Justice Systems for the Poor in Developing Countries |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Poverty Reduction | English | This report puts forth alternative traditionalrule lawapproaches The alternativecenters understanding legal inequality trapsand informinginnovative efforts improve accessibility legitimacy and effectiveness justice systems for the poor Published Brooks World Poverty Institute | ||
| Making the Law Work for Everyone: Report of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Labor / Employment, Land & Natural Resource Management, Poverty Reduction | English | This report the culmination work United Nations Commission Legal Empowerment Poor The proposes comprehensive agenda for legal empowerment encompassing four crucial pillars that must central efforts toprovide protection and opportunities tothe poor | ||
| Protecting Your Community’s Land: Information Leaflet (Uganda) |
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-Tools for Communities, -Tools for Paralegals | Land & Natural Resource Management | International Development Law Organization (IDLO), Land and Equity Movement in Uganda (LEMU) | English | Middle East & Africa, Middle East & Africa | Set informational leaflets common lands and related rights communal land associations titling protection |
| Between Law and Society: Paralegals and the Provision of Primary Justice Services in Sierra Leone |
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Academic Research | Cases Involving Multinational Corporations, Community Paralegal Models, Criminal Justice / Conflict, Family / Domestic Disputes, Land & Natural Resource Management, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Mediation/Dispute Resolution, Women's Empowerment | English | Middle East & Africa, Middle East & Africa | Open Society Justice Initiative paper the prospect paralegals justice service providers Sierra Leone | |
| Legal Services for the Poor Best Practices Handbook |
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-Tools for Program Directors / Designers | Health, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law | English | World Bank guidelines for Legal Services Organizations operating the developing world | ||
| Sierra Leone Legal Aid Act, 2012 |
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Laws & Policies | Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition | English | Middle East & Africa | May the Sierra Leone Parliament enacted one most progressive legal aid laws Africa The bill provides for mixed model criminal and civil from provision information mediation services through representation court supplied publicprivate partnership government private sector society law which consultations began distinctive several respects Its unique feature its endorsement paralegals university clinics organisations nongovernmental alongside practitioners providers explicitly providing that are deployed each Leones chiefdoms ensures flexible cost effective method delivering justice large parts population will available help reduce present access deficit | |
| Community Paralegals and Land Tenure (Paralegales comunitarios y la tenencia de la tierra) |
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Academic Research | Community Paralegal Models, Land & Natural Resource Management | Manolo Morales | English, French, Spanish | Latin America | Despite the efforts National Agrarian Development Institute INDA and nongovernmental organizations promote legalization community lands land tenure continues highly topical issue Ecuador After reviewing subject titling different jurisdictions article looks disputes between Chachi AfroEcuadorian peoples living province Esmeraldas The ancestral these two groups are under pressure from external players settlers logging companies palm growers shrimp farmers causing displacement AfroEcuadorians resulting reciprocal invasions landtenure with consequent natural resources change use proposes settling such through paralegals whose mediation would take into account cultural framework humanland relations that generally determinant factors conflicts Report available English Spanish French nbsp |
| Risk Assessment Form for Domestic Violence Cases |
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-Tools for Paralegals | Family / Domestic Disputes, Gender-based violence | sample risk assessment form for paralegals address domestic violence cases | |||
| Step-by-Step Guide for Community-Based Paralegals in Handling Domestic Violence Cases |
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-Tools for Paralegals | Criminal Justice / Conflict, Family / Domestic Disputes, Gender-based violence | English | draft guide for paralegals containing instructions how effectively handle domestic violence cases | ||
| Advancing Human Rights in Patient Care: The Law in Seven Transitional Countries |
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-Tools for Paralegals, -Tools for Program Directors / Designers, Academic Research, Laws & Policies | Health, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law | The Open Society Foundations | English | Europe | Many countries transition have yet adequately define frameworks for protecting basic rights the delivery health care services view these structural limitations utilizing administrative and alternative dispute resolution channels often strategy superior Westernstyle legal advocacy The human framework provides critical lens addressing spectrum problems sphere including discrimination breach confidentiality compulsory treatment labor |
| Impact Assessment of the Moldovan Legal Aid Law |
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Case Studies & Impact Assessments, Laws & Policies | Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition | Martin Gramatikov, Nadejda Hriptievschi, Soros Foundation- Moldova | English | Europe, Europe | The legal aid law Moldova was enacted This study written analyzes the impact and makes recommendations for further policy improvements main purpose assessment obtain understanding its institutions access criminal cases extent which has achieved statutory goals challenges that new system still facingThe carried out Martin Gramatikov expert with significant experience reforming Bulgaria conducting justice research number countries Nadejda Hriptievschi Moldovan lawyer who been collaborating Soros Foundation since projects related reform She engaged reforms Georgia Lithuania Mongolia Ukraine nbsp |
| Paralegal Manual- Moldova |
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-Tools for Communities, -Tools for Paralegals | Community Paralegal Models | Romanian | Europe, Europe | The manual offers guidance for paralegals and community members most legal issues relevant life tool available Romanian online | |
| Methodological guide for paralegals in Moldova |
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-Tools for Paralegals | Community Paralegal Models | Romanian | The guide offers methodological guidance for daily work paralegals Moldova | ||
| Toolkit and Guidance for Preventing and Managing Land and Natural Resources Conflict |
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-Tools for Program Directors / Designers, Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management | The United Nations, The European Union | English | This comprehensive guide was developed through partnership between the and Framework Team six agencies programmes departments have been involved including UNDESA UNDP UNEP UNHABITATDPA PBSO The aim this develop implement strategic multiagency project focused onbuilding capacity national stakeholders system prevent landand natural resources from contributing violent conflictThe also designed enhance policy development andprogramme coordination key actors level country offices first outcome inventory existing tools withinthe set four Guidance Notes addressing NRM conflictprevention These cover Land Conflict Extractive Industriesand Renewable Resources Strengthening Capacity forConflictSensitive Natural Resource Management For more information please contact Secretariat atframeworkteamatundpdotorg Szilard Fricska UNHabitat SzilardFricskaatunhabitatdotorg | |
| Joining Forces for the Poor: Alliance-building for social justice in South African and the story of the National Alliance for the Development of Community Advice Offices |
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Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Community Paralegal Models, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition | English | Middle East & Africa | This case study draws review internal documents from the National Community Based Paralegal Association NSC and Alliance for Development Advice Offices NADCAO well other research South African advice office sectornbsp mostly based indepth interviews with key stakeholders identified collaboration former Coordinator Greg Erasmusnbsp list interviewees included end fairly recent initiative strengthen community sector broaden access justice Africanbsp offices CAOs paralegals have been part social political landscape Africa since snbsp Over years they provided much needed services millions poor marginalized Africansnbsp Today are essential realizing democracynbsp They play primary role translating human rights enshrined Constitution into realitynbsp Despite this however has struggled recognition support | |
| Accountability in Africa’s land rush: What role for legal empowerment? |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments, Laws & Policies | Land & Natural Resource Management | Lorenzo Cotula, International Institute for Environment and Development, International Development Research Centre | English | Middle East & Africa | This report released theInternational Institute for Environment and Developmentand Development Research Centreexplores the potential legal empowerment approaches equip citizens local communities with methods resources hold publicinstitutionsand private companies accountable largescale land deals The analyzes frameworks African countries well case studies study suggests that has improve public accountability through complementary reforming strengthen control downward increasing capacity engage institutions policy processes |
| Met and Unmet Legal Needs in Moldova |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition, Other | Martin Gramatikov, Soros Foundation- Moldova | English | Europe, Europe | This study was undertaken determine how often people Moldova experience problems that might have solution the civil administrative justice system also aimed estimate categories legal nature justiciable events and what about these paths chosen The sought extent which overall population satisfied with current avenues offered solve face well levels confidence their ability encountered empowerment only focused are life raise issues regardless whether citizens recognize them not response formal been used Crime related fall within concept except compensation for crimerelated police complaints subject this |
| Community Score Card Process: the General Methodology for Implementation |
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-Tools for Communities, -Tools for Paralegals, -Tools for Program Directors / Designers, Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Anti-corruption, Other, Poverty Reduction | English | The community score card CSC process based monitoring tool that hybrid the techniques social audit and citizen report cards Like instrument exact public accountability responsiveness from service providers but because organized facilitated also strong for empowerment | ||
| Protecting Rights of the Vulnerable through Cultural Structures: A Tool On Working With Elders in Communities |
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-Tools for Communities, -Tools for Paralegals, -Tools for Program Directors / Designers | Children's Rights & Education, Customary Justice Systems, Family / Domestic Disputes, Gender-based violence, Health, Mediation/Dispute Resolution, Women's Empowerment | KELIN Kenya | English | Middle East & Africa | The success the KELIN project Nyanza Kenya delivering justice vulnerable who cannot access formal legal system for protection has inspired development this tool Although existing projects specifically addressed right inherit and own property women widows children model working with cultural structures can adopted intervene other human rights violations requiring arbitration including peacekeeping among communities land transactions family disputes authority elders also influence provide matters sexual gender based violence elimination harmful practices like child marriages female circumcision labour trafficking HIVrelated stigmatization discrimination issues |
| Impacto de las Industrias Extractivas en los Derechos Colectivos sobre Territorios y Bosques de los Pueblos y las Comunidades |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Cases Involving Multinational Corporations, Land & Natural Resource Management | Rights and Resources Initiative | Spanish | Latin America | este trabajo recopilan analizan algunos aspectos del impacto las industrias extractivas hacenfasis minera dado aumento intensidad cantidad cobertura dos ltimas dcadasparticularmente sobre territorios los Pueblos Indgenas Afrodescendientes que habitan zonas objetode actividades esta industria mismo estudian repercusiones bosques naturales Este informe fue encomendado por Iniciativa para Derechos Recursos con objetivo documentar analizar impactos derechos colectivos pueblos comunidades Colombia Per Guatemala Panam hace nfasis dcadas particularmente objeto nbsp |
| Community-Level Problem Case Management Form (Timap for Justice) |
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-Tools for Paralegals, -Tools for Program Directors / Designers, Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Community Paralegal Models | Timap for Justice | Middle East & Africa | This Timap for Justices Community Level Problem Case Record helps document detect trends and keep track cases arising from communal problems paralegals maintain case file each The consists Individual LevelProblem Action Log party statements any otherdocuments materials related the When opening new Fileparalegals complete Client Intake Section then onlog all their activities concerning copy CaseRecord with filled out also put folder picked upby Lead Paralegal delivered headquarters office Paralegals refer files when monitoring work | |
| ADR Workshop |
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-Tools for Communities, -Tools for Paralegals | Mediation/Dispute Resolution | English | Asia | Summary report from the National Consultation Workshop Alternative Dispute Resolution Cambodia September The workshop sought explore effective models and implementation schemes for well connect NGOs throughout engaged these methods | |
| Management of some commons in southern Africa: Implications for policy |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management | Doreen Atkinson, Michael Taylor, Frank Matose | Middle East & Africa | Profound transformations communal land tenure systems are taking place parts southern Africa that have resulted from decades interventions particularly the shrinking commonage through capture extensive tracts lands private interests Some policies been into envisage improved management common rangeland resources privatisation However empirical evidence lacking what extent these may successful Traditional areas broken down many them now morecharacteristic open access alternative meeting challenge managing rangelands develop communitybased resource build strengths traditional approaches Therefore call made use indigenous knowledge and empowering communities manage their order prevent promoting more sustainable livelihoods | |
| رفع مستوى الخدمات القانونية المتصلة بفيروس نقص المناعة البشري (Scaling up HIV-Related Legal Services Toolkit) |
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-Tools for Program Directors / Designers | Health | International Development Law Organization | Arabic | Middle East & Africa | This study legal tools covers services individuals living with HIV and affected which directly relate issues that make certain more susceptible exacerbate the impact lives those |
| Accessing Justice: Models, Strategies and Best Practices on Women’s Empowerment |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Anti-corruption, Children's Rights & Education, Community Paralegal Models, Criminal Justice / Conflict, Customary Justice Systems, Family / Domestic Disputes, Gender-based violence, Health, Indigenous Issues, Mediation/Dispute Resolution, Poverty Reduction, Women's Empowerment | International Development Law Association | English | Asia, Asia, Middle East & Africa, Middle East & Africa, Asia, Middle East & Africa | This critical IDLO study highlights the role law essential tool for advancing womens rights and equality face illiteracy inadequate resources Focusing engagement strategies both formal informal justice sectors IDLOs analyzes what works doesnt why deals with unwed motherhood Morocco land Mozambique Tanzania human trafficking across IndiaBangladesh border dispute resolution Afghanistan The report also addresses challenges women Namibia Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands Most significantly Accessing Justice demonstrates how legal empowerment involving cooperation from victims paralegals community organizations lawyers police judiciary can improve access quality receive |
| Law without Lawyers: Assessing a Community-based Mobile Paralegal Program in Liberia |
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Case Studies & Impact Assessments, Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Community Paralegal Models | Bilal Siddiqi | Middle East & Africa | This evaluation community legal advisor CLA program that aims increase access justice establishing credible transitional tools help people identify appropriate dispute resolution venues The model stems from successful and ongoing pilot conducted the five southeastern counties Liberia since October Community Legal Advisors CLAs are individuals local communities who have been given training mediation advocacy domestic laws roles different agencies They available cost provide referrals advice disputants negotiate problems immediate alternative period other mechanisms may not accessible trusted all supported Liberian Minister Justice stakeholders sector design follows baseline followup survey structure combining differenceindifference analysis with villagelevel individuallevel randomization Carter Centers mobile paralegal innovative features lie instrument which solicits information households large sample more than instances latent disputes eventually appear cases customary formal systems unique opportunity exogenously randomly reduce barriers accessing means paralegals travel bymotorbike number remote villages | |
| Improving Forest Governance: A Comparison of VPAs and their Impact |
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Academic Research | Land & Natural Resource Management | FERN | English | This report examines the content six existing Voluntary Partnership Agreements VPAs Ghana Republic Congo Cameroonthe Central African Indonesia and Liberia describing key elements VPA comparing texts agreements concluded date aims clarify what are how they work differences exist between them The paper makes recommendations for all those involved process including need focus effective implementation expand inclusive multistakeholder other commodities processes | |
| Informal Justice Systems: Charting a Course for Human Rights-Based Engagement |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Children's Rights & Education, Criminal Justice / Conflict, Family / Domestic Disputes, Indigenous Issues, Land & Natural Resource Management, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Mediation/Dispute Resolution, Women's Empowerment | Asia, Asia, Middle East & Africa, Latin America, Middle East & Africa | This study seeks identify how engagement with informal justice systems can build greater respect and protection for human rights highlights the considerations that development partners should have when assessing whether implement programmes involving primary consideration being neither directly nor inadvertently reinforces existing societal structural discrimination applies working formal well The also examines value offering certain contexts flexible structures processes costeffectiveness outreach grassroots communities Commissioned UNDP UNICEF Women involved comprehensive literature review countryspecific case studies Qualitative quantitative data collection was carried out Bangladesh Ecuador Malawi Niger Papua New Guinea Uganda | ||
| Handbook on Community Engagement |
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-Tools for Communities | Cases Involving Multinational Corporations, Land & Natural Resource Management | South Sudan Law Society | Middle East & Africa | This handbook provides good practice guide negotiating lease agreements with landowning communities South Sudan The purpose this promote the fairand efficient use communityowned land and naturalresources manner that responsive communityneeds has five strategic objectives Foster understanding among potential investors about their legal obligation negotiate secure directly community landowners legally authorized representatives Support constructive relationships between companies government institutions involved largescale investments Promote operational excellence for doing business Identify prevent mitigate negative impacts can undermine livelihoods threaten project viability equitable distribution investmentbenefits communitiesand well within themselves guidance how structure internal engagement processes external not intended detailed large complex projects Rather meant provide field level practical tips tailored address unique challenges host confront fragile postconflict setting most applicable largescalelandbased rural areas whether theyare located public | |
| A Simple Guide to Refugee Law for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Tanzania |
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-Tools for Communities | Migrants / Refugees / Citizenship | English | Middle East & Africa | Simple Guide Refugee Law was written for refugees and asylum seekers understand the protections that exist under international national law process applying well immigration alternatives Tanzanian context also includes guide who wish appeal adverse refugee status determination decisions This relevant lawyers paralegals advising | |
| African Journal of Clinical Legal Education and Access to Justice |
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Academic Research | Children's Rights & Education, Criminal Justice / Conflict, Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition, Other, Right to Information | English | The African Journal Clinical Legal Education and Access Justice ISSN published the Network University Aid Institutions NULAI Nigeria October annually Articles commentaries contributions journal are peer assessed devoted law legal education significant research value especially developments clinical justice access sponsored John Catherine MacArthur Foundation | ||
| Ukraine Public Defender Office: Operation and Procedures |
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-Tools for Program Directors / Designers | Criminal Justice / Conflict, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law | English, Russian, Ukrainian | Europe | This Manual describes PDO management quality assurance performance evaluation andcontinuous training procedures and contains recommendations media relations maybecome guidance for the newly founded FLA centers offer some innovations with regardto their institutional development help shape vision mission goals ofthe entire free legal aid system Ukraine manual was produced Ukrainian Legal Aid Foundation International Renaissance Open Society Foundations | |
| Legal Aid in Community: Manual on Creation and Administration of the Community Law Centres |
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-Tools for Program Directors / Designers | Legal Aid & Public Interest Law | Ukrainian Legal Aid Foundation | English, Russian, Ukrainian | Europe | this publication the Development Programme International Renaissance Foundation and OpenSociety Justice Initiative Budapest made attempt unite practical experience efforts civicsector representatives who implement their activities related providing free legal aid Ukraine Proper exercise right inseparably social development societies wherethis not properly secured people particularly vulnerable groups population are aware ofexisting statutory guarantees potentials interested application instruments forproper interaction prefers outsideoflaw means resolve theirproblems Such state things results total distrust generally judicial system inparticular single impartial regulator balance justice Ukrainians believe afair trial overwhelming majority consider that courts efficient for those whohave respective level income only With adoption Law Free Legal Aid regulations approved Cabinet Ministersof individuals given opportunity establish finance operations specializedInstitutions engaged primary involve private law entities provide such services Aselfgoverning community build make itnot nominal service but also actually effective This manual accumulates available practices creating administrating Community Centres incommunities all parties concerned government authorities local selfgovernmentauthorities public sector would able search information they may need relation legalregulation including arranging remote communities procedure andstandards ways supporting sustainable availability The authors practicing managers lawyers existing have beenworking supported since hope thatthis book will ranked high among leading guidelines helplocal selfgovernment nongovernmental organizations other improvetheir work area |
| Securing Women’s Rights to Land in Burundi |
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Multimedia | Land & Natural Resource Management, Women's Empowerment | International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) | English, French | Middle East & Africa | This video showcases the Womens Land Rights Project International Fund for Agricultural Development Burundi which helps rural women assert their legal rights land tenure Although Burundian have right inherit male family members often confiscate anyway The IFAD program raises awareness about and beneficiaries pursue cases court Click here view English French |
| Innovations in Rule of Law: A Compilation of Concise Essays |
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Academic Research, Laws & Policies | Other | English | Executive Summary The importance the international rule law for peace fairness and economic growth generally acknowledged inside outside United Nations However there mounting scepticism regarding success promotion other organizations donors national levels during past two decades While this justified some respects risks overlooking areas where innovations have been made important insights gained tangible successes fragile more robust achieved years This publication aims highlight these through series concise papers key experts organisations area Based also prepared Innovations Rule Law Visions Policy makers summaries four sections policy recommendations can found report thereby hopes contribute debate General Assembly September subsequent discussion action states governments civil society | ||
| South African Legal Practice Bill – August 2000 Draft |
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Laws & Policies | Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition | English | Middle East & Africa | early draft the Legal Practice Bill which paralegals are recognized | |
| Securing the Right to Land: An Overview on Access to Land in Asia (2nd edition) |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management | Antonio B. Quizon, Catherine Liamzon, Nathaniel Don E. Marquez | English | Asia | This expanded edition presents regional and country perspectives access land for the rural poor from eight countriesBangladesh Cambodia India Indonesia Nepal Pakistan Philippines Sri Lanka makes assessments reforms their implementation legal frameworks conditions necessary advance rights The publication also examines changing roles government private sector NGOs civil society influencing agrarian reform sustainable development Finally puts forward agenda actors activists pursuit more equitable Asianregion |
| Refugee Legal Orientation Training Manual |
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-Tools for Paralegals | Migrants / Refugees / Citizenship | English | Middle East & Africa | Asylum Access Tanzanias Refugee Legal Orientation Training Manual provides advocates with guidance best practices and sample lesson plans for conducting legal orientations refugees asylum seekers This based experience providing community education will useful all trainers working Sample discuss refugee definitions durable solutions rights | |
| Legal Protocols Relevant to Refugees in Tanzania (Swahili) |
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-Tools for Communities, -Tools for Paralegals | Migrants / Refugees / Citizenship | Middle East & Africa | This set five legal protocols are designed provide accurate information refugees Tanzania number topics that relevant including citizenship adoption arrest and detention deportation resettlement Though for the Tanzanian context can serve models other countries They also available English French version Swahili | ||
| Legal Protocols Relevant to Refugees in Tanzania (French) |
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-Tools for Communities, -Tools for Paralegals | Migrants / Refugees / Citizenship | French | Middle East & Africa | This set five legal protocols are designed provide accurate information refugees Tanzania number topics that relevant including citizenship adoption arrest and detention deportation resettlement Though for the Tanzanian context can serve models other countries They also available English Kiswahili version French | |
| Legal Protocols Relevant to Refugees in Tanzania (English) |
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-Tools for Communities, -Tools for Paralegals | Migrants / Refugees / Citizenship | English | Middle East & Africa | This set five legal protocols are designed provide accurate information refugees Tanzania number topics that relevant including citizenship adoption arrest and detention deportation resettlement Though for the Tanzanian context can serve models other countries They also available French Kiswahili | |
| Property Rights and Gender: A Training Toolkit |
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-Tools for Paralegals | Land & Natural Resource Management, Women's Empowerment | International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), Uganda Land Alliance | English | Middle East & Africa, Middle East & Africa | Property rights economically empower women creating opportunities for earning income securing their place the community and ensuring livelihoods This toolkit seeks strengthen understanding property men equal citizens Uganda where this waspiloted often are not treated addresses what have how communicate womens issues preventing from exercising The overarching goals training Increase knowledge legal Understand recognize mens equality before Ugandan law Allow exercise protect own while respecting others has five modules Rights Gender Land Law Marriage Family Inheritance Wills Women Monitoring Skills Community Worker |
| Manuel pratique sur le renforcement des services juridiques liés au VIH |
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-Tools for Program Directors / Designers | Health | Organisation internationale de droit du développement, Programme commun des Nations Unies sur le VIH/sida | French | manuel sadresse aux personnes uvrant ltablissement renforcement dveloppement des services juridiques lis VIH est destin avant tout Aux juristes responsables tous les professionnels impliqus dans prestation pour vivant avec touches par populations cls prvoyant mettre place renforcer celles impliques prparation demandes financement destines bailleurs fonds notamment rseaux organisations dont laction centre sur qui fournissent dautres galement fonctionnaires gouvernementaux prestataires lappui technique organismes donateurs agences Nations Unies participent llaboration cadre ripostes nationales | |
| Scaling up HIV-Related Legal Services Toolkit |
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-Tools for Program Directors / Designers | Health | International Development Law Organization (IDLO), United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS | Arabic, Chinese, English | HIVrelated legal services are essential component effective national HIV responsenbsp They enable people living with and key populations have access tonbspnbsp justice for problems obtain protection redress should accessible affordable all communitiesnbsp affected the epidemicnbspnbsp However such often absent inadequate meet needs these Capacity building well guidance tools programmatic elements planning costing monitoring evaluation HIVrelatednbspnbsp service scaling programs IDLO developing disseminating practical atrisk thenbspScaling HIVRelated Legal Services Toolkit The describes eight different models delivering gives guidancenbsp how design expand contexts settings build capacitynbsp sector workers monitor evaluate mobilize resources fornbsp themDeveloped partnership UNAIDS UNDP currently published English French Chinese Arabic being disseminated more than copies across Asia Africa Middle East Latin America support work government AIDS lawyers civil society organizations manual also available Arabicnbsp Russian | |
| Rule of Law Index |
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Academic Research | Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition, Other | English | The WJP Rule Law Index innovative quantitative assessment tool designed the World Justice Project offer detailed and comprehensive picture extent which countries adhere rule law practice provides information original data regarding variety dimensions enables stakeholders assess nations adherence identify strengths weaknesses comparison similarly situated track changes over time | ||
| Briefing: Towards a Tanzanian Policy on Urban and Self-Settled Refugees |
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Laws & Policies | Migrants / Refugees / Citizenship | Asylum Access | English | Middle East & Africa | This briefing argues that the Government Tanzania should adopt Policy Urban and SelfSettled Refugees Refugee allows more refugees reside outside designated settlements camps Now virtually all asylum seekers are required However many cannot because protection concerns others have ability skills live support themselves while doing some choose governments sight These selfsettled refugeesrefugees who settle either urban rural areasdo not most cases legal permission details several reasons for adoption refugee policy including addressing decisions leave decreasing population need foster selfreliance demonstrate its continued commitment international standards |
| No Place Called Home: A Report on Urban Refugees in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
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Academic Research | Migrants / Refugees / Citizenship | English | Middle East & Africa | Place Called Home groundbreaking report urban refugees living Dar Salaam Tanzania most are required live refugee camps where they left dependent humanitarian aid However growing urbanization the desire able find livelihoods and fear government authorities UNHCR has led settling outside These facto lack legal recognition from Government can vulnerable exploitation Published this based survey Presenting findings establishes existence population with genuine claims status permits better understanding needs concludes recommendations for improved implementation rights protection social assistance Salaams | |
| Training Manual on Human Rights for Health Workers |
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-Tools for Paralegals | Health | Human Rights Education Associates | English, French, Russian, Spanish | This online training manual shares materials developed train health workers and human rights issues intends bridge the gap between legal conceptualisation right daily practice providing education specifically designed for The consists seven basic parts Planning suggestions programmes Opening sessions introduction participants programme Introducing essential information Health different roles relation Human mechanisms instruments protect Further relevant that not fit one above categories also available Spanish French Russian nbsp | |
| Handbook for the Justice and Peace Commission: Best Practices of Community Legal Advice Programs, Program Assessment, and Recommendation |
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-Tools for Program Directors / Designers, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Community Paralegal Models | Walter Leitner International Human Rights Clinic | English | Middle East & Africa | The goal this handbook provide JPC and the Carter Center with information recommendations they expand improve Community Legal Advisor program presents best practices communitybased paralegal legal advice organizations developing economies postconflict settings Africa Asia provides constructive analysis JPCs work based comparative research fieldwork Liberia divided into two sections Part Bangladesh Kenya Malawi Mali Namibia Nigeria Philippines Sierra Leone South Zimbabwe for how can their CLA following areas supervision training case management referrals impact litigation genderbased violence GBVland disputes advocatemediator dilemma monitoring courts customary law bodies mobile clinics engaging traditional leaders sustainability nbsp |
| Access and Benefit Sharing E-Learning Series |
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-Tools for Communities, Multimedia | Cases Involving Multinational Corporations, Indigenous Issues, Land & Natural Resource Management | Natural Justice | English | This module aims provide introduction access and benefit sharing its implications for Indigenous peoples local communities explores the range rights responsibilities how may able realize them practice part toolkit community facilitators biocultural protocols The complete including additional elearning modules available wwwcommunityprotocolsorg Objectives gain general understanding concept identify specific provisions legal frameworks that relate multiple stakeholders highlight opportunities challenges can arise from current international framework explore utilize these support priorities plans useful your has any following close relationship with particular territory area resource Traditional knowledge about plants animals genetic resources Customary ownership stewardship use Existing potential interactions external actors such government agencies researchers orthe private sector regarding Questions concerns engage particularly traditional andor | |
| Timap for Justice Community Paralegal Manual |
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-Tools for Paralegals | Community Paralegal Models | Timap for Justice | English | Middle East & Africa | This manual serves guide the work Timaps paralegals intended firstly anbspreference and training tool for The sections herein cover skills ournbspparalegals must develop effectively provide justice services structure Timap asnbspan organization workings Sierra Leonean government lawnbspand basic human rights concepts Paralegals should keep copy this theirnbspoffice update with supplements provided directors paralegal has broader purpose well our hope that its contents willnbspprovide advocates elsewhere insight into methods philosophy givingnbspthem model inform their own Our program succeeded achievingnbspsolutions more than thousand problems poor Leoneans have beennbsprecognized independent institutions including World Bank International CrisisnbspGroup developing effective methodology providing difficultnbspand complex context experiences will useful other efforts aroundnbspthe world More information about available wwwtimapforjusticeorg was written produced staff interns volunteersnbspThe authors include Director CoFounder Simeon Koroma Deputy NancynbspSesay former CoDirector Vivek Maru Lead Paralegal Daniel Sesay MattnbspMuspratt Sawyer Abigail Moy Douglas Wyatt James Kirk Casie Copeland SonkitanbspConteh Lotta Teale |
| Khulumani Psychosocial Workshop Manual |
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-Tools for Communities | Criminal Justice / Conflict, Other | English | This manual for facilitators psychosocial workshops families affected enforced disappearances was developed Khulumani social movement South Africa the human rights Apartheidera violations | ||
| New Directions in Justice Reform |
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Academic Research | Anti-corruption, Other | The World Bank | English | This paper elaborates new directions justice reform under the World Banks updated strategy and implementation plan strengthening governance tackling corruption The Governance Anticorruption GAC points out that one functions capable state dispense recognizes institutions assist countering support oversight monitoring executives actions help ensure government accountable citizens facilitate constructive engagement between non actors also notes judiciary among those not only respond but create change sustain therules game institutional environment which development takes place sets agenda conceived terms ofactual realizations accomplishments matter users potential system more thanthe establishment what are identified right rules Section two explains why systems relevant pursuit three reviews experience date section four approach going forward proposing five strategic priorities for improving performance this important field | |
| Legal Aid Baseline and Needs Analysis Survey- Rwanda |
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Academic Research | Community Paralegal Models, Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition | Legal Aid Forum (Rwanda) Steering Committee, Ministry of Justice (Rwanda) | English | Middle East & Africa | This study was commissioned the Legal Aid Forum collaboration with Ministry ofJustice intended provide baseline data current practices and gaps service provision order inform planning programming financing regulation legal aidservices view realising goal improved access justice The funded UNDP DIHR Norwegian Peoples Using qualitative quantitative research methods collected from respondentsand forty focus group discussions across ten districts covered survey tendistricts were purposively selected five Provinces ensure regional balance rural urban spread main units aid providers NGOs providing services private practitioners enrich key informant interviews conducted people who thought have good knowledge coverage well needs indigent persons These included prosecutors judges heads notinvolved prison administrators local district administrative authorities police commanders Focus Group Discussions held leaders andcommunity members identify country Excel Statistical Package for Social Scientist SPSS computer programmes used enter analyse while all notes taken KII FGDS analysed using thematic andcontent analysis approaches whole findings this reveal generally limited understanding specifically perspective ability pay found affectproviders plan deliver that are affordable accessible Indeed many expressed ignorance laws availability even when such existed their respective Consequently would beneficiaries unable because they not understand procedure fear court system Participants felt anumber reasons there semiurban significant number aware existence available sufficient relation demand large geographic Accessibility also related social educational means whether feel capacity process documentation presented addition participants majority Rwandans largely due costs transport required reach courts offices high fees unaffordableprofessional associated problem fact most offer complete cycle hence need referral other agencies factors combined affect accessibility affordability Bar Association University Law Clinics Sixteen one combination legalservices especially advice education Fewer offering representation largelydue limitations Geographical limitedwith being provided out located either two Kigali provinces |
| Evaluation of the “Providing Access to Justice – Legal Awareness at the Grassroots Level” Project- Timor Leste |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Community Paralegal Models | Sally Low | English | Asia | The Grassroots Justice Project has succeeded developing network community leaders who are well equipped provide basic paralegal services that highly relevant their communities particular model used suited the Timor Leste context project also delivered intensive programme level legal and human rights education Taken together two components have made significant contribution improved access justice for members target credit ASF its partner NGOs they identified acted need grassroots approach building rule law early lessons learned from this which groundbreaking will valuable future phases ASFs work but other actors now recognising crucial importance such materials developed team enhanced capacity whose predominantly resources area Key Recommendations Lessons Learned Community Legal Liaisons Hatutan Lei KommunidadeCLLsHLKs providing important type information mediation conflict resolution result targeting appropriate builds trust non confrontational traditional role played village hamlet chiefs likely sustainable impact way disputes resolved beyond life There evidence more effective dispute increased understanding issues referred criminal system Strengthen CLL networks with view them becoming autonomous self sustaining Conduct systematic monitoring quality CLLs enhancing professional advice aid when required Examine ways CLLS staff can facilitate obtain about cases being processed through research into current potential roles not especially women youth strengths component uses long term engagement |
| Street Law in Indonesia: Educational Video |
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Multimedia | Legal Aid & Public Interest Law | Indonesian Legal Resource Center | Indonesian | Asia | This video the documentation law school for street children developed Indonesian Legal Resource Center ILRC The program organized six houses Jakarta and surrounding areas Law School Anjal collaboration with Faculty Trisakti University Universitas Pelita Harapan Krisnadwipayana Students three universities teach Video ini merupakan dokumentasi sekolah hukum untuk anak jalanan yang dikembangkan oleh Program diselenggarakan enam rumah singgah ada dan sekitarnya Sekolah Hukum bekerjasama dengan Fakultas Pengajar dari adalah para mahasiswa ketiga perguruan tinggi tersebut English subtitles httpyoutubevbNnJYvrw nbsp httpyoutubeCTTaKwbaTTQ |
| The Paralegal Practice Manual: A Guide to Paralegal Roles and Techniques |
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-Tools for Paralegals | Community Paralegal Models | Legal Aid Forum, Rwanda | English | Middle East & Africa | The Paralegal Practice Manual has been developed for use bynbspparalegals and organisations training paralegals all over RwandanbspThis the first manual its kind specifically focusing skillsnbsprelated paralegal work This also intends relevantnbspto other countries Africa can contextualisednbspto specific continents like Europe Asia etc selfadministered fornbspany who read write Kinyarwanda EnglishnbspAll thoughts ideas are presented simple concisenbspmanner order enhance herhis skills knowledge anbspparalegal should this attached materials reference document continuous basis shouldnbspalways create time regularly update innbspparalegalism law Such selftraining willnbspensure that always uptodate informationnbspneeded facilitate effective efficient delivery legal aid services contains sample tools provides examples andnbspcase studies based real life experience with references tonbspRwandan legislation Paralegals encouraged materialnbspin their own innovative way depending objectives andnbspthe circumstances environment within which theynbspare operating designed such each section standsnbspon Depending shenbspwill extract from refer corresponding sections |
| Case Study Series Summary Sheet: Legal support for the implementation of Mozambique’s ‘Land Law’ and ‘Forestry and Wildlife Law’ |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | Middle East & Africa | This onepage fact sheet provides summary the critical factors that will enable implementation Mozambiques Land Law and Forestry Wildlife September | |
| Being Mr. Nobody |
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Multimedia | Indigenous Issues, Land & Natural Resource Management | English | Europe | The video was made March part the Roma Protection Prevention and Promotion Project Bulgaria implemented Bulgarian Institute for Legal Initiatives Foundation main activity under project operation legal clinic providing pro bono consultations selected communities One greatest challenges that registered paralegals working inability many people obtain identification documents current regulations address registration make issuance identity directly dependent possession property tenancy agreement | |
| Handbook on Improving Access to Legal Aid in Africa |
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Laws & Policies | Criminal Justice / Conflict, Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition | United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime | Middle East & Africa | This Handbook draws together innovations and lessons learned across African countries the intricate area legal aid service delivery criminal justice system highlights many instances promising grassroots initiatives wide variety hoped that these practices will encourage stimulate further innovative efforts provide more inclusive access for all particularly poor marginalized The breadth depth information allow better adaptation specific country contexts well coordination between various participants intended toassist policymakers practitioners stakeholders considered toinclude development partners Governments bar associations NGOs grassrootsaction groups actively involved reform three ways providingthe general needed developing national deliverystrategies offering alternatives conventional models andby outlining continent some suitable forpostconflict societies | |
| A Human Right to Legal Aid |
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Case Studies & Impact Assessments, Laws & Policies | Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition, Mediation/Dispute Resolution, Other | Danish Institute for Human Rights | Asia, Europe, Middle East & Africa, North America, Oceania | This publication examines the connection between provision legal aidservices and realization human rights guarantees through series thematic countryspecic articles drawn from experiences authors countries Africa Asia Australasia Europe North America The Kyiv Declaration Right Legal Aid attached appendix this underlines responsibility Governments implement sustainable quality controlled aid programs that deliver services without discrimination all people within their jurisdictions TABLE CONTENTS IntroductionPaul Dalton Hatla Thelle DIHR CONTEXTS AND CROSSSECTIONS Human Simon Rice Access Justice Education Challenges andSuggestions Thomas Geraghty Where there lawyer strategy develop primary justiceservices Adam Stapleton CASE STUDIES ChinaChina under transition Rule Law Role Aidand Advocacy organizations Huang Jinrong Wang Fang ampHatla MalawiAccess State Services MalawiBruno Kalemba PhilippinesDevelopmental Meeting Challenge ofRelevance Responsiveness Leo Battad South AfricaHolistic Approaches Delivery African experience David McQuoid Mason UgandaRedefining Informal Mechanismsand Alternative Dispute Resolution Elinor Chemonges ZambiaThe Fostering Rights Culture andBest Practices Provision Zambiansituation Paul Mulenga IndonesiaAssessing performance courtappointed lawyers inIndonesian according international standards Uli Sihombing RussiaLegal Civil Cases Russian Federation Anton Burkov AfricaThe Promotion University Clinicsin Seehaam Samaai APPENDICES Lilongwe Accessing Criminal System XXX Commission andPeoples Adoption Republic Uganda Statutory Instrument Advocates Student Practice Regulations | |
| Nigerian Legal Aid Act, 2011 |
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Laws & Policies | Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition | Middle East & Africa | The Legal Aid Act provides for the establishment legal aid and access justice fund Through financial assistance made available Council behalf indigent citizens prosecution claims accordance with Constitution empowers responsibility operation scheme grant certain matters proceedings persons inadequate resources Paralegals are addressed Part Section states that may licenses who have undergone prescribed course paralegal services render such appropriate situations also authorizes partner otherwise engage nongovernmental organizations law clinics engaged provision entitled | ||
| Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and consent |
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Academic Research | Indigenous Issues, Land & Natural Resource Management, Other | Edited by Krystyna Swiderska, Kanchi Kohli, Harry Jonas, Holly Shrumm, Wim Hiemstra, Maria Julia Oliva | English | Many rural communities the global South including some million indigenous peoples are directly dependent biodiversity and related traditional knowledge for their livelihoods food security healthcare wellbeing But with loss valuable resources such climateresilient crops medicinal plants wild foods being lost Cultural diversity eroded unprecedented rate ancestral how use conserve This special issue Participatory Learning Action explores two important participatory tools that local can help defend customary rights biocultural heritage Community protocols charters rules responsibilities which set out natural land recognised national international laws Free prior informed consent FPIC processes decide whether not allow projects affecting ahead what terms The reviews experiences Asia Latin America Africa developing using these range contexts mechanisms access benefitsharing ABS genetic confronting threats from mining protected areas improving forestry partnerships also looks government establishing institutional identifies practical lessons guidance based aims strengthen capacity actors support rightsbased effectively practice provide those implementing Nagoya Protocol other resource development practitioners raise awareness importance community designed controlled | |
| Violences sexo-spécifiques: Manuel d’outils |
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-Tools for Paralegals, -Tools for Program Directors / Designers, Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Gender-based violence, Women's Empowerment | Le Consortium Reproductive Health Response in Conflict, Reproductive Health Response in Crises Consortium | French | prsent manuel est des aboutissements lInitiative mondiale trois ans pour Lutte contre les Violences sexospciques encadre par Consortium Reproductive Health Response Conict RHRC dont mission damliorer lacapacit internationale locale vue prvenir rpondre aux violences VSS dans situationsde conits postconits auprs populations rfugies dplaces Les outils ont mis point selon modlemultisectoriel programmes dcrits plus dtail page qui encourage laction sein communautconcerne coordination entre communaut concerne services sociaux sant secteurs juridiqueset scurit destine professionnels laide humanitaire lexprience sur plan laprvention rponse sont profondment engags combattreLes rpartis grandes catgories valuation prliminaire conception programme suivi etvaluation lvaluation visent sensibiliser nature lampleur VSSdans contexte donn aident collecter linformation attitudes comportements locaux concernant dterminer lexistence existants lacunes ces servent mettre pied raliser projets datteindre buts souhaits amliorer pratiques recrutement dvaluation valuer lefcacit reconnatre tendances frquentationprestation desservices court long terme dajuster ventuellement sera utilis conjointement avec dautres ressources accessibles site Web wwwrhrcorggbv Notons propos Sexual and GenderBased Violence against Refugees Returneesand Internally Displaced Persons Guidelines for Prevention Haut Commissariat Rfugis mai Genderbased Emerging Issues Programs Serving Populations Ces dutilisation internationaux lexpriencedans domaine communauts lesquelles ils interviennent principe ceux utilisant outilsreprsenteront toute une gamme comptences dexpertise cest raison laquelle nous avons cherch lesrendre aussi conviviale que possible vaste public Seule exception cette approche convivialele projet loutil lenqute prvalence compris rfrence planier larecherche mais devra tre disposent dune solide exprience recherchedans prfrence consultation Chaque outil chaque section compte introduction explique lobjectif lapplication Desrecommandations donnes mesure peut modi ajustpour besoins local gure liste lecturessupplmentaires | |
| ماذا يعني المجتمع امدني (What does Civil Society mean? ) |
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Multimedia | Arabic | Middle East & Africa, Middle East & Africa | advocacy campaign for Vibrant and Free Civil Society nbsp httpyoutubejgTCqHLwpF | ||
| Monitoring and Evaluation plan |
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Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Anti-corruption, Community Paralegal Models | English | Middle East & Africa | TAWLA developed this monitoring and evaluation plan deliver results for the strategic deal with efficiency growth organisation This tool has helped function coordinate well develop improve implementation its project thus work progress hope learn more from other organisations MampE plans our projects also ensures revision | |
| la reglementation nationale Tunisienne en matiere de l´environnement |
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Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management | French | Middle East & Africa | preparation dun guide national contenant les textes loi relatifs protection lenvironnement des ressources naturelles qui reglemente toutes activites ayants impacts sur | |
| Instruments Juridiques pour la sécurisation des droits fonciers des populations à la base: Un guide pour les élus et les populations locales |
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-Tools for Communities | Land & Natural Resource Management | French | Middle East & Africa | guide est produit dans cadre Programme Legal Tools outils Juridiques pour scurisation des droits daccs aux ressources naturelles communauts initi par lInstitut International lEnvironnement Dveloppement IIED partenariat avec Innovations Environnement Afrique IED vise mettre disposition populations base juridiques simples auxquels elles peuvent faire recours lorsquelles sentent que leurs sur foncier les autres sont menacs fait larrive dinvestissements privs domaine tourisme Comme sait investissements caractre touristique ncessitent quelquefois lacquisition grandes superficies terres zones terroirs consquent important soient outilles connatre dfendre lorsque totalement partiellement affectes investisseurs destin lus locaux animateurs veut pratique Pour rendre accessible nous lavons conu sous forme questionsrponses format illustr Toutes questions quil contient ont recueillies auprs travers forums tenus rurales Dias Yne Sindia Centre Mampuya durable faut rappeler sappuie processus qui avait lanc programme russir dcentralisation intgrer conventions locales activits inities | |
| Namibia Access to Justice Paralegal Manual |
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-Tools for Paralegals | Community Paralegal Models | English | Middle East & Africa | This manual for paralegals Namibia developed the Paralegal Association DLA PiperNew Perimeter LLC and University Maryland School Law outlines role well key skills divided into following chapters PART THE ROLE PARALEGAL Chapter The Importance Paralegals Republic PRACTICAL SKILLS FOR PARALEGALS Practical Skills NAMIBIAN SUBSTANTIVE LAW Labour Employment Workers Compensation Discrimination Marriage Divorce Domestic Violence Rape HIV AIDS Wills Inheritance Motor Vehicle Accidents Social Grants CONSTITUTION AND CITIZENSHIP Namibian Constitution Bill Rights Courts Legal Profession Citizenship Public Participation APPENDICES Appendix Code Conduct Members DictionaryGlossary Index Forms | |
| CitizenshipWorks |
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Multimedia | Other | English, Spanish | North America | CitizenshipWorks provides easytouse online tools help low and moderateincome individuals answer important questions about their eligibility for naturalization better understand the process prepare tests The toolkit includes interactive onlineinterview eligibilityfor selfpaced interactivetutorial that explains processstepbystep onlinetutorial applicants Links otherresources information citizenship naturalizationavailable also resources nonprofits provide free cost application services you are nonprofit interested learning more please email atinfoimmigrationadvocatesorg Partners Immigration Advocates Network IAN collaborative effort leading national immigration advocacy legal support organizations designed increase access justice lowincome immigrants develops supports innovative webbased pro bono advocates moderate income they serve Immigrant Legal Resource Center ILRC resource center trainings educational materials advance immigrant rights mission work with educate community sector continue build democratic society values diversity all people | |
| Poverty Reduction and Pro-Poor Growth: The Role of Empowerment |
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Academic Research | Poverty Reduction | English | the decisions and actions poor people themselves that will bring about sustainable improvements their lives livelihoods Inequitable power relations exclude from decisionmaking prevent them taking actionPoor women men need gain exert influence over political economic social processes determine all too often constrain livelihood opportunities Sustainable poverty reduction needs both agents beneficiaries growth directly participate contribute benefit Strengthening peoples organisations providing with more control assets promoting governance improve terms which they engage markets This empowerment combined make much effective reducing report aims build donor understanding empowermentand presents good practice how donors can support through development assistance Itpresents Policy Guidance Note ten Good Practice Notes sectorspecific practical advice Chapter specifically focuses legal its relation propoor | ||
| Moving Forward with the Legal Empowerment of Women in Pakistan |
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Academic Research | Women's Empowerment | English | Asia | There are variety contexts which the empowerment ofwomen Pakistan can considered but none more criticalthan law How womens legal rights framed fundamentalto considering how best advance empowermentAfter situating this SpecialReport reviews key features recent legislation affectingwomens explores controversies surrounding thislegislation and elaborates ongoing challenges developfurther particularly light opposition fromIslamist groups While women inPakistan has seen progress far must done enablethe laws passed implemented bring intoconformity with goals ideals Committee onthe Elimination Discrimination Against Women CEDAW andsecure environment where have viable choices their own lives nbsp | |
| Customary Justice: From Program Design to Impact Evaluation |
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-Tools for Program Directors / Designers, Academic Research, Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Customary Justice Systems, Indigenous Issues | Erica Harper | English | This book intended provide guidance international and national actors the potential role customary justice systems fostering rule law access postconflict postdisaster development contexts The wishes provoke thought among practitioners about objectives interventions encourage critical assessments criteria which programming decisions are made tools assist gauging extent having positive impact | |
| Legal Empowerment: Practitioner’s Perspectives |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Community Paralegal Models, Criminal Justice / Conflict, Customary Justice Systems, Gender-based violence, Health, Land & Natural Resource Management, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Poverty Reduction, Women's Empowerment | International Development Law Organization (IDLO) | English | This edited book legal empowerment approaches justice and development ways that benefit the poor other disadvantaged populations part IDLO series Lessons Learned Narrative Accounts Legal Reform Developing Transition Countries Consistent with animating question this seeks identify reform success stories try understand what accounts for such favorable outcomes Contents What Empowerment Introduction Stephen Golub Taking rules game seriously mainstreaming developmentnbspThe world banks program Caroline Sage Nicholas Menzies Michael Woolcock Empowering access criminal grassroots perspective Adam Stapleton The mystery empowermentnbsplivelihoods community Bolivia Tiernan Mennen Allies unknown social accountability Vivek Maru Justice reforms new frontier engaging customary systemsnbspto legally empower Ewa Wojkowska Johanna Cunningham after dictatorship conflictnbsplegal transitions transitional Jamie OConnell Supporting stability case study NGO services postconflict BosniaHerzegovina Dan Manning Promoting aftermath disasternbspan evaluation posttsunami assistance initiatives Indonesia Erica Harper unwed mothersnbspExperiences Moroccan NGOs Stephanie Willman Bordat Saida Kouzzi Womens inheritance property rights vehicle accelerate progressnbsptowards achievement Millennium Development Goals Nina Berg Haley Horan Deena Patel Land Rights GoalsnbspHow approach can make difference Hamid Rashid Securing land rural experiences Jeffrey Hatcher Lucia Palombi Paul Mathieu Increasing local voice natural resource investmentnbspa Lorenzo Cotula without accountabilitynbsppromoting children Anne Grandjean HIV David Stephens Mia Urbano | |
| Land Matrix |
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Multimedia | Land & Natural Resource Management | English, French, Spanish | The Land Matrix online public database largescale land deals provides visualisation records documenting since data you can explore represent about the entire base remaining are being crosschecked and added together with new provided ongoing basis visualisations offer overview well giving full access down level individual deal interface factual information systematic clear visual accessible format facilitates collection representation encourages citizens researchers governments companies provide improve quality regular analysis phenomenon You through different entry points ranging from summaries that give insights content direct for more indepth exploration | ||
| Curriculum National de Formation du Parajuriste au Mali |
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-Tools for Program Directors / Designers | Community Paralegal Models | French | Middle East & Africa | Curriculum est destin servir formation des formateurs autrement dit parajuristes Mais sadresse tous les acteurs qui interviennent dans domainede vulgarisation droit Ongs associations pouvoirspublics lensemble partenaires dveloppement quiinterviennent cadre renforcement dmocratiede lEtat bonne gouvernance droits delhomme nbsp | |
| Caring for Survivors of Sexual Violence in Emergencies: Participant Manual |
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-Tools for Paralegals | Gender-based violence | English | This workshop designed introduce participants new resource related addressing genderbased violence conflict and other emergency affected contexts The Caring for Survivors Training assist all professionals who come into direct contact with survivors understand key concepts apply basic engagement skills that promote the safety wellbeing Objectives working including gender GBV multisectoral programming review possible biopsychosocial consequences needs provide regardless their professional responsibilities practical methods communicating increase survivor comfort facilitate coping thorough understanding dynamics physical psychosocial sexual conflictaffected areas settings tools use survivorcentred when engaging childsurvivors practise contextspecific roles information different actors about protection activities justice mechanisms involving | ||
| Caring for Survivors of Sexual Violence in Emergencies: Facilitator Manual |
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-Tools for Paralegals | Gender-based violence | English | The Caring for Survivors training manual provides information and skill development various aspects related communication engagement with sexual violence survivors conflictaffected countries complex emergencies also focuses medical treatment designed professional health care providers such physicians workers well members the legal profession police womens groups other concerned community teachers religious divided two parts first part all participants who deal different sectors contexts goal these general psychosocial modules Module that will understand impact know how respond levels They empowered demonstrate within their respective responsibilities survivorcentred attitude use skills taught ensure protection both physical Finally they learn can themselves engage settings healthworkers only focus clinical management rape Through provision develop technical knowledge order provide after Although curriculum prioritizes importance recovery recognizes evidence collection particularly testimony survivor objective documentation has been developed basis international research experiences tools instruments prepared agencies NGOs | ||
| Empowering the people: Dnipropetrovsk region |
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Multimedia | Land & Natural Resource Management | Ukrainian | Europe | httpvimeocom | |
| Empowering the people: Kherson region |
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Multimedia | Land & Natural Resource Management | English, Ukrainian | Europe | Stara Zburyivka village Kherson region Local officials illegally distributed hectares the best land that belongs community shills The head who filed lawsuit against them was imprisoned Farmers united founded selfdefence committee and started defend their rights defence farmers are aided Community Law Center Regional Charity Health Fund created under support International Renaissance Foundation cooperation with Open Society Justice Initiative Budapest within Legal Empowerment Poor Ukraine provides legal assistance three other local villages also assists Victor Marunyak court hearings still Now there Centers Ukrainian English subtitles httpvimeocom | |
| Empowering the People: Lugansk Region |
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Multimedia | Land & Natural Resource Management | English, Ukrainian | Europe | This video was produced the partners initiative Legal Empowerment Poor supported International Renaissance Foundation The plot illustrates work Community Law Center Novopskov and Novopskovskomu district Lugansk region support community initiatives create service cooperatives milk processors Ukrainian with English subtitles httpvimeocom | |
| Implementation of General Assembly resolution 64/215 on legal empowerment of the poor and eradication of poverty |
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Other | Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition, Other | English | The present report submitted pursuant General Assembly resolution finds that expanding access justice and the rule law important forpoverty reduction achievement internationally agreed development goalsLegal empowerment poor requires improvements administration ofjustice expansion identity birth registration well repeal lawsthat impede from exercising their rights Key legal instruments for povertyreduction include propoor property land assets employmentpolicy regulatory frameworks protect labour increase employment afair inclusive socially responsible private sector quality education andtraining target vulnerable populations particular Furthermore internationalcooperation efforts should cognizant conducive Finally national local contexts including traditional informaldispute mechanisms must considered any reforms aimed atempowering people living poverty | ||
| Access to Justice Assessments in the Asia Pacific: A Review of Experiences and Tools from the Region |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments, Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition | English | Asia, Asia | This publication result comprehensive study over access justice assessments led UNDP well some external assessment conducted between and countries namely Bangladesh Cambodia India Indonesia Lao Peoples Democratic Republic Maldives Mongolia Nepal Pakistan Philippines Sri Lanka Thailand TimorLeste Vanuatu Vietnam The provides case studies analyses the approaches strategies methodologies tools used various Its ultimate purpose assist practitioners conducting improving their region elsewhere report has three parts Part One Chapters discusses concept basics application human rightsbased approach lays out why how assess can serve means understanding identifying peoples needs barriers accessing capacity gaps structural problems encompassing legal social economic political cultural challenges Two Chapter reviews key considerations for effective Access Justice Assessments contends that each unique context specific thus uniform methodology successful neither possible nor necessary same time notes decades worth does provide general ensure effectiveness efficiency credibility acceptance Three includes analysis including conceptual objectives results suggestions may useful with examples also contains extensive appendixes questionnaires employed different capture reality varying situations contexts people this guide accessto | |
| Guidelines for Combating Child Labor Among Indigenous and Tribal Peoples |
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Academic Research | Children's Rights & Education, Indigenous Issues | English | The following guidelines have been elaborated orderto provide practical guidance ILO staff and partnerson how address the specic needs rights ofindigenous peoples thus combat child labouramong indigenous children elaboration was undertaken incollaboration between two specialised programmes ILOThe International Programme Eliminate ChildLabour IPEC andThe Promote Policy onIndigenous Tribal Peoples PRO should seen supplement thevery comprehensive IPECTime Bound TBP which constitutean important frame reference many casescan used work towards elimination labour However guidelinesaddress general not take intoaccount specicities andtheir These call for considerationsapproaches solutions nbsp | ||
| Sierra Leone Legal Aid Bill (Draft) |
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Laws & Policies | Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition | Middle East & Africa | Draft Sierra Leones Legal Aid Bill approved Office the AttorneyGeneral The recognizes contributions paralegals national justice system and currently being reviewed Judges Committee useful resource for groups developing legislation advocating state recognition | ||
| Application of Convention 169 Casebook |
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Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Indigenous Issues | English | Latin America | This casebook compiles selection judicial decisions which ILO convention hasbeen relied upon from the interAmerican human rights bodies and ten countries theregion The case summaries are presented standardized manner identifying country courtthe judgment summary facts giving rise legal arguments andthe courts decision with emphasis role Convention casesummaries also include list provisions applied excerpts particularly relevantparagraphs final section comments importance theinnovations that introduces relation application some cases made interpretation Whererelevant references then reports supervisory bodiesdealing issues similar those raised court All supervisorybodies referred may consulted Applis iloleX databases available ILOwebsite wwwiloorgnormes | |
| Obligation Ignored: Why International Law Requires the United States to Provide Adequate Civil Legal Aid, What the United States is Doing Instead, and How Legal Empowerment Can Help |
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Academic Research | Community Paralegal Models, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition, Poverty Reduction | English | North America | law review article arguing that the has international legal obligation provide adequate civil aid setting forth nature and scope proposing empowerment techniques way meet | |
| Des droits au coeur du “village”: le travail des parajuristes au Mali |
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Academic Research | Community Paralegal Models | Leandro Varison | French | Middle East & Africa, Middle East & Africa | article dcrit les mthodes modes travail des parajuristes Mali sagit dfinir fonction ltat droit manire crative cratif est mis place par villageois choisis leurs communauts pour suivre une formation qui leur permettra dinformer orienter population village Lauteur conclut que parajuridisme connu dveloppement considrable revanche lampleur son action entrane complexits auxquelles devront rpondre Pour conclure selon lauteur connat rsultats favorables lmancipation conquiert citoyennet plus active biais dun nouveau Selon lui ses prolongements nous montreront sauront viter piges monisme totalisant uniformisant |
| 民间组织项目运作: 学员手册 (NGO Program Operation: Student Handbook) |
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-Tools for Program Directors / Designers, Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Other | Chinese | Asia | NGO Program Operation Planning Fundraising and Participatory Management student handbook for fourday capacity building module The covers issues such tools the evaluation development rural programs principles strategies sources fundraising management funding Each lesson contains goals order activities lecture contentnotes Chinese | |
| 草根组织启动: 教师手册 (Launching a Grassroots Organization: Teacher’s Handbook) |
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-Tools for Program Directors / Designers | Other | Chinese | Asia | This tool Launching Grassroots Organization Social Vision Action and Community Participation Teachers Handbook that outlines day capacity building module for NGOs The includes lesson plans each topic including objectives student achievement goals discussionactivity guides appendix gives examples course pretest case study materials can used range Chinese | |
| 让法律为每一个人服务 (Making the Law Work for Everyone) |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Labor / Employment, Land & Natural Resource Management | Chinese | Making the Law Work for Everyone Chinese version final report United Nations Commission Legal Empowerment Poor | ||
| 致穷人的司法：自下而上的法律发展合作 (Justice for the Poor: Bottom-up Legal Development Cooperation) |
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Academic Research | Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Poverty Reduction | Chinese | Asia | This article Justice for the Poor Bottomup Legal Development Cooperation explores connections between ideas legal empowerment access justice rule law reform and grassroots work Chinese | |
| A Legal Empowerment Strategy for Latin American Poor: A Reading of the National Consultations of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor |
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Academic Research | Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition, Other | Adriana Ruiz-Restrepo | English | Latin America | Based reading the national consultations independentCommission Legal Empowerment Poor Latin America thispaper argues that empowerment strategies based law must begin inthe realm governance and poor according voices fromthe ground require specific for interventions regard poverty reduction responsiveness state andthrough fostering bottomup topdown communicationswithin development process Only then argued will formalrules rights justice gain relevance Finally paperargues legal strategy regionthat line with UNDPs role catalyst systemic change throughthe implementation networks policy makers professionalsand civil society members |
| 什么是法律赋权？(What is Legal Empowerment?) |
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Academic Research | Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Poverty Reduction | Chinese | Asia | This article entitled What Legal Empowerment International Development Cooperation and Access Justice provides overview the evolution field Special emphasis given Asian Bank Commission Poor Chinese | |
| Outreach legal services to people with complex needs: What works? |
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-Tools for Paralegals, Academic Research | Community Paralegal Models, Indigenous Issues, Other | Suzie Forell and Abigail Gray, Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales | English | Europe | This paper reviews outreach model legal service delivery disadvantaged people with complex needs define services face assistance and advice delivered away from the primary serviceoffice places accessible target group Telephone based excluded this review focus who are marginalised socially result issues such homelessness disability unresolved mental health Indigenous status severe financial hardship unemployment remote location Their may over above their Service providers significant challenges providing People facing disadvantage often have multiple interrelated including tend not approach for particular difficulties working lawyers address problems Grunseit Coumarelos Forell Issues crisis point before clients reach due sometimes chaotic lives documents capacity required work adviser problem hand Outreach strategy commonly employed public assist see Legal Aid NSW broad range provided under banner For example include welfare agencies pro bono clinics homeless regular sessions run community centres locations civil family law Aboriginal Services Our initial analysis literature indicated that number individual programs been evaluated debt which provide The purpose report draw together best available evidence across these studies order practical information currently deliver considering option |
| Legal Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceptions Survey |
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Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition | English | Middle East & Africa | This survey was developed the Open Society Justice Initiative and BRAC for scaleup justice services Sierra Leone measures knowledge attitudes perceptions participants towards system | |
| Community-Based Paralegals: A Practitioner’s Guide |
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-Tools for Program Directors / Designers, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Community Paralegal Models | Paralegals can powerful tool justice helping resolve disputes and empower individual clients whole communities Living working the they serve communitybased paralegals combine their knowledge formal system with mediation community education help poor marginalized address problems Less expensive than lawyers often able generate results outside more quickly legal process are especially effective transitional postconflict developing countries Sierra Leone for examplewhere there only judges about meet needs over three million peopleparalegals land negotiate divorce settlements hold government officials accountable Perhaps importantly educate rights increasing citizens agency them demand from governments This howto guide provides information all aspects establishing operating paralegal program assessing communitys training resolving The book includes case studies curricula client intake forms other materials drawn programs Cambodia Hungary Philippines elsewhere CommunityBased Practitioners Guide should useful anyone who wants start new improve existing one learn empowerment | |||
| Regulation on Paralegals- Republic of Moldova (Russian) |
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Laws & Policies | Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition | Russian | Europe | The Regulation paralegals was adopted the National Legal Aid Council and published regulation defines paralegal person highly respected local community with incomplete legal studies complete higher education tertiary who not practicing lawyer after special training qualified provide primary state guaranteed aid members paid budget further establishes rules regarding selection hiring for providing relations its Territorial Offices well process quality assurance reporting monitoring evaluation date there are only Moldova that were funded Soros FoundationMoldova support Swedish Government Sida during pilot project For HRGGP OSI supporting out funds have yet been committed but efforts ongoing respect refers role provider leaving outside other empowering activities piloted has general clause namely ensured accreditation scheme still needs developed quite detailed remains seen how practical Overall good step advance establishment | |
| Access to Justice and Legal Aid in East Africa |
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Academic Research, Laws & Policies | Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition | English | Middle East & Africa | This report which has been carried out the Danish Institute for Human Rightsbased cooperation with East Africa Law Society presents comparativeanalysis access justice and legal aid Kenya Uganda Tanzania The studyis part followup process December Kigali Conference Accessto Justice Legal Aid organised HumanRights Rwandan Forum whichsought address challenges within African context achieving goals ofthe Kyiv Declaration Right present should also understood light other important initiatives undertaken field including Lilongwe organisedby Penal Reform International main purpose this study identify trends provision inKenya description practicesused region identification linkages between various providers provides platform offering recommendations forthe stakeholders way planning base advocacy strategies improved countries covered particular regard strengthening coordination betweenthe | |
| A Framework for Strengthening Access to Justice in Indonesia |
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Laws & Policies | Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition | English | Asia | Consolidating current Government Indonesia policy access justice into clear andcoherent National Strategy with concrete action plan will build stronger justiceinstitutions reduce poverty and empower communities take control their own livesand turn iii enhance national security This briefing note intended assist the Working Group members defining scope ofthe | |
| Progress of the World’s Women: In Pursuit of Justice |
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Academic Research | Women's Empowerment | English | What are the legal frameworks place ensure womens rights and access justice How these laws translate into equality practice interventions needed make reality rather than aspiration for women These some questions considered this first major Women report demonstrates that whilst collectively desired individually defined experienced around world measures progress sets out challenges must overcome order realise power law shape societies better The divided five main sections chain pluralism during after conflict gender Millennium Development Goals There also annexes containing range quantitative data selection groundbreaking cases have changed lives Each section uses case study examples engaging visualisation concludes with ten recommendations systems work Support organisations onestop shops specialised services reduce attrition Implement gendersensitive reform Use quotas boost number legislators Put front line enforcement Train judges monitor decisions Increase courts truth commissions genderresponsive reparations programmes Invest heart Chapter Legal Pluralism Justice outlines empowerment community based paralegal programs help navigate plural | ||
| Regulation on Paralegals, Republic of Moldova (Romanian) |
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Laws & Policies | Community Paralegal Models, Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition | Romanian | Europe, Europe | The Regulation paralegals was adopted the National Legal Aid Council and published regulation defines paralegal person highly respected local community with incomplete legal studies complete higher education tertiary who not practicing lawyer after special training qualified provide primary state guaranteed aid members paid budget further establishes rules regarding selection hiring for providing relations its Territorial Offices well process quality assurance reporting monitoring evaluation date there are only Moldova that were funded Soros FoundationMoldova support Swedish Government Sida during pilot project For HRGGP OSI supporting out funds have yet been committed but efforts ongoing respect refers role provider leaving outside other empowering activities piloted has general clause namely ensured accreditation scheme still needs developed quite detailed remains seen how practical Overall good step advance establishment | |
| NREGA in Katni – Guaranteed Jobs or Guaranteed Corruption |
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Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Anti-corruption, Right to Information | English | Asia | While the dedicated website National Rural Employment Guarantee Act httpnreganicin contains stories successful implementation different parts country for people living villages Katni corruption and mismanagement are only guarantee This report compiled Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative highlights several these grievances | |
| Background Paper on Access to Justice Indicators in the Asia-Pacific Region |
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Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Other | English | Asia, Asia | This paper initial attempt develop indicators that can utilized forcomparing access justice the AsiaPacific region These wereadopted and collated from array sources include governmental civilsociety international development organizations The therightsbased approach framework developed UNDP JusticeInitiative dimensions for categorization these nbsp | |
| Video Resources on ILO Convention No. 169 |
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Multimedia | Indigenous Issues | English | collection videos expert commentary surrounding indigenous issues and rights under ILO Convention Topics include identity Africa implementation use processes for enforcing the other topics Videos are available streaming download high low bandwidth resolution | ||
| Programming for Justice: Access for All- A Practitioner’s Guide to a Human Rights-Based Approach to Access to Justice |
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-Tools for Program Directors / Designers, Case Studies & Impact Assessments, Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Other | English | Drawing experiences and lessons learned from different access justice interventions within the AsiaPacific sometimes beyond this Practitioners Guide discusses wide range obstacles capacity development strategies enhance The formal informal systems legal aid empowerment well specific facing disadvantaged groups those conflict situations terms their ability are all examined sections guide Main include Methods combining goals scope sector line with human rightsbased approaches step plan for practitioners develop programmes involving steps such clear definition prioritisation ensuring participation Tailored responses problems designed demonstrated | ||
| Community Legal Teaching for Street Children Communities in Jakarta |
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-Tools for Communities, Multimedia | Children's Rights & Education | Bahasa Indonesia | Asia | httpwwwyoutubecomwatchvfTfKFvzA Video Bahasa Indonesia with English subtitles Produced the Indonesian Legal Resource Center | |
| “Too Far Removed from the People-” Access to Justice for the Poor: The Case of Latin America |
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Academic Research | Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Other, Poverty Reduction | Roberto Gargarella | English | Latin America | This paper discusses access justice for the poor Latin American countries takes its cue from legal paradox provisions economic and social rights are generously incorporated into framework most yet they score poorly terms accommodating those The author enumerates problems facing when seeking redress through court system lack information high costs corruption excessive formalism fear mistrust inordinate delays geographical distance While acknowledging significance these obstacles goes discuss very structure judiciaries deliberately insulated populace points representation bench significant minorities especially underprivileged fact that judiciary basically reactive institution which has frustrated activism rulings final part reviews informal mechanisms local level gradual acknowledgement such approaches formal institutions |
| Indigenous Children and Child Labor |
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-Tools for Communities | Indigenous Issues | English | This leaflet describes the issues surrounding indigenous children and child labor ILO Conventions standards that protect from unlawful practices | ||
| Right to Information restores people’s right to water in Keolari |
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Other | Health, Right to Information | English | Asia | report the enabling effect RTI protect and enforce fundamental social economic rights According Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative experience residents Keolari India demonstrates how information accessibility can restore peoples right water | |
| “Stealing Money Meant for Children”- Right to Information |
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Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Anti-corruption, Children's Rights & Education, Right to Information | English | Asia | twopart story compiled the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative uncovering corruption Indus Child Labor Project educational organization for child laborers funded International Organization | |
| Yogakshemam Vahāmyaham: At Snail’s Pace, Unless You Prod Me With Right to Information |
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Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Right to Information | English | Asia | compelling case study about the misuse Indias Right Information Act settle grievances The story widows experience with her husbands life insurance company after his death | |
| Right to Information helps a youth get his due |
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Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Labor / Employment, Right to Information | English | Asia | Deepak Vishwakarma lives village Dharwara Katni district Madhya Pradesh His father was employed with the Public Works Department State Government time keeper passed away while service The has policy providing employment member bereaved family compassionate grounds such cases eldest son only years old his fathers death could not avail himself this job opportunity Deepaks mother assured that would given government soon Class XII exams Download tool find out how case turned nbsp | |
| The Right to Information: An Aid for Litigation |
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Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Cases Involving Multinational Corporations, Criminal Justice / Conflict, Family / Domestic Disputes, Health, Labor / Employment, Land & Natural Resource Management, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Right to Information | English | Asia | Case studies the use right information RTI for litigation India Cases discussed include issues such environment family matters licenses permits and authorizations land housing criminal law recruitment rights marginalized access court records | |
| Compliance with the Right to Information Act: A Survey |
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Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Right to Information | English | Asia | Despite the implementation Right Information Act India there perception among civil society organizations that public authorities are still lagging terms compliance with law CHRI and Nagarik Adhikar Kendra Kalol designed this survey assess their obligations under RTI Panchmahals district | |
| RTI revives Panchayat Social Justice Committees in Gujarat |
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Other | Right to Information | English | Asia | Report the status Right Information implementation Gujarat commissioned Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative | |
| The Land Security Agenda: How Investor Risks in Farmland Create Opportunities for Sustainability |
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Academic Research | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | This report the Earth Security Initiative puts question arable land center new security agenda The risks national economies political stability and social cohesion argues must now acknowledged dealt with interest farmland commodities investments accelerates over next decade risk management for investors governments focus creating longterm value shows interdependence that soil resilience human rights access water has these why all three considered together within single framework introduces action which seeks mobilize Investors manage their portfolios opportunities create people performance reviews fund managers preinvestment duediligence processes integrate criteria Governments regulate acquisitions according applying them domestic foreign alike Transparency trends enables civil society assess nations customary held communities are fully recognized ensuring own assets condition prosperity | ||
| Audit of Key Legislation in Ghana for Information Access Opportunities |
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Laws & Policies | Right to Information | English | Middle East & Africa | The focus this research examine existing Ghanaian sources law relating access information While article the Constitution Republic Ghana guarantees every person right subject qualifications and such laws are necessary democratic society there enabling legislation yet time writing report Right Information RTI Bill under consideration Parliament absence enactment however that support facilitate grant certain government documents public officials political figures etc These found itself Acts subsidiary hoped collation can serve useful purpose for civil activists their efforts critical which may used hold accountable make claims demands well relevant nonstate actors they interim pending passage also standard measure rights new would guarantee Ghanaians Identifying these provisions harmonising all into uniform regime when proposed becomes | |
| The Power of Using the Right to Information Act in Bangladesh |
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Academic Research, Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Health, Right to Information | English | Asia | This report documents the experiences NGOs working field and how RTI Act has had impact individuals The fifteen stories included highlight processes through which people requested obtained used information well immediate Right Information Bangladesh was passed March order for achieve its potential critical that effectively implemented | |
| Legal Empowerment for Women and Disadvantaged Groups |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Poverty Reduction, Women's Empowerment | English | Asia | This report features three pilot projects Bangladesh Indonesia and Pakistan overview the Asian Development Banks technical assistance for legal empowerment addition methods measuring impact programs also addressed project evaluation included starts page | |
| The PLC Manual – A Manual for Paralegals Conducting Paralegal Aid Clinics (PLCs) in Prisons |
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-Tools for Paralegals | Criminal Justice / Conflict | English | The Paralegal Clinicmanual teaches strategies operate legal aid clinics prisons and handbook training tool for paralegals working Includes lesson plans learning activities discussion prompts other tools use trainings | ||
| Case Study: Discrimination and violation of the right to education- Guatemala |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments, Other | Children's Rights & Education | English | Latin America | report the situation education and discrimination against indigenous people Guatemala prepared for Durban Review | |
| What is Bail Poster |
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-Tools for Communities | Criminal Justice / Conflict | easy use poster describing the bail process for defendants and paralegals | |||
| Measuring progress toward safety and justice: a global guide to the design of performance indicators across the justice sector |
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Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Criminal Justice / Conflict, Other | Vera Institute of Justice | English | This guide the design performance indicators written for government officials and program managers around world who want improve delivery safety security access justice Produced Vera Institute Justice | |
| Video: Lawyer for the People |
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Multimedia | Legal Aid & Public Interest Law | Asia | This part video showcases the work Alternative Law Groups based thePhilippines and featuresAttorney Marlon Manuel The subtitled English Available httpwwwyoutubecomwatchvxnzLzLjRHAc httpwwwyoutubecomwatchveqsUzncJisI httpwwwyoutubecomwatchvlwaJCmSbY httpwwwyoutubecomwatchvLrrPDXTI | ||
| Legal Aid Bill- Indonesia |
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Laws & Policies | Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition | Asia | Text the draft Indonesian Law recognizing access justice and protection human rights guaranteed State | ||
| Analyzing education budgets through the lens of human rights: A two step process |
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Other | Children's Rights & Education | English | Guide for analyzing the effectiveness education budgets through rightsbased approach Published Right Education project | ||
| The Missing Link: Human Rights Advocacy and Gender Equality in Schools |
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Academic Research | Children's Rights & Education, Women's Empowerment | English | Paper presented the UNGEI Global Conference Engendering Empowerment Education and Equality Dakar Senegal May | ||
| Background Paper on Access to Justice Indicators in the Asia-Pacific Region |
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Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Other | English | Asia | This paper reviews the indicators used measure impacts and processes access justice justicerelated programs across AsiaPacific region their limitations assess improvements poor disadvantaged groups | |
| Indonesia’s Revitalization of Legal Aid (RLA) Program: Strengthening Legal Services for the Poor |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Community Paralegal Models, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Poverty Reduction | English | Asia | Revitalization Legal Aid RLA projectworking improve access justice for poor communities Indonesia provides legal aid through posko posts This brief report reviews the program case study and underscores lessons learned implementation empowerment programs | |
| Right to Education Indicators Concept Paper |
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Academic Research, Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Children's Rights & Education, Health | English | This Concept Paper outlines the broader issues which have been addressed order establish set right education indicators based framework developed Katarina Tomaevski former Special Rapporteur explains choices made when developing these and discusses human rights with focus | ||
| Guardianship, Inheritance and Land Law in Post-Tsunami Aceh |
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Academic Research | Family / Domestic Disputes, Land & Natural Resource Management, Women's Empowerment | English | Asia | This guidebook details the legal principles processes and institutions relevant resolution land inheritance guardianship disputes posttsunami Aceh There particular focus laws applicable Muslims who make majority population Teh intends practical tool assist tsunamiaffected communities deal with problems | |
| A Framework for Strengthening Access to Justice in Indonesia |
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Academic Research | Poverty Reduction | English | Asia, Asia | This report considers how complement justice reforms Indcomprehensive sector require dual track strategy which links topdown institutional reform and bottomup access demand for better | |
| The Right to Education |
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Academic Research | Children's Rights & Education | Submission for the NGO Consultation Draft Guiding Principles Extreme Poverty and Human Rights The rights poor Geneva January nbsp | |||
| Barriers to Justice in Sierra Leone |
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Academic Research | Criminal Justice / Conflict, Poverty Reduction, Women's Empowerment | Pamela Dale | English | Middle East & Africa | This article brief review access justice Sierra Leone Pamela Dale concludes that comprehensive approach reform requires understanding and engagement with customary systems |
| Promoting Rights in Schools |
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-Tools for Communities, -Tools for Paralegals | Children's Rights & Education | North America | Aimed actively engaging parents children teachers unions communities and local civil society organisations collectively monitoring improving the quality public education PRS offers set practical tools that can used basis for mobilisation advocacy campaigning The pack provides four key resources charter rights which when fulfilled will enable all complete good participatory methodology forusing chartercollecting analysing using data andconsolidating information into citizens reports could development Action Plans encourage discussions reviews district national levels series rightsbased indicators organised survey format users capture systematic manner compilation international human references providing foundations legitimacy builds frameworks describe ideal school Its supports links between programme work level policy efforts forums process important outcome only through stakeholders from developing collecting debating findings promote greater awareness what needs change how hope this provide with unique ability gather evidence state their system enabling them hold duty bearers accountable inclusive sustainable solutions ensure learning | ||
| Brief on human rights and the right to education in emergencies |
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Academic Research | Children's Rights & Education | English | Input the revision Interagency Network for Education Emergencies Minimum Standards Handbook | ||
| Video: Incubator for Justice presentation – Fred Rooney |
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Multimedia | Labor / Employment, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Poverty Reduction | English | North America | March video Fred Rooneys presentation Thomas Jefferson Law School how the Incubator for Justice was created CUNY first nation business incubator alumni Unlike other incubatorbusiness models Laws has twin goal helping lawyers learn run their own law practicewhile them become lowincome communities that often lack access outstanding lowcost legal representation Recommended | |
| CLRN Incubator: Beyond a Legal Education |
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Other | Labor / Employment, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Poverty Reduction | English | North America | Article CUNY Laws business incubator program for alumni Law created the first nation Unlike other incubatorbusiness models Incubator Justice has twin goal helping lawyers learn how run their own law practicewhile them become lowincome communities that often lack access outstanding lowcost legal representation Recommended | |
| CUNY to Train Start-Up Lawyers in Business Basics to Enhance Justice |
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Other | Labor / Employment, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Poverty Reduction | English | North America | Article reviews CUNY Law Schools Community Legal Resource Network CLRN and its program train recent alumni set their own legal practice devoted clients underserved communities Recommended Incubator for Justice | |
| Incubators give birth to flocks of solo practitioners |
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Other | Labor / Employment, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Poverty Reduction | English | North America | This article reviews law schoolrelated programs aimed helping new lawyers set their own practice Various models exist several have clear civil justice emphasis while others are more businessoriented Published the National Law Journal Recommended for Incubator Justice | |
| CUNY Incubator Program to Help New Law Grads Go Solo Is Now a Model for Other Schools |
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Other | Labor / Employment, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Poverty Reduction | English | North America | Article CUNY Laws Incubator program and how other law schools the are following model These programs aim help students establish small practice Published ABA Journal Recommended for Justice | |
| Pace Plans ‘Legal Residency Program’ |
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Other | Labor / Employment, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law | English | North America | This article reviews recent schoolsupported law firms legal residency programs schools such Pace Law School and City University New York Includes information Incubator for Justice part CUNYs Community Legal Resource Network Published the Journal CUNY created first nation business incubator alumni Unlike other incubatorbusiness models Laws has twin goal helping lawyers learn how run their own practicewhile them become lowincome communities that often lack access outstanding lowcost representation Recommended | |
| Majority in US can’t afford to hire lawyers |
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Other | Labor / Employment, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Poverty Reduction | English | North America | News article about economic constraints related access justice the United States Published Sakal Times India Recommended Incubator for Justice | |
| SLS plans incubators for creating law entrepreneurs |
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Other | Labor / Employment, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Poverty Reduction | English | North America | Article about The Symbiosis Law School SLS and City University New York CUNY coming together start program for lawyers committed community service Published the Sakal Times created first nation business incubator alumni Unlike other incubatorbusiness models Laws Incubator Justice has twin goal helping learn how run their own law practicewhile them become lowincome communities that often lack access outstanding lowcost legal representation Recommended | |
| NewsMaker Interview — Fred Rooney on the CUNY Incubator |
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Other | Labor / Employment, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Poverty Reduction | English | North America | Newsmaker Interview with Fred Rooneyof CUNY Law School Rooneydirects CUNYs Community Legal Resource Netowrk and along Sue Bryant created the Incubator for Justice program Recommended | |
| New incubator helps new lawyers start solo practices |
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Other | Labor / Employment, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Poverty Reduction | English | North America | article the Columbus Bar Associationsyearlong lawyer incubator Inc Published The Dispatch Recommended Incubator for Justice | |
| Lawyers Learn How to Be Businesslike |
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Other | Labor / Employment, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Poverty Reduction | English | North America | Article reviews CUNY Laws Incubator program which offers training new lawyers aspects running private practice including needed business knowledge Published the New York Times Law created first nation incubator for alumni Unlike other incubatorbusiness models Justice has twin goal helping learn how run their own law practicewhile them become lowincome communities that often lack access outstanding lowcost legal representation Recommended | |
| Blog: Law School Supported Incubator Programs Starting to Catch On |
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Other | Labor / Employment, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Poverty Reduction | English | North America | Post from the Law Librarian Blog about law school incubator programs that are designed help grads launch careers solo practitioners CUNY created first nation business for alumni Unlike other incubatorbusiness models Laws Incubator Justice has twin goal helping lawyers learn how run their own practicewhile them become lowincome communities often lack access outstanding lowcost legal representation Recommended | |
| Blog: How Do You Make It Work as a Sole Practitioner? |
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Other | Labor / Employment, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Poverty Reduction | English | North America | Article CUNY Laws program that encourages grads start solo practices their own communities where theres need for lawyers and many residents cant afford legal services Published the Wall Street Journal Law created first nation business incubator alumni Unlike other incubatorbusiness models Incubator Justice has twin goal helping learn how run law practicewhile them become lowincome often lack access outstanding lowcost representation Recommended | |
| Are Law Schools About To Start Teaching Law Students How To Practice Law? |
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Other | Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Poverty Reduction | English | North America | Articleblog written about the need change legal education United States incorporate practical Previous posts address how doing would improve access justice Recommended Incubator for Justice | |
| Incubator for Justice: Handbook |
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-Tools for Program Directors / Designers | Labor / Employment, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Poverty Reduction | English | North America, Asia | handbook given Incubator participants that set forth house rules and regulations CUNY Law created the first nation business incubator for alumni Unlike other incubatorbusiness models Laws Justice has twin goal helping lawyers learn how run their own law practicewhile them become lowincome communities often lack access outstanding lowcost legal representation Recommended | |
| Guia Metodológica para la Formación de Paralegales Comunitarios |
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-Tools for Program Directors / Designers | Community Paralegal Models | Latin America | Guia Metodolgica para formacin paralegales comunitarios Guide for the training and development community based paralegals | ||
| Making Law Work: Restructuring Land Relations in Africa |
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Academic Research | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | Middle East & Africa | This article examines the appropriate role for law play land reform Africa Factors essential success and how these factors relate are also discussed Recommended rights toolkit | |
| Women, Wives and Land Rights in Africa: Situating Gender Beyond the Household in the Debate Over Land Policy and Changing Tenure Systems |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | Middle East & Africa | This article argues that gender relations are central land systems change but these will not addressed assumptions evolutionary models landholding dominate policy debates Tanzania used case studynbsp | |
| Rising Global Interest in Farmland: Can it Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits? |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management, Poverty Reduction | The World Bank | English | Asia, Latin America, Europe, Latin America, Middle East & Africa | This report examines recent land expansion and compares current demand that the past Legal policy institutional frameworks from various countries are also examined with aim identifying best practices |
| African Enclosures: a default mode of development? |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | Middle East & Africa | This article reviews recent research governance changing land and water use African dryland areas | |
| Policy Discourses on Women’s Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Re-turn to the Customary |
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Academic Research | Land & Natural Resource Management, Women's Empowerment | English | Middle East & Africa | This paper examines current policy discussions and their relation womens land rights Africa Particular emphasis given the potential customary tenure systems | |
| Rangeland tenure and pastoral development in Botswana: Is there a future for community-based management? |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | Middle East & Africa | Report looks the history and current policy Botswanas land tenure systems including Indigenous Vegetation Project Part CASSPLAAS occasional paper series | |
| Law making in an African context: the 1997 Mozambican Land Law |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | Middle East & Africa | This report examines Mozambiques land law which did not aim change the structure ownership Mozambique but recognize existing rights | |
| Denied Our Rights: Children, Women and Inheritance in Mozambique |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Family / Domestic Disputes, Land & Natural Resource Management, Poverty Reduction, Women's Empowerment | English | Middle East & Africa | report that examines inheritance law and practice Mozambique the effects such practices women children especially context HIVAIDS epidemic | |
| Decentralization: An Enabling Policy for Local Land Management |
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Academic Research | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | Middle East & Africa | Article examines the intersection between decentralization and land rights West Africa Potential benefits risks necessary conditions for successful decentralizationare discussed | |
| Robust Property Rights Institutions to Manage Local and Global Commons |
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Academic Research | Land & Natural Resource Management | Rachael Knight | English | Latin America, Asia, Latin America | Presentation slides from the World Bank Annual Conference Land held April |
| Land policy development in East Africa: a survey of recent trends |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | Middle East & Africa | Reviews land policy the region from colonization through today with recommendations about future making Paper prepared for DFID workshop Land Rights and Sustainable Development SubSaharan Africa | |
| Botswana’s Experience on Recognizing Traditional Land Rights on a Large Scale |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | Middle East & Africa | Paper describes the gradual changes and unique solutions Botswanas land tenure system | |
| The Land Campaign in Mozambique |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | Middle East & Africa | description campaign objectives organization and materials | |
| Biting the bullet: how to secure access to drylands resources for multiple users |
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Academic Research | Land & Natural Resource Management | International Food Policy Research Institute | English | Middle East & Africa | Report discusses tensions between statutory law and customary rights the efforts secure access drylands Emphasis placed process dealing with these issues rather than content Originally part UNDPILC Workshop |
| A Narrative on Land Law Reform in Uganda |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management | Rachael Knight | Middle East & Africa | Paper presented Lincoln Institute course Comparative Policy Perspectives Urban Land Market Reform Eastern Europe Southern Africa and Latin America | |
| Patriarchy and women’s land rights in Botswana |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management, Women's Empowerment | English | Middle East & Africa | This article looks womens access control and ownership land Botswana examining the relationship between patriarchal systems rights | |
| ‘Best practice’ options for the legal recognition of customary tenure |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | Asia, Oceania, Middle East & Africa | This article explores the possibility model for legal recognition customary land tenure with reference cases Africa Papua New Guinea and South Pacific The author suggests insecurity should determine nature interventions | |
| Inheritance law in Tanzania: the impoverishment of windows and daughters |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Family / Domestic Disputes, Land & Natural Resource Management, Poverty Reduction, Women's Empowerment | English | Middle East & Africa | This study reviews inheritance law Tanzania including the current system effects women and recommended reforms | |
| Winners and losers: privatising the commons in Botswana |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management | International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) | English | Middle East & Africa | This study provides and overview the privatization commons Botswana Relevant for rangeland policy issues other countries well nbsp |
| Land grab or development opportunity? Agricultural investment and international land deals in Africa |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Cases Involving Multinational Corporations, Land & Natural Resource Management | International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) | English | Middle East & Africa | This study the result extensive research international land deals and their impacts several countries Africa The report covers trends drivers contracts negotiation agreements preliminary effects local communities nbsp |
| Better land access for the rural poor: Lessons from experience and challenges ahead |
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Academic Research | Land & Natural Resource Management, Poverty Reduction | International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) | English | Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East & Africa | This reports examines links between land access and poverty reduction drawing lessons from Africa Asia Latin America Some reference also made reforms Central Eastern Europe |
| Land Tenure and Administration in Africa: Lessons of Experience and Emerging Issues |
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Academic Research | Land & Natural Resource Management | International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) | English | Middle East & Africa | review new policy and legislation related land subSaharan Africa Emerging issues are identified explored |
| ‘It is not easy to challenge a chief’: Lessons from Rakgwadi |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management | Programme for Land and Agarian Studies, School of Government, University of the Western Cape, South Africa | English | Middle East & Africa | This study examines the effects Northern Province land transfers area Rakgwadi South Africa The report also addresses possible implications for other areas this process transfer tribes carried out |
| Developing Legal Tools for Citizen Empowerment: Social Responsibility Agreements in Ghana’s Forestry Sector |
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Academic Research | Cases Involving Multinational Corporations, Land & Natural Resource Management | International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) | English | Middle East & Africa | This report examines the use Social Responsibility Agreements between forest communities and logging firms Ghana The impact these agreements also evaluated publication includes model Agreement |
| Governance and Land Relations: A Review of Decentralisation of Land Administration and Management in Africa |
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Academic Research | Land & Natural Resource Management | International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) | English | Middle East & Africa | review the policy and law that guiding changes particularly decentralization land use related institutions African countries |
| Fighting the wrong battles? Towards a new paradigm in the struggle for women’s land rights in Uganda |
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Academic Research | Land & Natural Resource Management, Women's Empowerment | English | Middle East & Africa | This publication addresses the intersection between womens rights and land Uganda offers new ways for viewing role culture community protection | |
| Paralegals in Canada: Rules of Conduct Guidelines |
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Laws & Policies | Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition | English | North America | This guide for professional conduct paralegals was produced the Law Society Upper Canada | |
| Paralegals in Canada: Professional Conduct Guidelines |
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Laws & Policies | Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition | English | North America | This guide for professional conduct paralegals was produced the Law Society Upper Canada | |
| Conhecimento é Poder: GUIÃO PARA DELIMITAÇÃO, PLANO DE USO DE TERRAS E REGRAS COMUNITÁRIAS DE GESTÃO DE RECURSOS NATURAIS |
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-Tools for Communities, -Tools for Paralegals | Land & Natural Resource Management | International Development Law Organization (IDLO), Centro Terra Viva (CTV) | Portuguese | Middle East & Africa, Middle East & Africa | guide intended help communities Mozambique who wish learn why when and how define their lands Also includes general information aspects the land titling process |
| Community Land Titling and Natural Resources Guide (Liberia) |
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-Tools for Communities, -Tools for Paralegals | Land & Natural Resource Management | International Development Law Organization (IDLO), Sustainable Development Institute | English | Middle East & Africa | resource created guide communities Liberia through the process getting papers for their land Includes steps decisions made community level management lands and natural resources |
| Access to Justice and Legal Empowerment: A Review of World Bank Practice |
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Academic Research | Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition, Mediation/Dispute Resolution | English | The paper reviews World Banks existing efforts access justice and suggests directions for further Bank engagement this area Published the Hague Journal Rule Law | ||
| Legal Practice Bill- South Africa (2 of 2) |
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Laws & Policies | Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition | English | Middle East & Africa | Draft Legal Practice Bills for South Africa drafted separately the Law Society and Ministry Justice The new Bill superceded two bills omits paralegals however these still serve valuable resource groups developing advocating state recognition Tool see Part | |
| Legal Practice Bill- South Africa (1 of 2) |
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Laws & Policies | Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition | Middle East & Africa | Draft Legal Practice Bills for South Africa drafted separately the Law Society and Ministry Justice The new Bill superceded two bills omits paralegals however these still serve valuable resource groups developing advocating state recognition Tool see Part | ||
| Ipaidabribe.com |
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Other | Anti-corruption | English | Asia | Innovative effort pioneered Janagraha Bangalore that allows citizens document instances corruption and uses the aggregate data for advocacy | |
| Justice for All – The Problems and Possibilities of Legal Aid and Empowerment in Rural China |
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Academic Research | Mediation/Dispute Resolution | English | Asia | This report summarizes experiences from longterm project legal aid and empowerment oriented towards rural China originated concerns for million Chinese peasants dedicated raising effective provison those the bottom society promoting access justice disadvantaged groups ensuring realization rights these people Towards this end was conducted form indepth needs appraisal awareness practical skills training strategy advocating | |
| Research on the Poor Accessing Justice and the ALG as Justice Reform Advocate |
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Academic Research | Criminal Justice / Conflict, Family / Domestic Disputes, Land & Natural Resource Management, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Legal Aid Policies & Paralegal Recognition, Mediation/Dispute Resolution, Poverty Reduction, Women's Empowerment | English | Asia, Asia | This evaluation research that was intended evaluate the impact strengthening Alternative Law Groups ALG advocate for reforms enhance judicial services and improve access justice poor marginalized groups The study conducted Social Weather Stations SWS private nonprofit scientific institute specifically uses tools survey promote general quality life with particular emphasis | |
| Community-Based Dialogue Sessions on Human Rights Promotion and Protection Between the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police, and Civil Society Organizations and Local Communities |
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Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Other | English | Asia, Asia | This initial documentation the program CommunityBased Dialogue Sessions Human Rights Promotion and Protection Between Armed Forces Philippines AFP Philippine National Police Civil Society Organizations Local Communities The primarily involves conduct series dialogue sessions different areas have main goal contributing improvement situation country through enhancement relationship between security forces PNP one hand local communities civil society organizations other common effort promote human rights | |
| Protection Plan for Sexual Violence Cases |
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-Tools for Paralegals | Family / Domestic Disputes, Gender-based violence | sample intake form completed paralegals sexual violence cases | |||
| Pre-Training Quiz for Gender Training |
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-Tools for Paralegals | Women's Empowerment | Pretraining quiz compiled the ScaleUp Team for gendertraining workshops | |||
| Paralegal Assistance in Prosecution of Sexual Violence Cases |
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-Tools for Paralegals | Family / Domestic Disputes, Gender-based violence | brief list actions paralegals may take assist victims sexual violence following the occurrence crime and during prosecution perpetrator | |||
| Gender Based Violence Three Day Workshop Program |
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-Tools for Paralegals, -Tools for Program Directors / Designers | Family / Domestic Disputes, Gender-based violence | program guide for three day workshop addressing the issue gender based violence | |||
| Guidelines for Risk Assessment for Domestic Violence and Assault Cases |
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-Tools for Paralegals | Criminal Justice / Conflict, Family / Domestic Disputes, Gender-based violence | basic series questions for paralegals assess the risk and potential recurrence cases domestic violence | |||
| Guide and Checklist for Completing Sexual Violence Cases |
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-Tools for Paralegals | Criminal Justice / Conflict, Gender-based violence | checklist and form intended ensure that all aspects sexual violence cases have been properly handled the client aware important issues relevant their case | |||
| Handbook for Measuring the Costs and Quality of Access to Justice |
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Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Other | Martin Gramatikov, Maurits Barendrecht, Malini Laxminarayan, Jin Ho Verdonschot, Laura Klaming, Corry van Zeeland | this Handbook you will find practical information the use methodology for measuringthe cost and quality paths justice from perspective users How clients justicesystems like way they can voice their needs concerns feel received sufficient about procedure think outcome was fair did helpto solve problem value money much timedid spend This aims provide answers such questions that citizensusing system providers services improvetheir processes | ||
| The Paralegal Advisory Service in Practice |
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-Tools for Paralegals | Criminal Justice / Conflict | English | Middle East & Africa, Middle East & Africa | manual for paralegals and other nonlawyers working the criminal justice system | |
| Monitoring Prisons – A Visitor’s Guide |
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-Tools for Paralegals | Criminal Justice / Conflict | Asia, Asia | Guide the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative for use prison visitorsofficials and NGOs working area prisons prisoners rights monitoring reform nbsp | ||
| The Challenges of African Legal Dualism: An Experiment in Sierra Leone |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Community Paralegal Models, Criminal Justice / Conflict, Mediation/Dispute Resolution | English | Middle East & Africa | National Criminal Justice Reform article discusses the challenges that exist intersection formal often colonially imposed legal systems and customary methods resolving disputes The also examines potential role paralegals reconciling this dual system | |
| Justice Delayed in Malawi’s Criminal Justice System: Paralegals vs. Lawyers |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Community Paralegal Models, Criminal Justice / Conflict, Mediation/Dispute Resolution | English | Middle East & Africa | International Journal Criminal Justice Sciencesarticle examines the work NGOs Malawi exposing abuses and failings Malawis legal system | |
| Empowering the Poor to Access Criminal Justice: A Grassroots Perspective |
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Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Community Paralegal Models, Criminal Justice / Conflict | English | Middle East & Africa, Middle East & Africa | IDLO working paper describes the origin strategy and impact Paralegal Advisory Service Malawi how their low cost method providing legal services has been replicated | |
| Delivering Justice to Sierra Leone’s Poor: An Analysis of the Work of Timap for Justice |
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Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Criminal Justice / Conflict, Family / Domestic Disputes, Land & Natural Resource Management, Mediation/Dispute Resolution, Women's Empowerment | English | Middle East & Africa, Middle East & Africa | Justice for the Poor research report theory methods and impact Timap | |
| An Evaluation of the Way that Paralegals at the Timap Programme in Magburaka, Sierra Leone, Deal with Family Cases |
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Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Community Paralegal Models, Family / Domestic Disputes, Mediation/Dispute Resolution | English | Middle East & Africa | Timap publication summary strategies and results related family cases | |
| In Search of Microjustice: Five Basic Elements of a Dispute System |
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Academic Research | Mediation/Dispute Resolution | English | Tisco working paper dispute systems and the factors tools that are necessary for effective mediation | ||
| Customary Law and Policy Reform: Engaging with the Plurality of Justice Systems |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Anti-corruption, Criminal Justice / Conflict, Family / Domestic Disputes, Health, Land & Natural Resource Management, Mediation/Dispute Resolution | English | World Development Report paper the perils and promises governments attempting productively engage customary legal systems | ||
| Custody, Maintenance, and Succession: The Internalization of Women’s and Children’s Rights Under Customary Law in Africa |
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Academic Research | Family / Domestic Disputes, Land & Natural Resource Management, Mediation/Dispute Resolution, Women's Empowerment | English | Middle East & Africa | Michigan Journal International Law note examining the normalization international law standards into customary Africa | |
| Liberia: Resurrecting the Justice System |
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Academic Research | Anti-corruption, Criminal Justice / Conflict, Health, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law | English | Middle East & Africa, Middle East & Africa | International Crisis Group evaluation legal needs postwar Liberia Paper advises stronger more impartial mechanisms enforcement both formal and customary systems | |
| How to Measure the Price and Quality of Access to Justice? |
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Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Health | Maurits Barendrecht , José Mulder, Ivo Giesen , Study Group Access to Justice | English | Access Justice Study Group paper explores methods for assessing quality and cost legal empowerment programs | |
| Growing Political Will From the Grassroots: How Social Movement Principles Can Reverse the Dismal Legacy of of Rule of Law Interventions |
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Academic Research | Health, Land & Natural Resource Management, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Mediation/Dispute Resolution | English | Columbia Human Rights Law Review paper the failure rule law interventions and importance fostering bottom legal reform initiatives | ||
| Framing Local Justice in Bangladesh |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Mediation/Dispute Resolution | English | Europe | World Bank assessment civil society and dispute resolution reform efforts Bangladesh including strategies for incorporating traditional practices into legal | |
| Where There is No Lawyer – The Paralegal Advisory Service |
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-Tools for Communities | Mediation/Dispute Resolution | Middle East & Africa | Where There Lawyer brochure about the Paralegal Advisory Services work Malawi outlines role paralegal and provides case statistics details | ||
| The 10 Steps From Your Arrest to Your Appeal |
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-Tools for Communities | Criminal Justice / Conflict | easy use guide for paralegals and defendants briefly describe the criminal procedure process Produced Paralegal Advisory Service which originally started Malawi has since expanded several other countries | |||
| Index of Good Practices in Providing Legal Aid Services in the Criminal Justice System |
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-Tools for Program Directors / Designers, Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Criminal Justice / Conflict | Middle East & Africa | Focuses range good practices developed Africa and elsewhere providing legal aid services the criminal justice system | ||
| Post-Election Violence: Kenya’s Mediation Process |
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Other | Mediation/Dispute Resolution | English | Middle East & Africa | News article the importance mediation and mediators Kenya promote increased dialogue peace following election violence Published The Nation newspaper | |
| The Women Empowerment Approach: A Methodological Guide |
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Academic Research, Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Women's Empowerment | English | The Commission Women and Development methodological guide for assessing empowerment indicators development | ||
| Legal Empowerment: The Case of Pastoral Land Rights in Northern Tanzania |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | Middle East & Africa | Case study legal empowerment strategies for securing land rights Tanzania | |
| More Than Socially Embedded: The Distinctive Character of ‘Communal Tenure’ Regimes in South Africa and its Implications for Land Policy |
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Academic Research | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | Middle East & Africa | Journal Agrarian Change article analyzes debates over tenure reform policy postapartheid South Africa Recommended for the land rights toolkit | |
| CARE Ecuador Memo |
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Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Land & Natural Resource Management | Spanish | Latin America | Metodologa para evaluacin del proceso formacinde los paralegales comunitarios Methodology for evaluating the process establishing communitybased paralegals | |
| تطوير ولوج النساء للعدالة: دليل عملي لفائدة المنظمات الفير حكومية المحلية بتونس (Development and women’s access to justice: Tunisia) |
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Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Family / Domestic Disputes, Health, Women's Empowerment | Arabic | Middle East & Africa | nbsp Through mentoring coaching training and technical support this program Global Rights will enable women defend their rights courtsIn Arabic | |
| Development and access to justice for women: Algeria |
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Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Criminal Justice / Conflict, Family / Domestic Disputes, Women's Empowerment | Arabic | Middle East & Africa | Development and access justice for women practical guide the benefit local nongovernmental organizations Algeria Arabic | |
| Beyond Formalisation: A land rights agenda for Norwegian development and foreign policy |
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Academic Research | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | The Norwegian Forum for Environment and Development paper land rights agenda development foreign policy | ||
| Legal Empowerment for Local Resource Control |
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Academic Research | Cases Involving Multinational Corporations, Land & Natural Resource Management | International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) | English | Middle East & Africa | International Institute for Environment and Development paper explores the nexus between foreign investment local control resources Africa |
| Legal pluralism as a policy option: Is it desirable, is it doable? |
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Academic Research | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | Middle East & Africa | UNDP workshop paper legal pluralism specific components reform Africa | |
| Legal Empowerment in Practice |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Community Paralegal Models, Land & Natural Resource Management | English | Middle East & Africa | United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization the International Institute for Environment Development documentation workshop innovation land security Africa | |
| Land Tenure and the ”Evidence Landscape” in Developing Countries |
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Academic Research | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | McGill University article demonstrates the utility landscape concept reconciling informal and formal land rights | ||
| Improving Good Governance in Moldova Through Increased Public Participation |
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Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Health, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law | Europe | Soros Foundation case study public participation Moldova the national and local level | ||
| Informe Semestral de Actividades Ejecutadas en Relacion al Programa de Formacion y Capacitacion de Paralegals Comunitarios |
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Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management | Spanish | Latin America | Activity Report Community Paralegal program executed CAREEcuador and Ecolex | |
| Informe del Proceso de Evaluacion de Paralegales Comunitarios |
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Monitoring & Evaluation Tools | Land & Natural Resource Management | Spanish | Latin America | Resultas una evaluacion paralegales comunitarios Results evaluation communitybased paralegals | |
| BRAC Brochure |
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-Tools for Communities | Criminal Justice / Conflict, Land & Natural Resource Management, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law, Mediation/Dispute Resolution, Women's Empowerment | BRAC | English | BRAC Brochure outlining human rights and legal services offered | |
| Stephen Golub Paper Abstracts, Links and Titles |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Cases Involving Multinational Corporations, Land & Natural Resource Management, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law | English | list resources regarding the works Stephen Golub distinguished and trailblazing advocate legal empowerment | ||
| Beyond Rule of Law Orthodoxy: The Legal Empowerment Alternative |
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Academic Research | Other | English | Carnegie Endowment paper questioning the validity top down rule law development approach instead advocating engagement with civil society and poor | ||
| Customary vs Private Property Rights? Dynamics and Trajectories of Vernacular Land Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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Academic Research | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | Middle East & Africa | Journal Agrarian Change paper vernacular land markets within the framework customary tenure Recommended for rights toolkit | |
| Customary Law, Household Distribution of Wealth and Women’s Rights to Land and Property |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management, Poverty Reduction, Women's Empowerment | English | Asia, Asia, Middle East & Africa | Seattle Journal for Social Justice case studies the vulnerability women without land rights Uganda and Karnataka India | |
| The Commons and Customary Law in Modern Times: Rethinking the Orthodoxies |
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Academic Research | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | Middle East & Africa | Draft UNDP presentation land rights for African development Recommended the toolkit | |
| Changes in Customary Land Tenure Systems in Africa |
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Academic Research, Case Studies & Impact Assessments | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | Middle East & Africa | United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization the International Institute for Environment Development paper shift towards recognizing traditional land rights rural Africa Published IIED edited Lorenzo Cotula Recommended toolkit | |
| Collective Action and Property Rights for Sustainable Development |
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Academic Research | Land & Natural Resource Management | English | International Food Policy Research Institute brief context and common law relation protecting the rights landed poor | ||
| Legal Empowerment of the Poor: From Concepts to Assessment |
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Academic Research | Land & Natural Resource Management, Legal Aid & Public Interest Law | English | USAID general assessment legal empowerment concepts and strategies Recommended for the land rights toolkit | ||
| Breaking Ground: Engaging Communities in Extractive and Infrastructure Projects |
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Academic Research | Cases Involving Multinational Corporations, Land & Natural Resource Management | English | World Resources Institute report engaging local communities processes resource extraction and management |
