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Bringing justice to people in Eastern DRC
There are multiple problems concering the accessibility of justice in eastern Congo:
- On the demand side for justice: ignorance of the law and procedures by the population, lack of funding to support the costs of justice and geographical remoteness of legal services.
- On the supply side of justice: lack of human and material resources, gaps in training of justice personnel.
The project acts on the two levels. It provides for the promotion of free judicial assistance by supporting the operation of the Free Consultations Offices(FCO) of the bar associations, and in parallel the capacity-building of lawyers and judicial defenders.
It also plans to deploy mobile justice services (lawyers visiting people in prison, mobile legal clinics) and to support the Department of Justice in organizing mobile courts.
In addition, to address the problem of ignorance of the law, all activities will be accompanied by awareness raising sessions and information.;
- Contribute to the consolidation of the rule of law in fighting against impunity (of war crimes).
- Bringing the system of justice to those subject to trial, especially in rural areas.;
- The most vulnerable Congolese citizens such as victims of serious human rights violations (sexual violence, international crimes), women and children in detention, people in pre-trial or illegal detention, particularly in rural areas.
- The bar associations.
- Lawyers and judicial defenders.
- NGOs (human rights defenders and others) active in the area.
- The Department of Justice, the Congolese judicial system and the Congolese state as a whole.;
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Barreau de Bukavu
Barreau de Kisangani
Barreau de Goma
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Hélène Trachez
Head of mission
(00 243) 81 74 20 559
rdc-cm@asf.be
www.asf.be
Avenue La Corniche, 18
Quartier les Volcans,
Goma
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Project sheet: Bringing justice to people in Eastern DRC
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PROG2017-2021_outcome_OUGANDA_Appuyer et promouvoir la participation publique à des mécanismes de justice et de développement renforcés et transparents, contribuant ainsi la protection des droits des populations et au règlement de leurs conflits
Le programme vise à contribuer au renforcement du pouvoir d’agir des populations vulnérables par le renforcement de leur accès effectif à la justice. Cet objectif est poursuivi à travers une action à deux niveaux : Le renforcement de mécanismes inclusifs d’accès à la justice permettant une participation publiques aux processus d’établissement de la vérité, de redevabilité et de garanties de non répétition ; la promotion des notions de consentement libre, préalable et éclairé et le renforcement de l’accès à l’information des communautés en matière d’activités extractives. Le programme prévoit une combinaison d’interventions visant aussi bien un impact à court et moyen terme (amélioration de l’accès à la justice et de la protection des droits de l’homme des communautés affectées par la mise en place de mécanismes d’autonomisation par le droit, de sensibilisation et consultations mais aussi par la délivrance de services juridiques directs) ainsi qu’un impact à long terme (formation des acteurs juridiques, réformes juridiques et institutionnelles visant à prévenir les violations des droits de l’homme, mobilisation des acteurs contre la violation des droits de l’homme).
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0.31757192131621736 32.58102893829346
régions de Hoima
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Karamoja
2.1967272417616712 33.92578125
Acholi
2.740043847609629 32.2833251953125
497382.48
360396.55
357772.55
337459.40
321163.65
163045.80
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293281.22
94495.11
94433.56
53429.11
54015.49
345601.93
53936.84
165297.25
15857.67
150515.92
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93865
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31374
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Appuyer et promouvoir la participation publique à des mécanismes de justice et de développement renforcés et transparents, contribuant ainsi la protection des droits des populations et au règlement de leurs conflits
Diversification of the access to justice services offered by ASF and its partners to targeted populations
1 additional service of access to legal information at community level
Target: 1 service of legal assistance in courts of law, 1 additional service of access to legal information at community level, 1 additional service of access to Alternative Dispute Resolution schemes, 1 referral pathway created to link the three services
Actual: 117 (31F, 86M)community based mediators trained, 119(48F, 71M) paralegals trained; in the districts of Hoima, Masindi, Buliisa, Moroto, Nakapiripirit, Abim, Kotido
Remarks: The referral system was implemented through identification of cases from the community outreaches, sensitisations and dialogues where these were taken on either for public litigation or referred to legal aid service providers for further management by project partners, ANARDE and CRED.
Diversification of the access to justice services offered by ASF and its partners to targeted populations
Calculated by average of scores obtained on three key control questions presented during pre and post evaluation forms and control of the retention of knowledge 3 months after the activity.
+ 15 points on average, disaggregated by groups and gender
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Promotion of Pro Bono - Mobilising lawyers to defend the rights of Ugandans
The provision of lawyers’ free legal aid services to people who are not able to pay for it is merely in its infancy in Uganda. Although the “Advocates Act” was amended in 2002 so that all registered lawyers have an obligation to provide free legal aid services, it was not until August 2009 that this law and this requirement became a reality on the ground. The profession is now at a crucial stage in this regard, inasmuch as the Law Council and the Uganda Law Society have joined forces to put pressure on the legal profession so that it meets its obligations. The ULS is working on Pro Bono programme covering the whole country, but it lacks the human resources and organisational tools to manage the programme in a way that would guarantee its success. ASF considers it vital to support this programme and to increase its links with other legal aid service providers so as to ensure that the Ugandan model can serve as an example to governments and legal professionals.
Activities of the project:
- Promotion of lawyers’ commitment to pro bono legal work, setting up collaboration between those involved in legal aid.
- Launching a pilot programme of pro bono legal services in the Central Region’s courts (establishment of offices).
- Training lawyers on the topic of intervention and on mediation techniques.
- Establishment of systems for monitoring and evaluating legal aid by the ULS.
- Advocating the development and effective implementation of laws and national policies which protect the rights of vulnerable people (by publishing studies and supporting strategic litigation).;
Specific objectives: Increase the ability of Ugandan lawyers to protect the rights of vulnerable people in a lasting manner.
- Outcome 1: Development of pro bono legal aid services for vulnerable people.
- Outcome 2: Improved ability of lawyers to provide quality legal services to vulnerable people.
- Outcome 3: Improved monitoring and evaluation systems for the ULS’s legal assistance.
- Outcome 4: Advocacy for development and implementation of laws and/or national policies which protect the rights of vulnerable people.
Expected impact
The project focuses on the need to cultivate the spirit of volunteerism, by expanding the network of lawyers providing pro bono services.
The information and guidance given to members of the communities which are targeted by the legal advice sessions will be shared with family and friends, and will therefore have a continuously multiplying effect. By carrying out mobile legal consultations, the project will create a link with community leaders in rural areas, who will be encouraged to promote the ULS’s legal services to members of their community, and also those of other suitable legal aid service providers. This outreach will be particularly advantageous for women, who find it more difficult to leave their homes and travel to big cities, and who are often disadvantaged by traditional practices and informal justice mechanisms. A greater protection of their rights will therefore impact beneficially on their children, and will have long term effects on their economic status, especially where land rights are at stake.
The ULS’s legal advice centres will improve links with local government, lawyers and other service providers in their area of activity, which will improve coordination and open up new ways to be efficient. The ULS will have closer links with other legal aid providers thanks to networking and sharing their experiences of the project with each other, facilitated by the ULS.
This will improve the ability of the legal aid providers network to influence policy in this area and eventually to ensure greater government support for its vital services.
Training and supervision of ULS and its members in action campaigns and strategic procedures will have a long term effect on their ability and motivation to permanently engage in advocacy for a political and legislative environment that protects the rights of the poor and other vulnerable people. Even before effective changes in policy or law come about, this will enhance
dialogue and will allow debate between civil society organisations like the ULS and decision-makers. These political discussions will themselves be a sincere contribution for a society that is still struggling to achieve full compliance with democratic principles.
Bearing in mind the common law system in Uganda, which means that courts can create, and often do create, law through jurisprudence, the introduction of strategic litigation is particularly significant and likely to result in lasting legal precedents that bind the lower courts until they are contradicted by the law or a higher court.;
- The project aims to improve the situation and respect for the rights of the most vulnerable people in Uganda, in particular women and children. By improving legal aid services to the poor in remote areas, and legal structures for the protection of vulnerable people, the ULS will fulfill its role as a watchdog of democracy and human rights in Uganda, thus acting as an important counterbalance to the power of the executive and legislative branches.
- ASF’s expertise will be shared with the ULS and its members, to strengthen their ability to provide high quality legal aid services to these people, including victims of international crimes, domestic violence, gender-based violence, torture and child-trafficking, as well as people held in illegal detention.
- Because of the geographical coverage of ULS’s mobile legal consultations in Kampala and six remote districts of the country, a broad section of society will benefit from access to legal aid services.
- On the basis of our shared commitment to strengthening lawyers’ social responsibility, ASF and the ULS will work to cultivate a passion for human rights work, and for the development of a pro bono spirit among lawyers across the various project components.
- Organisations within Ugandan civil society, including the ULS and in particular human rights defenders, are the driving force which works to strengthen legal protection for the most vulnerable. Working with co-ordination mechanisms such as the Legal Aid Service Providers Network (LASPNET), the Human Rights Network (HURINET), the Coalition against Torture (CAT) and the “Association des femmes avocates ougandaises” (FIDA-Uganda), the project will promote experience sharing and speaking with one
voice in order to achieve broader access to justice and a general strengthening of the justice sector.
- The end beneficiaries will include all clients who receive legal aid services; all lawyers, law students and legal aid service providers who receive the information distributed by the project, or who participate in the forums which are organised or in the project’s networking events. The total is estimated to be at least 18,000 at the end of one year.;
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Uganda Law Society (ULS)
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Ismène Zarifis
Head of mission Uganda
+256 7796 81882
oug-cm@asf.be
www.asf.be
Kanjokya Street
Plot 49, Kamwokya
Kampala
Uganda
400000
Project-sheet "Promotion of Pro Bono - Mobilising lawyers to defend the rights of Ugandans"
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The defense of economic and social rights of vulnerable groups in the Monastir and Minier bassin regions
The Tunisian revolution was prompted by the marginalised social class mobilising to claim their rights to a dignified life and the right to work. This revolution enabled Tunisia to transition toward a democracy devoted to the principles of participation in politics and freedom of expression. However, after more than a year after the revolution, Tunisia still faces the economic and social problems that were the main reason for the protests in December 2010, and people continue to feel excluded and frustrated. If nothing is to be done to enable Tunisians to freely express themselves and to translate their frustrations and legitimate demands, the peaceful transition toward a democratic state based on the rule of law will be threatened.
1. The people in Tunisia in vulnerable situations face structural unemployment, lack of transparency in the recruitment processes for the civil service and the public sector companies, poor working conditions, environmental pollution, poorly equipped regional hospitals, and other problems that deprive them from the acceptable living conditions necessary for full human rights realisation. Many of these problems are structural, giving the impression that large financial investments are needed to resolve them. This idea is nevertheless mistaken, and the human rights claims being discussed can be resolved if there is political will to effectively manage limited resources so that the whole society can benefit, rather than only the powerful few. Civil society facing this difficult political economic reality can empower themselves through a human rights-based approach, demonstrating that injustice is not inevitable, and to focus on who is responsible for solving the problems that hinder people from realising their human rights.
2. In Tunisia, the organisations and associations that exist respond to these problems through the advocacy and community organising skills that helped bring about the revolution. Post-revolution, a new approach is needed; an approach that takes uses the international human rights framework, to support their claims, and the legal system to claim them. ASF is working with the different sections of the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social rights to strengthen their capacity to take on more cases, combining ASF’s expertise in human rights-based approach and the Forum’s experience in advocacy. This project is focused on defending human rights by ensuring that the legal structure is capable of protecting these rights.
Activities of the project:
- Training on the human rights-based approach;
- Negotiations with those responsible on specific human rights issues;
- Educate and train Forum personnel and members on methods used for collective defence of those people in vulnerable situations;
- Forum takes on the cases of these vulnerable individuals;
- Training of lawyers on economic and social rights;
- Legal representation of certain cases by compensated lawyers.;
Overall objective:
- Reinforce social cohesion
- Support the construction of a State that respect human rights
- Reduce the number of social conflicts caused by economic and social exclusion
Specific objective:
The Tunisian Forum for the Economic and Social Rights, in partnership with ASF, supports social inclusion of disadvantaged people in the regions of Monastir and Gafsa through the collective defense of their social and economic rights.
Expected impact:
- The Forum uses the human rights-based approach and concentrates its discourse on State human rights obligations;
- The Forum sections support disadvantaged social groups in order to defend their economic and social rights;
- People in vulnerable situations have access to legal recourse if negotiations fail.;
- 65 members or employees of the Tunisian Forum for the Economic and Social Rights
- 50 lawyers from the Monastir, Gafsa and the surrounding regions
- 720 vulnerable individuals from the Monastir and Gafsa region
- 1650 disadvantaged people from the Monastir and Gafsa region whose economic and social rights were violated
In the Monastir region, the targeted group (the most populous one) will comprises women working in the textile industry. Of around 60,000 workers in the sector, 90% are women, only 8% belong to trade unions, and 50% come from impoverished regions of the country (Gafsa,
Kasserine, Sidi Bouzid) and live in extremely poor conditions in Monastir. The most commonly violated right the non-affiliation to the social security system (CNSS), failure to pay extra working hours, and working conditions that do not comply with the law guaranteeing a healthy environment. The majority of factories do not respect the Tunisian Labour Code.
In the Gafsa region, the priority group are the unemployed youth, the individuals who are directly or indirectly victims of corruption, and vulnerable workers. The four villages in the mining region: Mdile, Mdila, Redeyef, Metlaoui and Oumlares are priorities. The last census in 2004 counted 120,000 people in the 4 towns, with around 28% unemployment. While the rate is considered to have risen, there are no current available statistics. Gafsa has been isolated from the rest of the country, and there has been almost no investment in the region. The biggest employer is the Gafsa Phosphate Company, but the number of people working there has decreased over the years due to production chain automation.;
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Shira Stanton
Human rights Expert
+32 (0)2 223 36 54
sstanton@asf.be
www.asf.be
rue de Namur 72
1000 Brussels
Belgium
284004
Project-sheet "The defense of economic and social rights of vulnerable groups in the Monastir and Minier bassin regionsé
BE-BCE_KBO-0447404580-PROG2017-2021
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Programme 2017-2021: Contribuer aux objectifs du développement durable à travers le renforcement de l'accès à la justice
Programme 2017-2021: Contributing to sustainable development goals by improving access to justice
Le programme 2017-2021 mis en œuvre par ASF vise à contribuer aux objectifs du développement durable à travers le renforcement de l’accès à la justice dans 5 pays en Afrique et en Asie. Les volets nationaux du programme contribuent tous à la théorie du changement institutionnelle d’ASF, qui aspire à ce que les individus, et tout particulièrement ceux appartenant à des groupes en situation de vulnérabilité demandent et participent de manière indiscriminée à des mécanismes d’accès à la justice conformes aux droits humains, efficaces et effectifs. Pour ASF, la justice est un outil de changement qui constitue tant un élément de prévention et de gestion des conflits qu'un élément de promotion des droits humains. Le programme est mis en œuvre en République Démocratique du Congo, au Burundi, en Ouganda, au Maroc et en Indonésie. Tous les volets nationaux visent à appuyer et promouvoir la réalisation des droits des populations par leur participation à des mécanismes de justice et de développement renforcés, transparents et efficaces. L’action vient renforcer des plateformes qui améliorent l’accès à des mécanismes de justice tant formels qu’informels pour les populations marginalisées et vulnérables, en particulier à travers la délivrance de services au niveau communautaire. Le renforcement de l’accès à la justice mis en œuvre à travers le programme contribue également à la prévention et la résolution des conflits. Le programme est mis en œuvre avec 12 partenaires au total, dont 8 organisations de la société civile nationales et 4 Barreaux. Les résultats visés seront atteint à travers des activités mises en œuvre autour de 4 axes : - Le renforcement du pouvoir d’agir des justiciables, favorisant la prévention des conflits et permet leur participation dans les structures de gouvernance - La société civile est soutenue dans son rôle lié à la promotion du droit et au renforcement de l'accès à la justice - Le renforcement de mécanismes de justice indépendants efficaces et de qualité - La mobilisation des acteurs de la justice à participer à la bonne gouvernance par leur coordination et leur participation à des communautés d’échanges des pratiques innovantes et porteuses d’impact
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Chantal van Cutsem
Executive Director
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Gestion des opérations
Pascal Vanden Eynde
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Contrôleuse de gestion
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Chargée de communication
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312235
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698608
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225000
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1218172.37
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1706546.05
1352486.54
1428041.2
288057.45
394551.36
334035.33
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341605.64
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296127.58
1491295.55
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DGD Program 2017 - 2021 : Contributing to sustainable development goals by improving access to justice
Programme DGD 2017 - 2021 : Contribuer aux objectifs de développement durable à travers le renforcement de l'accès à la justice
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Expanding the space for Freedom of Expression by protecting and legally empowering traditional and citizen journalists, and bloggers
The specific issues to be addressed by the project are:
- The national legislative limits to freedoms of opinion, expression and press and the incompatibility of national and international standards
- The criminalization of misuse of the freedom of expression
- The impunity of those who threaten and carry out attacks against human rights defenders (HRDs) and journalists
The window of opportunity presented by the political transitions In Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt and related reform processes offers room for change. But free access to information and freedom of expression are deemed crucial: it is impossible for the population to fully participate in the political transition process or to sustainably address the basic economic and social issues that prompted the revolutions if these rights are not guaranteed. As of today, those rights and freedoms are regularly at stake and often violated. Some positive signs demonstrate that civil society actors, media stakeholders and lawyers are ready to taking up the challenge and are interested by ASF’s approach based on fostering an open, constructive and technical dialogue based on the use of international standards as a reference tool and using the law as a motor for change. The reference to international human rights standards, which are still unfamiliar or poorly understood even by legal practitioners, has the potential to advance the jurisprudence but also to create an objective and dispassionate framework for discussion, at national, regional, and international level.
Activities of the project:
One baseline study in the three targeted countries, three training sessions for traditional/citizen journalists and bloggers, three training sessions and four on-site coaching sessions for lawyers, legal aid and assistance for traditional/citizen journalists and bloggers (20 cases), strategic litigation cases (2), setting up a regional platform for FOE stakeholders, workshops and publications.;
The project, implemented primarily in Morocco, will involve a range of civil society actors, lawyers and legal practitioners, and key institutional and political stakeholders for freedom of expression (FOE) in Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia.;
The project’s global objective is to contribute to expand the space for FOE and media for traditional journalists, bloggers, and citizen journalists. The specific objective is to Protect traditional/citizen journalists and bloggers and support collective advocacy efforts promoting the use of international standards for FOE and FOP.
Specific Objective:
The specific objective is a direct response to the need for:
- Reinforcing legal protection: victims of violation or abuses have access to a legal and judicial response consistent with international standards;
- Strengthen capacities to contribute effectively to establishment of FOE/FOP frameworks consistent with international standards.
Expected impact:
The results to be achieved are: 1) traditional/citizen journalists and bloggers master their legal environment and international standards; 2) A regional network of lawyer is specialized in the legal protection of FOE/FOP actors; 3) Legally and professionally enabling environments consistent with international standards for FOE and FOP are promoted at both national and regional level.
Built around the positive role that lawyers can play in strengthening the rule of law and FOE protection, this project is expected to impact on two different levels: 1) lawyers will influence the work of FOE stakeholders and stakeholders in the justice system and political institutions; 2) the project will facilitate the application of human rights standards for FOE, especially as linked to gender-based discrimination.
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US Dept of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL)
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Bahia Zrikem
ASF's Country Representative in Marroco
0612594957
bzrikem@asf.be
www.asf.be
668250
Project-sheet "Expanding the space for Freedom of Expression (FOE) by protecting and legally empowering traditional and citizen journalists, and bloggers"
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For a transitional justice focused on the victims
Since January 2011, several Transitional Justice initiatives have been established, primarily related to reparations and the search for truth, but measures intended to respond quickly to victims' needs remained mostly separate and ad hoc. The bodies were set up without any real mechanisms for harmonisation and coordination, thus raising the question of relations between the various bodies, which were devised at different times and with different, sometimes overlapping mandates.
The law on Transitional Justice was adopted by the ANC on 15 December 2013. Despite some criticism of the process leading to this adoption, the fact the law has come into effect may be an opportunity for the fulfilment of victims' rights. The bill on transitional justice provides for a set of mechanisms intended to seek the truth about violations of human rights, to bring criminal proceedings against the suspected perpetrators, to compensate and rehabilitate victims and to preserve the memory and establish guarantees of non-recurrence. In particular, this law provides for the creation of a "Truth and Dignity Commission", which will be tasked with shedding light on the violations committed since the country became independent and setting up a damages compensation fund. The law also emphasises the role of judicial institutions responsible for proceedings against alleged perpetrators, as well as the need for measures to protect witnesses and victims to be interviewed as part of the process. Finally, the law establishes the principle of reforming state institutions (but without specifying the outlines) to allow dismantling of the system of corruption, repression and dictatorship and to remedy it for the purpose of preventing repetition of such violations and ensuring respect for human rights and the establishment of the rule of law.
This notable advance must be recognised. Nevertheless, a number of issues remain to be clarified. It is therefore essential to continue efforts in order that Transitional Justice remains on the political agenda and that effective mechanisms are put in place, but also to advocate that these mechanisms be both transparent, integrated and above all, focused on the needs of victims.
The purpose of this action is to put victims of serious human rights violations at the centre of the Transitional Justice process, enabling the effective exercise of their rights before the Tunisian courts and contributing to the development of Transitional Justice mechanisms tailored to their needs.;
General aim: To contribute to the development in Tunisia of integrated and transparent mechanisms to manage the past, focused on the victims.
Specific aim: The victims of human rights violations have greater access to the mechanisms of Transitional Justice to ensure the effective exercise of their rights.;
- The victims of serious human rights violations, who will see an improvement in how they are treated
- The civil society of Tunisia rallied behind the victims
- The lawyers who take on victims' cases
- The decision makers in Tunisia who are going to be the target of advocacy initiatives;
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Martin Causin
Head of mission
tun-cm@asf.be
www.asf.be
17 rue de Marseille,
3ème étage - Bureau 24
1001 Tunis (Tunisie)
270163.6
Project sheet: For a transitional justice focused on the victims
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Research project on access to justice, rule of law and development
For several years, ASF has been developing and sharing its expertise with the combined body of all key actors within the justice, human rights, and development sectors in order to play a major role in facilitating and coordinating a harmonious, effective cooperation amongst all such sectors.
The challenge of this project is the further development of ASF’s legitimacy within those sectors through the deepening of its expertise and increasing the reach and awareness of the organization in academia and development policy. With this in mind, the research project will capitalize on ASF’s experience and activity according to a multidisciplinary scientific approach.
The research project will contribute to repositioning the issue of access to justice towards the core of development policy priorities. This is especially timely in the context regarding the goals for development and implementation on the post 2015 millennium agenda.
Scope
The project aims to analyze and make explicit the links between access to justice, enforcement of the rule of law, and the progress being made in developing countries. This will be done through evaluation of the impact of ASF and other projects in these states which aim to improve access to justice. This project aims to meet the increasing scrutiny and demand for empirical proof or evidence showing the effects and impact of development projects and initiatives in the field of justice and governance. To do so, the research project will produce various outputs: scientific publications, internal capitalisation, impact studies.
Research project and ASF
The project will use data and evidence taken from ASF projects (on-going, past, and in development) as well as from its politics and strategies. The analysis, conclusions, and recommendations from the research project will contribute towards developing ASF projects and strategies. The research coordinator thus works closely with ASF strategic coordinators, experts, field staff and partners.
Activities and deliverable:
All along the course of the project:
• Set up and animation of a network (or think tank) made up of academics and other actors focusing on research project findings.
• Participation and/or presentation at 5 international conferences (in the field of access to justice, rule of law, fighting poverty in fragile states).
• Counsel and scientific support on the quality, evaluation and impact of ASF projects.
Year 3:
• Scientific publication focusing on the link between access to justice, rule of law and development processes.
• (Co-)Organisation of the conference on that thematic with participation of high level actors.
• Publication of one or two impact evaluation (written in 2015) with a scientific approach.
• Support to the development of projects proposals/country strategies.
Year 2:
• Impact evaluations of 1 or 2 ASF projects with a scientific approach.
• Management of one or two large scale field surveys.
• At least one publication on access to justice and rule of law effectiveness (written and accepted).
• Support to the development of projects proposals/country strategies with innovative approach, increasing fundraising opportunities.
Year 1:
• Two ASF internal papers focusing on evaluation, links between ASF & academia and impact.
• At least one publication on access to justice and rule of law effectiveness (written and accepted).
• Support to the development of projects proposals/country strategies with innovative approach, increasing fundraising opportunities. ;
The target groups are key justice and development international actors, academics, public actors and national and local NGOs. ;
Strategic level:
ASF is for the majority an object of study or an intriguing organization in the spheres of academia and influence in the developing world. Midway through the research project and in the long term, ASF aims to become an actor, co-constructor of knowledge and information influencing crucial political decisions regarding priorities, agenda, and mode of operation. The efforts of the research project are expected to further move ASF towards this mid- and long-term goal.
In concrete terms, the project proposes to:
- Short to medium term (1 to 2 years): contributing to adjusting or reorientating ASF programmes on the basis of research findings and recommendation in order to increase their effectiveness
- Short to medium term: strengthen ASF’s position as a key actor in the justice and governance sector through the development of ASF’s expertise. The project aims to translate ASF’s accumulated experience into knowledge and scientific theory which can be disseminated to key actors within academic and political spheres.
- Long term (3 years and more): the project is building towards the ambition of ASF to hold a more mainstream role in the world of development aid in between human rights and development. ASF will take into account political orientations and development priorities in its efforts for access of justice and rule of law according to its mandate.
Institutional level:
The project will allow ASF:
-To prepare post DFID PPA agenda, by increasing ASF expertise and visibility among high level actors and developing innovative approaches.
-To strengthen the links between ASF and academia and policy actors.
-Consideration may be given at the end of the project to broaden and institutionalize on a smaller or larger scale a research center for investing in other strategic research areas for ASF and solidify / capitalize on the successes and links created during the project.
Operational level:
- Experimenting research findings and recommendations in forthcoming projects.
- Enhancing monitoring and evaluation of changes made and the impact of 2 or 3 project keys for ASF (A2J -- Increasing fundraising opportunities for ASF projects.
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DFID
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Julien Moriceau
Research Coordinator
+32 476 23 90 56
jmoriceau@asf.be
www.asf.be
Rue de Namur 72, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
The research will be conducted from Brussels, with the scientific support of belgian and european academics. Field works will be conducted in central Africa, and certainly north MENA region in 2015
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Project factsheet: "Research on access to justice, rule of law and development"
Set up and animation of a reflexion network on access to justice academic research.
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number of events organized through the network
number of events organized through the network
events such as seminars, conference, working sessions.
to be set up before december 2014
increase the expertise of ASF and the knowledge of key actors on the link between access to justice, rule of law effectiveness, economic and social development.
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number of key actors who attend to a interntional conference on access to justice and development
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to beorganized in late 2016 / early 2017
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to be organized in late 2016 / early 2017
increase number and quality of international programs wich aim to strengthen access to justice and rule of law effectiveness for people in vulnerable situation
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percentage of international aid fundings dedicated to access to justice and rule of law programms.
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to be defined at the end of 2014
increased by 15% between 2014 and 2017
to be defined at the end of 2014
publication of impact evaluation studies
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Number of paper published in academic journal or specialized journal
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Articles to be written in 2015, to be published in 2016 2017
2 papers in academic journal, 1 in a specialised journal
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number of field impact evaluations achieved
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to be conducted in 2015
Two impact evaluations in two different countries
to be conducted in 2015
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7% de coûts de structure sur le total du programme financé par la DGD.
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Operations
Pascal Vanden Eynde
Operations Director
022233654
pvandeneynde@asf.be
https://www.asf.be/fr/
140 avenue de la chasse, 1040 Bruxelles
100820.11
138092.98
119561.98
116912.37
103644.65
98013.87
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PROG2017-2021_outcome_INDONESIA_Strengthen platforms that increase access to both formal and informal justice mechanisms for marginalized and vulnerable groups through improved community-level, evidence based service delivery
The notion of sustainable development covers all domains: economic, social, political and legal. Strengthened rule of law and access to justice is critical to achieving sustainable development. The goal of ASF’s proposed programme is to strengthen rule of law in Indonesia by anchoring efforts in access to justice that promote sustainable development. It seeks to contribute to the ongoing efforts in access to justice by empowering community based legal aid service providers (LASPs) to provide quality, holistic services by building linkages with a range of development service providers. The programme aims to promote the vital role of community based LASPs particularly paralegals in cultivating the agency of people to claim their basic human rights. A robust evidence-based, learning approach to implementation and policy development will seek to provide information on the perspectives, concerns and needs of the justice seekers and end-users. This pragmatic ‘practice-research’ model of the programme will generate key data and knowledge that would advocate for expanded, innovative approaches to increase the number of diverse community based LASPs to contribute to a meaningful change in the lives of the poor and marginalised Indonesian people. Finally, the programme proposes to leverage on the progress Indonesia has made in using technology to advance access to justice through legal aid.
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Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Jakarta (LBH Jakarta)
Indonesian Legal Resource Center (ILRC)
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Gestion des opérations
Pascal Vanden Eynde
Directeur de la gestion des opérations
003222233654
pvandeneynde@asf.be
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gestion des opérations
Laura Legras
Contrôleuse de gestion
llegras@asf.be
JAKARTA
-6.176054301961396 106.8273639678955
Yogyakarta
-7.801394959643028 -249.6353816986084
BALI
-8.455727389215628 -244.72935318946838
98868.16
189034.25
175888.64
245209.10
258212.73
18348
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Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Jakarta (LBH Jakarta)
31991.74
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9286
ILRC 2017
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Indonesian Legal Resource Center (ILRC)
198653
fonds ILRC programme
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Indonesian Legal Resource Center (ILRC)
56833.81
LBH 2018 (2 versements)
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LBH Jakarta
23684.63
ILRC 2018 (3 versements)
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ILRC
53864.21
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57529.78
Dépenses ASF 2020
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45098
ILRC transfers 2019
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Indonesian Legal Resource Center (ILRC)
107869
LBH 2019 (4 transfers)
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Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Jakarta (LBH Jakarta)
58018
ILRC transfers 2020
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Indonesian Legal Resource Center (ILRC)
60228
LBH transfers 2020
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424090
fonds LBH programme
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100269.41
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Strengthen platforms that increase access to both formal and informal justice mechanisms for marginalized and vulnerable groups through improved community-level, evidence based service delivery
Empowered organizations/communities have greater capacity to : (I) to influence policy and conflict resolution practices (II) produce higher quality Legal service delivery
potential stakeholders assessed in the three provinces
perception study
Perception sudy was achieved
capacity building to LASPs at each provinces in accordance with justice seekers need
establishment of a case management system providing legal aid service
Development of a community of practice
joint-legal advocacy plan agreed by interdisciplinary stakeholders
A joint legal empowerment is conducted in each province
a book on the report of the perception study , 1 video on the community paralegal as an advocacy tool
Organizations/communities mobilize institutional stakeholders for holistic access to justice regulations
Briefing documents, perception and justice needs studies, findings on quality of the outcomes, procedures to the path to justice
Perception study is achieved
Development of community of practice
Dissemination of policy recommendation shared to wider community through national and regional conference
A written report/book on the result of the perception study of the paralegal has been published, also 1 video on the community paralegal to become a advocacy tool
holistic study and joint- advocacy are achieved
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Contributing to consolidation of the rule of law
in the DRC by combating mass illegal pre-trial detentions
A punitive measure permitted by legislation throughout the world, recourse to pre-trial detention (PD) within the framework of a criminal investigation is not in itself a questionable practice, provided that PD remains a judicial course of action which is used exceptionally and with respect for the conditions imposed by the law, as required in a state governed by the rule of law. However in the DRC, the vast majority of those accused are placed in pre-trial detention, they do not regularly appear before a judge, and they do not have access to a lawyer. Moreover, their humanitarian situation while in prison is appalling, principally as a result of extreme prison overcrowding and the almost total absence of any commitment on the part of the Congolese government to providing basic services (food and sanitation). Very often, prison conditions constitute “inhumane and degrading treatment”. The overcrowding in Congolese prisons is, in large part, due to the high number of illegal pre-trial detentions. ASF’s experience of the Congolese justice system over more than 10 years confirms that there is a correlation between the massive scale of illegal pre-trial detentions and the absence of systematic, quality legal aid.
The issue, therefore, is to offer a lasting, structural response to the issue of mass illegal pretrial detentions, which is symbolic of all the problems of the Congolese justice system. This response would be introduced alongside existing programmes supporting justice reform in the DRC.
ASF’s intervention strategy involves firstly implementing a human rights approach based on the principle of the interdependence of human rights as a precondition of their effectiveness.
To reinforce the classic approach of arranging quality legal aid for the highest number of pretrial detainees (right to a fair trial, access to a judge), this pilot project, for the first time in the DRC, allows the principle of the interdependence of human rights to be put into action by incorporating violations of detainees’ economic and social rights and a new aspect – access to justice as a factor in reducing poverty – to be promoted.
In fact, the social and economic impact of depriving individuals of their liberty is often underestimated. The detainees and their families often live in extreme poverty and thus for them, access to a quality justice system is not a priority. This is a vicious circle, reinforcing the dynamics of impoverishment. Access to justice therefore becomes even more difficult. And the situation is clearly even worse in cases where the detention is illegal. Therefore, it is imperative that the individual and also the collective consequences of PD are taken into account, not only by political decision makers, but also by all of those responsible for individual legal proceedings (lawyers and magistrates).
ASF’s project aims to raise awareness, provide information and take action alongside numerous local, national and international players from the legal and university sectors, as well as the anti-poverty sector, to highlight the consequences, both individual and collective, of pre-trial detention and to develop effective long- and short-term strategies to reduce its most harmful effects.
In order to make a contribution to strengthening the rule of law in the DRC through combating
mass illegal pre-trial detentions, ASF’s intervention strategy involves guaranteeing access to systematic and quality justice for vulnerable individuals held in pre-trial detention in the three provinces covered by the project (Kinshasa, Equateur and Bas Congo), as well as developing a national strategy coordinated by the National Order of Lawyers of the DRC (ONARDC).
The aim is to achieve the following results:
- Result 1: Pre-trial detainees are made aware and informed of their right to a fair trial and their right to food, and of the mechanisms of recourse available to obtain them.
- Result 2: Pre-trial detainees benefit in the long term from quality, systematic and ongoing legal aid.
- Result 3: Those involved in providing access to justice are aware of detainees’ right to food and the corollary between A2J and poverty reduction
In order to achieve these results, a series of initiatives will be implemented:
- awareness raising and information for detainees, an essential step in the change
process so that detainees can decide to take legal action to contest the legality of their
situation
- awareness raising and information for those working in the justice sector (magistrates, lawyers, civil society, the Ministry), the university sector and the development sector on the individual and collective consequences of PD and on the ‘legal’ actions which can be taken to reduce the most harmful effects
- providing quality legal assistance to hundreds of pre-trial detainees, with priority given to women and minors
- building the internal capacity of the ONARDC and the four relevant bar associations (Kinshasa Gombe; Kinshasa Matete; Matadi; Mbandaka) to put in place and manage a systematic and quality legal aid service for pre-trial detainees, notably through the establishment of a Pre-Trial Detention National Commission for Legal Assistance
- improving the technical skills of lawyers to take responsibility for this legal aid, through training, coaching sessions and the publication of teaching materials
- strategic litigation to support ‘high value added’ judicial proceedings, establishing through the legal process the responsibility of the Congolese state with respect to international law on human rights and the rights of detainees.
Expected Impact
This two-year project paves the way for a multi-year strategy aimed at gradual disengagement from the provision of direct services in favour of the local bar associations, acting under the aegis of the National Order of Lawyers of DRC
(ONARDC) and recognition of this organisation, at a national level, as the primary interlocutor
with the state in the legal aid sector benefitting, firstly, those who have been deprived of their
liberty.
At a local level, the project will help lawyers to specialise and give responsibility to the authorities of each bar association for putting in place lasting local mechanisms for providing legal aid to detainees. In addition, the project will mobilise new players – the University of Kinshasa and some of its law students – to set up a legal clinic in the capital’s prison. This work has a long-term aspect to the extent that these students are aspiring to commence their professional lives in the ‘legal services market’ and, in the near future, to get involved in developing national policies, in other words in the administration of justice within their country.
Thus, they will receive training on the issue of access to justice for the most vulnerable and on the tools which can be used to protect the rights of individuals, which they will then be able to continue to promote and implement.;
The direct beneficiaries of the project are the pre-trial detainees incarcerated in the
three prisons in the project areas (Kinshasa, Matadi and Mbandaka) and also, given the
synergies between programmes at a national level, prisons in the East, where ASF is
implementing a similar approach as part of the Uhaki Safi project.
The indirect beneficiaries of the project are, firstly, lawyers: the National Order of
Lawyers of the DRC (ONARDC) and their respective bar associations (Matete and Gombe of Kinshasa; Matete and Mbandaka).
For the first time as part of this type of approach, the project will also involve students from
the University of Kinshasa who will be trained and supervised to run legal clinics at Makala
prison.
Finally, the Congolese population as a whole will benefit from the impact of a project which
will contribute to establishing the rule of law in the DRC as part of an approach where access
to fair, quality justice can also make a significant contribution to fighting poverty.;
General objective: to contribute to consolidating the rule of law in the DRC through combating mass illegal pre-trial detentions.
Specific objective: to guarantee access to systematic, quality justice for vulnerable
individuals held in pre-trial detention in the project areas;
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Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Development Cooperation
National Order of Lawyers of the DRC (ONARDC)
Barreau de La Gombe (Kinshasa)
Barreau de Matete (Kinshasa)
Barreau de Mbandaka
Barreau du Bas-Congo
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Chantal van Cutsem, Strategic and Development Coordinator
+ 32 2 223 36 54
cvancutsem@asf.be
1084282
Project sheet: Contributing to consolidation of the rule of law in the DRC by combating mass illegal pre-trial detentions
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Improving access to justice for persons in vulnerable situations in Chad
The Chad situation is characterised by efforts for reform started at the judicial level and the existence of a legislative framework, both of which are still facing numerous obstacles in the implementation of effective access to justice for the population.
These obstacles are characterised by a lack of human resources, the need to strengthen the capacities of members of the judicial system and material needs such as, among others, the construction and development of premises dedicated to the judiciary, the improvement of the transport system and the rehabilitation of prisons, which have a direct impact on the quality of the legal aid service delivered to individuals seeking justice.
The population knows only very little about its rights. Abuses of power, as well as corrupt practices, are regularly reported, generating a problematic legal uncertainty.
The importance of culture and traditions also has a decisive impact on the legal and regulatory framework. The traditional authorities, close to the population and enjoying both strong authority and broad powers, are often the first recourse in the case of problems or conflict. Moreover, the law grants them jurisdiction with regard to conciliation, which is done in application of traditional and customary rules, to the detriment of legal provisions which sometimes contradict these rules. There are very few lawyers in the country and almost all are concentrated in the capital, which makes recourse to their office particularly difficult for groups in vulnerable situations. This observation goes hand in hand with ignorance of the rights of vulnerable persons and weakens access to justice for these groups.
The organisations of civil society (OSC) are genuinely committed to the promotion and protection of human rights and to the range of legal advice and judicial assistance services for the realisation of these rights: information, legal awareness, legal advice, referral, mediation and judicial assistance. Even though they number too few to sufficiently cover all of the needs of the population, they represent the main player of legal advice and judicial assistance and are the only ones that have genuine experience in this area.
Unfortunately, the irregularity of institutional funding does not allow them to provide their services continuously. The purpose of ASF's intervention in the first instance is to mitigate this situation to a certain extent. Granting funding to the Chad OSCs is the most effective way to ensure that a minimum level of services is effectively delivered to the population. Legal advice and judicial assistance services targeting women, children and/or persons in detention will be established by the organisations with ASF's technical support and follow-up in order to ensure that these particularly vulnerable groups of people have effective recourse during the project. A geographic distribution will be proposed in order to ensure that the services covered by the project are not concentrated in a single region.
That being said, the work of the OSCs could gain in efficiency and the quality of legal services can still be improved. Even the most experienced NGOs can make progress in these two areas. The technical support proposed by ASF 1) to assist in the development, implementation and assessment of the projects and 2) to share the legal knowledge necessary for the effective delivery of legal advice and judicial assistance services will make it possible to strengthen the legal advice and judicial assistance services funded as part of the intervention. The workshops for exchanging and sharing experiences will be opened to all those involved in legal advice and judicial assistance services and will set the framework for reflection on the institutionalisation and perpetuation of legal aid.
A bill on legal advice and judicial assistance has been submitted to the Ministry of Justice which may be adopted shortly. It is therefore essential that a framework of consultation and coordination between those involved in legal advice and judicial assistance is maintained in order to follow the progress of the measures that will be adopted. However, while the NGOs recognise the importance of this process, originally prompted by them, and wish for their voices to be heard, they admit to having difficulties in coordinating amongst themselves on these issues and are rather favourable to the idea that an external party takes on responsibility for this coordination. The intervention also provides for work on this topic.;
General aim: To contribute to the improvement of access to justice for persons in vulnerable situations in Chad.
Specific aim: To reinforce the services of legal advice and judicial assistance delivered by Chad associations;
Three Chadian organisations of civil society which will implement legal advice and judicial assistance services: the APLFT (Association pour la Promotion des Libertés Fondamentales au Tchad [Association for the Promotion of Fundamental Freedoms in Chad]), the AFJT (Association des Femmes Juristes du Tchad [Women Lawyers' Association of Chad]) and the PILC (Public Interest Law Center).
Those involved in legal advice and judicial assistance who will benefit from a framework of exchange, sharing experiences and reflection aimed at better institutionalisation of legal aid in Chad: these are notably members of staff of the NGOs providing legal advice and judicial assistance services, the Department for Access to Law and Justice, the Ministry of Justice and the Bar.
The women, children and/or persons in detention who will receive legal advice and judicial assistance services delivered by partner OSCs, three categories of persons who are particularly vulnerable with regard to access to legal advice and judicial assistance.
The ultimate beneficiaries will be all Chad citizens seeking justice, in particular the categories of persons in a situation of increased vulnerability.;
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European Union
Association pour la Promotion des Libertes Fondamentales au Tchad (APLFT)
Association des femmes juristes
Public Interest Law Center (PILC)
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Ben Kabagambe
Programme Coordinator
+23 56 23 55 975
tch.cp1@asf.be
www.asf.be
BP 5092
N'Djamena
Chad
Chad
811358
Project sheet: Improving access to justice for persons in vulnerable situations in Chad
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Support and protection for lawyers and other human rights defenders in the regions of the African Great Lakes and Eastern Africa
Human Rights Defenders (hereafter HRDs) are ordinary people taking extraordinary risks. Whether they are members of civil society organizations, community leaders, paralegals, social workers, media workers, volunteers or lawyers, HRDs share a common objective: they act, individually or with others, to promote and/or protect human rights.
Through their actions, HRDs build bridges between vulnerable people prevented from accessing and enjoying their basic human rights, and states authorities, who had promised, through international engagements, to ensure the respect, protection and promotion of these rights. These defenders ensure that society’s most marginalized peoples’ voices are heard, providing them with information on how to best defend their interests, investigating sensitive issues that affect the realization of their rights, and exerting pressure to turn governments’ promises into concrete and sustainable actions.
HRDs are often confronted with attempts to limit their capacities to defend and promote human rights while carrying out their work. These attempts take various forms: physical threats, administrative or judicial harassment, criminal charges, and sometimes violent crimes (such as assault, torture, killings, etc).
The general objective of the project is to contribute to the protection of human rights in the regions of the African Great Lakes and Eastern Africa (hereafter, the Region), by ensuring that lawyers and other HRDs receive support and stronger protection. The 3 years project, financed by the European Union, is implemented in partnership with the East Africa Law Society (EALS) in 5 countries in the Region: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda.
All activities are organized within the framework of a regional strategy which aims to provide both an emergency response, in the short term, and structural and lasting solutions in the long term:
- in the short term, it is necessary to take immediate and often urgent measures. It will be done in the form of direct assistance (notably financial and material) for specific needs (medical, psychological, logistical, etc.) and through providing high quality legal assistance to HRDs (whose activities are criminalized or who have been victims of threats, violations of their physical integrity or attacks).
- in the long term, it is about creating the conditions for a lasting strategy involving various national (national bar associations and civil society) as well as regional structures (EALS and other regional networks).
Therefore the project has established a pool of 42 lawyers from the Region, who are committed to human rights. In order to provide high quality legal services (legal
representation, mediation, amicus curiae, trial observations, etc.) to HRDs, these lawyers benefit from high-level trainings throughout the project.
Advocacy strategies are also implemented in order to promote and contribute to the development of a legal framework designed to provide specific protection to HRDs and the emergence of good practices in state institutions in the Region.
Finally, the key component of this project is the creation of a regional dynamic among HRDs, lawyers, institutions, protection organizations and networks, donors and other stakeholders, through the establishment of a funding mechanism (Protection Trust Fund – PTF), designed to provide comprehensive and long lasting responses to HRDs’ protection issues. Although the Region benefit from a considerable number of programmes and initiatives designed to strengthen the protection of HRDs, there is a lack of regional coordination or collaboration among key stakeholders, disruptions in the responses given on protection issues and unequal funding sources between countries or sub-regions. In collaboration with other initiatives being implemented in the Region, the PTF will aim to ensure that HRDs receive increased legal and personal protection throughout the Region, regardless of their country of origin or their first request for support.;
Specific objectives of the project: lawyers and other HRDs in the African Great Lakes and in East Africa receive support and stronger protection.
Expected Impact: HRDs are in a better situation to perform their work in the areas covered by the project, which will contribute to the overall protection of human rights.;
A) Target Groups
- HRD lawyers, either because they themselves are active HRDs, or because of the legal and judicial assistance they provide to other HRDs;
- Other HRDs, insofar as they require emergency support or assistance of a legal nature;
- National Bar Associations of Burundi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and Kenya; and
- Organisations which promote and defend human rights.
B) Final Beneficiaries
- The vulnerable population, individuals and groups deprived of their fundamental rights in the Region; and
- Lawyers in the Region.;
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European Union
East African Law Society (EALS)
Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI)
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Gilles Durdu
Regional Project Coordinator
+255 686 02 07 50
hrd-ddh@asf.be
www.asf.be
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Box 6240
Arusha
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Project sheet: Support and protection for lawyers and other human rights defenders in the regions of the African Great Lakes and Eastern Africa
Project sheet: Support and protection for lawyers and other human rights defenders in the regions of the African Great Lakes and Eastern Africa
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PROG2017-2021_outcome_BURUNDI_Appuyer et promouvoir la réalisation des droits, la prévention et le règlement pacifique des conflits au bénéfice des populations vulnérables
ASF organise depuis 1999 des services d’accès à la Justice au profit de la population burundaise. En 2016, le besoin d’accès à la Justice au Burundi de la population reste fort tandis que le système de Justice montre des limites à son absorption. Face à ces constats, ASF met en place le présent programme dans le but d’appuyer et promouvoir la réalisation des droits, la prévention et le règlement pacifique des conflits au bénéfice des populations vulnérables. Ce programme capitalise sur l’expertise acquise par ASF en matière d’aide légale et formule des innovations pour un meilleur accès à la Justice au Burundi. L’action dépassera la dimension institutionnelle de l’accès à la Justice pour investir une plus grande diversité de cadres de réalisation des droits, formels et informels. Les mécanismes classiques d’accès à la Justice et les nouveaux modes de travail prévus dans le programme seront mis en lien pour un effort optimal. Les partenariats du projet sont destinés à appuyer et à soutenir le fonctionnement des acteurs indépendants de l’accès à la Justice au Burundi. Le partenariat avec les barreaux est un prolongement des actions passées tandis que les nouveaux partenariats viennent enrichir l‘action par l’implication d’acteurs associatifs.
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Barreau de Bujumbura
Association des femmes juristes
Barreau de Gitega
Association pour la paix et les droits de l'homme (APDH)
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Gestion des opérations
Laetitia Fickers
Contrôleuse de gestion
+3222233654
lfickers@asf.be
http://asf.be
140 avenue de la chasse, 1040 Bruxelles
Bubanza
-3.0856655287215506 29.413146972656246
Karusi
-3.1103486408983576 30.2069091796875
Bujumbura Mairie
-3.3701710191664382 29.356842041015625
412692.12
466269.83
414511.20
406109.46
356107
289835.48
44720.70
AFJB 2018
AFJB
50572.82
BGITEGA 2018
Barreau de Gitega
73532.99
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APDH
2923.07
AFJB 2017 Avance
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AFJB
6033.59
Dépenses AFJB 2017
AFJB
4771.09
Dépenses Barreau de Gitega 2017
Barreau de Gitega
116556.44
108186.63
7377
Dépenses 2019 BBUJA
12076.05
Dépenses 2018 BBUJA
Barreau de Bujumbura
25085.06
Fonds 2018 AFJB
Avocats Sans Frontières
AFJB
18752.15
Trésorerie 2018 APDH
Avocats Sans Frontières
APDH
26361.43
Dépenses 2018 BGITEGA
Barreau de Gitega
212548.65
Dépenses 2018 ASF
Avocats Sans Frontières
283773
APDH 2019
APDH
53602.78
2018 Barreau Bujumbura
Barreau de Bujumbura
37371.50
APDH 2018
APDH
291596
AFJB 2019
AFJB
15128
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Avocats Sans Frontières
Barreau de Bujumbura
66449.16
Avocats Sans Frontières
AFJB
26172.18
Avocats Sans Frontières
Barreau de Bujumbura
23573.15
Avocats Sans Frontières
Barreau de Gitega
17611.22
Avocats Sans Frontières
APDH
1080
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Avocats Sans Frontières
Barreau de Gitega
133045.73
Dépenses ASF 2017
Avocats Sans Frontières
Avocats Sans Frontières
6578.96
Dépenses APDH 2017
APDH
11267.87
Barreau de Bujumbura
333184.04
48250.33
62699.85
31792.55
Fonds 2018 BGITEGA
Avocats Sans Frontières
Barreau de Gitega
20414
Trésorerie 2018 BBUJA
Avocats Sans Frontières
Barreau de Bujumbura
20480.54
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AFJB
30951.4
Dépenses 2018 APDH
APDH
64721
Fonds 2019 APDH
107242
Dépenses 2019 AFJB
21961
Dépenses 2019 APDH
149842
Dépenses 2019 ASF
72336
Fonds 2019 AFJB
5421.7
4000
158194.13
113189.2
9847
APPUYER ET PROMOUVOIR LA RÉALISATION DES DROITS, LA PRÉVENTION ET LE RÈGLEMENT PACIFIQUE DES CONFLITS AU BÉNÉFICE DES POPULATIONS VULNÉRABLES
Pourcentage d’un échantillon représentatif des bénéficiaires et des facilitateurs qui s’ estiment davantage en capacité de prévenir et de régler pacifiquement les conflits
Rapports des enquêtes de satisfaction
Des ensembles de bonnes pratiques de prévention et de gestion de conflits sont appropriés par les acteurs de justice de proximité pour prévenir et résoudre pacifiquement les conflits
Rapports de la recherche action du programme ; Rapports de formation et d’autres activités de RC
Identification de bonnes pratiques en matières de prévention et règlements des conflits ; Intégration de 2 bonnes pratiques dans les cadres de RC du programme ; Appropriation de 2 bonnes pratiques dans les activités de prévention et de résolution des conflits
Identification de bonnes pratiques en matières de prévention et règlements des conflits ; Intégration de 2 bonnes pratiques dans les cadres de RC du programme ; Appropriation de 2 bonnes pratiques dans les activités de prévention et de résolution des conflits
BE-BCE_KBO-0447404580-BURUEREF133601IN
Avocats Sans Frontières
Legal and judicial assistance for asylum seekers
Since the nineteen sixties Burundi has been confronted to important migration flows linked to constant instability in the Great Lakes region. At the end of last June, there were 6,397 asylum seekers and 44,034 refugees in the country. Although the capacity of the authorities to protect these populations remains limited, the protective environment itself is rather favourable to such protection. First of all, the legislative framework guarantees a process of admission observing certain security conditions, the prohibition of forcible returns and that the norms regulating their treatment are respectful of the rights of refugees. Burundi has ratified the instruments that are central to the regime of international protection of refugees: the Geneva Convention 1951 and its Additional Protocol from 1967, as well as the OAU Convention regulating aspects that are specific to the problems of refugees in Africa and which the asylum seekers can rely on to claim a wider definition of International Protection. As an exceptional regional measure, the protection instruments have been integrated into national legislation. The Burundian judicial arsenal has established the principle of non-refoulement and guarantees the application of the rights to work and education, and access to identity documents. The law establishes ONPRA (National Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons) as the current body to manage asylum, to elaborate new plans of action, to liaise with the HCR, the border police and provincial authorities and to coordinate the aid and protection interventions in the camps.
Finally it guarantees the right to legal counsel for asylum seekers during the refugee status determination procedure and organises legal representation in case of refusal at first instance.
Despite this legal arsenal, asylum seekers have limited access to asylum procedures, due to the unavailability of free assistance services and a lack of knowledge of the law and procedures. Confronted to linguistic, bureaucratic and procedural barriers they do not benefit of any support in obtaining individual documents and civil status documents, which are precisely required to prove their nationality and access the personal status of refugee. Some are denied the status at first instance because of a lack of legal support. In the absence of available or adequate legal representation, their requests for appeal fail before the appeals committee.
Also the insufficient protection and lack of legal assistance for refugees shows that obtaining the refugee status does not automatically allow for the enjoyment of the rights guaranteed by the Geneva Convention or national legislation.
Active in Burundi since 1999, ASF is implementing since January 2012 a project of international protection of the rights of asylum seekers and refugees (PIDDAR), with the objective of « reinforcing the measures of protection and assistance for refugees and asylum seekers and to promote asylum and the international protection of refugees in Burundi ». The intervention strategy focuses on the respect of equitable procedures for the determination of the refugee status but also on improving legal aid and advice for refugees and asylum seekers, as well as individuals amongst that group who are victims of sexual violence. The project comes to support the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (HCR) and the National Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (ONPRA), a technical structure set up by the Burundian Minister of State to determine the refugee status.
Activities:
1. Reception, guidance and legal assistance
- The PIDDAR project provides legal advice for asylum seekers throughout all phases of the procedure. The advice is given in any area related to asylum law, procedure and refugees rights. The centres will provide various services such as greeting, informing and guiding asylum seekers or refugees confronted to problems of law (violations of the right to health, etc.). Questions that do not concern the areas of intervention mentioned above are referred to the available services (IRC, HI, etc.)
- The legal services of the project will greet refugees and asylum seekers who need legal assistance for any question related to the asylum procedure, protection documents, civil status documents, etc. The project systematically assists asylum seekers whose demands have been dismissed in the first instance and provides for their legal representation before the appeals committee.
2. Judicial assistance
Judicial assistance is offered to vulnerable individuals in areas of gross violation of fundamental rights, sexual violence, illegal pre-trial detention, incarceration of women and minors and torture.
3. Actions of reinforcement of local competences.
The PIDDAR project looks to emancipate both the rights holders by promoting their access to simplified legal information and their aptitude to claim them, and the people carrying obligations and providing services by reinforcing their knowledge of their responsibilities and their capacities to honour them by respecting, promoting and simplifying the efficient exercise of the rights of asylum seekers and refugees.
4. Raising awareness and pleading
Awareness will be raised amongst refugees and asylum seekers as to the rights and obligations of refugees. The procedures and the process undergone by the asylum applications from the moment they are submitted up to the definitive decision of recognition of the status or rejection of the application for asylum, will be supported during those sessions, in a participatory manner.;
Through the PIDDAR project ASF wishes to contribute to the reinforcement of the international protection of refugees. The purpose is specifically to support the HCR’s efforts in promoting procedures of equitable protection and protection against violence and exploitation by improving the legal security of asylum seekers and refugees in Burundi.
Expected impact:
- Result n°1: A group of specialised lawyers is available and capable of providing legal and judicial services adapted to the beneficiaries;
- Result n°2: Asylum seekers and refugees in Burundi benefit from greeting, guidance, legal advice and free legal assistance;
- Result n°3: Law, asylum procedures and the rights of refugees are known, respected and disseminated by local authorities, police authorities and by the civil society;
- Result n°4: Good practice and the lessons learnt in the area of the execution of asylum procedure are identified and communicated to be capitalised by Burundese asylum authorities.;
1. The final beneficiaries consist of:
- Refugees present in the Burundian territory in a camp or in urban environments who encounter a problem of a legal and/or judicial nature
- Asylum seekers, i.e. people asking Burundese authorities for international protection
At least 1800 asylum seekers and refugees will benefit from a consultation before the end of the project (600 per year). At least 1,500 asylum seekers whose demands will have been rejected at first instance will benefit from legal assistance and representation before the appeals committee. At least 250 refugees and asylum seekers will benefit from legal aid by a competent lawyer. Awareness will be raised amongst at least 3,400 asylum seekers and refugees as to the rights and obligations of refugees and the legal undertaking of sexual assaults. Representatives from refugees and asylum seekers committees will be trained on the rights of refugees and the asylum procedure.
2. National asylum authorities: the National Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (ONPRA) and the Police of Air, Frontiers, and Foreigners (PAFE) will benefit from reinforcements of their competence in asylum rights.
3. Civil society organisations operating in the refugee and asylum seeker sector will also benefit from reinforcements of their competence in asylum rights and the international protection of refugees.
4. Project lawyers will benefit from regular training and coaching through the presence of an international coach and expert in asylum law.;
Avocats Sans Frontières
Avocats Sans Frontières
European Union
UNHCR
Office National de Protection des Réfugiés et Apatrides (ONPRA)
Avocats Sans Frontières
Céline Lemmel
Head of mission
+257 78 863 581
bur-cm@asf.be
www.asf.be
Quartier Zeimet
Avenue Nzero n°18
B.P. 27 82 Bujumbura
Burundi
839561.56
Project sheet: Legal and judicial assistance
for asylum seekers
BE-BCE_KBO-0447404580-BURBELAL112401PRO
Avocats Sans Frontières
Support for the operationalization of the National Strategy for Legal Aid
Having been in Burundi for more than 10 years, ASF’s intervention strategy in the country is based on the following principles:
- Specialisation in providing legal aid to vulnerable people: ASF has developed an expertise in implementing legal aid programmes to assist vulnerable people, which draws on 15 years of experience in fragile and/or developing States.
- Promotion of the social role of lawyers and strengthening their technical abilities: ASF considers strengthening lawyers’ abilities (and their independence) to be an objective in itself, as lawyers are essential agents in relation to access to justice and the right to a fair trial. Furthermore, ASF wants to promote the social role of lawyers as agents for change who are likely to generate a progressive jurisprudence and/or to stimulate legal reform.
- Synergy and partnership with agents in the countries of intervention: ASF takes all possible steps to start a positive dialogue with agents in the countries of intervention, and to identify objectives and common or convergent action.
- Sharing knowledge and lessons learned: in order to meet the challenges which are posed by the contexts of our interventions, ASF has developed “models” of intervention, mechanisms which are endogenous and innovative, such as legal aid offices and mobile court hearings. The idea of learning and assessment is included in these projects, by ASF as well as by its partners, with a view to capitalisation and duplication.
In Burundi, the project aims to provide “Support for the operationalisation of the National Strategy for Legal Aid”, developed in 2010 under ASF’s initiative, of which the objective is to develop legal aid services by bringing together and engaging different agents from the justice sector. This strategy is being carried out in agreement with:
- The ASF mission;
- The Sectoral Policies of the Burundian government, which intends to promote “a stronger demand for justice”;
- The Bar’s Strategic Plan (“to promote legal advice and assistance, and programmes which strengthen, protect and serve the public”);
- Lessons learned from practice, previous evaluations, and the results of the legal aid study which was carried out by ASF in 2011, which concluded there was a lack of co-ordination between different legal aid suppliers and that it was necessary to strengthen and perpetuate the engagement of agents who were lawfully in charge of legal aid.
The project is being implemented in the capital and in three provinces of intervention, in synergy with the CTB, in complementarity with ASF’s project DGD 2012-2014, and in conformity with the Ministry of Justice’s Sectoral Policy 2011-2015. The regions targeted (Mwaro, Muramvya and Bubanza), almost tally exactly with CTB’s regions for action in the current project (Mwaro, Muramvya, Bubanza and Cibitoke).
To contribute to the achievement of project results, another project is being implemented, also financed by Belgium (DGD 2012-2014). Its objective is to develop access to co-ordinated and high quality legal aid for categories of vulnerable people targeted in the National Strategy for Legal Aid (NSLA or SNAL in French) in the three provinces of intervention (Bujumbura, Gitega and Ngozi).
Activities of the project:
- Carrying out a feasibility study on the system for financing a legal aid fund. The study will be refined in 3 phases lasting a year, carried out by 2 external experts on behalf of the thematic group “Demande de Justice”. The objective is to propose a realistic system for financing legal aid in close consultation with those who are involved in its future implementation: State (Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Finance), regional authorities, technical and financial partners (bilateral co-operations, international organisations, private foundations), agents for implementation (Bar, lawyers, national and local NGOs), agents for supervision and technical advice (international NGOs);
- Support for meetings and activities of the thematic group “Demande de Justice”;
- Systematic judicial assistance to defendants in preventative detention at the pre-trial phase (in court chambers), and the jurisdictional phase in the 3 provinces of intervention;
- The opening and functioning of a place for ASF legal consultations in Bubanza;
- Judicial assistance for Incarcerated Minors;
- Awareness raising/diffusing of information about the law and legal aid consultations in prisons;
- Carrying out an analytical study of judicial practice concerning preventative detention in Burundi.;
Specific objective: To contribute to the effective implementation of the National Strategy for Legal Aid in Burundi.
Results:
- R1: A strategy for sustainable funding for legal aid is defined and discussed.
- R2: The priority categories identified in the NSLA have access to high quality legal aid in the provinces of Mwaro, Muramvya, Bubanza.;Specific objective: To contribute to the effective implementation of the National Strategy for Legal Aid in Burundi.
Results:
- R1: A strategy for sustainable funding for legal aid is defined and discussed.
- R2: The priority categories identified in the NSLA have access to high quality legal aid in the provinces of Mwaro, Muramvya, Bubanza.;Specific objective: To contribute to the effective implementation of the National Strategy for Legal Aid in Burundi.
Results:
- R1: A strategy for sustainable funding for legal aid is defined and discussed.
- R2: The priority categories identified in the NSLA have access to high quality legal aid in the provinces of Mwaro, Muramvya, Bubanza.;Specific objective: To contribute to the effective implementation of the National Strategy for Legal Aid in Burundi.
Results:
- R1: A strategy for sustainable funding for legal aid is defined and discussed.
- R2: The priority categories identified in the NSLA have access to high quality legal aid in the provinces of Mwaro, Muramvya, Bubanza.
Expected impact:
- The priority groups of people seeking justice will benefit from high quality free legal aid through a legal aid fund and management system being put in place at the national level;
- Improvement of the judicial treatment of matters concerning the priority groups in the provinces of intervention;
- Contribution to the improvement of judicial practice in criminal matters;
- Contribution to the improvement of the public justice service.;
National component
- Direct beneficiaries: legal aid agents (primarily the Bar(s) and the Ministry of Justice in Burundi
- Indirect beneficiaries: people seeking justice who are in a vulnerable situation, who will benefit from legal aid.
Provincial component
- Direct beneficiaries: people seeking justice who will benefit from legal services (imprisoned women and children, pre-trial detainees, victims of gender-based violence, victims of manifest violations of fundamental rights)
- Indirect beneficiaries: All people who are seeking justice, and agents of justice at the provincial level;National component
- Direct beneficiaries: legal aid agents (primarily the Bar(s) and the Ministry of Justice in Burundi
- Indirect beneficiaries: people seeking justice who are in a vulnerable situation, who will benefit from legal aid.
Provincial component
- Direct beneficiaries: people seeking justice who will benefit from legal services (imprisoned women and children, pre-trial detainees, victims of gender-based violence, victims of manifest violations of fundamental rights)
- Indirect beneficiaries: All people who are seeking justice, and agents of justice at the provincial level;National component
- Direct beneficiaries: legal aid agents (primarily the Bar(s) and the Ministry of Justice in Burundi
- Indirect beneficiaries: people seeking justice who are in a vulnerable situation, who will benefit from legal aid.
Provincial component
- Direct beneficiaries: people seeking justice who will benefit from legal services (imprisoned women and children, pre-trial detainees, victims of gender-based violence, victims of manifest violations of fundamental rights)
- Indirect beneficiaries: All people who are seeking justice, and agents of justice at the provincial level;
Avocats Sans Frontières
Avocats Sans Frontières
Barreau de Bujumbura
Belgian Development Cooperation
Avocats Sans Frontières
Céline Lemmel
Head of Mission ASF Burundi
+257 78 863 581
bur-cm@asf.be
www.asf.be
Quartier Zeimet
Avenue Nzero n°18
B.P. 27 82 Bujumbura
Burundi
519146
Project-sheet "Support for the operationalization of the National Strategy for Legal Aid"
BE-BCE_KBO-0447404580-BURBELAL122401IN
Avocats Sans Frontières
Improving access to justice for vulnerable population groups in Burundi
Being present in Burundi for more than ten years, the intervention strategy of ASF in the country is based upon the following principles:
- Specialisation in legal aid to people in vulnerable situations: ASF has developed an expertise in the implementation of legal aid programs for the most vulnerable, based on 15 years of experience in fragile and/or developing countries.
- Furthering the social role of the lawyer and strengthening his technical capacities: ASF works on strengthening the lawyer's capacities (and his independence), because he/she is a key actor concerning access to justice and the right to a fair trial, as well as an objective in its own right. Furthermore, ASF wishes to promote the social role of the lawyer that allows him/her to be an agent of change in regard to generating a progressive jurisprudence and/or boosting legal reform.
- Synergy and partnership with stakeholders in the countries of intervention: ASF strives to engage in positive dialogue with actors in countries of intervention and to identify objectives and actions that are common or converging.
- Sharing knowledge and lessons learned: To meet the challenges posed by our contexts of intervention, ASF has developed "models" of intervention, endogenous and innovative mechanisms such as legal clinics and mobile court hearings. These projects include the idea of learning and assessment by both ASF and its partners with a capitalization and duplication vision.
In Burundi, the project aims to "develop access to coordinated and qualitative legal assistance for vulnerable people targeted by the National Strategy for Legal Aid (SNAL) in the three intervention provinces (Bujumbura, Gitega and Ngozi)", in accordance with:
- The ASF mission;
- The Sector Policy of the Government of Burundi, which intends to promote "a request for a stronger justice system";
- The Strategic Plan of the Bar Association ("promote legal assistance activities and programmes that strengthen, protect, and serve the public");
- Lessons learned from the work field, from previous evaluations and from results of the study on legal aid made by ASF in 2011, from which we can conclude that there’s a lack of coordination between providers of legal aid and that the involvement of legal actors in charge of legal aid needs to be strengthened and sustained.
The development strategy of coordinated access to legal assistance and quality of providers who are legally responsible for providing legal aid services to vulnerable populations in the provinces of Bujumbura-Mairie, Gitega and Ngozi is part of a framework of sustainability and progressive disengagement and is based on two axis:
1. The transfer of skills to national actors through the gradual transfer of legal aid services to the partner, i.e the Bar Association and the continued support in project management, the technical capacity building for lawyers, the reinforcement of authorities and the civil society in issuing reception, advice and guidance services at the provincial level.
2. Improved synergies and complementarity of intervening actors in the field of legal aid at the national and provincial level.
The project is implemented in partnership with the Bar Association. Present mainly in the capital, the Bar Association will organize legal aid services in Bujumbura-Mairie, while ASF will organize these services in Gitega and Ngozi. The middle-term objective is that the institution can also arrange legal aid in the provincial sector of the country; a study on the feasibility of installing lawyers in the province is part of the project.
To contribute to achieving the intended results of this project, another project will be implemented, also funded by Belgium (Synergy line with PIC), which aims to support the effective implementation of the National Strategy for Legal Aid in Burundi (SNAL), by conducting a study on the mechanisms of funding legal aid, and by providing ongoing support to the Thematic Group "Application of Justice", which is responsible for the implementation of the SNAL at the national and provincial level.
Activities of the project:
So that the Bar Association is more capable of and adapted towards organising, managing and developing legal aid for those vulnerable people targeted by the SNAL in the province of Bujumbura-Marie in order to, eventually, repeat this in other provinces:
- Support the activation of the Legal Aid Commission in the Bar Association;
- Selection and implementation of a pool of 'legal aid' lawyers;
- Organizational and managerial support to the Bar Association (Recruitment of a development coordinator of the legal aid project of the Bar/ASF);
- Development of a professional training curriculum for lawyers in legal aid and training national trainers on the curriculum;
- Development of a system of and tools for monitoring/evaluation of the Bar Association’s legal aid activities during a workshop;
- Feasibility study on the installation of law firms in the province.
To ensure judicial assistance in line with the minimum standards of legal representation to the vulnerable people targeted by the SNAL in the provinces of Bujumbura-Mairie, Gitega and Ngozi, and in order for a small group of lawyers to be fully equipped to provide this legal representation:
- Training of the pool of lawyers conducted by trainers of the Bar Association assisted by experts, and coachingsessions of the pool of lawyers by experts;
- Support to the pilot project "Illegal preventive detention" and to the judicial assistance at the bottom of the Bar Association in the province of Bujumbura;
- Systematic assistance of those accused who have been illegally detained in prisons in the provinces where ASF is intervening (Gitega and Ngozi);
- Judicial assistance to those ‘at the bottom' of the vulnerable categories targeted through the pool of lawyers in the provinces of Ngozi and Gitega;
- Meetings of the Monitoring and Evaluation Committee and satisfaction surveys of the beneficiaries of judicial assistance of the Bar Association and ASF.
So that the reception, advice, and guidance services to the vulnerable people targeted by the SNAL will be increasingly assured through 'synergy' between the different actors through a progressive accountability of the decentralised state structures in the coordination of actions in the provinces of Gitega and Ngozi:
- Support the development of the Provicial Action Plans 2012/2013, strengthening the coordination mechanism, and coordination meetings/monthly monitoring at the provincial level;
- Workshops legal capacity building of the student pool, of the Family Development Centers (FDC) of Gitega and Ngozi, and of the judicial services of the intervention prisons and the local government;
- Sensitization actions and technical assistance/strengthening of the FDC and judicial services of prisons in the pilot provinces with the support of graduating law students;
- Consultation activities and legal advice in the two legal clinics, in the intervention prisons and mobile legal aid clinics with the support of graduating law students.;
Through this project, ASF wants to contribute to the development of a coordinated and qualitative access to legal assistance provided by those who are legally responsible for providing legal aid services to vulnerable people targeted by the National Legal Aid Strategy in Bujumbura-Mairie, Gitega, and Ngozi.
Outcome 1: The Bar Association is more available and able to organize, manage, and develop access to legal aid for vulnerable persons targeted by the National Strategy for Legal Aid (SNAL) in the province of Bujumbura-Mairie to eventually be replicated in other provinces.
- Outcome 2: A pool of lawyers is equipped to provide judicial assistance in accordance with the minimum standards of legal representation to vulnerable persons targeted by SNAL in Bujumbura-Mairie, Gitega, and Ngozi.
- Outcome 3: The reception, advice, and guidance services to the vulnerable persons targeted by the SNAL are increasingly assured in synergy with the different actors through a progressive accountability of the decentralised state structures in the coordination of actions in the provinces of Gitega and Ngozi.;
- The most vulnerable Burundian citizens targeted by the SNAL, being persons in pre-trial detention, women and children in detention, and victims of sexual violence in the provinces of Gitega, Ngozi, and Bujumbura:
> At least 700 people will benefit from the legal assistance of a competent and trained lawyer;
> At least 4,000 people will receive counseling and legal advice/guidance from a lawyer or a trained ASF partner (Family Development Centers and law students of the University of Ngozi);
> At least 1,000 persons held in pre-trial detention will benefit from legal assistance in the prisons of Mpimba, Ngozi, and Gitega;
> The Bar Association will be better able to deliver legal aid services;
> Actors in the legal aid sector in the provinces have established a Joint Action Plan;
> The national strategy for legal aid at the national level will be advanced;
- The Bar Association of Bujumbura, of which the organizational and management capacities will be strengthened.
- Lawyers and judicial defenders, who will benefit from regular training in the context of a training curriculum defined in cooperation with the Bar Association.
- The legal aid NGOs, active in the concerned area, which will be better coordinated through the Provincial Fora of Legal Aid.
- The Centers for Family Development and law students, who will benefit from capacity-building.
- The population of Burundi, who will have better access to justice through legal aid.;
Avocats Sans Frontières
Avocats Sans Frontières
Belgian Development Cooperation
Barreau de Bujumbura
Avocats Sans Frontières
Céline Lemmel
Head of mission
+257 78 863 581
bur-cm@asf.be
www.asf.be
Quartier Zeimet
Avenue Nzero n°18
B.P. 27 82 Bujumbura
Burundi
1000000
Project sheet: Improving access to justice for vulnerable population groups in Burundi
BE-BCE_KBO-0447404580-PROG2017-2021_R12
Avocats Sans Frontières
PROG2017-2021_outcome_RDC_Appuyer et promouvoir la réalisation des droits des populations par leur participation à des mécanismes de prévention et de résolution des conflits efficaces, favorisant ainsi l'Etat de droit et la bonne gouvernance
Le programme d’ASF vise à contribuer au renforcement de la gouvernance en vue de la réalisation des droits des populations en situation de vulnérabilité à travers l’accès à la justice comme facteur de développement, de promotion de la paix sociale et de consolidation de l’Etat de droit. Les actions à mettre en œuvre sont centrées principalement sur deux axes, à savoir le renforcement de la participation des populations dans le processus de prévention et résolution de conflits, ainsi que le renforcement des mécanismes de justice (judiciaire et extra judiciaire) favorisant la consolidation de la paix et l’émergence de l’Etat de droit. Pour le premier axe, l’efficacité de la participation des populations passera par le renforcement du pouvoir d’agir de ces dernières à travers l’amélioration de leurs connaissances de leurs droits, l’accompagnement dans le processus de justice pour promouvoir l’information et l’empowerment des femmes et le renforcement des capacités des acteurs (avocats, OSC, leaders communautaires…). Pour le second axe, l’action consistera en l’appui aux pourvoyeurs de services d’aide légale afin de garantir les services juridiques et la mise en place de mécanismes d’aide légale et de protection durable des droits des populations. Des dispositifs de recherche-action seront mis en place en vue d’analyser, d’améliorer et de capitaliser les acquis du projet et favoriser l’émergence de bonnes pratiques.
Avocats Sans Frontières
Avocats Sans Frontières
Barreau de Goma
barreau de Matadi
Dynamique des femmes juristes (DFIJ)
Commission Diocésaine Justice et Paix ( CDJP)
Avocats Sans Frontières
Avocats Sans Frontières RDC
Jennifer Troncoso
Directrice Pays
jtroncoso@asf.be
Kinshasa
-4.328609625560522 15.313568115234375
Matadi
-5.878332109674314 13.4967041015625
Goma
-1.6971394669749607 29.2510986328125
438934.85
522451.46
510253.02
492128.45
498759.33
37463
Dépenses 2019 Barreau de Goma
15499
Dépenses 2019 DFJ
37052.59
Expenditure Barreau de Goma
15580.57
Disbursement DFJ Goma
40827.85
ASF
Barreau de Goma
25587.96
Avocats Sans Frontières
Barreau de Goma
25587.96
Avocats Sans Frontières
Barreau de Matadi
29639
Barreau de Goma
7785.6866
Dépenses DFJ
Dynamique des Femmes Juristes (DFJ)
14706
Fonds 2019 DFJ
36336
Fonds 2019 Barreau MATADI
36909
Fonds 2019 Barreau Goma
16065
Dépenses 2019 CDJP MATADI
36055
Dépenses 2019 BCG Matadi
32994.88
Disbursement BCG GOMA
15858.47
Disbursement CDJP Matadi
11063.03
DFJ
8052.68
ASF
CDJP
44778.93
ASF
Barreau de Goma
13828.79
ASF
Dynamique des femmes juristes (DFJ)
15945.64
disbursement CDJP Matadi
1382879
20978.36
Avocats Sans Frontières
Barreau de Goma
32823.58
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14884.97
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33866.42
ASF
Barreau de Goma
44778.93
ASF
Barreau de Matadi
479141
Dépenses 2019 ASF
20440
Fonds 2019 CDPJ MATADI
40827.85
Barreau Matadi
Avocats Sans Frontières
Barreau de Matadi
33866.42
ASF
Barreau de Matadi
11542.46
493658.73
13003.79
11595.52
7740.83
8823.17
20903.74
14457.18
13069.74
21186.15
7633.71
13233.26
9440.05
13650.00
13677.55
13298.25
9137.93
8972.03
13729.00
524463.45
38117.52
11721.54
Avocats Sans Frontières
DFJ
11063.03
Avocats Sans Frontières
CDJP
13828.79
ASF
Commission Diocésaine Justice et Paix (CDJP)
7854.59568
Dépenses CDJP
CDJP
20922.9183
Dépenses BCG Matadi
Barreau de Matadi
234782.8292
Dépenses ASF 2017
ASF
8838
ASF
Dynamique des femmes juristes (DFJ)
20978.36
Avocats Sans Frontières
Barreau de Matadi
13828.79
ASF
Dynamique des femmes juristes (DFJ)
8960
Commission Diocésaine Justice et Paix (CDJP)
30080
Barreau de Matadi
8052.68
ASF
DFJ
322470.43
Expenditure ASF
463613
11721.54
Avocats Sans Frontières
CDJP
21053.9178
Barreau de Goma
Appuyer et promouvoir la réalisation des droits des populations par leur participation à des mécanismes de prévention et de résolution des conflits efficaces, favorisant ainsi l'Etat de droit et la bonne gouvernance
ASF et ses partenaires proposent des mécanismes d’accès à la justice qui se diversifient sur la durée du projet et qui répondent aux besoins et aux attentes des justiciables et des communautés
Pourcentage d’ un échantillon représentatif des bénéficiaires qui s’ estiment satisfaits des services reçus désagrégé par genre, âge, province et type d’acteur
BE-BCE_KBO-0447404580-PROG2017-2021_M12
Avocats Sans Frontières
PROG2017-2021_outcome_MAROC_Améliorer l'accès à la justice et la protection des droits humains pour les groupes les plus vulnérables, en priorité les femmes et les migrantes
L’Objectif d’ASF au Maroc est d’améliorer l’accès à la justice et la protection des droits humains des groupes les plus vulnérables, dont en particulier, les femmes et les femmes migrantes. Le changement vers lequel tendent les actions est de contribuer à un Maroc pluriel, civil, démocratique, égalitaire, respectueux des droits humains, fondé sur les principes de la justice sociale et du développement durable. ASF a pour mission principale de renforcer le pouvoir d’agir des justiciables en situation de vulnérabilité dans la revendication et la réalisation de leurs droits, s’appuyant sur l’interdisciplinarité des acteurs pour assurer un accompagnement global. Pour atteindre ce résultat, des cliniques juridiques seront mises en place en collaboration avec les universités, pour informer, sensibiliser, conseiller et accompagner les femmes et les migrantes. Afin d’assurer la qualité des services juridiques, les capacités des acteurs de l’accès à la justice seront renforcées (résultat 2). Parallèlement, un plaidoyer pour un cadre de protection légale et des pratiques conformes aux standards nationaux et internationaux sera mené (résultat 3). Ce plaidoyer s’alimentera de l’analyse des données récoltées sur le terrain, mais aussi de l’expérience et la connaissance des différents acteurs de l’accès à la justice, qui sera développée et diffusée via des communautés d’échanges de pratiques qu’ASF mettra en place sous forme de plateformes digitales, au Maroc et comme dans tous ses pays d’intervention.
Avocats Sans Frontières
Avocats Sans Frontières
Association ADALA - Justice
observatoire marocain des prisons
Avocats Sans Frontières
Gestion des opérations
Pascal Vanden Eynde
Directeur de la gestion des opérations
pvandeneynde@asf.be
Avocats Sans Frontières
Gestion des opérations
Laetitia Fickers
Contrôleuse de gestion
lfickers@asf.be
Mohammedia
33.68321092658007 -7.369079589843751
Rabbat
34.04127092007936 -6.81286550592631
128539.74
199898.18
226717.29
226717.29
212182.57
179519.95
Dépenses ASF 2021
60692.66
ADALA transferts 2020
Avocats Sans Frontières
Association ADALA - Justice
93719.93
Dépenses ASF 2020
Avocats Sans Frontières
109229
Transferts Adala 2021
31128
Transferts OMP 2021
57928
ADALA transfers 2017
Avocats Sans Frontières
Association ADALA - Justice
75217.14
ADALA transfers 2018
Association ADALA - Justice
82447
ADALA transfers 2019
Avocats Sans Frontières
Association ADALA - Justice
106061
Dépenses ASF 2019
Avocats Sans Frontières
37178.52
Expenditure ASF 2017
Avocats Sans Frontières
65168.09
Dépenses ASF 2018
Avocats Sans Frontières
65479.01
ADALA 2017
Avocats Sans Frontières
ADALA
95202.97
ADALA 2017
Avocats Sans Frontières
ADALA
80789.94
ADALA 2017
Avocats Sans Frontières
ADALA
90757.38
ADALA 2017
Avocats Sans Frontières
ADALA
78063.55
ADALA 2017
Avocats Sans Frontières
ADALA
Améliorer l'accès à la justice et la protection des droits humains pour les groupes les plus vulnérables, en priorité les femmes, les migrantes, les enfants en conflit avec la loi et les prisonnières
La confiance de la population, en particulier des groupes vulnérables, dans les institutions de justice s'est améliorée
Les acquis constitutionnels sont renforcés à travers le plaidoyer pour un environnement juridique respectueux des standards nationaux et internationaux
L’expérience et la connaissance des acteurs de l’accès à la justice est développée et diffusée via des communautés d'échanges des pratiques innovantes et porteuses d'impact
Création de Channel de discussion sur slack
3 bonnes pratiques identifiées grâce à la communauté de pratique sont utilisées en plaidoyer
Un système de monitoring est mis en place et 3 policy brief d'analyse des données sont produits et partagés
Un système de monitoring est mis en place et 3 policy brief d'analyse des données sont produits et partagés
Le renforcement du pouvoir d'agir des justiciables est assuré par la mise en place des services d'aide légale accessibles
Nombre de personnes bénéficient de consultations juridiques dans les cliniques juridiques mises en place, dont au moins 50% de femmes
Pas de clinique juridique mise en place
250 personnes bénéficient de consultations juridiques, dont 400 femmes
500 personnes (cumulatif) ont bénéficié de consultations juridiques, dont 800 femmes
Nombre de personnes qui bénéficient d'accompagnement judiciaire par les UAJ ou les avocats dont au moins 90% de femmes
Nombre de permanence décentralisées organisées sur les lieux d'accueil/de vie de femmes précarisées
Des campagnes d'information sont organisées par les étudiants auprès du public
no campaign due to Covid sanitary crisis and restrictions
Les capacités des acteurs de l'aide légale sont renforcées pour assurer un prise en charge de qualité aux personnes en situation de vulnérabilité
Nombre de juristes et avocats formés, dont au moins 50% de femmes
Pas d'informations
50 acteurs de l'accès à la justice ont été renforcés
100 (cumulatifs) acteurs de l'accès à la justice ont été renforcés
Le guide pratique est validé par les acteurs académiques et juridiques
Rencontres relatives aux cliniques juridiques sont organisées
Les étudiants cliniciens sont formés aux thématiques et enjeux juridiques
BE-BCE_KBO-0447404580-XM-DAC-7-PPR-4000004778
Avocats Sans Frontières
From Access to Equality (FATE) : Empowering Women to Access Justice in Uganda.
The FATE project is a four-partner consortium that commenced in 2021 and will end in 2025. Avocats Sans Frontieres is the lead partner co-implementing with (Uganda Women Network (UWONET), Barefoot Law (BFL) and Penal Reform International (PRI). The primary beneficiaries are Ugandan women and girls seeking justice, with an emphasis on adolescent girls, female survivors of Sexual Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), women in rural areas, women with HIV, women who face particular barriers in their communities and Women with Disability (WWD), for whom structural challenges to access justice are amplified and women migrating within Uganda. This project contributes directly to the Sustainable Development Goals 5 (Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls), 10 (Reduce inequality within and among countries) and 16 (Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels).
The FATE Project accordingly, seeks to create an enabling environment that responds to the unique justice needs of women and girls with two specific objectives developed: Specific Objective 1: Women are in a position to demand justice, Specific Objective 2: Decision makers mobilise to make women and girls’ rights effective.
Penal Reform International
Avocats Sans Frontières
Netherlands - Ministry of Foreign Affairs
UWONET
Barefoot Law
Avocats Sans Frontières
Finance and Operations
Finance and Operations Controller
+3222233654
lfickers@asf.be
140 avenue de la chasse, 1040 Brussels Belgium
Kamuli
0.944785 33.126717
Namutumba
0.8350 33.6850
Soroti
1.713181 33.606385
Mbale
1.078444 34.181006
Gulu
Moroto
Lamwo
956272
951282
921392
1171053
91223
150867.91
184129.46
126860.35
900130
2143597
288733.15
107128
956273
3043727
57814
203001
ASF - expenses - year 1
Decision makers mobilize to make women and girls' rights effective
Percentage of women and girls who are satisfied with the legal aid services provided
Percentage of decision makers who demonstrate legal awareness of women and girls’ rights
Women and girls are empowered to pursue justice in an environment that serves their needs
Percentage of GBV crimes prosecuted
Percentage of women and girls who report that barriers preventing them from accessing effective access to justice have been reduced
77% of women and girls reported that barriers preventing them from accessing effective access to justice have been reduced
Percentage of participants across the project who believe that women and men deserve to have equal access to their rights
Percentage increase in the number of women and girls accessing legal and protection services
Number of women and girls able to access justice
This figure represents the target for the quarter
The community sensitisations through which women and girls were able to access legal information were highly attended hence the overachievement of the target
Women are in a position to demand justice
Percentage of women and girls who know their legal rights
Percentage of women and girls who can cite a local service that provides legal advice
Percentage of women satisfied with the way their complaints were handled by mediators
Women are legally empowered to act
Number of paralegals trained and active
Project lifetime
Number of beneficiaries participating in community sensitizations
This figure is the target for the quarter
Some of the community outreaches conducted were carried forward from the previous quarter thereby reaching a large of number o women
Percentage of paralegals with improved legal knowledge
Number of women who access tailored first line legal support through SMS, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Platforms and other entry points for legal information
This represents the number of women who received legal support through the digital platform. The number quoted goes beyond the project scope because access to digital platforms often has spill overs.
For the project lifetime
None
Legal aid and protection services are improved and tailored to respond to women and girls’ access to justice needs
% of CSOs with improved knowledge and capacity to respond to women’s justice needs
Knowledge increase is to be measured as and when the capacity building sessions are held, through pre -test and post- test knowledge tests on the different aspects trained.
This is the average knowledge change for CSO representatives taken through a training during the reporting period
% of mediators with improved knowledge of how to lead gender-sensitive and fair mediations
The baseline figure provided is an analysis of knowledge increase measured at the initial training of community based mediators which will be used as the benchmark for continuous assessment under this indicator. The knowledge tests were subjected to a total of 38 mediators.
Number of beneficiaries accessing advisory centers and shelters
This is the target for the quarter
428 were walk-in clients at the advisory centres and 35 survivors with 25 minors were sheltered
Number of female offenders assisted
This is the target for the whole project period
Continued legal representation for 39 female offenders, social inquiries conducted for 19 women, 66 women benefited from re-integration
Number of cases supported by the project
This is the target for the whole project lifetime/period.
46 cases through legal representation and 304 through mediations
Number of female offenders’ accessing trainings led by PRI
This is the target for the whole project lifetime/period.
A draft manual for resocialisation and social integration for women offenders was developed
Institutions are accountable for protecting and promoting women and girls’ rights
Number of alternative reports submitted to UN treaty bodies
Percentage of law enforcement staff with improved knowledge
This indicator is assessed basing on the individual capacity building sessions through pre and post tests. The baseline value is therefore not available for the project period
Trainings for prison and police officers was conducted. the percentage quoted is the average improvement from both trainings.
Percentage of female councilors and MPs with increased knowledge on how to influence policies
This was assessed during the training for women councillors in Kamuli and Namutumba through pre and post tests
Percentage of monitors in high court circuits with improved capacity to observe court sessions