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Enhancing Legal Empowerment through Engagement with Customary Justice
  Project Location: Managed from IDLO headquarters (Rome) with activities in Namibia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Uganda, Rwanda, Somalia, Liberia and Papua New Guinea.Project Duration: Two years (24 months)
Parternship: This program is being implemented by the IDLO Unit for Research, Policy and Strategic Initiatives in partnership with the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Development, Leiden University.
Program Description: A research project aimed at: expanding the knowledge base on the relationship between customary justice systems and the legal empowerment of poor and marginalized populations; and identifying entry points and tools of engagement for working with customary justice systems to strengthen legal empowerment. The program featured a number of individual research projects based in Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, Liberia and Uganda. These projects sought to evaluate programmatic interventions designed to enhance legal empowerment through improved operation of customary justice systems with a view to collecting empirical data on the effectiveness of such approaches, lessons learned and best practices. The results have been brought together in three publications aimed at international and national legal practitioners, country specialists and development actors working in the areas of customary justice and/or legal empowerment. The books, as well as the project reports, are available for download in the ‘project documents and publications’ section.
Project components:
- An empirically-driven research study in Namibia to evaluate interventions of external actors aimed at enhancing the legal empowerment of users of customary justice systems, particularly women.
- Six action-based field research studies aimed at gaining a better understanding of the relationship between customary justice and the legal empowerment of users, how customary justice systems might be used as tools of legal empowerment and the identification and evaluation of possible entry points and activities for engaging with customary justice systems with a view to strengthening the legal empowerment of users.
- Publication of two edited volumes focusing on entry-points for legal empowerment initiatives and analyses of interventions aimed at improving customary justice.
- Preparation of a Practitioner’s Manual on working with customary justice systems with a view to improving legal empowerment comprising, inter alia, programmatic entry points, lessons learned and best practices.
- International conferences bringing together practitioners with a view to presenting research findings.
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