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Access to Justice

Access to justice is a vital component of fair hearing guarantees and empowers the poor and disadvantaged individuals, groups and communities to seek remedies for injustice. IDLO underlines the linkages between access to justice and human rights.

Since access to justice is a fundamental component of rule of law, IDLO focus is to:
  • Develop and strengthen legal aid regimes;
  • Enhance arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution mechanisms;
  • Strengthen the capacity of formal and informal judicial functionaries;
  • Improve the capacity and quality of paralegal and pro bono legal services

Goal: Achieve equal justice for all particularly for the vulnerable and marginalized sections of the population.

For more information about IDLO’s Access to Justice program, contact: justice@idlo.int
SELECTED PROJECTS
Legal Empowerment Working Papers
This project involves the preparation of a series of qualitative and quantitative empirical, scholarly articles culminating in an edited volume on approaches to integrating justice and development in ways that benefit the poor and other disadvantaged populations.  The volume will be part of the IDLO book series Lessons Learned: Narrative Accounts of Legal Reform in Developing and Transition Countries.  Consistent with the animating question of this series, IDLO seeks to identify legal reform success stories and to try to understand what
accounts for such favorable outcomes.  This program is being implemented by the IDLO unit for Research, Policy and Strategic Initiatives, and is being supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.