Community Paralegals and Customary and Informal Justice explores how community-based paralegals and other legal aid providers can strengthen the accessibility and inclusiveness of customary and informal justice (CIJ) systems. It brings together leading-edge research and the grounded experience of IDLO programs in several sub-Saharan African countries to address:
- the key functions of community-based paralegals in contexts of legal pluralism, including paralegal support for women and marginalized populations
- creating an enabling environment for sustainable community paralegal engagement with CIJ systems
- recommendations for policymakers and practitioners seeking to improve the accessibility and inclusiveness of CIJ systems
It is the fourth publication in the series Navigating Complex Pathways to Justice: Engagement with Customary and Informal Justice Systems [1], following a Policy and Issue Brief [2], Practitioner Brief [3], and Issue Brief on Women and CIJ Systems [4], that seeks to advance policy dialogue and distil lessons from programming and research to help realize Sustainable Development Goal 16.
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