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Community Paralegals and Customary and Informal Justice

Date of Publication: 
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
About This Publication: 

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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Publication Link: 

https://www.idlo.int/publications/community-paralegals-and-customary-and-informal-justice

Download: 
paralegals_and_cij_final.pdf [7]
handout_paralegals_and_cij_for_final.pdf [8]
Theme(s): 
2030 Agenda [9]
Customary and Informal Justice [1]
Gender Equality [10]
Human Rights [11]
Legal Empowerment [12]
Countries: 
Kenya [13]
Liberia [14]
Sierra Leone [15]
Somalia [16]
South Sudan [17]
Tanzania [18]
Uganda [19]

Source URL: https://www.idlo.int/publications/community-paralegals-and-customary-and-informal-justice

Links
[1] https://www.idlo.int/what-we-do/access-justice/customary-informal-justice
[2] https://www.idlo.int/publications/policy-and-issue-brief-engagement-customary-and-informal-justice-systems
[3] https://www.idlo.int/publications/practitioner-brief-engagement-customary-and-informal-justice-systems
[4] https://www.idlo.int/publications/issue-brief-women-and-customary-and-informal-justice-systems
[5] https://www.idlo.int/sites/default/files/paralegals_and_cij_final.pdf
[6] https://www.idlo.int/sites/default/files/handout_paralegals_and_cij_for_final.pdf
[7] https://www.idlo.int/sites/default/files/pdfs/publications/paralegals_and_cij_final.pdf
[8] https://www.idlo.int/sites/default/files/pdfs/publications/handout_paralegals_and_cij_for_final.pdf
[9] https://www.idlo.int/what-we-do/rule-of-law/2030-agenda
[10] https://www.idlo.int/what-we-do/women-and-girls/gender-equality
[11] https://www.idlo.int/what-we-do/access-justice/human-rights
[12] https://www.idlo.int/what-we-do/access-justice/legal-empowerment
[13] https://www.idlo.int/where-we-work/sub-saharan-africa/kenya
[14] https://www.idlo.int/where-we-work/sub-saharan-africa/liberia
[15] https://www.idlo.int/where-we-work/sub-saharan-africa/sierra-leone
[16] https://www.idlo.int/where-we-work/sub-saharan-africa/somalia
[17] https://www.idlo.int/where-we-work/sub-saharan-africa/south-sudan
[18] https://www.idlo.int/where-we-work/sub-saharan-africa/tanzania
[19] https://www.idlo.int/where-we-work/sub-saharan-africa/uganda