Learning Agenda Overview
Learning Agenda for Legal Empowerment
Learning to Power our Movement
Sharing what works
Across the global movement for grassroots justice, legal empowerment practitioners face common challenges. The Learning Agenda aims to deepen impact and practice by sharing learning about “what works” in different contexts. By learning together, we will generate and test new ideas, address the most burning questions and grow the global movement for justice.
Frontiers of Learning
The Learning Agenda explores the frontiers of the legal empowerment field, where collective inquiry can generate new solutions to our most pressing challenges.
Why Network members are excited about the Learning Agenda
How It’s Coming to Life
Regional and Thematic Learning
Across the Grassroots Justice Network, members are coming together to engage in deep reflection and set an agenda for collective action.
Learn MoreLearning Opportunities
Want to get involved in collective learning? The Grassroots Justice Network offers a number of opportunities for learning and collaboration.
Learn MoreAction Research Projects
Action research projects led by Network members across Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia are taking up key questions of the learning agenda.
Learn MoreResource Library
The world’s largest online library of resources for legal empowerment practitioners.
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Emerging Learning
Building Community-Led Approaches For Campaigns Around the World
Tom Weerachat, Learning Agenda advisory group member, and Global Lead on Community-Led Advocacy at the International Accountability Project (IAP), shares his insights from IAP's collaboration with civil society partners across varied community-led approaches — in particular on legal empowerment and participatory action research.
2023: A Year of Coming Together
As we close out another year of the Learning Agenda, it’s remarkable to look back and see how much we’ve learned collectively. These moments of shared learning are pieces added to the grassroots justice movement puzzle.
Learning Arc: Community Participation
With this learning arc we aim to draw out comparative insights from research and practice to try to understand which strategies have worked in building community power, expanding the participation of justice seekers and communities, and driving broader systemic changes, in different contexts.
Grassroots justice organizations are deploying research to stem the tide of injustice
How grassroots justice organizations are using action research to center those most affected by injustice, build community power and generate systemic change
Building the Legal Empowerment Movement in Africa: Shared Learning, Community Power and Advocacy for Justice
This convening held in Nairobi, Kenya was a site to build solidarity around the practice of legal empowerment across Africa. Participants aim to continue sharing experiences and embrace learning.
Lagos Declaration on Community-Driven Justice
The West Africa Regional meeting brought together legal empowerment practitioners from 15 countries and concluded with specific commitments towards advancing their local, national and regional legal empowerment priorities
Pouring New Wines in Old Wineskins: State Capture, Contestations and Conflicting Understanding of the Paralegalism in Kenya with the Advent of the Legal Aid
Kenya's Legal Aid Act of 2016 and the consequences of formalization and legal recognition of community paralegals.
Land and Environmental Justice Core Group members discuss how participant organizations can operate as a movement
Core group members met in person across two locations to reaffirm their common struggles, find areas where they can learn from each other’s approaches, and define an agenda for collective action.