Legal empowerment offers something rare and beautiful: a strategy for pursuing justice that is working.
This process of equipping people to understand, use, and shape the law is not easy. We encounter corruption and steep power imbalances every day. Many paralegals face threats of retaliation. But despite these challenges, we are seeing real progress against injustice in every country where we work. And the Grassroots Justice Network is the strongest it’s been.

How We Create Impact
In the Countries Where We Work Directly
Through the Grassroots Justice Network
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Our First Decade at a Glance
Read about some of our major achievements over the past 10 years, and hear directly from a few of the inspiring people leading the movement for grassroots justice.

Our Direct Country Impact
Throughout 2021, Namati and our partners in six countries supported affected communities to remedy injustices and bring about changes to entire systems.
25,000+
People supported to know, use, and shape the law
300,000+
PEOPLE WHO BENEFITTED DIRECTLY FROM REMEDIES SECURED
MILLIONS
PEOPLE POSITIVELY AFFECTED BY CHANGES TO LAWS AND SYSTEMS
Our Network Impact
The Grassroots Justice Network is the world’s largest community of grassroots justice defenders. By the end of 2021, over 11,000 individuals in 170 countries, representing over 2,800 civil society organizations, had joined the network.
Stories of Legal Empowerment
Hassan’s Journey to Becoming a Citizenship Rights Advocate
HIGHLIGHT: Hassan, a Nubian youth living in Kibra, narrates the challenges he went through in his quest to get a Kenyan national identity card (ID) and how Nubian Rights Forum, a Namati partner, helped him finally get an ID. His struggles, shared by thousands of other members of the same community, made him see the...
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