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A new publication explores the nature of legal empowerment and its impact in various forms. With an introduction by George Soros, the book includes essays from Namati staff and Network Guidance Committee members, among others. The full version is available for download on the Open Society Foundations website.

Writing for the Open Society Initiative West Africa, Namati’s Sierra Leone Program Director, Sonkita Conteh, examines whether the new draft National Land Policy, set to change Sierra Leone’s land tenure system, is really equal to the challenge the country faces. Click here to read the article at OSIWA.org Or download the article as a PDF…

Published in the Open Society Foundations’ Voices blog, Marina Ilminska and Zaza Namoradze look at what can be learned from the successes of Namati’s parters, Timap for Justice, delivering access to justice in Sierra Leone. Blog post: How Paralegals Delivered Access to Justice in the Jails of Sierra Leone   This paper explores the range…

On April 19 and 20, 2012 in Dhaka, Namati, BRAC, Marg, and the Open Society Justice Initiative held a regional meeting on methods of monitoring and evaluating legal empowerment. The gathering brought together more than 50 people from all over the region, representing grassroots groups, development agencies, governments, and evaluation experts. Namati CEO Vivek Maru began the meeting with a story about Akbar and Birbal, a Mughal emperor and his trusted adviser.

Introduction When a diamond mining company closed its operations in Mofuwe Village, in the south of Sierra Leone, it left behind three mined-out pits the size of several football pitches, a collapsed bridge, a blocked stream and an uncompleted community school building. It was as if the villagers woke up one morning and the company…

Follow Vivek on Twitter here. Vivek believes we can advance social and environmental justice by deepening democracy. Vivek started Namati in 2011. Since then, Namati and its partners have supported cadres of community paralegals—sometimes known as barefoot lawyers—in ten countries. These advocates work with their communities to protect common lands, enforce environmental law, and secure basic…

Namati’s Abigail Moy discusses the Kampala Declaration and the recognition of paralegals in legal aid legislation across Africa.

In this lecture, Wiktor Osiatynski deals with the notion of human rights as an nutriment for mass mobilization during the post-Communist transition; attention will be given to attempts to increase the usefulness human rights for the excluded by introducing concepts of capabilities and legal empowerment. We will be streaming live on November 15th.

  Download the fact sheet: ‘Measuring Justice in the Post-2015 Development Framework‘ In 2015, the nations of the world will decide on a global development framework that succeeds the UN Millennium Development Goals.  Justice plays a fundamental role in eliminating poverty; it empowers the poor with themeans to challenge the root causes of deprivation, displacement,…

Held in Nairobi on October 22-25, the meeting brought together legal empowerment practitioners and donors working at the intersection of law and health.