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Les prestataires de services juridiques (PSJ) sont souvent confrontés à des difficultés pour fournir des services juridiques efficaces à leurs clients. Même avant la pandémie de COVID-19, certains cas de figure faisaient de la prestation de services à distance une alternative souhaitable aux réunions en face à face. Les horaires de travail, les responsabilités liées…

Los proveedores de servicios jurídicos (Legal Servicios Providers, LSP) a menudo se enfrentan a desafíos a la hora de brindar servicios jurídicos a sus clientes de forma eficaz y eficiente. Incluso antes de la pandemia de COVID-19, existían condiciones que hacían que proporcionar servicios de forma remota fuera una alternativa deseable en comparación con las…

Legal Services Providers (LSPs) often face challenges in effectively and efficiently providing legal services to their clients. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, conditions existed that made providing services remotely a desirable alternative to face-to-face meetings. Work schedules, caregiving responsibilities and barriers to transportation can all make meeting face-to-face difficult or impossible. Sometimes the nature of…

Deciding whether or not to allow an investor to use community lands and natural resources is one of the most important decisions a community can make. Namati and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) have published two new guides to help communities prepare for interactions with investors and, if they so wish, negotiate fair, equitable contracts….

Around the world, 1.1 billion people lack legal identity documentation, such as birth certificates, ID cards, and passports that can help prove their nationality or entitlement to citizenship. Without proof of citizenship, these individuals cannot vote, access health care, or go to school. Some are even left stateless or at risk of becoming so. Citizenship is…

Watch a video of Namati CEO Vivek Maru at The Economic and Legal Empowerment panel at the 2013 World Justice Forum, where panelists focused on modern methods of legal empowerment and highlighted innovative solutions to closing the gap between written law and law as experienced by the poor.

From a simple trailer in Kabul, the Justice for All Organization provides legal counsel to over a dozen indigent Afghan women every day.

On June 6th, join the UN Millennium Campaign and the United Nations Development Programme for a livestreamed expert roundtable to discuss the High Level Panel Report on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Learn more about the case for justice here .

Watch as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Macky Sall, Aminata Touré, and others make the compelling case for justice in the UN Millenium Development Goals.

“Challenging unfair power structures that entrench inequalities is critical for positive change in people’s lives,” says a new report from the Institute for Development Studies. The study emerges as high-level meetings on the Post-2015 development agenda continue in Bali.