Engaging Citizens through Mediation in Kaduna State, Nigeria
The Legal Aid Council of Nigeria (LACON) and the World Bank are pleased to present this publication about the Access to Justice for the Poor Project implemented in Kaduna State, Nigeria, between 2012 and 2015. In that time, LACON made great strides...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26583295/engaging-citizens-through-mediation-kaduna-state-nigeria http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24939 |
| Summary: | The Legal Aid Council of Nigeria (LACON)
and the World Bank are pleased to present this publication
about the Access to Justice for the Poor Project implemented
in Kaduna State, Nigeria, between 2012 and 2015. In that
time, LACON made great strides in bringing legal aid
services to the grassroots and increasing access to justice
by the most poor and vulnerable in our society. The Access
to Justice Project offered LACON the opportunity to partner
with the World Bank and learn best practices in representing
clients in civil matters and community legal education. The
Project helped to develop staff capacity through trainings
in alternative dispute resolution and mediation, and by
introducing paralegal training, all of which were novel in
the Nigerian legal education. Through our partners and the
use of media, we were also successful in raising awareness
among the poor of their legal rights and entitlement to
legal representation. Beyond benefiting affected individuals
and communities, GRMs also improve development project
outcomes at lower cost, help identify systemic issues, and
promote accountability.8 They serve as additional useful
channels of information for policy makers and implementers,
and together with other accountability-enhancing mechanisms,
they can contribute to raising public awareness of rights
and entitlements. This is especially important where there
is a lack of rights consciousness and affected individuals
may not know their rights have been violated or that there
are avenues for redress. |
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