Promoting Women's Rights by Indigenous Means : An Innovative Project in Kenya
The World Bank's Justice for the Poor (J4P) program seeks to gain a deeper understanding of local level justice processes, in order to identify pragmatic ways to allow access to justice for the poor and marginalized. Reform programs in all sec...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/829131468089394291/Promoting-womens-rights-by-indigenous-means-an-innovative-project-in-Kenya http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30537 |
| Summary: | The World Bank's Justice for the
Poor (J4P) program seeks to gain a deeper understanding of
local level justice processes, in order to identify
pragmatic ways to allow access to justice for the poor and
marginalized. Reform programs in all sectors often ignore
the value systems, social structures and realities of the
local communities they address, therefore delivering mixed
results. Further innovative programs are required to foster
meaningful connections between local social structures and
value systems and official justice institutions. The key to
success will be the ability of different systems to adapt.
Interventions may adjust the official system to local
realities, but another possible focus is on the
transformation of cultural values of individual communities.
Processes of transformation allow change to be set in motion
from within a society itself. This can mean that positive
values are emphasized and re-instated where lost or negative
values are transformed into positive ones. The effect is
that state institutions can gain legitimacy in the eyes of
local communities, and official rights are promoted.
Learning from Kenya National Human Rights Commission
(KNHRC's) project and similarly innovative
interventions, J4P research will focus on socio-cultural
values, in order to develop spaces for local debates over
values and in order to determine the appropriate agents for
change at the local level. |
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