Legal Aid Days as a Research Tool : Experiences from Northern Kenya

Providing legal aid as part of a research program can bring both methodological and community benefits. Legal aid days encourage people to open up more quickly, increase the amount of information people are willing to share, enable less vocal membe...

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Main Authors:	Ayuko, Bonita, Chopra, Tanja
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	ACCIDENT AUTHORITY COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY BENEFITS COMMUNITY CONFLICTS COMMUNITY LEADERS COMMUNITY MEMBERS CONFLICT RESOLUTION COURT DIVORCE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FIELD VISITS HARASSMENT HUMAN RIGHTS JUSTICE LAWYERS LEGAL AID LEGAL ISSUES LEGAL SERVICES PRISONS RURAL WOMEN SOCIETY VIOLENCE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/984721468283763235/Legal-aid-days-as-a-research-tool-experiences-from-northern-Kenya http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30544

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spelling	okr-10986-305442021-04-23T14:04:57Z Legal Aid Days as a Research Tool : Experiences from Northern Kenya Ayuko, Bonita Chopra, Tanja ACCIDENT AUTHORITY COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY BENEFITS COMMUNITY CONFLICTS COMMUNITY LEADERS COMMUNITY MEMBERS CONFLICT RESOLUTION COURT DIVORCE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FIELD VISITS HARASSMENT HUMAN RIGHTS JUSTICE LAWYERS LEGAL AID LEGAL ISSUES LEGAL SERVICES PRISONS RURAL WOMEN SOCIETY VIOLENCE Providing legal aid as part of a research program can bring both methodological and community benefits. Legal aid days encourage people to open up more quickly, increase the amount of information people are willing to share, enable less vocal members of the community to speak out and satisfy the desire of researchers to give something back to communities - rather than just extract information. Since 2007, the World Bank's justice for the poor program has been partnering with the Legal Resource Foundation (LRF), a Kenyan non-government organization (NGO), working to implement field research in the arid lands region of Northern Kenya. Together, they seek to understand how the poor and marginalized navigate prevailing justice systems. Legal aid days were included as part of the research methodology, capitalizing on LRF's wealth of experience in the legal aid sector. 2018-10-09T20:47:42Z 2018-10-09T20:47:42Z 2008-09 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/984721468283763235/Legal-aid-days-as-a-research-tool-experiences-from-northern-Kenya http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30544 English Justice for the Poor Briefing Note;2(4) CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief Africa Kenya
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topic	ACCIDENT AUTHORITY COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY BENEFITS COMMUNITY CONFLICTS COMMUNITY LEADERS COMMUNITY MEMBERS CONFLICT RESOLUTION COURT DIVORCE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FIELD VISITS HARASSMENT HUMAN RIGHTS JUSTICE LAWYERS LEGAL AID LEGAL ISSUES LEGAL SERVICES PRISONS RURAL WOMEN SOCIETY VIOLENCE
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description	Providing legal aid as part of a research program can bring both methodological and community benefits. Legal aid days encourage people to open up more quickly, increase the amount of information people are willing to share, enable less vocal members of the community to speak out and satisfy the desire of researchers to give something back to communities - rather than just extract information. Since 2007, the World Bank's justice for the poor program has been partnering with the Legal Resource Foundation (LRF), a Kenyan non-government organization (NGO), working to implement field research in the arid lands region of Northern Kenya. Together, they seek to understand how the poor and marginalized navigate prevailing justice systems. Legal aid days were included as part of the research methodology, capitalizing on LRF's wealth of experience in the legal aid sector.
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title	Legal Aid Days as a Research Tool : Experiences from Northern Kenya
title_short	Legal Aid Days as a Research Tool : Experiences from Northern Kenya
title_full	Legal Aid Days as a Research Tool : Experiences from Northern Kenya
title_fullStr	Legal Aid Days as a Research Tool : Experiences from Northern Kenya
title_full_unstemmed	Legal Aid Days as a Research Tool : Experiences from Northern Kenya
title_sort	legal aid days as a research tool : experiences from northern kenya
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/984721468283763235/Legal-aid-days-as-a-research-tool-experiences-from-northern-Kenya http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30544
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Legal Aid Days as a Research Tool : Experiences from Northern Kenya

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