UNDP survey on Access to Justice in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States

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UNDP survey on Access to Justice in Europe and
the Commonwealth of Independent States

• Louise Nylin
• Bratislava, 17 June 2009

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UNDP regional Access to Justice Practice

• On the ground initiatives in the majority of UNDP
  country offices in the region
• Established network of UNDP practitioners
• Pool of expertise
• Growing resource base of tools and lessons learnt
  

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Regional Survey on Access to Justice

• Objective
• Regional Comparative study on key elements in
  relation to access to justice
• Take stock of ongoing UNDP initiatives and
  expertise in the area of access to justice in the
  region
• Respondents
• In total 14 UNDP practitioners from the region
• Armenia, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Kazakhstan,
  Kosovo,1 Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Republic of
  Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey
  and Uzbekistan
• 1 The United Nations Administered Territory of
  Kosovo, as per United Nations Security Council
  Resolution 1244.

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Focus of the justice portfolio in the region
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Focus on vulnerable groups
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Conclusions and recommendations

• Conclusions
• UNDP is working in broad and diverse areas of
  access to justice in the region
• UNDP has used many different entry points into
  access to justice programming in the region.
• Just over half of the respondent countries, use
  special tools based on the human rights based
  approach to programming
• UNDP has created strong partnerships in the region

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Conclusions and recommendations

• Recommendations
• UNDP should continue to support access to justice
  programming
• Capacity development and accountable governance
  should be at the forefront
• Consultations with rights-holders should always
  be undertaken in developing its projects and
  programmes