[{"bbox": [97, 153, 1134, 205], "category": "Text", "text": "engagement with the National Parliament of Zambia, the Office of the Auditor General, the Anti-Corruption Commission, civil society and other democratic actors."}, {"bbox": [85, 232, 341, 263], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2.2 Problem Analysis"}, {"bbox": [97, 284, 106, 304], "category": "Text", "text": ":"}, {"bbox": [97, 318, 1134, 372], "category": "Text", "text": "The problem, this action seeks to address, is inadequate access to accountable institutions, to justice and to transparent state decision-making processes in Zambia."}, {"bbox": [97, 383, 1134, 649], "category": "Text", "text": "**Laws and policy:** Legislative and policy-making processes generally lack transparency. Participation by civil society in these processes is often limited, making it difficult for them to fulfil their role as an intermediary between the government and its citizens. In addition, implementation of legislation and policy is inadequate. State actors lack institutional capacity to coordinate and manage participatory law and policymaking processes, to consult and to include civil society expertise into decision-making and monitoring in an adequate and timely manner. Civil society organisations often lack the capacity and financial resources to shape their contribution to legislative and policy-making processes and to monitor implementation effectively and based on evidence (including gender perspective). Also, they have yet to harness the potential of digitalisation. These issues will be addressed by supporting the formulation and implementation as well as monitoring of laws and policies that are participatory, gender sensitive and evidence based."}, {"bbox": [97, 660, 1134, 874], "category": "Text", "text": "**Accountability and transparency:** Civil society organisations are, to date, largely uninvolved in the systematic reporting of incidents of corruption and advocacy for vulnerable population groups. State points of contact for complaints and reporting of incidents of corruption (the ACC and the OPPZ) lack the capacity required to process and document these cases. Institutions are not consistently independent, and there is inadequate coordination between the relevant actors (the ACC, the OPPZ, the Human Rights Commission, and the National Prosecutions' Authority). These will be overcome by capacitating organisations to improve the understanding of human rights, women rights, accountability and transparency. Accountability mechanisms, including civil society engagement will be strengthened."}, {"bbox": [97, 885, 1134, 1072], "category": "Text", "text": "**Access to Justice:** Access to justice is impeded due to limited access to transparent processes resulting from the cumulative effect of a general lack of knowledge of the law, poor governance structures in the justice system, as well as a severe lack of legal aid services and the lack of cooperation between the actors involved. This leads to very slow management of cases, extreme congestion in correction facilities and regular human rights abuse especially for people in conflict with the law. This action will tackle this by developing and strengthening the cooperation mechanisms that already exist between justice actors. It will also support the expansion of legal aid services and the use of digital instruments to improve the delivery of justice."}, {"bbox": [97, 1099, 1134, 1153], "category": "Text", "text": "Identification of main stakeholders and corresponding institutional and/or organisational issues (mandates, potential roles, and capacities) to be covered by the action:"}, {"bbox": [97, 1164, 1134, 1351], "category": "Text", "text": "**Ministry of Justice:** The lead executing agency of this action will be the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). The Ministry is mandated to promote the principles of good governance, including access to justice. It is responsible for legislative drafting, implementing the system of legal aid provision and coordination initiatives in the justice sector. There is limited capacity in areas including coordination and cooperation between actors, ensuring adequate consultation processes in the development of laws and policies as well as implementation of the same, e.g. the Legal Aid Act, Zambia's Anti-Corruption Policy, its Penal Code, legislation on Access to Information as well as the NGO policy/Act."}, {"bbox": [97, 1362, 1134, 1628], "category": "Text", "text": "**Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and Non-State Actors:** CSOs and non-state actors are key partners and take on a threefold role in the envisioned action: They are target groups of the action and will benefit from capacity building activities; they will play an intermediary role between citizens and state institutions; and they will provide legal services. More specifically, in terms of law and policy formulation and implementation, civil society will provide meaningful contributions to decision-making as well as planning and monitoring processes. In order to increase the demand for state accountability mechanisms, CSOs and non-state actors will play an intermediary role between citizens and state institutions. They will actively sensitize citizens about their rights to accountability and public resource transparency. In addition, they will also promote the use of available complaint mechanisms in order to provide feedback to the responsible institutions about their functioning and possible ways of making them more effective, trust-invoking and gender-sensitive. In their role as service providers, CSOs play an especially"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1681, 1142, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 6 of 21"}]