[{"bbox": [173, 153, 1133, 205], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.1 contributing to Outcome 1 (or Specific Objective 1): improved **laws and institutional capacity** of the justice sector in line with international standards"}, {"bbox": [173, 207, 1133, 258], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.2 contributing to Outcome 1 (or Specific Objective 1): increased **access to justice services across the atolls** through sustainable **digitalisation** and the effective roll-out of a “circuit court” system"}, {"bbox": [173, 259, 1133, 312], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.3 contributing to Outcome 1 (or Specific Objective 1): more efficient and accessible **legal aid** and **legal assistance**, in particular for disadvantaged population groups"}, {"bbox": [173, 313, 1133, 391], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.4 contributing to Outcome 1 (or Specific Objective 1): better **access to justice for women** through increased gender awareness and sensitivity in the sector, as well as enhanced laws, protection mechanisms and support services for GBV and domestic abuse survivors"}, {"bbox": [173, 417, 1133, 444], "category": "List-item", "text": "2.1 contributing to Outcome 2 (or Specific Objective 2): improved **legal framework** to combat corruption"}, {"bbox": [173, 445, 1133, 523], "category": "List-item", "text": "2.2 contributing to Outcome 2 (or Specific Objective 2): strengthened capacity of **oversight institutions** such as the **Anti-Corruption Commission** and the **Information Commission (ICOM)** to carry out their mandate efficiently"}, {"bbox": [173, 524, 1133, 577], "category": "List-item", "text": "2.3 contributing to Outcome 2 (or Specific Objective 2): enhanced **awareness, demand and capacity of the population, civil society and the media** to hold public institutions and officials accountable."}, {"bbox": [86, 618, 367, 645], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.2 Indicative Activities"}, {"bbox": [97, 665, 1091, 715], "category": "Text", "text": "Activities relating to Output 1.1- **Improved laws and institutional capacity** of the justice sector in line with international standards:"}, {"bbox": [135, 717, 1133, 823], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Technical support to the Attorney's General Office (AGO) and the Prosector General Office (PGO) to support the drafting and implementation of legal and procedural reforms needed to strenghten case management (ex: plea bargaining) and improve the justice sector administration, planning and inter-institutional coordination (including with cooperating partners)."}, {"bbox": [135, 824, 593, 850], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Training to improve legislative drafting skills."}, {"bbox": [135, 851, 1133, 903], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Technical support to the Justice Service Commission (JSC) to strengthen oversight, selection procedures, performance assessment and the overall independence and transparency/accountability of the judiciary."}, {"bbox": [135, 904, 1133, 956], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Technical support to the Department of Justice Administration (DJA) to improve strategic planning, courts administration, communication with the public as well as data collection, consolidation and analysis."}, {"bbox": [97, 983, 1074, 1035], "category": "Text", "text": "Activities relating to Output 1.2- **Increased access to justice services** across the atolls through sustainable digitalisation and the effective roll-out of the circuit court system:"}, {"bbox": [135, 1036, 1133, 1114], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Support the Government of Maldives with a detailed needs assessment and the design and adoption of an overall strategic “Master Plan” for digitalisation of the justice sector (taking into account existing initiatives/investments already done in the sector)."}, {"bbox": [135, 1116, 1116, 1142], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Support the Government with funding mobilisation to acquire the needed systems/softwares/equipment"}, {"bbox": [135, 1143, 1133, 1195], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Support the Government with the design and implementation of needed legal reforms and skills development programmes related to the digitalisation of the justice system."}, {"bbox": [135, 1196, 1133, 1248], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Consider supporting the implementation of pilot digitalisation initiatives in selected tolls to strengthen case management, access and overall justice service delivery."}, {"bbox": [135, 1249, 1129, 1274], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Explore options to increase, through digital means, citizen's access to legal information in selected atolls"}, {"bbox": [135, 1275, 1133, 1327], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Support the AGO, DJA, JSC and the courts with the piloting (in selected atolls) and subsequent scaling-up of the “circuit court” system designed under the previous EU-funded TA project."}, {"bbox": [135, 1328, 1070, 1354], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Explore options to support (traditional) alternative dispute resolution mechanisms in remote areas."}, {"bbox": [97, 1380, 1077, 1433], "category": "Text", "text": "Activities relating to Output 1.3 - **legal aid and legal assistance**, in particular for disadvantaged population groups:"}, {"bbox": [135, 1434, 1133, 1486], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Advocate and provide technical support (if needed) for the finalization, adoption and implementation of a comprehensive legal aid bill meant to improve available legal aid in the country"}, {"bbox": [135, 1487, 1133, 1566], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Support the Bar Council and selected civil society organisations with the provision of legal assistance services, with a particular focus on the most vulnerable and disadvantaged categories of the population such as domestic and gender-based violence survivors, migrant workers and people with disability"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1681, 1143, 1705], 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