[{"bbox": [96, 155, 1133, 208], "category": "Text", "text": "*Witness Protection Agency (WPA)* is mandated to provide protection for witnesses facing potential risk or intimidation due to their cooperation with law enforcement agencies."}, {"bbox": [96, 222, 1133, 275], "category": "Text", "text": "*National Legal Aid Service (NLAS)* is, inter alia, responsible for providing legal aid services to indigent, marginalised, and vulnerable persons."}, {"bbox": [96, 288, 1133, 343], "category": "Text", "text": "*Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)* will play a key role in assisting the citizens, as well as migrant workers and refugees, in obtaining their rights, in particular through legal aid for those who are accused of criminal offences."}, {"bbox": [86, 383, 603, 415], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION"}, {"bbox": [86, 448, 508, 480], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.1 Objectives and Expected Outputs"}, {"bbox": [96, 495, 1133, 548], "category": "Text", "text": "The Overall Objective (Impact) of this action is to reinforce the rule of law, improve access to justice, increase efficiency and accountability in the justice system, and use of technology as an enabler of justice."}, {"bbox": [96, 549, 605, 574], "category": "Text", "text": "The Specific Objective (Outcomes) of this action are to"}, {"bbox": [172, 575, 853, 601], "category": "List-item", "text": "1. Enable the criminal justice system to fight corruption more effectively"}, {"bbox": [172, 602, 768, 627], "category": "List-item", "text": "2. Improve administration and coordination of the justice sector"}, {"bbox": [172, 628, 901, 654], "category": "List-item", "text": "3. Increased competence, quality and efficiency of criminal justice institutions"}, {"bbox": [172, 655, 977, 680], "category": "List-item", "text": "4. Enhance access to legal aid, especially for individuals living in vulnerable situations"}, {"bbox": [172, 707, 972, 734], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Outcome 1: The criminal justice system is able to fight corruption more effectively**"}, {"bbox": [96, 746, 1133, 1012], "category": "Text", "text": "The overarching objectives of the action cannot be obtained without tackling corruption. It will thus aim to enhance coordination between the relevant institutions through support to the NCAAJ standing group on corruption. It will seek to strengthen the capacity of the EACC through training, including the development of a curriculum with an e-learning component for its officers. It will also support the National Integrity Academy of the EACC to train Integrity Assurance Officers from various public institutions to strengthen their capacity to prevent and combat corruption. Finally, the action will lay particular emphasis on enhancing the capacity of investigative and prosecution authorities to handle large scale corruption cases. This would include investigative methods, collection of evidence, with a focus on digital evidence, asset recovery and mutual legal assistance. Success in the prosecution of large-scale corruption cases is imperative to achieve changes in the public perception of the public of the criminal justice system and hence its legitimacy."}, {"bbox": [96, 1024, 334, 1051], "category": "Text", "text": "Main indicative outputs:"}, {"bbox": [96, 1063, 916, 1089], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.1: Strengthened coordination on criminal justice responses to corruption through NCAAJ"}, {"bbox": [96, 1090, 716, 1116], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.2: Strengthened capacity of EACC to investigate corruption cases"}, {"bbox": [96, 1117, 810, 1142], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.3: Enhanced capacity of the National Integrity Academy to deliver trainings"}, {"bbox": [96, 1143, 1058, 1169], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.4: Enhanced capacity of investigative and prosecution authorities to handle large scale corruption cases"}, {"bbox": [96, 1170, 736, 1196], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.5: Enhanced ability of civil society to fight corruption and impunity"}, {"bbox": [172, 1235, 944, 1262], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Outcome 2: Administration and coordination of the justice sector are improved**"}, {"bbox": [96, 1274, 1133, 1646], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will seek to improve administration of justice through greater application of non-custodial measures, support and streamlining of AJS and coordination of the justice sector, with an emphasis on supporting vulnerable groups, in particular through the use, and making accessible and available, technology. It will support NCAAJ to improve the coordination of the justice chain, as one of the main underlying premises of the action is that the justice chain can only be as strong as its weakest link. In consequence, it will cover the justice chain from the entry of a case to its conclusion. This will allow supporting measures designed around the case flow in its entirety, eliminating bottlenecks and providing stronger safeguards for individual offenders' and victims' rights. NCAAJ will also be supported to extend its coordination efforts to the areas of data and statistics and thus the action will support the criminal justice system to address gaps in data collection and production of statistics on crime and criminal justice, including relevant data on gender, children and people with disabilities. The action will, additionally, support NCAAJ to promote criminal justice reform and alternatives to imprisonment through amendments of statutes and the development of policies. The action will also support CUCs, which provide an entry point for successful practical implementation of new legislation and policies as each court station may have to deal with specific circumstances prevailing in their geographical location which need to be considered. This will include joint"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 11 of 33"}]