[{"bbox": [96, 152, 1136, 366], "category": "Text", "text": "**The Legal Aid Council (LACON)**, a parastatal of the FMoJ, is established in every state of the federation, with offices and legal aid centres. It organises the provision of services to indigent offenders charged for capital offences and to vulnerable groups in line with the National Legal Aid Strategy 2017-2022. LACON has limited funding and manpower to effectively deliver its mandate and respond to the high demand for legal aid services throughout the country. The Council therefore engages the services of NGOs, law clinics and pro bono lawyers from the National Bar Association (NBA). LACON monitors and reviews cases of awaiting trial inmates, has access to persons detained in prisons and police stations directly and/or through the **Police Duty Solicitor Scheme (PDSS)**, which provides free legal services to all suspects in custody in designated police stations of Nigeria."}, {"bbox": [96, 390, 1136, 525], "category": "Text", "text": "The **National Bar Association (NBA)** remains a central player in enhancing access to justice, including for socially vulnerable people. The NBA advocates for the development of pro bono services and trains its lawyers to engage in this type of procedure with relative success, since pro bono lawyers generally are not reimbursed of their costs. The NBA has committed the deployment of PDSS at police stations and participates in the monitoring of places of detention with magistrates."}, {"bbox": [96, 548, 1136, 657], "category": "Text", "text": "**The Ministries of Women Affairs and Social Development (MWASD)** and **the Ministries of Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development** at federal and state levels are promoting the development of women's and children's rights. Their services are highly motivated to implement reform measures but lack the resources to carry out more grassroot interventions."}, {"bbox": [96, 681, 1136, 896], "category": "Text", "text": "The **National Judicial Institute** was not a partner beneficiary under the first phase. However, it delivers training courses for both state and federal officials, all categories of judicial officers and their supporting staff through continuous education. Its priority areas are to deliver training on virtual court proceedings and on emerging justice trends: case management, performance evaluation of judicial officers, peer-to-peer learning, joint training with police and correctional staff and sentencing guidelines. NJI will be supported by the action in the review and modernisation of its training curricula and for the organisation of regular training sessions. A majority of training courses developed and delivered under the action will be conducted through its facilities and trainers to ensure better institutionalisation of the legal and judicial training curricula and sustainable transfer of knowledge."}, {"bbox": [96, 919, 1136, 1081], "category": "Text", "text": "**The Anti-Corruption, Law Enforcement and Regulatory Agencies** targeted by the intervention all have a crucial role in promoting accountability, preventing and combating corruption. Beyond the streamlined institutional building and logistic support, which will be planned, led and monitored in cooperation with the relevant coordinating bodies, the intervention will respond to specialised technical assistance (TA) requests formulated by the institutions to operationalise the bills to be enacted and enable them to perform their mandates more effectively."}, {"bbox": [96, 1105, 1136, 1241], "category": "Text", "text": "**The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB)**, whose role is to enforce the code of conduct for public officers by examining their declarations and investigating complaints of non-compliance, requires technical and financial capacities to perform better in its law enforcement and asset registration activities. Similarly, **the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT)** which adjudicates cases brought by the CCB at federal and state levels, needs to enhance its delivery process, namely through support on e-filing, e-recording, virtual adjudication and evidence gathering."}, {"bbox": [96, 1265, 1136, 1479], "category": "Text", "text": "**The ICPC** is mandated to prevent bribery and corruption related offences, conduct investigation of corruption cases, examine systems and procedures of public bodies to identify gaps in areas prone to corrupt practices and advise on mitigation remedies. It prosecutes cases in designated courts. It has conducted CRA in specific sectors and has developed Ethics and Integrity as well as ACTU efficiency indexes. These tasks, which could not be executed effectively due to lack of capacity, call for external support on areas such as digital skills, investigation of complex money laundering cases, digital assets investigation, transnational crimes, asset tracing, recovery and management, support to conduct systems studies produce public enlightenment campaigns and strengthen the coalition of CSOs working with them."}, {"bbox": [96, 1503, 1136, 1613], "category": "Text", "text": "**The EFCC** has preventive, investigative, prosecutorial, facilitative, and coordination functions regarding economic and financial crimes. EFCC has adopted a Strategic Plan (2021-2025) in line with the NACS and needs support to implement it through its head office in Abuja and branch offices in the states. Based on its experience in law enforcement, it plans to develop a corruption prevention strategy."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1680, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 11 of 29"}]