[{"bbox": [97, 152, 1134, 287], "category": "Text", "text": "Currently Angola has close to 600 magistrates and 4 000 bailiffs (“oficiais de justiça”). The Action aligns with this intention of increasing the offer of judges, prosecutors, and lawyers, of providing training to specialised justice agents, and of using new technologies, including cybernetic justice and artificial intelligence, to increase productivity and agility in processes as well as accompany the digital transformation of the sector. The Action also foresees expanding the training to the provinces."}, {"bbox": [135, 299, 656, 326], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## II. Fight to corruption, organised crime, and impunity"}, {"bbox": [97, 337, 1134, 498], "category": "Text", "text": "Since 2017, Angola has been directing substantial efforts to counter and prevent corruption, money laundering and organised crime, and simultaneously towards asset recovery. Supported by international donors, among which the EU, Angola created new District Courts and Courts of Appeal and recruited and trained new judges and technical staff specialised in fighting these crimes. This contributed significantly to improve the human and institutional capacities of competent bodies and enabled legislative harmonisation in the areas of corruption, money laundering, witness protection, property loss, and asset recovery. However, this process has not been completed."}, {"bbox": [97, 508, 1134, 749], "category": "Text", "text": "Tackling money laundering, asset recovery and cybercrime call for continued capacity building and exchange of best practices with peers. The ESAALMG's Mutual Evaluation Report released in June 2023 refers to the need to allocate adequate (human, financial and technical) resources to competent authorities and to introduce a coordinated and systematic process for collection and maintenance of statistics on judiciary activities. Angola risks entering the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), and therefore assistance to address the strategic deficiencies in the country's regimes to counter money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing weaknesses are key. In particular, the report highlights deficiencies related to non-profit organisations, the transparency and beneficial ownership of legal person and the transparency and beneficial ownership of legal arrangements¹⁷."}, {"bbox": [135, 760, 319, 787], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## III. Digitalisation"}, {"bbox": [97, 799, 1134, 960], "category": "Text", "text": "The justice system is mostly based on paper, lacking digital records, a harmonised classification of cases and the regular use of IT tools, including the taping of audiences. Case management is cumbersome, and the services lack IT equipment, programmes, and qualified staff. This limits the ability of the judiciary to provide citizens with speedy and quality services, compromising its efficiency, accountability, and transparency and, thus, citizens' trust. Stakeholders in the justice sector are keenly aware of the benefits of digitalisation, but the sector neither has an overall digitalisation plan nor has the capacity to develop one."}, {"bbox": [97, 970, 1134, 1078], "category": "Text", "text": "Reflecting the low digitalisation, Angola has very limited legislation regulating the use of IT systems, for data protection, privacy rights and cybersecurity. The expansion of e-services both by Government, the financial sector and others calls for the need to adopt appropriate legislation to create a safe digital space and protect the fundamental rights of users."}, {"bbox": [97, 1088, 1134, 1328], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action will integrate, as a transversal intervention, digitalisation as the basis for the modernisation and harmonisation of the justice system, contributing to case management and the consolidation of statistical information and reinforcement of digital literacy, to increase transparency and accountability in the sector. Digitisation will be introduced gradually, through pilot interventions, considering the specific reality of the country. Special attention will be given to the risk of increasing the digital divide and social exclusion, and to ensure access to justice for vulnerable populations, paying particular attention to rural areas. Likewise, the Action will also adopt the necessary measures to ensure that data protection from both an organisational and technical perspective according to international standards is guaranteed, as well as a high level of cybersecurity of the digital systems."}, {"bbox": [97, 1341, 1134, 1395], "category": "Section-header", "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, 1405, 1134, 1567], "category": "Text", "text": "The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (Ministério da Justiça e Direitos Humanos - MJDH) is the heart of the justice system and of the promotion, protection, and observance of human rights. It proposes legal norms on the organisation of the courts, supervising, coordinating, and methodologically guiding the courts' activity. It is a key player in the implementation of this Action, especially justice reforms (including the decisions regarding trainings, the development of legal diplomas and regulations) and judicial management, organisation, and administration, together with the Superior Council for the Judicial Magistracy (Conselho Superior da Magistratura Judicial -"}, {"bbox": [86, 1623, 584, 1646], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁷ ESAAMLG Mutual Evaluation of Angola - 2023 (fatf-gafi.org)."}, {"bbox": [1038, 1681, 1144, 1707], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 7 of 24"}]