[{"bbox": [696, 153, 1150, 316], "category": "Text", "text": "ethnic justice systems and adopt a strict 'do no harm' approach. Based on current assessments, 3 of the emerging ethnic justice systems appear to be more advance in their compliance with human rights and inclusion standards (Karenni, Karen, Mon), although no direct support is yet envisaged."}, {"bbox": [696, 328, 1150, 465], "category": "Text", "text": "Where appropriate, the programme will explore policy dialogue opportunities as well as advocacy and legal awareness activities directed towards ethnic justice systems, implemented by local civil society organisations."}, {"bbox": [92, 485, 523, 513], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Previous EU support and complementarity:"}, {"bbox": [92, 523, 1091, 552], "category": "Text", "text": "The EU has been engaged in the justice sector in Myanmar since 2015 through two consecutive programmes:"}, {"bbox": [129, 562, 1149, 750], "category": "List-item", "text": "- \"My Justice\" (DCI-ASIE/2015/359-042), implemented from 2015 to 2019 by the British Council, was focused on building citizen's skills with the knowledge, confidence, and opportunities to resolve conflicts fairly. The programme made significant progress in delivering interventions on legal and rights awareness, improving justice service provision, strengthening community-based dispute resolution, and sharing evidence to inform better justice policy. My Justice activities were delivered in partnership with over 50 local, international, and service provision organisations, in close coordination with the government's Justice Sector Coordinating Body, in six Regions/States²⁰."}, {"bbox": [129, 754, 1149, 1022], "category": "List-item", "text": "- \"Deepening Access to Justice in Myanmar\" (\"My Justice II\", ACA/2019/412-755) implemented from 2020 to 2024 by the British Council, with the overall objective to improve access to justice for women, the poor, and people living in vulnerable situations in 12 Regions/States of Myanmar²¹. My Justice II has been implemented in the context of significant contextual changes and challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2021 coup. These events changed many circumstances of the implementation, though they did not change the underlying needs that the programme was designed to respond to: a fundamentally unfair justice system with disproportionate barriers for women and other marginalized groups. My Justice II and its partners have been effective in providing legal aid (including through support to several thousand of political detainees), legal awareness, support to informal and community-based legal systems and policy analysis and advocacy on emerging issues like transitional justice."}, {"bbox": [129, 1032, 1149, 1194], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Cumulatively, the two phases of the programme provided legal representation to over 22,000 individuals, as well as legal advice to 22,000 citizens. Around 3,000 influential figures such as community and religious leaders, CSOs representatives, youth and, before the Coup, local administrators, were trained in mediation and community-based dispute resolution. 150,000 individuals are using the legal app developed by the programme. Successive communication campaigns reached a cumulative audience of 127 million citizens and over 150,000 individuals benefitted from in-person community-based awareness raising activities."}, {"bbox": [92, 1204, 1149, 1418], "category": "Text", "text": "The EU is currently the only donor in Myanmar with a substantial, coordinated programme focusing at improving legal service providers capacity to deliver inclusive support and that includes as a strong focus of the programme a component on the building of a Community of Practice for lawyers and paralegals. The only other donor with large-scale support for the sector is USAID, which is implementing since 2018 a programme focusing on delivering grants to local CSOs working on legal aid, human trafficking, gender-based violence and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms. This programme is implemented in particular in Rakhine, Chin, Kachin and Kayah, which were not or only partially covered by the previous phases of the EU-funded My Justice, ensuring some complementarity. Most donors previously involved discontinued support due to competing priorities in post-coup Myanmar."}, {"bbox": [92, 1428, 1149, 1536], "category": "Text", "text": "This Action will be implemented in complementarity to the two contracts being prepared under the Action ACT-62208 \"Gender-based violence response, mitigation and prevention in Myanmar\" which focus on service delivery, including legal services, for GBV survivors and on supporting women rights organisations operating in this sector. It will also be implemented in complementarity with two ECHO programmes in the sector, focusing on legal"}, {"bbox": [85, 1571, 847, 1598], "category": "Footnote", "text": "²⁰ Yangon Region, Bago Region, Mandalay Region, Shan State, Kayin State and Mon State"}, {"bbox": [85, 1597, 1143, 1646], "category": "Footnote", "text": "²¹ Yangon Region, Bago Region, Mandalay Region, Sagaing Region, Magway Region, Ayeyarwady Region, Nayi Pyi Taw, Shan State, Kayin State, Mon State, Kachin State and Rakhine State"}, {"bbox": [1014, 1654, 1143, 1682], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 18 of 32"}]