Paralegals and the legal empowerment of the poor community-based paralegals offer unique skills and professional characteristics that enhance efforts to improve justice for the poor similar to the gap that rural public health workers fill in relation to doctors, paralegals provide a dynamic, cost-effective, community-oriented alternative to lawyers. 2 women's economic empowerment 3 empowerment through local citizenship 4 empowerment in fragile states and situations of fragility 5 decent work and empowerment for pro-poor growth 6 legal empowerment of the poor and its relation to pro-poor growth 7 empowerment and equity 8 working with social movements 9. Legal empowerment and poverty reduction madame chair, we are extremely happy that the mission of the commission on legal empowerment of the poor is coincidentally identical with the spirit and aspirations. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us.
Legal empowerment occurs when poor or marginalised people use the law, legal systems and dispute resolution or redress mechanisms (formal and informal) to improve or transform their social, political or. The commission on legal empowerment of the poor was an independent international organization, hosted by the united nations development programme (undp), and established in 2005 as the first global initiative to focus on the link between exclusion, poverty, and the law. Legal empowerment of the poor through property rights requires sustained efforts property systems that exclude large segments of the global population from property rights have to be discontinued and the zone of legitimate land tenure must be expanded through improved access and security.
Un commission on legal empowerment of the poor, 2008, 'empowering the poor through property rights', in making the law work for everyone volume ii, united nations development programme, new york, pp64-128. Legal empowerment of the poor: from concepts to assessment 3 in defining legal empowerment, one fundamental issue is whether the term legal qualifies empower- ment as a means or an end. 4 for information media • not an official record 12 legal empowerment and women's empowerment sweden noted that empowering women could lead to a significant reduction in poverty.
• the commission on legal empowerment of the poor asks donors to renounce abstract legal theories and determinism in economic development • understanding people's demands is as important as understanding (social) institutions. Legal empowerment using the legal system to promote rights enhancement, awareness, enablement and enforcement for excluded groups and individuals of course in many cases, as recent developments in north africa, turkey and brazil have shown, states are not in total control. In this context, the primary function of legal empowerment of the poor is to advance 'the process of systemic change through which the poor and excluded become able to use the law, the legal system and legal services, to protect and advance their rights and interests as citizens and economic actors' (7, p 3. Idlo legal empowerment working papers 1 empowering the poor to access criminal justice: a grass-roots perspective adam stapleton1 executive summary this paper describes and documents the origins, evolution, strategy and impact of.
An agenda for legal empowerment of the poor can therefore be developed on the basis of labor rights, legal instruments for entrepreneurship, property rights and access to justice and rule of law this is the basis of the work of the commission on legal empowerment of the poor. Of the global legal empowerment initiative, a platform ment programs provide free legal advice to help poor mothers secure child support and but in legal empower.
Voice and identity are the key enabling conditions through which the poor can engage in legal reforms and, thereby, exercise legal rights in the four domains - four pillars - of the legal empowerment agenda. 156 empowering workers in the informal economy julio faundez the commission on legal empowerment of the poor (clep) states that workers in the informal economy can be legally empowered by bringing them within the.
This is a book on legal empowerment approaches to justice and development in ways that benefit the poor and other disadvantaged populations it is part of the idlo book series lessons learned: narrative accounts of legal reform in developing and transition countries. Legal empowerment is a process and a goal that involves the use of law to increase the control of disadvantaged populations over their lives through a combination of education and action 1 the success of legal empowerment work will be measured by looking for indicators of change. Empowering the poor requires more than simply a transfer of resources it entails the creation of sound legal and political frameworks which specifically address the needs of the poor and vulnerable and hold political and administrative leaders accountable for policy failures.