with the support of the Legal Vice Presidency's Staff Development Committee, DECRG & SDV Invites you to a half-day seminar on: Justice for the Poor: Promoting a Demand-Oriented, Community-Driven Approach to Justice Reform Wednesday, June 6, 2007 MC C1-100 1:00 - 6:00pm | | Presenters | | 1:00 - 1:30 | What is Justice for the Poor: Caroline Sage
(Powerpoint Presentation) | | 1:30 - 2:30 | Indonesia Country Program: From Research to Practice - Operationalizing Justice for the Poor: Matt Stephens & Taufik Rinaldi (Powerpoint Presentation) | | 2:30 - 3:15 | Sierra Leone Country Program: Grounding Justice Reform in a Local Context: Ryann Manning | | 3:15 - 3:30 | Coffee Break | | 3:30 - 4:30 | Cambodia Country Program: Justice Sector Reform in a Neo-Patrimonial State: Case Studies in Land, Labor and Local Governance: Daniel Adler & Path Heang | | 4:30 - 5:30 | Monitoring and Evaluating Justice for the Poor Programs- Michael Woolcock (Powerpoint Presentation) | | 5:30 - 6:00 | Questions and feedback from participants | | 6:00 | Reception
MC Dining Room East
Opening Remarks
Ana Palacio, Senior Vice President & Group General Counsel Keynote Address
David Freestone, Deputy General Counsel | | Justice for the Poor (J4P) is an attempt by the World Bank to grapple with some of the theoretical and practical challenges of promoting justice reform in a few countries in Africa (Sierra Leone and Kenya) and East Asia (Indonesia and Cambodia). It seeks to do so by developing an empirically-based understanding of how the poor or excluded navigate through local justice systems, in order to inform and evaluate pro-poor approaches to justice reform and ’mainstreamed’ justice initiatives as part of broader development interventions.
J4P research in Indonesia and Cambodia has shown the value of this approach. J4P’s flagship program in Indonesia combines grassroots community-based legal aid with development of stronger local government and judicial institutions, and has informed the work of the Support for Poor and Disadvantaged Areas (SPADA) program. In Cambodia, the J4P team has examined community resistance to external development pressure in rural areas, resolution of land disputes, and access to information. This research has fed into the design of the World Bank-funded Demand for Good Governance and Empowerment of the Poor in Siem Reapprojects, and is linked to the Bank’s Land Management and Administration Project (LMAP). Recently initiated research in Sierra Leone and Kenya has highlighted the role of community funds and development projects in creating and abating conflict.
Using experiences from both East Asia and Africa, the J4P team will initiate discussion on the social, cultural and economic barriers the poor face when attempting to access justice. Beyond learning, the seminar will focus on doing: what efforts have been found to be successful in overcoming these barriers? In particular, through what mechanisms are positive outcomes achieved, and potentially negative outcomes avoided or minimized? How exactly do these outcomes materialize? Moreover, what elements of context are important in determining the effects of such projects? What factors—either internal to the program or in the local environment in which it operates—influence the extent to which, and the ways in which, the program has an impact? | If you would like to be included in the Justice for the Poor email list, please send an email to j4p@worldbank.org Updated as of: July 11, 2007
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