Dates: 30 November – 3 December 2015
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Over the past several years, policymakers, politicians and advocates have increasingly started recognising the importance of access to justice in ensuring equitable and inclusive development. To these ends, new kinds of partnerships between civil society, state actors and academics will need to be institutionalized in order to ensure a coherent and coordinated strategy on access to justice as part of the planning and implementation of development policies and programmes. There will be need to learn collectively how to employ legal empowerment as an approach to deliver public goods and services more effectively and efficiently, and, more importantly, as a way of involving people at the community level directly in decision-making on local governance and development issues affecting them.
Against this background, and with their complementary exposure to practice and theory, the CEU’s School of Public Policy (SPP) and the South Asian Institute of Advanced Legal and Human Rights Studies (SAILS) at BRAC University, in collaboration with the Open Society Justice Initiative and Namati, are hosting an executive course on legal empowerment that will offer an opportunity for leading thinkers and practitioners to come together to learn from each other and identify strategies to strengthen justice and development planning and programming.
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