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KyivLEPP-2020 graduates have created and currently popularize in Kenya the online platform for pre-trial dispute resolution

The team participating in the Kyiv Legal Empowerment Practical Program from Kenya has completed its plan of an intensive marketing company to draw public attention to the online dispute resolution platform from the Utatuzi Center.

Not every Kenyan can afford legal proceedings, as well as the mediators services for faster dispute resolution. The level of legal education of everyone also does not allow to understand the procedures for solving legal problems, and therefore people do not want to waste time on this and are distrustful of the employees of the justice authorities and human rights organizations trying to facilitate this process.

To make justice in their country more accessible to all, a team from Kenya has created a web platform for alternative dispute resolution. Its users, two parties of the dispute, can come to a solution to the conflict through video conferences curated by experienced mediators. Now this resource has begun to be used by Kenyan business companies and state experts, but the majority of the population knows nothing about its existence. The Kenyans learned how to make this virtual platform popular when their national team passed together with teams from Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, North Macedonia and Poland a training course of the Kyiv Legal Empowerment Practical Program – KyivLEPP-2020.

This year, the team, with the support of Sheilat Afolabi, KyivLEPP mentor, project coordinator of the Ukrainian Legal Aid Foundation has completed the action plan based on a prototype developed within KyivLEPP. A large-scale information campaign is planned to be held by the end of June. It is, to begin with, the distribution of brochures about an online platform for resolving disputes in large cities: Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu. Next, several videos will be created about the advantages of the platform, how it works and how, thanks to alternative dispute resolution, existing gaps in the justice sector can be overcome. Videos are to be distributed via social networks and partner feeds. In addition, the team from Kenya intends to organize weekly various online trainings, webinars and discussion activities on alternative dispute resolution.

The program is implemented by the Ukrainian School of Practical Knowledge on Access to Justice through the joint creation of colleagues from the Ukrainian Legal Aid Foundationthe Coordination Center for Legal Aid Provisionthe Legal Development Network, the Ministry of Justice of Ukrainethe Law Club PRAVOKATOR. Kyiv and with the expert and financial support of the Human Rights and Justice Program of the International Renaissance Foundation.

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