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The team participating in the Kyiv Legal Empowerment Practical Program from North Macedonia has completed its plan of an advocacy campaign to counter the blocking of social accounts. In this country of the Balkan peninsula, unpaid fines, loans, debts on utility and other payments, can block a bank account. This situation often becomes a serious problem even for a person with a high salary, since many save money on the card, and for low-income citizens blocking their social accounts, in general, may lead to catastrophic consequences. “It happens that families who have been provided with social assistance and thus survived

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

The team participating in the Kyiv Legal Empowerment Practical Program (KyivLEPP-2020) from Ukraine and Poland began to implement its plan to create a cross-border interactive IT platform for legal clinics. It is quite difficult to calculate the exact number of our migrant workers in Poland. According to the State Statistics Service, during 2015-2017, approximately 1.3 million people left our country, most of them to Poland, Russia and Italy. Many of them work illegally, as it is difficult for them to understand all the intricacies of employment abroad. And if a person gets injured in the workplace, such a person would

Kenyan people came up with this online event last year on a design thinking course of the Kyiv Legal Empowerment Practical Program to popularize their virtual platform for alternative dispute resolution. What useful technical solutions were presented during ADR Week and what did the School demonstrate directly? The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the world that many current solutions to legal problems are in dire need of new technologies for efficient and uninterrupted operations. A number of such tools were demonstrated last week within Alternative Dispute Resolution Week (ADR Week) in Kenya. The main attention was paid to the alternative dispute

Thanks to an advocacy campaign that the Macedonians came up with while studying at the Kyiv Legal Empowerment Practical Program, from now on, bailiffs in North Macedonia check accounts before blocking them and store confiscated funds for 15 days. This was a real salvation for thousands of families living with social benefits. In North Macedonia, if a person has debts, for example, for utilities, he is blocked by a bank account. Moreover, bailiffs can also block the social account, where pensions are accrued, material assistance for people with disabilities and low-income citizens. This problem affects more than 10,000 families in

Participants of #KyivLEPP2020 Idea Incubator had been developing projects intended to enhance access to justice in five countries of the world throughout the previous week. They “passed” their ideas through the design-thinking methodology which which you can immerse in an issue of access to justice, define target groups, focus yourself, review alternatives to the problem solving, secure your ideas with crash test, and make presentation of the same upon the cycle completion.  On Monday, the last day of the program, teams presented ultimate versions of the decision prototypes that have been worked out during training. Kenya has developed the promotion

We are glad to introduce you to the KyivLEPP 2020 participants. Kyrgyzstan team Develops a model of paralegal network

We are glad to introduce you to the KyivLEPP 2020 participants. North Macedonian team Team works on a model of Mobile office for paralegal aid:

We are glad to introduce you to KyivLEPP 2020 participants. Innovators team from the North Macedonia North Macedonian team is looking for a systemic solution to prevent the blocking of social bank accounts, which will allow vulnerable communities not to remain below the poverty line during quarantine:

We are glad to introduce you to the KyivLEPP 2020 participants. Polish-Ukrainian team of innovators The team works on the communication platform for students, curators and clients of legal clinics of both countries:

We are glad to introduce you to the KyivLEPP 2020 participants. The team of Kenya the team works on promoting a communication platform for alternative dispute resolution:

Launching of KyivLEPP has brought to life insightful discussions: how to put people at the center and focus on A2J solutions that solve people’s justice problems? what is the role of (non) lawyers in the inclusive ecosystem of access to justice? Participants shared experience and practical solutions with colleagues and friends from Bishkek to New York. Roman Romanov, Director of the Human Rights and Justice Program of the International Renaissance Foundation, shared the idea of ​​the KyivLEPP, its goals and objectives: “From the very beginning, we in Ukrainian Access to Justice School of Practice have designed KyivLEPP as an opportunity