Who will help the teams to develop their ideas? Inclusive justice 7 teams from Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, North Macedonia, Kenya, Tanzania and Sierra Leone will participate in the Kyiv Legal Empowerment Practical Program this year. The main topic for this year is “The role of (non)lawyers in the inclusive justice ecosystem”. “Non” here is in a parenthesis, because we are interested in paralegals, social workers, legal tech, and legal practitioners as well, – Kateryna Yeroshenko, the coordinator of the Kyiv Legal Empowerment Practical Program clarified. We are focusing on addressing public health and social issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we
Ukrainian Access to Justice School of Practice is pleased to announce a call for mentors for the teams of KyivLEPP2021. There are 7 teams in KyivLEPP this year – teams from Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, North Macedonia, Kenya, Tanzania and Sierra Leone who participate in the program. Read more about the teams and the problems they will work on during KyivLEPP2021 in our article: https://ua2j.school/en/news/kyivlepp-2021/ Mentors should meet the following criteria: experience in state institutions / civil society organizations / social initiatives related to access to justice field; successful implementation of solutions in access to justice (adopted by the state or target
What legal issues would the teams address during the KyivLEPP-2021? 16 different teams from Cameroon, Kenya, Tanzania, Togo, Sierra Leone, Ukraine, North Macedonia, Ghana and Kyrgyzstan applied to the Kyiv Practical Legal Capacity Building Program (KyivLEPP-2021) this year. During the last three weeks, program experts conducted video interviews with applicants. Interviews were dedicated to clarifying the legal problems the teams have addressed to KyivLEPP, to discussing what makes teams’ ideas innnovative or people-centered. Institutional and intersectoral balance of the group, coherence, motivation, clear formulation of the problem, vision of alternative strategies, gender balance – all of these were among the