1. Microjustice Initiative

2. Focus on most urgent justiciable problems Access to justice for people and small business owners with issues in areas of: Identity documents Divorce, child support and inheritance Land and home property Work and payment Neighbor relations Access to government services.

3. Across countries we see: Innovative ways to deliver justice Combining the best from: –Rights based approaches (human rights, legal procedure, property rights) –Local practices and knowledge about what works –Negotiation, mediation,conflict resolution know how –Practice of adjudication by lower courts –Empirical evidence

4. Legal Empowerment and Access to Justice Commission Report June 2008 www.undp.org/legalempowerment Access to justice: Justiciable problems starting points Build on options poor people have available Lower costs and increase the justness and fairness of outcomes Remedying of market failure: let justice services develop bottom up

5. Commission Legal Empowerment: Four Strategies Improved dissemination of legal information and formation of peer groups (self-help strategies) Broadening the scope of legal services Legal simplification and standardization Recognition of informal justice system + education, evolution, targeted constraints

6. Action Research with Oxfam Novib, Praxis, Cewla, Deme So, Haguruka, ASK Mediators/facilitators/lawyers in 5 countries –Difficult circumstances. Hard to make it work. Much creativity. Develop working methods –How are we doing? What are colleagues in other countries doing? –What is a good outcome for my clients? Some managers of NGO’s worry about –How can our good work become sustainable? Who will fund next project? –How can we show we deliver good value?

7. Microjustice Initiative Partnership of organizations that aim for better access to justice, open to: Organizations supplying legal aid, mediation or local court services –who want to share their experiences and to learn from others Organizations that support this –with financial and human resources, network contacts and research and development

8. Mission To inspire, give confidence and strengthen legal aid providers, judges, and informal tribunals. So that they can increase their effectiveness and reach.

9. Partners Contributing to Sharing Rules and Tools The Lawyers for Justice and Peace in Egypt Centre for Egyptian Woman Legal Assistance (Cairo, Egypt) Praxis Support to Social Development (Baku, Azerbaijan), ADHOC The Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (Cambodia) Zoa (Cambodia) Kantor Bantuan Hukum (KBH), legal aid office (Lampung, Indonesia) The International Rescue Committee (Thailand) Ain Shalish Kendra (Bangla Desh) Legal Aid Board (Rwanda) Hagaruka (Rwanda) Deme So (Mali) Wildaf (Mali) NaiLab (Nairobi, IT partner)

10. Partners Supporting Development of Microjustice/Bottom Up Justice Hague Institute for Internationalization of Law (Hiil): partnership building through Microjustice Initiative Foundation Innovating Justice/Hague Rule of Law Network: website Oxfam Novib: network justice providers and program Delivery of Justice DAS Rechtsbijstand: tool development Tilburg University/Tisco: knowledge sharing dispute systems 1% Club: IT interfaces and community building Nijenrode University: knowledge sharing microservices and business models Centre for International Legal Cooperation (CILC): education programs City of The Hague: innovation subsidy and networking Ministry of Economic Affairs: innovation subsidy Publimarket : awareness and communication