Access to Justice: Strengthening Legal Awareness and the Delivery of Legal Services in Sindh (2015-2017)
The EDACE Project titled Access to Justice: Strengthening Legal Awareness and the Delivery of Legal Services in Sindh was funded by the FCO (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) and the British High Commission. The main objective of this project was to fill the gap between the demand and supply of quality legal services for disempowered and marginalized people of Sindh, Pakistan specifically women, religious minorities and to the people that is in conflict with the law.
Legal Aid Society and Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI), under the EDACE project designed a program together to address demand and supply side issues of accessing justice with a view to increasing transparency and accountability of the Government. The program had a number of supply side interventions aimed at enhancing the capacity of state actors and a number of demand side interventions aimed at increasing the knowledge and capacities of common persons to demand and obtain justice more effectively. The major outcomes of the project were as followings:
- Citizens are better aware of their rights; voice their grievances, facilitated access to redressal options.
- Selected state run institutions at sub-provincial level better respond to citizens’ demands for the protection of legal rights.
- Enhanced benefits of LAS through integration with EDACE partners and collaboration with other similar programmes and projects.