Beitrag zum Legal Aid Basket Fund



Contract partner: DANIDA GGO Liaison Office Country: Uganda Funding amount: € 800.000,00 Project start: 01.07.2007 End: 30.06.2011

Short Description:

Overall goal


The Legal Aid Basket Fund (LABF) is an initiative supported by Development Partners with special interest in the area of legal aid service provision. Legal aid service provision falls under the overall framework of the Justice Law and Order sector. The LABF aims at improving access to justice for the poor through provision of legal aid services in a sustainable manner with a view to national coverage. The LABF became operational end of 2004.

The revised strategy will be guided by the following contributing to the JLOS objectives:

+Focusing on justice issues relating to criminal, land and family matters.

+Supporting engagement of CSOs and the private sector in contributing to the development of a national framework by piloting sustainable and affordable models of low cost intervention of legal aid.

+Enhance the ability of users of the justice system to understand the functioning of and to manoeuvre within the system.

+Enhancing the role and capacity of civil society and the private sector in provision of legal aid.

+Placing emphasis on relevance, efficiency and coverage of services rather than capacity development of service providers.

+Move towards public interest litigation with an aim to address common injustices rather than litigation on individual cases.

+Move towards increased used of ADR mechanism and out of court settlements.

+Provide research and access to international experience to enhance the ability of JLOS, civil society and the private sector to develop appropriate models for legal aid provision in Uganda.

The support to such initiatives will further help to enhance the scope and coverage of legal aid services in the interim, before a national state funded system is fully operational. The services are mainly provided to women, children, criminal defendants and generally the poor. As a guiding principle, all support to model development and provision of primary legal aid will be assessed on the basis of their efficiency and up-scaling potential.

project number 2286-00/2007
source of funding OEZA
sector Staatsführung & Zivilgesellschaft, allgemein
tied
modality
marker
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
  • Type of Aid – Aid modalities: classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds such as budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds to CSOs and multilateral organisations, project-type interventions, experts and other technical assistance, scholarships and student costs in donor countries, debt relief, administrative costs and other in-donor expenditures.
  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.
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