Human Rights and Efficient Justice Administration



Contract partner: Justice for All - Prison Fellowship Ethiopia Country: Äthiopien Funding amount: € 30.000,00 Project start: 01.01.2005 End: 31.12.2005

Short Description:

Overall goal


The overall objective of the project is to support the justice administration for ensuring the effectiveness of human rights protection at minimum standards in Ethiopian prisons.

" Prison Fellowship Ethiopia is a non-governmental organization working closely with federal and regional state prison administration offices and justice sectors and providing various capacity building programs to achieve the following:

" improved system of administration and better justice for the people with speedy trial for the accused and detained, improved handling of prisoners with their rights respected; improved respect of international minimum standards of handling of prisoner's; justice sector officials attained a more advanced leadership and managerial skills, secured a more efficient justice administration;

" women's rights respected i.e. better justice for women prisoners, gender equality respected;

" justice sector officials developed accountability to the community for their service and responsibility for their duties;

" increased awareness of prisoners about their rights i.e. prisoners shall be able to assert and demand their rights, victims of human rights abuse shall have recourse to legal redress;

" the system of granting pardon being operational; prisoners rehabilitated and easily reintegrated into the society when released from prisons; peace and healing among the victims and offenders families; skills acquired by prisoners for better living;

" backlog files settled; the need of prisons and condition of prisoners which could be used as reference for further study and intervention documented.

The project will cover Amhara, Tigray, Oromia, SNNP, Gambela, Afar, Somali, Harari and Benshangul regions and is funded by a consortium of donors (Austria, DFID, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland).

project number 2014-05/2005
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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