Legal Empowerment For The Poor And The Disadvantaged
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Legal Empowerment For The Poor And The Disadvantaged Strategies Achievements And Challenges
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Author : Sumaiya Khair
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Legal Empowerment For The Poor And The Disadvantaged Strategies Achievements And Challenges written by Sumaiya Khair and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
Legal Empowerment For The Poor And The Disadvantaged
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Author : Sumaiya Khair
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Legal Empowerment For The Poor And The Disadvantaged written by Sumaiya Khair and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Law categories.
Outcome of a research conducted under a Commonwealth post-academic staff fellowship 2 October 2006-2 April 2007 at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.
Legal Empowerment For Women And Disadvantaged Groups
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Author : Asian Development Bank
language : en
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Legal Empowerment For Women And Disadvantaged Groups written by Asian Development Bank and has been published by Asian Development Bank this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Legal empowerment is a powerful tool for reducing poverty. It gives people the knowledge, skills, and confidence to participate in development projects. It promotes inclusive growth, which reduces poverty by building people's capacity to improve their lives. Inclusive growth is a goal of Strategy 2020, which guides the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in its mission to promote gender equality, empower women, and achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The publication presents the findings of a project funded by ADB, carried out by The Asia Foundation, and conducted in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Pakistan. The project aimed to identify and test legal empowerment strategies that increase access to basic social services, productive resources, and opportunities by women and other disadvantaged groups and to incorporate legal empowerment initiatives into mainstream development projects.
Legal Empowerment
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Author : Paul Daniel Rivera
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
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Millions of dollars of international aid is given to developing countries each year to strengthen “rule-of-law” institutions. Led by institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the majority of international legal aid rests on the assumption that market and investment friendly legal systems - protecting foreign and domestic investment, property and contract rights - will spur economic growth that in turn, will “trickle down” to the poor in the name of poverty alleviation. However, even after over two decades of these institutional legal reforms, little evidence has emerged supporting the impact that these reforms have had on poverty alleviation. From the frustrations of international legal development practitioners who have witnessed the real gaps between this top-down institutional approach and poverty alleviation emerged the field of legal empowerment. A promising alternative, it is a bottom-up approach aiming to afford poor and disadvantaged populations legal advice and services under the belief that once knowledgeable about their legal rights, these groups may take more control of their lives and lift themselves from the strains of poverty. At the moment, a huge imbalance exists between the amount of funding given to institutional reforms and those given to legal empowerment type projects. This imbalance needs to change, but is seemingly troubled by a vicious cycle of funding logic. International aid institutions like the World Bank and the IMF hesitate to grant long-term development loans unless impact is shown or looks promising. This is usually determined by looking at the impact of short-term developmental loans, which often act as a preliminary indicator of a projects tangible impact or promise. Herein lies the fundamental tension such a short-term, impact-oriented approach has with legal empowerment, which is by nature, a long-term process. In fact, sustained funding is often a predicate to the success of a legal empowerment intervention. This is because legal empowerment targets the “users” of the law and not the institutions. Whereas institutional reform may often be perceived as a more attractive option because it can point to tangible results like how many courts have been built, how many cases have been adjudicated, and number of judicial officers trained, this is often indeterminate of who is using the judicial channels and for what purpose. It's possible that, for example, such cases actually involved wealthy corporations or individuals that disenfranchised the poor. In such cases, one must question whether poverty alleviation is really taking place. On the other hand, legal empowerment targets the poor and disadvantaged. It's a long-term process because it seeks to educate these groups of their rights from the ground-up and that demands patience. In addition, these groups face deeply engrained cultures and socio-economic barriers making impact that more challenging. Thus, short-term tangible impact is hard to measure, thereby leaving funding of legal empowerment projects to receive only a small portion of developmental loans given. In practice, however, it's often more desirable because it seeks to empower the poor and engrain within them a sustainable notion of rights and justice. Without this foundation that legal empowerment initiatives attempt to give rise to, these legal institutions cannot effectively alleviate property and inevitably, “courts are just buildings, judges just public employees, and constitutions just pieces of paper.” This paper examines this vicious cycle of funding logic and proposes that international lending institutions be mindful of legal empowerment's requirement for long-term funding even if short-term impact is unclear. This is because it may inevitably be a more viable solution to poverty alleviation than mere institutional reform. Part I of this paper begins by examining the philosophical differences between rule-of-law and legal empowerment. It continues by listing a common core of legal empowerment characteristics along with the methodology for measurement and evaluation. In Part II, this paper describes select legal empowerment studies funded by international banks and aid agencies. It attempts to illustrate how legal empowerment interventions are formulated and implemented, along with describing the impact or discoveries from those interventions along the way. Part III concludes by attempting to frame the current funding framework as applicable to legal empowerment as unrealistic and impractical. It provides some context to that position by identifying the cultural barriers to change and describes why other intangible information may be more valuable. Finally, it ends by describing the possible economic benefits of legal empowerment and how increased funding will only improve the quality of the research.
Making The Law Work For Everyone Report Of The Commission On Legal Empowerment Of The Poor Making The Law Work For Everyone
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: UN
Release Date : 2008
Making The Law Work For Everyone Report Of The Commission On Legal Empowerment Of The Poor Making The Law Work For Everyone written by and has been published by UN this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Business & Economics categories.
The vast majority of the world's people live outside the law and thus do not have a chance to better their lives and climb out of poverty. This causes national and global stagnation. The remedy for the exclusion is inclusion through Legal Empowerment of the Poor which is important economically, politically, socially, and morally. The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor (2005) was the first global initiative to focus on the link between exclusion, poverty, and the law, and was hosted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in New York. This first report of the Commission covers the following topics: making the law work for everyone; the four pillars of legal empowerment; legal empowerment is smart politics and good economics; agenda for change and implementation strategies. The report is based on research, analysis and consultations in more than 20 developing countries and encourages debates and discussions towards realisation of Millennium Development Goals.
Making The Law Work For Everyone Report Of The Commission On Legal Empowerment Of The Poor
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
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Making The Law Work For Everyone
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language : en
Publisher: Lep
Release Date : 2008
Making The Law Work For Everyone written by and has been published by Lep this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Legal assistance to the poor categories.
The vast majority of the word's people lives outside the law and thus does not have a chance to better their lives and climb out of poverty. This causes national and global stagnation. The remedy for the exclusion is inclusion through Legal Empowerment of the Poor which is important economically, politically, socially, and morally. The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor (2005) was the first global initiative to focus on the link between exclusion, poverty, and the law, and was hosted by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in New York. This first report of the Commission covers the following topics: making the law work for everyone; the four pillars of legal empowerment; legal empowerment is smart politics and good economics; agenda for change; and implementation strategies. The report is based on research, analysis and consultations in more than 20 developing countries, and encourages debates and discussions towards realization of Millennium Development Goals.--Publisher's description.
Legal Empowerment
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Author : International Development Law Organization (IDLO)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Legal Empowerment written by International Development Law Organization (IDLO) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Legal assistance to the poor categories.
"A collection of articles on approaches to integrating justice and development in ways that benefit the poor and other disadvantaged populations."--Website.
Working With The Poor To Uphold Justice
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Author : Badan Perencanaan dan Pembangunan Nasional (Indonesia)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Working With The Poor To Uphold Justice written by Badan Perencanaan dan Pembangunan Nasional (Indonesia) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Legal Empowerment Of The Poor For Sustainable Livelihoods
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Author : Patrick Reynaud
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Legal Empowerment Of The Poor For Sustainable Livelihoods written by Patrick Reynaud and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
The Commission for the Legal Empowerment of the Poor, chaired by Madeleine Albright and Hernando de Soto, released in 2008 a comprehensive Report on Legal Empowerment of the Poor (LEP). The Commission was launched in 2005 by a group of developing and developed countries, including Canada. Following the Report, the United Nations General Assembly acknowledged the importance of LEP in terms of its poverty eradication goals and initiatives. An important emphasis of the LEP Commission Report is that over 4 billion people are “robbed of the chance to better their lives and climb out of poverty, because they are excluded from the rule of law.” LEP, conceptualized broadly in terms of access to justice, property rights, labor rights and business rights, can provide opportunities for those living in poverty to improve their quality of life and secure more sustainable development.This Legal Discussion Paper sets out, mainly in a descriptive manner, a conceptual context for a Canadian Dialogue on LEP, as a background paper for a discussion on the most promising ways in which Canadian stakeholders can engage with the LEP agenda internationally. After this short introduction, the second part of this Legal Discussion Paper presents a brief overview of 2008 LEP Commission Report, emphasizing its background, framework and agenda for implementation. The third part of the Legal Discussion Paper presents a few brief case studies of how LEP can also help to address global emerging challenges that are significantly undermining sustainable development in selected sectors, such as Health, HIV & Legal Empowerment, Green Economy, Access to Climate Finance & Legal Empowerment, and Agriculture, Land Rights & Legal Empowerment. These case studies are meant to serve as examples of how LEP can be operationalized as a useful and effective tool in a variety of development endeavors. The fourth part of Legal Discussion Paper addresses, by simply raising a few initial thoughts for discussion, two sets of key issues for Canadian policy leaders, legal scholars and practitioners that are interested in advancing a Canadian agenda in promoting LEP for sustainable livelihoods.