Role of a Catalyst Organization…. Flexible, Responsive, People-Centered, Learning &

Adaptive

Social Mobilization

Social Activist

Tech/Eco Assistance

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Organised Communities

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Services

Societies of Rights

Societies of Relationship

Social position determined by birth

Citizens with Rights

RSPs and Rights

Rationale for the Project

1. Inaccessibility to affordable Justice

2. Govt. Priorities; PCNA & Stabilisation strategies; for

social equality and strengthening Rule of Law in the region

3. Legal empowerment

– Citizen-State linkage development

– Legal Literacy

– Legal Aid

4. SRSP’s Outreach and Community trust

Our Approach to Legal Empowerment

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• Legal Literacy

• Identification of Paralegals

• Training of Paralegals

2 • Community based legal services

• Empowerment & Engagement

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• Gender Equity

• Quality Assurance

• Rights compliance

Who is a Paralegal ?

• Community member

• Social activist

• CRP

• Facilitator not adjudicator

• Empowers communities and individuals and builds their capacity to deal with future justice issues.

Legal Empowerment Project

• Started in Nov 2011

• Project Area

–Chitral, Nowshera, Swat

• Phase 1 needs assessment

• Phase 2 started in July 2012

• Implementation by SRSP, Technical & financial Assistance by OSI whereas DCHD is hired for Capacity building support by OSI

Phase 1---Need Assessment

• Six Months

• Knowledge Attitude & Perception (KAP) Survey

• Focus Group Discussions with both Men & Women

• Focus Group Discussions with JIRGA elders

• Key informant interviews with stakeholders

• Individual case studies

2,700 respondents surveyed

• 84% had faced crisis events and disputes in last three years.

• 21% of these issues were related to health services

• 20% were related to problems regarding natural resources

• 16% were related to education

• 8% were related to agriculture

• 6% were related to land disputes

Phase 1---Need Assessment

Phase 2--- Pilot Project

• 3 Years Project

• Chitral, Swat & Nowshera Districts

• Three major components

a) Legal literacy for communities

b) Paralegal Services

c) Citizen Engagement & Empowerment

Stakeholders

Police

Department

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Association

Judiciary

Community Institutions

Government

Departments

Political

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of KPK

Jirgas

NGOs

Legal Literacy Campaigns

So far Over 2,000 Men & Women participated

1.Awareness Raising session 2.Behaviour Communication Change Activities 3.Human Rights Workshops

2.Paralegal Services

1,490 cases facilitated for resolution

97% Legal Identity Cases

3 % Family & inheritance cases

1. Cases through Mediation 2. Cases through Referrals 3. Cases through Litigation 4. Legal Aid Clinics

3. Engagement and Empowerment

290 people participated in 6 Strengthening Citizens state relationship assemblies

1. Stakeholders workshop at District Level

2. Community Assemblies

Intensive Capacity Building for SRSP staff

1. Basic human & Legal rights 2. Family & Inheritance Laws 3. Case Management

1. Project Staff 2. Legal Advisers (Lawyers)

Mainstreaming Legal Empowerment (case study)

• Village RakhSarkar, UC Kheshgi Payen, Nowshera

• Total Population 1,380

• 30 % farming 70 % Labour

• Majority women did not have CNIC

• SRSP’s intervention since 1st Jan 2012

• MCOs 6, WCOs 4

• CPIs, vocational trainings

Mainstreaming Legal Empowerment (Case Study)

• Legal Empowerment Interventions

• Paralegal intervention since intervention in July 2012

• Organized NADRA Mobile Visit, 128 people get CNIC

• 24 women get access to CIF

• Some families benefited from BISP

• Issuance of disability certificate and special CNIC ,special people get access to social welfare programmes

Challenges

• Beneficiaries- citizens

• Social activism verses capacity building & service delivery

• The Social Contract state?

• Challenging Power dynamics