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Access to Justice TAI Training Workshop

Access to Justice TAI Training Workshop. Access to Justice. What does A2J mean? Access rights have been denied and/or people have suffered an environmental harm Citizens seek remedy An independent forum to solve conflicts. Case Selection Criteria. A2J Case Criteria:

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Access to Justice TAI Training Workshop

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  1. Access to Justice TAI Training Workshop

  2. Access to Justice • What does A2J mean? • Access rights have been denied and/or people have suffered an environmental harm • Citizens seek remedy • An independent forum to solve conflicts

  3. Case Selection Criteria A2J Case Criteria: • Choose at least four cases • Case types include claims related to A2I, PP, environmental harm, environmental noncompliance • Reflect average practice, nothing extraordinary • Does not necessarily involve a court of law, but can include other fora • Recent, occurring in the last five years

  4. Access to Justice

  5. Access to Justice • A2J TopicsInclude: • Law – Evaluate the national legislative and judicial frameworks • Effort – Assess the government’s actions to provide access, including the implementation of laws • Effectiveness – Assess if laws and government efforts resulted in effective practice

  6. Access to Justice • Subtopics under Law are addressed with Indicators 91 – 103 and 143, and include: • Scope and quality of general legal framework • Quality of the general legal limits • Scope and quality of specific legal framework • Legal requirements to build capacity of government agencies • Legal requirements to build capacity of the public • Legal requirements for timeliness

  7. Access to Justice 2. Subtopics under Effort are addressed with Indicators 104 – 128 and 148,and include: • Scope and quality of effort • Cost and affordability • Fairness and equitability • Timeliness • Channels of access • Effort to build government capacity • Effort to build capacity of the public • Efforts to build the capacity of sub-national governments

  8. Access to Justice 3. Subtopics under Effectiveness are addressed with Indicators 129 – 136,and include: • Impacts of access • Outcomes of access • Government capacity-building • Capacity-building for the public • Capacity-building for sub-national governments • Capacity-building for the media • Capacity-building for civil society organizations

  9. A2J Recommended Research Methods

  10. A2J Case Study Examples

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