Presentation from the OECD Roundtable on Equal Access to Justice, Latvia, 2018. For more information see: http://www.oecd.org/gov/equal-access-to-justice-oecd-expert-roundtable-latvia-2018.htm

2. Building Evidence to Support Access to
Justice … under the SDGs & Beyond
Adrian Di Giovanni, IDRC Canada
OECD Policy Roundtable
Riga, Latvia, July 2018

3. A key part of Canada’s foreign policy efforts, IDRC
supports research in developing countries to
promote growth and development. The result is
innovative, lasting solutions that aim to improve
lives and livelihoods.
IDRC is a Crown corporation created in 1970 by an
Act of Parliament.
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International Development Research Centre

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2 Basic Questions
(intrinsic + instrumental)
How to improve
respect for law and
justice in developing
country contexts?
How can laws and
justice institutions
help to achieve
development goals?
Law & Development @ IDRC

5. Justice Problems as Multi-Dimensional
Source: Akiba Mashinani Trust
Nairobi Buenos Aires
• How to make sectoral links à la SDG 16+ Framework?
• What are inter-institutional & inter-disciplinary
successes?
• Emphasize access to administrative justice & solutions

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Justice Problems, Solutions & Informality
• What role for non-’traditional,’ formal legal supports?
• What links between formal and informal justice
mechanisms are most legitimate & (cost)-effective?
• Emphasize hybrid, intermediary institutions
Cameroon

7. Scale: What Mix of Interventions?
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Source: http://akibamashinani.org/

8. Socio-Political Vantage-point …
• What legal empowerment supports are effective for
women and vulnerable groups?
(access to justice & development outcomes)
• How to support access to justice in the face of deeply
entrenched structural or political barriers?
• How should access to justice / legal empowerment
efforts relate to the state?
• To protect independence? To ensure financing?
• Collaborative vs. confrontational engagement?

9. Sierra Leone
Center for Alternative
Policy Research &
Innovation
Canadian Forum
on Civil Justice
IDRC
South Africa
Center for Community
Justice & Devemlopment
Country-Level &
Thematic Research
SCALING ACCESS TO JUSTICE RESEARCH COLLABORATION
(2018-2021)
Regional & Global
Convenings +
Learning Exchanges
Kenya
Katiba Institute
(methodological & economic vantage-point…)

10. Merci!