Legal Awareness through Community Radio
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The purpose of the project is to use the medium of community radio to create legal awareness among marginalised communities; to help provide communities an alternate forum of dispute resolution; to sensitise communities on human rights issues; to initiate research and advocacy on legal regime for mass media; and to help empower marginalised sections of society by providing legal aid services.
Contact Person(s): m.l.muff@undp.org
Project Period: January - December 2005
Partner(s): Department of Justice, NGOs
Achievements
- Legal awareness tools and programmes developed and launched through community radio.
- Training programmes for legal capacity building of CBOs carried out.
- Legal aid outreach activities of multiple community organizations strengthened through enhanced and more focused cooperation between legal aid providers.
- Platforms for dialogue between disadvantaged people and policy makers, government officials, media and multiple justice actors around access to justice issues built.
- Community mobilized around developing long term strategies to overcome barriers to achieving access to justice (including advocacy campaigns).
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