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We have produced a brochure about the impact of our work around the world. It features photographs of the paralegals who are making a difference to some of the world’s most urgent justice issues.
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Name: Women And Children Welfare And Development Organization
Year Found: 2017
Location: Ethiopia
Scope of Area: at national level.
Registration Number: 4574
Vision: Forge to create an environment where everyone equally exercise human right and its previledge with full dignity.
Mission: To ensure Human right and Gender Equality of Underserved and marginalized through actively involve in building process of democratic Governance.
Objective: * Policy and Law change towards benefit of underserved.
* Addressing Service Gap in remote and limited access for service setup.
* Building safe and peaceful environment
Programmatic Intervention: #1 Advocacy and community building.
#2 socioeconomic development
#3 Humanitarian Aid and disaster response.
#4 Climate and environmental justice.
#5 Peace building and Promotion.
#6 Women right and empowerment.
#7 Children right and welfare.
#8 LGBTIQ+ Equality and Empowerment
The Social welfare & Agricultural Development organization
Is a non-governmental, making development organization established in Baidoa
Somalia, for purpose of re-organizing the life of the society
especially on the community affairs, the fundamental objectives behind the
the foundation of the organization was supporting Agricultural and street children
youth groups who are the most vulnerable groups among of the society
through health, education, livelihoods, Agricultural development organization
and also committed to protecting human rights mobilizing them to
developmental activities, awareness-raising on GBV, HIV/AIDS, sanitation,
promotion peace, reconciliation, rehabilitation, and Framers Programs,
humanitarian arras are also included under consideration of SOWADO
organization.
Community members working for human rights and Agricultural
development
This Guide describes the roles and responsibilities that County Executive Committee Members (CECMs) have in supporting the implementation of the CLA. It also includes specific guidance on how CECMs can ensure that CLA implementation efforts are participatory, community-driven, and gender-sensitive, as women are often the primary managers and users of community lands.
Namati has also created:
When the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted, 193 countries made a commitment: to provide access to justice for all. But for years, progress has been slow, and grassroots justice organizations remain underfunded and under threat.
5.1 billion people – two thirds of the population – cannot meaningfully access justice. Over the last 10 years, the global justice gap has grown. It’s time to turn this story of injustice around. We need scaled up & effective financing that supports people-centered approaches to justice to accelerate progress on SDG16
At the United Nations SDG summit, we have a chance to call on world leaders and justice partners to accelerate action and increase investment to achieve the promise of equal access to justice for all by 2030.
Instead of just demands, Namati and the Global Legal Empowerment Network are leading by example through our own Accelerated Action for Justice. We announced this week that we will fundraise 45 million USD over the next 5 years. The funds we raise will support efforts to advance justice by equipping people to understand, use, and shape the law.
We will dedicate all the resources we have on hand – including our expertise, our convening power, and our infrastructure for learning, collaborating, and campaigning – to forging a stronger global movement for legal empowerment.
Legal empowerment offers a practical, cost-effective way of making the law work for ordinary people. It is a method ready for significantly increased investment. Our Accelerated Action will support the Global Legal Empowerment Network as well as Namati’s work with Network members across six countries. It will assist hundreds of grassroots organizations with meaningfully deepening the impact, sustainability, and quality of their legal empowerment work. It will contribute to transformative impact on issues of securing citizenship, realizing the right to health, enforcing environmental law, protecting community land rights, and reducing the harms of development projects.
We are committed to working with other network members to fill the global justice gap and support bottom-up approaches the deliver justice for all.
Our Accelerated Action for Justice: Building a movement for legal empowerment
The size of the justice gap is staggering. From the United States to Slovenia, people are raising their children in the shadow of factories that are poisoning their air and water. From Tunisia to South Sudan, women seeking recourse for sexual and gender-based violence are turned away by justice institutions. From Mozambique to Guatemala, people are losing access to life-saving treatments when health clinics demand unlawful bribes for services.
Namati and members of the Global Legal Empowerment Network will advance justice by equipping people to understand, use, and shape the laws that affect them.
Legal empowerment efforts are often carried out by community paralegals, who go by many names, including barefoot lawyers or community legal workers. They are trained in law and policy and in skills like mediation, organizing, and advocacy. They help people to seek concrete solutions to instances of injustice, engaging formal and traditional institutions alike.
Community paralegals are essential to closing the global justice gap. They have proven that they can help communities to access justice, even when systems are broken. With the law on their side, people are able to thrive, seek peaceful solutions, protect the lands and resources they depend on, and hold their governments to account.
The Global Legal Empowerment Network will strengthen and connect community paralegals, and the organizations that deploy them, around the world. We will build spaces for them to meet and collaborate online and in-person. We will host events and activities that help them learn from each other. We will maintain a library of useful resources. We will collectively advocate to secure support and sustainable funding for the field.
Namati will also work in close partnership with network members to take on three urgent issues – health justice, land and environmental justice, and citizenship justice – in six countries: Kenya, India, Myanmar, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, and the United States. We aim to achieve transformative impact in each of these countries.
In Sierra Leone, by supporting communities in protecting their customary land rights, we will significantly reduce environmental and social harm from mining, agricultural, or development projects. We will change policy nationwide so that people who depend on the land have a meaningful voice in what happens to it.
In Kenya, where paralegals are helping communities to secure IDs, we will work to end discrimination in the administration of identity documents. We will also bring a historic community land law to life by helping communities to secure over a million hectares of land and persuading county governments to implement the law.
In Mozambique, where paralegals are helping people to understand health policy and to take action to address failures to comply, we will significantly reduce violations and democratize health governance nationwide though the empowerment of village health committees.
In India, we will empower communities to use the law to find remedies when industrial projects violate environmental regulations, as well as to demand a more effective and participatory regulatory framework.
In Myanmar, community paralegals support smallholder farmers to navigate complex administrative processes for regaining access to land that was seized during military rule. There, we will strive to replace a top-down, repressive system of land governance with one that respects the experience and voice of those who depend directly on the land.
Together with the communities we serve, we will strive to translate the lessons from our grassroots experience into positive, large-scale changes to laws and systems. We will share everything we learn from our grassroots work with our wider community.
By unlocking the potential of community paralegals who provide essential legal support to communities, Namati and the Global Legal Empowerment Network will help to make justice a reality for the billions who are being left behind.
What next?
Let’s move from words to action together, by developing and submitting your own acceleration actions for justice.
Justice for all is a massive undertaking, an audacious goal, and an urgent demand. In this time, in our moment, we have a chance to achieve it together. Let’s commit to it.
This resource, Guide des Facilitateurs de la Protection des Terres Communautaires, is the French version of the Community Land Protection Facilitator’s Guide. The English version can be found here.
Namati’s Community Land Protection Facilitators Guide is a step-by-step, practical “how to” manual for grassroots advocates working to help communities protect their customary claims and rights to land and natural resources.
After years of working with partner organizations around the world to support communities to protect their land rights, Namati has developed a comprehensive, five-part approach that supports communities to: build unity and internal capacity for community land protection, proactively document and map their land claims, strengthen local governance, seek formal government recognition of their land rights, and plan for their own flourishing future. The goal is not just to protect land, but to leverage community land protection efforts to build:
The Facilitators Guide details Namati’s five-part process for protecting community lands and examines questions such as: “Who is included or excluded when defining a ‘community’?”, “How to resolve longstanding boundary disputes?”, and “How can communities prepare for interactions with potential investors?” The Guide goes beyond documentation to address issues of women’s land rights, inclusive governance, cultural revitalization, ecosystem regeneration, and more. Each chapter includes exercises, sample forms, and tips from veteran land protection advocates. All activities are easily adaptable to a range of cultures, contexts, and community goals. The guide is accompanied by short animated videos that demonstrate the community land protection process visually.
This Guide is intended for the directors and staff of local, community-based organizations, national civil society organizations, faith-based organizations, government actors, and other community land protection advocates and activists. The Guide refers to these groups as “facilitating organizations,” and their field staff as “facilitators.”
Namati recommends reading the entire Guide at least once before beginning community land protection efforts. Facilitators can then review specific sections of the Guide as they support communities to move through the process. However, because all the activities within each “step” are inter-related, it is best to be familiar with all the land protection activities before beginning facilitation.
If you are interested in implementing or adapting Namati’s community land protection approach, or to order a printed copy of the Facilitators Guide, please contact communitylandprotection@namati.org.
This report in Myanmar langugae summarizes the building and launch of the Myanmar National Paralegal Network. Each Network Working Group completed their respective section and Namati edited these for clarity and publication.
An English version of this report can be found here.
This report summarizes the building and launch of the Myanmar National Paralegal Network. Each Network Working Group completed their respective section and Namati edited these for clarity and publication.
An Myanmar language version of this report can be found here.