A ferramenta de levantamento dos desafios das unidades sanitárias (US) visa sistematizar os principais desafios e reclamações sobre qualidade e humanização dos serviços de saúde através da auscultação das comunidades, dos comités de saúde e de co-gestão e humanização, e dos trabalhadores de saúde, com vista a desenvolver um plano de acção conjunto baseado nas prioridades estabelecidas.
É uma metodologia prática que pode ser adoptada por todos que procuram garantir a justiça no sector de saúde, incluindo membros dos comités de saúde e de co-gestão e humanização, activistas, defensores de saúde, membros da comunidade, organizações não governamentais e de base comunitária, trabalhadores de saúde e outros funcionários públicos, parceiros clínicos e doadores.
Introduction and Overview of the Practice Guide
Large parts of the world, irrespective of their level of economic development, are on the cusp of severe environmental crises.
In these regions, the operations of extractive projects such as large-scale plantations, mining and industrial development have negated or worsened the economic, social and physical well-being of communities in their neighborhoods and beyond. Their robust national and regional laws and institutions for the protection and governance of the environment and natural resources have remained on paper and the non-compliance by governments and corporations has had profound effects on community livelihoods, health, access to land and quality of life.
Namati and CPR’s Practice Guide for Environmental Justice Paralegals is a step in the direction of closing this environmental enforcement gap.
The guide provides a methodology for community mobilizers, activists and citizens groups to shift their attention from stating the problem to getting grievances addressed by environmental institutions. The guide is based on four years of work done by the paralegals of CPR-Namati Environment Justice Program to assist affected communities file complaints and seek remedies in over 150 cases of non-compliance in India.
We hope that this guide will help local organizations and community groups to address environmental conflicts and seek useful remedies for affected people.
For more CPR-Namati environmental justice paralegal tools, click here.
This resource is also available in French, Oriya, Hindi, Gujarati, Kannada, Swahili, and Bahasa Indonesian.
Community-level environment justice practitioners, or grassroots environment paralegals, use legal empowerment approaches to assist affected communities to seek legal remedies through administrative routes. This handbook is a guide to help practitioners in India use appropriate legal clauses and institutional routes in their work.
The handbook presents scenarios that include problem types, the likely complaints the practitioner could come across, and the legal clauses and institutions through which a remedy could be pursued for those complaints. The scenarios presented in the handbook are illustrative and draw from the several cases currently being piloted for remedies by the enviro-legal coordinators associated with the Centre for Policy Research-Namati Environmental Justice Program.
The handbook is in both English and Gujarati.
This resource is also available in Hindi and Odia.
Understanding the legal status of sand mining is important before pursuing any remedy or seeking a regulatory response from concerned authorities. This short document outlines how you can map the laws that regulate riverbed and coastal sand mining and specifies which government institutions can be approached.
This resource is a joint submission by the Council of Minorities and Namati for Universal Periodic Review (UPR) about the treatment of Urdu-speaking Biharis in Bangladesh.
Namati and Council of Minorities have partnered since 2013 to implement a community-based paralegal program focused on citizenship and related rights of the Urdu-speaking community in Bangladesh. Paralegals are recruited from and active in dozens of Urdu-speaking camps in 7 cities across the country empowering camp residents to acquire and use citizenship-related documents.
On March 14, 2017, India’s environment ministry, issued a notification, which gives an opportunity for projects that have violated conditions of the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification 2006 to be brought into compliance. Under this notification, a process is laid down for all those projects that have started construction, operation, expansion, modernization or change of product mix, without obtaining an environmental clearance to now apply for an environmental clearance. They have the opportunity to seek these approvals within six months from the issue of the notification, i.e by September 15th.
There had been widespread criticism of the draft and final notification as well as a set of justification that has been given by the Ministry that have been discussed in Section 2 below.
This working paper is an attempt to understand the sectoral and geographical spread of all the applications submitted to the Ministry within three months of the notification being gazette. In the two sections, we deal with the backdrop under which the notification was passed and the debates it generated. In the third section we examine the data of the 207 applications received for a Terms of Reference between March 15th and June 15th 2017. And in the final
section of the study, we look at the implications of this data
This downloadable resource is a community paralegal case management form for tracking individual environmental justice cases in India.
For the first time we review here all available evidence on civil society-led legal empowerment efforts, defined as those that seek to increase the capacity of people to exercise their rights and to participate in processes of governing. To our knowledge this is the first review of its kind.
There is substantial evidence available on the impact of legal empowerment interventions. This review analyses 199 studies that address the results of a wide range of legal empowerment work. The studies cover interventions on every major continent, with Asia the most represented region, and draw data from evaluation methods including randomised control trials, surveys, interviews, and qualitative case studies.
The breadth and richness of this body of work suggest we should revisit previous perceptions that there is little evidence on what legal empowerment can achieve. The studies collected here not only provide a basis for understanding the accomplishments of prior work, but can inform the design of future programs and research initiatives.
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.