The Asia Foundation

Promoting enhanced citizen access to justice by providing fellowships for Thai-Muslim students from the Deep South to study law.

Local Partner:

Muslim Attorney Center

Managing technical inputs to improve the performance of Indonesia's courts, prosecutors, and human rights institutions to improve access to justice for Indonesians.

Contributing to improved government commitment and capacity to adhere to standardized administrative procedures, empowering citizens to participate in and influence the government decisions that affect their daily lives. Strengthening judicial practice with regard to intellectual property rights protection. Assisting the Shenzhen Environmental Protection Bureau to develop and test detailed guidelines and practical mechanisms for implementing the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Environmental Protection Regulation and increasing awareness and capacity of business and citizen representatives to participate in the environmental decision-making process.

Local Partner:

Administrative Law Research Association of China Law Society; Center for Public Participation Studies and Support; Lanzhou University Law School; Nanjing University of Technology Law School; Northwest University of Politics and Law Administrative Law School; Shenzhen Academy of Environmental Science; Supreme People's Court

A visiting delegation from China's Supreme People's Court consisting of six judges who were in Washington, DC to take part in a study tour focused on highlighting key international experiences and best practices in implementing state compensation laws.

Supporting revision of China's Administrative Reconsideration Law.

Local Partners:

China University of Politics and Law

Assessing implementation of the amended State Compensation Law and Administrative Litigation Law. Increasing citizen awareness and access to legal services for state compensation and administrative review cases. Developing and testing independent review mechanisms for state compensation and administrative review cases.

Local Partners:

Administrative Law Research Association; Beijing Impact Law Firm; China University of Political Science and Law; Heilongjiang University Law School; Legal Aid Centers; Northwest University of Political Science and Law; Shanxi University Law School; South China University of Technology Law School; Southwest University of Political Science and Law; State Council Legislative Affairs Office; Supreme People's Court; Zhengzhou University

Providing a new generation of Indonesian law students with more knowledge, skills, and incentives to pursue a career in public service. Contributing to justice sector reform efforts by increasing collaboration among law schools, civil society organizations, and justice sector institutions.

Local Partners:

Kemitraan – the Partnership for Governance Reform; Law Faculty Airlangga University; Law Faculty Gadjah Mada University; Law Faculty Hasanuddin University; Law Faculty University of Indonesia; Law Faculty Padjajaran University; Law Faculty University of North Sumatra; Law Faculty Sriwijaya University; Law Faculty Udayana University; University of Washington Asian Law Center

Supporting an assessment of how citizens' petitions are received and processed by relevant government agencies to inform the development of decrees guiding the implementation of the Law on Complaints.

Local Partner:

Government Inspectorate

Strengthening the enforcement of human rights and the rule of law in the Philippines by promoting respect for human rights and freedoms, and progressively securing their effective recognition and observance. Protecting human rights of citizens in law and in reality through improved monitoring of violations and prosecuting human rights violations through capacity building for better investigation, prosecution, and adjudication of cases.

Local Partners:

Ateneo Human Rights Center; ABS-CBN News Channel; Campaigns and Grey, Inc.; Commission on Human Rights; Center for Emergency Aid and Response; DAKILA- Philippine Collective for Modern Heroism; Department of Justice; Diaz; Parreno and Caringal Law Office; Lawyers League for Liberty; Medical Action Group, Inc.; Social Weather Stations; Task Force Detainees of the Philippines, Inc.; Upholding Life and Nature, Inc.; Vera Files, Inc.

Building upon ongoing efforts to improve access to justice for Lao citizens. Continuing to strengthen legal aid and education through multiple avenues: providing legal aid for poor and rural citizens; improving the services and capabilities of the Lao Bar Association; increasing understanding of laws, rights, and the legal system; strengthening the effectiveness of grassroots justice delivery; and enhancing cooperation and collaboration among government institutions, civil society organizations, and legal aid providers. Supporting the Law Committee of the National Assembly to provide legal dissemination in Attapu, Sekong, and Salavanh provinces and a workshop to interpret five laws: the law on penal code; law on drugs; law on criminal procedure; law on civil procedure; and law on labor.

Local Partners:

Lao Bar Association; Law Committee of the National Assembly Ministry of Justice

Participation in the judicial reform conference in Toronto, Canada.

Local Partner:

Supreme Court of Nepal

Supporting the institutionalization of anti-corruption reforms within key government ministries and line agencies and promoting greater accountability and transparency in the courts.

Local Partners:

Cabinet Secretariat; Capital City Land Authority; General Agency for Specialized Inspection; General Authority for State Registration; General Prosecutor's Office; Human Rights Center for Citizens; Independent Authority Against Corruption; Legal Research Center; Mongolian Association of Local Authorities; Mongolian Employers' Federation; Mongolian Information Development Association; Open Academy; President's Office; Supreme Court

Supporting two public consultation workshops on the draft Law on Access to Information.

Local Partner:

Ministry of Justice

Supporting a comprehensive update of the National Assembly's Dự Thảo Online, a website portal dedicated to gathering public review and feedback of draft laws and ordinances into a more user-friendly information and policy support instrument.

Local Partner:

Office of the National Assembly

Increasing understanding and awareness of the Afghan labor law and international labor standards within the ministry, other government institutions at the national and provincial levels, civil society organizations, and Afghan society.

Conducting a retrospective review of interventions in the justice sector over the last 12 years in order to identify lessons learned to inform current programming.

Strengthening the prosecution of human traffickers in Laos by improving the skills of Lao law enforcement, social service providers, and community groups, and improving coordination among these actors to enable them to more effectively prosecute traffickers and protect victims' rights.

Local Partner:

Lao Women's Union

Strengthening collaboration between The Asia Foundation and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) in order to provide effective development assistance in the Asia-Pacific region in sectors of mutual interest including governance, law and justice, gender, and economic development. Engaging in strategic-level dialogues to identify future work priorities and developing a framework for further programming.

Training course in criminal law for judges and legal practitioners from Pakistan.

Local Partners:

Judiciary in each province

Empowering communities who are affected by economic land concessions and fishery violations in Kampong Chhnang province to protect their rights to livelihoods; Providing support to the Peace-Building Network to strengthen its organizational capacity and advocacy efforts.

Empowering communities in two provinces to protect the rights to livelihoods that are affected by economic land concessions through the organization of local women and youth groups, strengthening community networks, raising rights awareness, and linking community networks with national-level advocacy.

Fourteen-person delegation representing provincial and municipal governments and universities in China to participate in a two-week administrative law seminar at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Administrative Law Research Association of China Law Society; Administrative Law School of Northwest University of Politics and Law; Center for Public Participation Studies and Supports; Georgetown University; Lanzhou University Law School, Nanjing University of Technology Law School; The Research Foundation of the State University of New York.

China administrative law and procedure program providing support for Chinese and U.S. institutions aimed at strengthening official commitment to and compliance with administrative law and procedure and empowering citizens to access administrative procedural rights in China; Training for government officials on administrative law and procedure; Domestic study tour and pilots in Gansu Province, Jiangsu Province, and Xi'an municipality to assist local government officials with implementing public participation and open government information mechanisms.

Investigative news reporting on cases involving southern unrest; Training workshop for Malay-language citizen reporters.

Desk review on alternative dispute resolution and access to justice.

Road shows in 60 universities and colleges across the country to raise awareness among students of extrajudicial killings, torture, and enforced disappearances in the Philippines.

Participation by the former Chief Justice of Delhi and Madras High Court to speak at the 2010 convocation of the Bar Association president.

Nationwide broadcast of 40 one-hour radio shows dramatizing and discussing human rights violations—particularly extrajudicial killings, torture, and enforced disappearances.

Encouraging, training, and mobilizing human rights organizations to share a common database on human rights violations for the purpose of stronger advocacy.

Coalition of 21 non-governmental human rights organizations focusing on serious human rights violations by coordinating investigation and advocacy activities among coalition members.

Investigating human rights violations relating to land and natural resources disputes; Providing legal representation and material assistance to the victims of such violations.

Monitoring and investigating human rights violations from its Phnom Penh office and 12 provincial offices by providing legal and material assistance to victims, monitoring prison conditions, and protecting prisoners’ rights; National advocacy on important human rights issues through research papers, media publicity, and interventions with relevant government institutions.

Enhancing the role of the Parole Office and Parole Board to administer alternative sentencing in Indonesia; Supporting revision of the Law on Corrections; Capacity building for prison staff; Implementing a pilot project in Jakarta.

Nationwide roundtable meetings with owners and news managers of media outlets and production of a monograph to promote strategies in enhancing safety of media workers; Production of a video to contextualize the discussion of human rights in the Philippines.

Mediation skills training for members of community mediation boards in the Northern and Eastern provinces; Stakeholder workshops in support of community mediation boards in the Northern and Eastern provinces.

Tracking the implementation of the Administrative Litigation Law at the national level; Legislative drafting meetings and development of policy recommendations.

Supporting meetings on Administrative Reconsideration Law revision and related study tour to Taiwan; International workshop literature review and final publication and policy recommendations; Research project on China’s citizen redress system, including representation of “impact legal aid” cases in the area of administrative law, provision of legal consultation services, case studies, and roundtable discussions on handled cases.

Exchange program on administrative procedure law for legal scholars and practitioners in mainland China and Taiwan.

Nationwide validation and consultation workshops on the implementing rules and regulations or IRR of the Anti-Torture Law; Training on Standard Query Language or SQL (a language for querying or modifying data and managing databases) and Pentaho (a web-based reporting application) for CHR personnel to enable them to utilize the Martus-Based Executive Information System.

Providing legal representation in high-profile cases, as well as legal training to vulnerable communities.

Research on land-related issues concerning internally displaced persons in the Northern Province.

Training and technical support to develop a team of court-certified Pattani-Malay translators; Curriculum development for court interpreter training.

Empowering communities in five provinces through organizing women and youth groups to engage with local authorities in an attempt to address fishery violations and incidents of land grabbing.

Formulation of a trainer’s guide for the orientation program for new prosecutors and trainers’ training using the guide in Metro Manila, Cebu, and Cagayan de Oro.

Producing a training manual on forensic evidence collection; Publishing a manual on labor law.

Training on the use of social networking sites, blogging, microblogging, web tools and applications, live streaming, and mobile activism for NGOs to publicize their human rights issues on the Internet.

Extending legal aid services through paralegals to augment the limited number of private lawyers for mediation and litigation support.

Providing and improving legal services to vulnerable populations in underserved and isolated villages across the country.

Community-oriented policing (COP) training for community leaders, and capacity building of Community Policing Councils to lead monthly problem-solving forums and implement COP initiatives in Baucau Sub-District, Baucau.

Strengthening police reform in West Java; Assistance to community-oriented policing working groups; Training community police officers in human rights and community-oriented policing.

Developing a forensic training curriculum for medical professionals working in the southern border provinces.

Restaging of the monologue Mrs. B, a story about a family’s search for their kin Jonas Burgos, abducted in 2007.

Study to examine the current legal framework and practices in handling land-related complaints and petitions since the Land Law 2003 came into effect, including an assessment of actual law implementation in nine selected provinces; Findings on legal issues, practices models, and mechanisms to resolve land-related petitions presented at three provincial round-table discussions.

Tracking local implementation of the amended State Compensation Law and Administrative Litigation Law; Increasing citizen access to legal services for state compensation and administrative review cases; Public education and outreach.

Supporting efforts to put open government legislation into practice in Hunan. Project activities include developing the capacity of government agencies and officials, developing and disseminating innovative public education materials, providing legal aid, developing open government procedures and mechanisms through county pilots, and documenting and disseminating experiences and best practices.

Empowering the indigenous communities of 15 provinces through community organizing, training on legal rights and legal awareness, and supporting their advocacy efforts.

Enhancing public participation in the selection of the new leader of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK); Developing a fundraising strategy to ensure organizational sustainability.

Publication of a book to enhance public awareness of the importance of legal aid, as it relates to the Bill on Legal Aid that is before Parliament.

Two consultative workshops on election laws in Thanh Hoa province and Da Nang city—Electing the National Assembly Deputies and the People’s Councils Deputies at the Same Time: Issues to be Resolved and Improving The Legal Status of the Unified Election of the National Assembly Deputies and People’s Councils Deputies: A Step Forward in the Renovation Process of the Election Regime in Vietnam.

Study of the current mechanism for handling administrative complaints in Vietnam; Inputs to the draft Law on Petition; Disseminating findings to a wide range of government authorities involved in the drafting process to serve as a basis for public policy debates.

Producing a training DVD to guide military personnel in performing law enforcement functions in accordance with human rights principles.

Monitoring and reporting on the state and performance of the courts and other judicial institutions; Conducting and circulating independent legislative analysis to enhance public debate on draft legislation; Disseminating reports on judicial sector development and community outreach.

Twenty-four citizen-police discussion forums as part of community policing pilot projects in the districts of Kandy and Moneragala.

Program activities focusing on land law impact litigation and the convening of case study workshops as part of a three-year project supporting research on China’s land law system.

Training workshop for government officials and judges on land law and regulations.

Improving the delivery of legal aid services in land law cases and training of government officials on land laws.

Pilot activities to test draft land legislation; Training for officials and judges; Awareness-raising activities; Providing free legal services in land law cases.

Pilot activities to test the draft land legislation; Providing free legal services in land law cases.

Program activities on land law legislative drafting work; Pilot to test the draft land legislation; Maintaining a land law documentation center and the land law website; Awareness-raising activities; Providing free legal services in land law cases.

Comprehensive legal aid and legal education program to improve access to justice (particularly for poor and rural citizens) and increase understanding of laws and rights under Lao law among citizens and professionals in the legal field; Core support for the professional development of the Lao Bar Association.

Forum for dialogue on the current status and future course of justice sector reforms at the district level in Pakistan. Participants included members of the police, bar, district judiciary, civil society, law schools, prosecutors, and representatives of donor agencies.

Roundtable discussions among human rights lawyers to find solutions for more effective investigation and criminal prosecution of human rights violations.

An in-depth study of more than 300 incidents of extra-judicial killings from 2001-2010.

Assessment carried out by consultants in selected districts of Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, and KP to identify major obstacles to judicial efficiency.

Strengthening police reform in Bali; Assisting community-oriented policing working groups; Training community police officers in human rights and community-oriented policing.

Publication of the Manual on Civil and Administrative Remedies as Instruments of Accountability for Human Rights Violations and Manual on Remedies for Human Rights Violations.

A market assessment of the demand and supply for lawyers in Timor-Leste, providing guidance on current and prospective employable skills and knowledge and current options in legal education.

Human development report for the Eastern Province as a resource for strengthening engagement between civil society leaders and policymakers on issues of development, democratization, and peacebuilding in the Eastern Province.

Capacity-building trainings for municipal health officers in human rights hotspots in Bicol (Albay and Sorsogon), Quezon, and Leyte.

Scholarships for legal aid lawyers completing compulsory training at the Judicial Training Centre; Cooperation with the training centre to provide short-term training for private lawyers.

Technical assistance and consultation for the Ministry of Justice to develop a law regulating government funding of legal aid; Civic education activities, with the Association of East Timorese Lawyers, on the impact of the proposed legal aid policy.

Establishing community mediation boards in the Eastern and Northern Provinces; Developing a monitoring system and supporting the evaluation of the community mediation boards program.

Expert meeting between the drafting committee and the National Assembly (NA) Committees and their respective technical departments and a consultative workshop with NA deputies, both on the Access to Information draft law.

Technical assistance and training to strengthen implementation of the labor law and labor administration; Public awareness of the new labor law.

Three fellowships for three-year legal studies programs; Legal assistance for citizens affected by violence and human rights violations in the southern border provinces.

Building a network of influential religious and secular leaders to promote social justice, gender equity, democracy, and peace in the Eastern Province. 

Demonstrate a successful community policing model to improve public safety, law and order for strengthened governance in vulnerable areas, and to provide a stronger, more responsive community-based policing network, particularly in sparsely governed and ungoverned spaces in the Northwestern region of the country.

Tracking the implementation of the amended State Compensation Law and Administrative Litigation Law; Increasing citizen access to legal services for state compensation and administrative review cases; Public education and outreach; Developing and testing independent review mechanisms for state compensation and administrative review cases.

Upgrading the website Du Thao Online to increase citizens’ access to information about the National Assembly and Vietnam’s lawmaking process, and their participation in the lawmaking process.

Community radio program on human rights and legal education in Southern Thailand.

Participation in the “4th Asia Pacific Judicial Reform Forum Meeting 2010” in Beijing and the “Asia Pacific Courts Conference” in Singapore to pursue better coordination and cooperation with international organizations and neighboring countries in order to raise the Lao judicial system to international standards.

Deputizing civil society human rights workers as Commission on Human Rights (CHR) representatives who can assist victims of human rights violations when CHR personnel are not available.

Producing a training video on civil and administrative remedies to serve as tools to exact accountability for human rights violations.

Developing the Multi-Sectoral Helpbook on Human Rights that will aid human rights defenders, investigators, prosecutors, and judges in reporting, investigating, prosecuting, and adjudicating cases of human rights violations.

Training workshop to develop an operational manual on forensic medicine for medical professionals working in the southern border provinces.

Pilot activities in Hubei Province; Publication of Public Participation Watch and maintenance of related website; Research and publication of four books on public participation; Workshop for a provincial-level pilot in Hubei Province.

Pilot capacity-building project in Bayan County, Heilongjiang Province to address opportunities and challenges in local economic and social development by introducing participatory budget concepts and methodology, as well as establishing and institutionalizing mechanisms and procedures for public participation in local budget reform.

Pilot activities on public participation in Chongqing to bring public participation mechanisms into the local legislative process.

Pilot activities on complaint letters and visits; Publication of project results and experiences; Convening a closing workshop.

Drafting and dissemination of model rules and procedures on public participation; Follow-up activities related to the drafting of model rules and procedures on public participation—including a workshop to discuss, refine, and finalize the model rules and share innovative mechanisms and experiences on public participation.

Series of public consultation activities in order to support the drafting committee to refine the current Draft Law on Administrative Litigation.

Review of interventions in the justice sector over the last 12 years to inform current programming.

Nationwide survey on citizen’s knowledge of basic human rights.

Training on the protection of crime scenes from forensic contamination; Training to promote access to justice and human rights in southern Thailand; Producing a CD for use in justice and human rights training programs.

Producing and disseminating a documentary film on crime-scene protection.

Tamil-language training for Sinhala speaking police officers posted in the Eastern and Northern Provinces by the police in-service centers in Kalutara, Kurunegala, Anuradhapura, Vavuniya, Jaffna, Trincomalee, and Batticaloa.

A partnership program to exchange skills and knowledge on curriculum and pedagogy; Developing first-ever legal texts based on Timorese laws, provided in English, Tetum, and Portuguese.

Study program for 14 Chinese delegates on U.S. administrative law and procedure, including a short course at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC and a one-day visit to Richmond, Virginia as one component of a multi-year administrative law reform project. Delegation members included legal scholars and government officials from Jiangsu, Shaanxi, and Gansu Provinces. 

Developing judicial interpretation on the amended State Compensation Law (SCL); Training judges on judicial interpretation of the amended SCL.

Training on human rights investigation and documentation for civil society human rights workers; Paralegal training workshop on the use of civil and administrative remedies for human rights workers.

Technical assistance to the Attorney General’s Office of Indonesia to support bureaucratic reform that improves transparency and effectiveness, particularly through personnel systems and information systems.

Technical assistance to community-oriented policing working groups in East Java; Training community police officers in human rights and community-oriented policing.

Promoting civic values and a community-oriented policing approach among cadets of the National Police Academy; Technical assistance to enhance capacity for community-oriented policing in Central Java; Training community police officers in human rights and community-oriented policing.

Strengthening police reform in Salatiga and Semarang; Assisting community-oriented policing working groups; Training community police officers in human rights and community-oriented policing.

Technical assistance to the Supreme Court to manage change associated with its new 25-year Blueprint for Reform.

Trainings for National Assembly members to enhance their knowledge and skills in consulting NGOs and constituencies in the lawmaking process; Integrating this knowledge and skills into TCER’s formal training agenda.

Conducting Indonesia’s fourth Corruption Perception Index (CPI), which measures business people’s perception of corruption among local government officials in 50 cities.

Development and publication of the English translation of comics on the Writs of Amparo, Habeas Data, and Habeas Corpus.

Gathering public opinion through meetings, workshops, and roundtables for the development of an environmental tax law.

Legal-aid program to facilitate access to administrative justice for disadvantaged communities; Facilitating local government and civil society participation to promote social accountability tools to strengthen administrative justice in the Eastern Province.

Seminar to support researchers in designing and conducting research projects on the social and cultural history of Pattani.

A 2008 survey of citizen awareness and attitudes regarding law and justice in Timor-Leste and a public discussion of the results; Field work conducted by INSIGHT Consulting.

Performing arts training to community mediators.

Research study on Access to Justice in urban slums to understand the role of dispute resolution processes and improving access to assets for the urban poor.

Empowering communities in two provinces to protect the rights to livelihoods that are affected by economic land concessions through community organizing and rights awareness.

Administrative Law School of Northwest University of Politics and Law; Center for Public Participation Studies and Supports, Peking University; Lanzhou University Law School, Nanjing University of Technology Law School; The Research Foundation of the State University of New York, Georgetown University

China administrative law and procedure program providing support for Chinese and U.S. institutions aimed at strengthening official commitment to and compliance with administrative law and procedure, and empowering citizens to access administrative procedural rights in China; Training for government officials on administrative law and procedure; Domestic study tour and pilots in Gansu Province, Jiangsu Province, and Xi'an municipality to assist local government officials with implementing public participation and open government information mechanisms.

Legal assistance and community capacity building for tsunami affected community leaders.

Participation of two judicial reform advocates to attend the Asia-Pacific Judicial Reform Forum 2009 in Singapore.

Production and dissemination of a monograph on models of devolution of power in sub-national governments.

Public consultations to assist the National Parliament on the public review of the draft Law on Community Authorities.

Community-oriented policing programs to promote improved public security and reshape traditional police operational strategies by facilitating collaborative working relations between citizens and police.

Junior National Law Conference on post-war development and justice issues.

Tamil- and English-language training program for officers of the Sri Lankan armed forces.

Seminar and training to promote civic education through human rights and legal education for youth in southern Thailand.

Encouraging, training, and mobilizing human rights organizations to share a common database on human rights violations for the purpose of stronger advocacy.

Coalition of 21 non-governmental human rights organizations attending to serious human rights violations by coordinating advocacy activities among its coalition members.

Investigating human rights violations relating to land and natural resources disputes, as well as providing legal representation to the victims of such violations.

Monitoring and investigating human rights violations from its Phnom Penh office and 12 provincial offices by providing legal and material assistance to victims, monitoring prison conditions, and protecting prisoners' rights; National advocacy on important human rights issues through research papers, media publicity, and interventions with relevant government institutions.

Maintaining operations of four mediation centers; Developing an Advance Mediation Training Manual; Regional consultation meeting on the Mediation Act.

Online database on the killing of journalists and conducting two human rights trainings for journalists in the Visayas and Mindanao.

Mid-term results evaluation of the Strengthening Human Rights in the Philippines Program.

Study of the current mechanism for handling administrative complaints in Vietnam; Inputs to the draft Law on Petitions; Dissemination of findings to a wide range of government authorities involved in the drafting process to serve as a basis for public policy debates.

Comprehensive analysis of the performance of local legislatures and their ability to effectively draw up legislation and budgets.

Mediation skills training for members of community mediation boards in the Eastern and Northern Provinces; Stakeholder workshops in support of community mediation boards in the Eastern Province.

Sports matches coached by police to raise public awareness of community-oriented policing and strengthen relations between youth and police; Conflict prevention dialogues involving youth and police sports participants.

Conducting government-civil society trust building dialogues in Metro Manila and in Tacloban, Batangas, Davao, Bulacan, and Zamboanga to improve human rights; Forensic trainings for CHR investigators nationwide by the "Equipo Peruano de Antropologia Forense," Peru-based forensic investigators.

Empowering communities who are affected by economic land concessions and fishery violations in Kampong Chhnang province to protect their rights to livelihoods.

Providing legal representation in high-profile cases, as well as legal training to vulnerable communities.

Research study on a community-oriented policing program assessing perceptions and practices to inform development of a strategy to strengthen program effectiveness.

Engagement of the CORE president to facilitate government-civil society trust-building dialogues on human rights.

Empowering communities in five provinces through organizing women and youth groups to engage with local authorities in an attempt to address fishery violations and incidents of land grabbing.

Extending legal aid services through paralegals to augment the limited number of private lawyers through reaching out to larger number of community members for mediation and litigation support.

Providing and improving legal services to vulnerable populations in underserved and isolated villages across the country.

Community-oriented policing (COP) training for community leaders, and capacity building of Community Policing Councils to lead monthly problem solving forums and implement COP initiatives in Baucau Sub-District, Baucau.

Forensic trainings for Commission on Human Rights investigators nationwide.

Strengthening police reform in West Java by providing assistance to community-oriented policing working groups to enhance their capacity in implementing community-oriented policing, including program building, socialization, and recruitment; Training community police officers on human rights and community-oriented policing.

Continued support for commercial mediation in Kathmandu, Butwal, and Biratnagar.

Training in forensic science for medical professionals, and for paralegal volunteers in southern Thailand.

Public interest litigation to protect the rights of women, children, and the poor.

Continued support for a Central Legal Aid Unit and Regional Legal Aid Units in two districts.

Support for two Muslim women lawyers to attend the "Global Meeting for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family" in Malaysia.

Study to examine the current legal framework and practices in handling land-related complaints and petitions since the Land Law 2003 came into effect, including an assessment of actual law implementation in nine selected provinces; Findings on legal issues, practice models, and mechanisms to resolve land-related petitions to be presented at three provincial round-table discussions.

Participation of a staff member in the "40th Annual Study Session" of the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.

Support for putting open government legislation into practice in Hunan; Project activities include: training sessions for government staff and civil society representatives; developing, producing, and disseminating educational DVDs and other public education materials; continuing to provide legal aid and counseling to citizens; continuing county pilots; holding a mid-project workshop.

Empowering the indigenous communities of 15 provinces through community organizing, training on legal rights and legal awareness, and advocating on their behalf.

Development of an endowment fund concept that will allow the institutional sustainability of YLBHI in the future.

Producing a DVD training tool on law enforcement.

Monitoring and reporting on the state and performance of the courts and other judicial institutions; Conducting and circulating independent legislative analysis to enhance public debate on draft legislation; Dissemination of reports on judicial sector development and community outreach.

Internship program to support the judiciary and train 65 law students to assist pretrial detainees and their attorneys; Developing a computerized system to enhance police case monitoring and tracking; Training law enforcement on the new computer tracking system; Conducting coordination meetings between police and prosecutors.

Pilot community policing projects in Kandy and Moneragala Districts.

Program activities focusing on land law impact litigation and the convening of case study workshops as part of a three-year project supporting research on China's land law system.

Public surveys that measure implementation and enforcement of land laws, delivery of legal aid services in land rights cases, and training of government officials on land laws.

Pilot activities to test draft land legislation; Convening an annual legal aid workshop; Conducting land law awareness-raising activities; Convening a land law training workshop for officials and judges; Providing free legal services in land law cases.

Training workshop for government officials and judges on land laws and regulations.

Training workshop for government officials and judges on land laws and regulations; Second-year activities on land law legislative drafting work; Conducting a pilot to test the draft legislation; Maintaining a land law documentation center and the land law website; Conducting awareness-raising activities; Continuing to provide free legal services in land law cases.

A comprehensive legal aid and legal education program to improve access to justice, particularly for poor and rural citizens, and increase understanding of laws and rights under Lao law and the legal system among citizens and professionals in the legal field; Core support for the professional development of the Lao Bar Association.

Contributing to a wide-reaching survey on people's perceptions of access to justice in Lao PDR conducted by the Lao Bar Association (with support from the United Nations Development Programme).

Strengthening police reform in Bali through community-oriented policing programs in three districts; Local public advocacy for financing from the regional government to sustain community-oriented policing programs; Training community police officers on human rights and community-oriented policing.

District-level dialogues between civil society leaders and provincial and local government officials about development and human security issues in the Eastern Province.

Extending community mediation boards program to the Eastern and Northern Provinces.

Enabling the Ministry of Justice to improve the rule of law at the local level and to provide better legal services to communities by standardizing and disseminating information and laws for village mediation units; Publishing over 18,000 manuals on issues such as village dispute resolution, village mediation units, and legal collections on local level justice procedures.

Publishing public advocacy campaign materials on the new Nationality Act to assist undocumented tsunami survivors.

Three fellowships for a three-year law degree program; Providing legal aid to citizens affected by violence and human rights violations in the southern border provinces; Seminar on "Access to Justice for Affected People Resulting from Violence and Human Rights Violations in Southern Border Provinces of Thailand"; Training workshop for paralegal volunteers in southern Thailand.

Technical assistance to Timor-Leste National Parliament Committee A to arrange public consultations on proposed election laws.

Improvement of knowledge and policy related to community-policing in Timor-Leste; Public discussion of results of a nation-wide survey of more than 1,500 respondents; Field work conducted by INSIGHT Consulting.

Training programs for judges, justice sector personnel, and government attorneys.

Strategic review of the capacity and structure of the judiciary regarding case and court management.

Workshops for stakeholders to promote mediation alternatives and build the capacity of Nepal Mediators Society as a nationwide networking organization.

Continued support for public awareness campaign to strengthen court-annexed mediation in seven districts.

Community radio program on human rights and legal education in southern Thailand.

Training workshop for rescue volunteers and journalists on the protection of forensic evidence at crime scenes.

Workshops on extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in the first, eighth, eleventh, and twelfth judicial regions.

Tamil language training for Sinhalese police officers stationed in multi-ethnic districts.

Translation of Thai-language legal documents to the Pattani-Malay dialect.

Pilot activities in Hubei Province; Publication of "Public Participation Watch" and maintenance of related website; Research and publication of four books on public participation; Workshop for a provincial-level pilot in Hubei Province.

Pilot capacity-building project in Bayan County, Heilongjiang Province to address opportunities and challenges in local economic and social development by introducing participatory budget concepts and methodology, as well as establishing and institutionalizing mechanisms and procedures for public participation in local budget reform.

Pilot activities on complaint letters and visits, publication of project results and experiences, and convening a closing workshop.

National-level pilot to develop and test guiding procedural rules for public participation in national lawmaking through notice and comment, establishing data-processing techniques, publishing comments, and creating feedback mechanisms.

Pilot activities on public participation in Chongqing to bring public participation mechanisms into local legislative process.

Pilot activities in seven rural villages in Yanchi County, Nigxia Autonomous Region, to promote public participation in the utilization, management, and supervision of government poverty alleviation funds and developing sustainable livelihood projects.

Training workshops on public participation in administrative rulemaking for governmental officials across China using a training manual developed under the program.

Community mediation program in rural areas not served by the Ministry of Justice’s community mediation boards program.

Civic education training for communities in southern Thailand; Training to promote access to justice and human rights in southern Thailand; Producing materials and a Pattani-Malay language legal information website.

Radio program on rights and laws to promote justice and peace in southern Thailand.

Technical assistance to the Attorney General's Office of Indonesia to support reform of its organizational structure to improve both transparency and effectiveness, particularly through personnel systems and information systems; Technical assistance to improve training capacity.

Technical assistance to Community-Oriented Policing Working Groups in East Java, enhancing their organizational capacity and advocacy skills; Training for police officers stationed at the community level on human rights and skills in developing community-oriented policing.

Promoting of civic values and a community-oriented policing approach to third-year police cadets of the National Police Academy; Technical assistance to enhance the organizational capacity of community-oriented policing working groups in several districts in Central Java, including financial management, fundraising capacity, and public advocacy skills; Training for community police officers on human rights and community-oriented policing.

Strengthening police reform in Salatiga and Semarang by providing assistance to community-oriented policing working groups to enhance their capacity in implementing community-oriented policing, including program building, socialization, and recruitment; Training community police officers on human rights and community-oriented policing.

Legal information dissemination programs targeting rural and remote communities in Timor-Leste.

Technical expertise and support from a senior justice sector advisor (a career prosecutor) to advise the Indonesian Attorney General's Office on reform under the Justice Sector Reform Program. NCSC is a U.S.-based organization of the 50 state court systems.

Technical assistance to the Supreme Court of Indonesia to assess the progress of lower courts in implementing regulations on transparency and information; Technical assistance for the preparation of a new 25-year reform "Blueprint" and associated five-year and one-year implementation plans.

The "Supreme Court Appointments Watch" project.

Legal aid, meetings, and administrative support for Tsunami Legal Aid; Evaluation and audit of the Tsunami Legal Aid Project.

Providing legal aid outreach and multidisciplinary legal aid services to tsunami survivors.

Developing local human rights action plans for the cities of Naga and Calapan.

Legal aid program to facilitate access to administrative justice for disadvantaged communities in the Eastern Province.

Publication to raise awareness and understanding in the tsunami affected area on the revised Thai nationality law; Project to replicate the Mae-eye model for securing Thai nationality for citizens in the tsunami-affected area.

Training in forensic science for legal professionals in southern Thailand.

Pilot legal empowerment project with a focus on citizen participation in local water management committees.

Community rights protection training and the provision of legal aid to tsunami survivors.

Support to the Arbitration Council in its objective of hearing and resolving claims brought by unions and workers regarding labor rights violations by performing all managerial and technical functions, including overall management and administration, institutional development and capacity building, public awareness building and outreach, and development of legal support services.

Production and dissemination of a monograph on models of devolution of power in sub-national governments.

Case conference on extra judicial killings and enforced disappearances and their available remedies; Establishment of Multi-Sectoral Quick Reaction Teams in eight pilot areas in the Philippines.

Technical assistance to support reform of the Attorney General’s Office’s organizational structure to improve both transparency and effectiveness, particularly through personnel systems and information systems; Technical assistance to improve training capacity.

Community-oriented policing programs to promote improved public security and reshape traditional police management and operational strategies by facilitating collaborative working relations between citizens and police.

Participation of six lawyers to the “International Training Course in the Investigation and Prosecution of Extrajudicial Killings and Enforced Disappearances for Public Prosecutors, Ombudsman Lawyers, Military Lawyers, Professors and Practitioners in Mindanao: Lessons from The Hague, Latin America, and Beyond.”

Presentations on “Democracy, Economic Growth, and Rule of Law” by The Asia Foundation’s Senior Law Advisor and Assistant Director of Law Programs at a Brown Bag Luncheon Seminar for Advanced Studies on International Development, organized by the Foundation.

Technical assistance to the Surabaya Association of Community-Oriented Policing Working Groups, enhancing their organizational capacity and advocacy skills; Training for police officers stationed at the community level on human rights and skills in developing community-oriented policing.

Promotion of civic values and a community-oriented policing approach to third-year police cadets of the National Police Academy; Technical assistance to enhance the organizational capacity of community-oriented policing working groups in Yogyakarta, including financial management, fundraising capacity, and public advocacy skills; Training for community police officers on human rights and community-oriented policing.

Participation of 10 prosecutors from the Department of Justice to the “International Training Course in the Investigation and Prosecution of Extrajudicial Killings and Enforced Disappearances for Public Prosecutors, Ombudsman Lawyers, Military Lawyers, Professors and Practitioners in Mindanao: Lessons from The Hague, Latin America, and Beyond.”

Establishment of two new mediation centers; Support for two existing centers, and training of new and experienced mediators.

Enhancement of CMFR’s online database on the killing of journalists; A seminar on human rights reporting for 30 media practitioners from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.

Study of the current mechanism for handling administrative complaints in Vietnam; Inputs to the draft Law on Petition; Dissemination of findings to a wide range of government authorities involved in the drafting process to serve as a basis for policy debate and consideration through workshops; Raising public awareness about administrative complaints.

Exchange program involving scholars and practitioners on administrative procedure laws between mainland China and Taiwan.

Consultations and strategic planning with civil society organizations on the implementation of Martus human rights reporting system.

Specialized radio broadcasts arranged by the Judicial System Monitoring Program to reach new audiences, including women audiences, with limited or no education, across all districts.

Attendance to the 2008 Association for Asian Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO) Meetings at Canberra, Australia; Development of a legal medical protocol aimed to assist survivors of family and sexual violence.

Securing buy-in and cooperation with Directorate General of Corrections and prison heads; Conducting in-depth research in four prison facilities particularly related to rehabilitation aspects; Developing Blueprint for Prison Reform Agenda and implementing follow-up action plans.

Basic orientation seminar with emphasis on human rights for new prosecutors nationwide; Drafting of the Revised Manual for Prosecutors with a special section on human rights.

Collaboration in developing the first-ever Blueprint for Prison Reform Agenda which outlines the key challenges and strategic action plan to improve the correction service in Indonesia; Initiating the development of an electronic inmates database system which will provide information for the DGC in policymaking and supervision of correction services in 500 facilities in Indonesia.

Paralegal program that provides an extension of legal aid services through paralegals to augment the limited number of private lawyers. Paralegals collect civil cases, conduct case management, and record keeping.

Development of a manual and conduct of trainings for civil society on the use of forensic sciences in the investigation of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances.

Summing up conference, public forum, and case conference with lawyers aimed at consolidating the gains of a Regional Trial Court guilty verdict for a kidnapping and illegal detention case in Mindanao.

Continued support for commercial mediation in Kathmandu; Groundwork laid for new community mediation centers in Butwal and Biratnagar.

Public interest litigation to protect the rights of women, children, and the poor.

Establishment of a Central Legal Aid Unit and Regional Legal Aid Units in two districts.

Launching of the videos on the state of the Philippine Penal System.

Study to examine the current legal framework and practices in handling of land-related complaints and petitions; A review of legal documents relating to handling of land petitions since the Land Law 2003 came into effect; Assessment of actual law implementation in nine provinces; Three provincial round-table discussions to present findings and discuss best practices models and mechanisms to resolve land-related petitions.

First strategic planning workshop of the Juvenile Justice Network-Philippines Executive Committee; Training of  paralegal coordinators and distribution of Detainees Notebook in Negros Oriental Provincial Jail.

Support for putting open government legislation into practice in Hunan. Project activities include finalizing Open Government Information (OGI) Implementation Rule, training to develop the capacity of government agencies and officials, empowering the general public to access open government information and participate in open government processes, and demonstrating the effectiveness of Hunan’s open government system through county pilots.

Legal audit of pending cases of extrajudicial killings before Courts, Ombudsman, National Police Commission, Commission on Human Rights, Court Marshall, and other administrative bodies.

Monitoring and reporting on the state and performance of the courts and other judicial institutions; Dissemination of reports on judicial sector development; Conducting and circulating independent legislative analysis to enhance public debate on draft legislation.

Internship program to support the judiciary and train 50 law students to assist pretrial detainees and their attorneys; Research, consultations, and advocacy on the legal rights of Nepal’s traditionally marginalized communities in 15 districts.

Research, workshops, and seminars to promote the drafting of Thai legislation in support of public participation in policy formulation and monitoring.

Sponsorship for the session “Personal Law – Interaction between Syariah & Civil Laws,” at the 21st Lawasia Conference.

Program activities focusing on land law impact litigation and the convening of case study workshops as part of a three-year project supporting research on China’s land law system.

Baseline surveys and experts meetings for legislative drafting on land law, provision of legal services in land law cases, and the establishment and maintenance of a documentation center and web page on land law issues.

Public surveys that measure implementation and enforcement of land laws; Delivery of legal aid services in land rights cases; Training of government officials on land laws. Program partners include: Heilongjiang University, Inner Mongolia University, Lanzhou University, Nanjing University of Technology, Northwest University of Politics and Law, Shandong University, Sichuan University, Shanxi University, South China University of Technology, and Yunnan University.

Comprehensive legal aid and legal education program to improve access to justice, particularly for poor and rural citizens, and to increase understanding of laws and rights under Lao law and the legal system among citizens and professionals in the legal field.