Access to Justice | World Justice Project

Access to Justice needs are ubiquitous and go largely unmet globally, underscoring the need for comprehensive, people-centered approaches to improving justice services. These projects address systemic justice problems and strengthen justice governance, policies, and practices.

Finalists

Project	Country	Sub-Themes
Appui pour la Protection de l'Environnement et le Développement (APED); Mighty Earth; CED; ProForest Partnering to Ensure Their Rights: The accompaniment of local and indigenous communities near the Hevecam and Sudcam agro-industries	🇨🇲 Cameroon	Environmental Justice Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Do Bold Freedom for Our Sisters: ensuring the safe repatriation of trafficked women from Oman back to Sierra Leone	🇴🇲 Oman	Labor Rights Migration Women's Rights
Help a Child Burundi (on behalf of Building Bridges in Burundi consortium) Building Bridges in Burundi (BBB): a holistic approach to ensuring access to justice and dismantling a culture of impunity	🇧🇮 Burundi	Children and Youth Customary and Informal Justice Education
Initiatives for Dialogue and Empowerment through Alternative Legal Services Inc. (IDEALS) Tisya Hustisya: Facebook chatbot to ensure access to justice and human rights in the Philippines	🇵🇭 The Philippines	Labor Rights Technology Women's Rights
Kosovo Legal Services Company The First National Centralized Criminal Records System: Using data to improve criminal justice processes in Kosovo	🇽🇰 Kosovo	Criminal Justice Reform Open Data
Outland Denim, Precision Solutions Group, Nudie Jeans, Bossa Denim Sag Salim: Persistent due diligence in fashion industry supply chains beyond Tier 2	🇹🇷 Turkey	Labor Rights Migration
Poder Judicial del Estado de Hidalgo Indigenous Mediation: Creating a strategic model of mediation for indigenous peoples in Hidalgo	🇲🇽 Mexico	Customary and Informal Justice Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Shonaquip Social Enterprise (SSE) Equity Monitors: using digital technology to eliminate biases and discrimination against persons with disabilities and their families	🇿🇦 South Africa	Children and Youth Disability Rights

Honorable Mentions

Project	Country	Sub-Themes
Innovation for Justice at the Arizona Law and University of Utah School of Business; Emerge! Center Against Domestic Violence; Pima County Superior Court; Tucson City Court Arizona's Licensed Legal Advocate Pilot: authorizing non-lawyer community advocates to give legal advice with delivery of social services	🇺🇸 United States of America	Racial and Ethnic Minorities Women's Rights
Legal Development Network; International Renaissance Foundation (IRF); Ukrainian Access to Justice School of Practice Human Rights Friendly Community Program: conducting legal needs surveys through local initiatives to develop local justice solutions	🇺🇦 Ukraine	Customary and Informal Justice Women's Rights
The First Department The First Department: protecting the right to information in Russia	🇷🇺 Russia	Media and Journalism Political Process Monitoring
The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation: a formal framework for the protection of journalists and public interest journalism	🇲🇹 Malta	Media and Journalism Open Data