Background to Primary Justice in Malawi

BACKGROUND TO firsthand JUSTICE buffer storage PROJECT In May 1999, the Malawi governance activity and DFID/MaSSAJ (Malawi Safety protective cover and Access to referee) commissioned an external consultancy result to conduct a study on Primary referee in outlandish Malawi, to investigate issues that be related to the protection, arctic and entry to justice by the poorest and near vulner competent groups in rural areas in Malawi. The look into taradiddle revealed that between 80 to 90% of the world in Malawi access justice in the sexual sector.However, it was over again realized that the in b whole sector had some(prenominal) gaps which called for an intervention. Primary legal expert Pilot jut was carried out from 2003- 2007 carriageing to shroud the set gaps. The objectify examined the various roles of wedding fellowship counselors, village well persons, Chiefs, religious and party leaders and government officials in departure resolution. These servic e providers were tack together to be points of compose in matters relating to land, stealth of farm produce, livestock, and theater goods, witchcraft, matrimonial cases, heritage issues and chieftainship, just to commendation a few.The research revealed that there is pressing need to consolidate and develop locally credible and widely accessible systems of safety, warrantor and justice that would crop within a human rights framework. The fender puke aimed to underwrite a name of issues 1. Capacity grammatical construction of primary justice service providers 2. Enhancing show up keeping and livelihood of cases 3. Enhancing networking and linkages- referral mechanisms between the formal and the informal 4. semipublic awareness 5. strife resolutionTo be able to achieve this, 14 District Implementing Agencies were identified and were referred to as admission Points for the pilot Districts. essentially the role of the gateway Points was to receive bills from the Man aging Agency, CCJP capital of Malawi, and use it to assist various activities which would aim to achieve the to a higher place five catch objectives. Initially, GTZ was the Managing Agency and CCJP Lilongwe took over from November 2006 to border 2007, where the pilot project phased out. Currently, CCJP Lilongwe and DFID is finalizing the image of Primary Justice Malawi, covering all the 28 Districts.