Improved Quality, Capacity and Sustainability of Districts paralegal services

The project objective was to strengthen the capacities of the paralegals and paralegal organizations in order to improve women and children’s rights protection in Geita Region by the end of 2020. The goal of the project sought to solve the problem of inadequate legal aid provision system in Geita by strengthening the capacities of the paralegals organizations or units, improving vulnerable groups, poor people, women rights protection, solidifying collaborations with local government authorities, empowering communities legally and increasing the sustainability of legal aid services. The project was implemented in partnership with New Light Children Center Organization (NELICO) with the generous funding of Legal Service Facility (LSF). The outcomes achieved by the projects are (1) vulnerable groups, women and poor people have easy access to legal aid services through empowered paralegal units, and (2) improved capacity of the paralegal organizations or units to provide quality free legal aid services to clients within Geita Region (including Geita, Bukombe, Chato, Mbogwe and Nyang’hwale districts), the operational areas of the project; (3) Local government authorities are working collaboratively with the empowered paralegals/paralegal centers towards providing a safe and friendly environment through functional legal aid provision structures; and (4) Legal aid services provisions to the project areas are continuous and functionally effective through empowered paralegals and their respective organizations. The project period implementation was four years from 2017 to 2020.