Project title: “Strengthening the System of Transparency, Effectiveness and Impartiality in the Albanian Courts, through Improving the Quality of Representation in Trial and Increasing the Ability of Civil Society in Monitoring and Addressing These Issues”.”.
The objective of the Project is: to contribute to the improvement of the quality in the delivery of justice, through the promotion of transparency, effectiveness and impartiality in the Albanian courts.
The effectiveness of justice system professionals, the need to increase effectiveness by improving the quality of representation in court as well as by improving transparency, impartiality and respecting legal ethics.The strategies that are proposed are summarized as follows:
The following activities will consist of performing several activities, the fulfillment of the results of which will contribute to the realization of the project’s objective.
Providing free legal aid to people in need (women) Issues related to: family matters (marriage settlement, child custody, alimony), domestic violence matters and protection through immediate protection orders and protection orders; issues related to conflicts at work, issues of protection of the rights of victims of violent crimes, in particular victims of human trafficking, issues of protection against discrimination for various reasons, civil lawsuits in the criminal process, lawsuits for compensation for damage in the civil process, lawsuit for the division of marital property.
This activity will increase the access of abused women to the justice system. Through this activity, several issues will be identified and as a result, recommendations will be provided regarding the transparency, effectiveness and impartiality of the justice system. This activity will be done by a qualified lawyer who is currently employed by WFE.
Monitoring of 60 court sessions in Elbasan Judicial District Court. This activity will be carried out by students
Writing the monitoring results.
The organization of the Round Table in Elbasan with 20-30 participants – judges, of the Shkodër Judicial District Court, other professionals of the justice system, NGOs in Elbasan and representatives of the visual and written media will get to know the issues identified by the report monitoring and relevant recommendations. The remarks, discussions and suggestions of the participants will serve the group of experts for giving the final form of the monitoring report. The remarks, discussions and suggestions of the participants will also serve the lobbying process that will be carried out by each organization in the coalition for the fulfillment of the recommendations that have emerged from the monitoring report.
Publicizing the findings and recommendations of the monitoring report in print and visual media. The findings and recommendations of the report will be published in the print media and will be made public in the visual media. The three organizations in the coalition have a good cooperation with the visual and written media and this will serve to publicize the findings and recommendations of the monitoring report.
In the form attached to this application, please list the results to be achieved and the indicators you will use to measure success. In addition to quantitative indicators, you can suggest other ways to measure success or impact.
Project results: