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[edit] Projects

This page gives an overview of the current activities. The following projects have been defined that will run during 2008, around the basic Strategy of the Microjustice Initiative.

1. Launching the MJI. This project has been finished in 2007. Deliverables have been: a first version of a MJ Initiative website; an official launch before international experts from the rule of law and law and development community; a first version of a strategic plan; an academic background paper; a communication package; and establishment with contacts with key actors in the field.
2. Establishing the MJI. This project deals with setting up the network organization that supports the country programs and projects, the product development, coordinates fund-raising, and the development of Microjustice Norms and Processes.com. The goal for 2008 is to set up an organization that will be capable to initiate and support 20 Microjustice programs or projects in different countries. Sponsor EAF/Stichting Dijkverzwaring. Budget 56.000 March 2009. Subprojects
   1. Second version website for Microjustice Initiative and communicationpackages for donors;
   2. Approach and set up relationships with key persons as ‘sponsors’ and advisory council
   3. System and communication network to initiate and facilitate local Microjustice projects
   4. Strategic plan/business plan for mainataining and developing network organization that is able to turn de development of Microjustice into an irreversible process with a growing and broad support. Sponsor MJ Initiative. Project Manager Maurits Barenderecht. Due November 15, 2008.
3. Beta versions of three Microjustice products for pilot Bolivia (internetinformation and support by MJ facilitators)Sponsor EAF. Budget 120.000. Project Manager ILA. March 2009:
   1. Birth certificates and identity papers
   2. Property registration and protection
   3. Family matters (alimony, inheritance, etc.)
4. Beta version handbook with best practices, swot analyis on the basis of the Pilot in Bolivia. Sponsor EAF 50.000. Project Manager ILA. March 2009.
5. Specifications and prototype/model MicrojusticeNormsandProcesses.com website. Sponsor EAF 40.000. Project Manager UvT/Jin Ho Verdonschot. March 2009.
6. Measuring Access to Justice. This project will deliver tools to measure the performance of microjustice services and other Paths to Justice. The costs, quality of the procedure, and the quality of the outcome will be made transparent from the perspective of the user. In this way, microjustice creates the tools for its own evaluation. Sponsor HILL. Budget 300.000 Project Manager Martin Gramatikov/UVT, see the Measuring Access to Justice website.
7. BoP Protocol Needs Assessment Malawi. Needs and capabilities assessment. Sponsor Tilburg University (Tisco). Project Manager Bureau FAQ. Budget 12.000
8. File MicrojusticeNormsandProcesses.com as entry. Google project 10 to the 100. Elevator pitch. Project Manager Jin Ho Verdonschot. Sponsor Tilburg University. 20 October 2008.
9. Youtube film of 30 sec. Project Manager Emmie van Halder. Sponsor Tilburg university. 20 October 2008. Budget 15.000.

[edit] Planned Projects

The following projects have been defined, but are waiting for resources. They are under consideration by sponsors, or looking for people (see also Work Packages.

1. Streamlining internal communication. Securing IT Infrastructure. Project Manager Freek Kauffmann. 31 December 2008.
2. Template Microjustice Program (Country Organization and projects). Based on the building blocks for a handbook, a template for running programs and projects will become available. Besides the handbook, the template will contain a business plan for a microjustice program, as well as a template for a website.
3. Longer film, for other communication purposes. Sponsor Tilburg University. Project Manager Emmie van Halder. Budget secured 25.000.
4. Microjustice: Evidence Based Dispute System Design. Deliverables: 1. Theoretical framework (integrating insights from conflict research, best practices, and potential remedies for market/government failure. 2. Evaluations of dispute systems (formal, informal; from countries in different stages of development) according to this framework, and with a methodology for measuring the quality and costs of conflict management processes from the perspective of the user. 3. First handbook on evidence- based dispute-system-design. Sponsor NWO (under consideration). Project Manager ? Budget 600.000.
5. Betaversion MicrojusticeNormsandProcesses.com with norms for 4 standard problems, 5 jurisdictions. Testing. Sponsor (EZ, City of The Hague, Under consideration).
6. Businessmodel for supply of information, maintaining, and financing MicrojusticeNormsandProcesses.com, based on newest insights on open source (wiki), comparative legal research, and financing models for websites. Sponsor (EZ, City of The Hague, Under consideration).
7. Microjustice Facilitators: Toolkit Village Elder. Sponsor (EZ, City of The Hague, Under consideration).

[edit] Initiatives

1. Microjustice Bolivia. In the process of serving clients in accordance with the principles of Microjustice, experience is gathered about their needs, the best practices of delivering legal services that suit their needs, and about ways to reach economies of scale. This initiativet (under the responsibility of International Legal Alliances (ILA)and Microjusticia Bolivia) has the following main tasks and deliverables:
   1. Developing pilot products
   2. That will be available on a pilot website with norms and processes that are transparent to clients and facilitators (see also 7)
   3. Developing a pilot network of Microjustice Facilitators
   4. Developing a handbook that documents the process of setting up a Microjustice program, lists the experiences during the product development that will be a building block for a Microjustice Program template
2. Microjustice Program in the Republics of former Yugoslavia. This is a successful cross border legal aid program that already applied many Microjustice guidelines, such as achieving economies of scale, and that will develop a next line of products and services adapted to the Microjustice approach during 2008. ILA.
3. Microjustice Peru. ILA
4. Microjustice Programs in Other Countries In the course of 2008, other projects may be started. Several NGO's and even governments have expressed their interest in starting such projects.
5. Supporting Research and Base of the Pyramid Approach. This initiative is still in the process of being formed. At present, the following issues have been defined as urgent: the business model and distribution system for facilitators, the training of facilitators, and the pricing system that should be used, as well as the process of product development and innovation. Resources that will become available during 2008 include the students and researchers that form the Microjustice-BOP Lab Master Thesis Project. It is highly likely that more projects will follow, because the Benelux Base of the Pyramid Lab of Tilburg University, TISCO (Tilburg Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Civil Law and Conflict Resolution Systems) and specialists in Development Economy from this university see microjustce as a very promising research topic.
6. Political Awareness This initiative has not yet started. It will deal with issues such as awareness raising in respect to access to justice issues, implementing microjustice in post-conflict arrangements, integrating in political agenda’s, and pressing (institutions to change in order to improve access to justice