Work Packages
From MicroJustice
We look for people who can take up, or contribute to, the following tasks. These could be topics for a master thesis, for an overseas internship, for a three week intensive contribution to Microjustice, or for a one year assignment for a person wanting to devote part of his time to Microjustice. If you are interested in these tasks, please contact the persons mentioned on the pages as coordinators, or contact us via the official website or via communications@microjustice.org.
These tasks are excellent opportunities to develop your skills, and your knowledge. You can be certain your problem solving capabilities will develop as well, because there will be many issues to solve as regards practicalities, funding, language, but we can assist you with that as well.
These tasks are the ones that we thought of. There are certainly things you would want, or know how to contribute. People perform best, and derive more satisfaction from their work, if they define it in a way fitting their personal goals, ambitions, or ideas. So feel free to define your own contribution! On this wiki, or in interaction with one of us.
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[edit] Best practices dispute resolution
The goal of these projects is to collect experiences regarding a program or procedure in a developing country. They require visiting a dispute resolution program, or participants in a procedure. You will see the law in action. You will develop and use a protocol in order to systematically describe the strengths and the weaknesses of the procedure for each of the essential elements of a dispute system. You will also make best practices from other projects/programs available to the stakeholders in an interactive learning process.
Your description will be reported to stakeholders, and become available for the public. The best practices and other learnings will be integrated with experiences from other programs/procedures, for the time being through this wiki. The following programs or procedures could be described:
- Facilitadores Rurales Nicaragua.
- Para-legal advice offices South Africa.
- Programs of Open Society in Eastern European Countries regarding criminal defense.
- Advice by the Juridisch Loket in the Netherlands.
[edit] Best practices identity registration
Similar issues arise in relation to an essential element of access to justice: access to an identity as a person that is trusted by others. Here, best practices are in the process of being described by International Legal Alliances for:
- Bolivia.
- Peru.
[edit] Civil code 2.0
See also MicrojusticeNormsandProcesses.com How will a civil code of the future, making use of all the options of internet technology, look like? Providing essential legal information to users of the dispute system is one of the challenges Microjustice faces. Here, you can contribute in several ways.
- Develop the interface. How would a web civil code look like? See the clickable demo that we are working on (click on Going Rates).
- Which issues are the most essential (conflict, distributive) issues in each of the relationships that matter most to people:
- family
- work
- land use
- neighbour
- business relationship
- buyer-seller of goods/services?
- See also under objective criteria.
[edit] Best practices five essential elements dispute system
A dispute system enables people to perform five essential tasks: meet, talk, share, decide and stabilize. What are best practices for providing each of these elements?
- Meet
- Talk
- Share
- Decide
- Stabilize
[edit] Best practices business models
Microjustice is not only a matter of defining essential services, but also how to deliver them in an an affordable way. What are the most promising models for doing business for providing essential services? How do these services link to other services? For:
- Neutral facilitators
- Local customary justice providers (informal courts)
- Tramitadores (helpers with paperwork)
- Attorneys, others?
The following two projects are already in the process of being carried out:
- Business Plan for Microjustice Program The goal of this project is to develop a business plan for the medium long term for the Fundacion Microjusticia Bolivia. And for Microjustice programs more in general.
- Business Case for Microjustice Facilitators Here the goal is to develop the business model for Microjustice Facilitators, building on the experiences of the Pilot Program in Bolivia.
[edit] Objective Criteria
Objective criteria are needed to settle distributive issues (sharing), see also Civil Code 2.0.
- Literature review problem area. Property rights.
- Literature review elements conflict systems.
- Collecting objective criteria. Property rights.
[edit] Other projects
- Needs and capabilities studies.
- Context for program.
- What should a facilitator know and what are his essential abilities?
- What should he have in his toolbox?
A needs and capability study is now in the process of being carried out in Malawi.
[edit] Awareness raising and communication
We need help with various elements of our communication strategy.
- Refining our communication strategy. For this, we look for people with experience in defining communication strategies.
- Writing texts for webpages: informative, challenging, to the point, in excellent English (through your own skills, or by using perfect editing services).
- Wiki supervision. If you have good wiki skills, helping us to organize this wiki would be very helpful.
- Publications in newspapers (op-ed articles).
- Publications in law journals.
- Before 20 October 2008, we plan to file [MicrojusticeNormsansProcesses.com] for Google's competition for the idea that helps the world most, see Project 10 to the 100. For this, we need help with organizing a YouTube film of 30 seconds, that expresses the idea. We plan to make a longer film, for other communication activities.
[edit] Organization
- Facilitating projects/work packages and coaching people. The people who perform tasks, often as a volunteer, also need practical assistance. Their work needs to be linked to the work of others. They need coaching during their assignments, so you may be available for them through Skype when they are abroad.
- Project management: bigger and smaller projects are often carried out by specialists. Managing, supervising and monitoring such projects is an important task, and not something every specialist has the skills for.
- Meetings and interactive seminars are an important way to disseminate know how. Organizing these seminars is an important task.
