At Lemigo Hotel, Justice stakeholders held a meeting with different donors for an in-depth analysis of performance during the past fiscal year 2010/11 in the implementation of EDPRS results and policy matrix and an assessment of the CPAF targets and policy actions in order to come up with policy recommendations for the coming year.
The meeting is held annually bringing together justice sector stakeholders including the ministry of justice, security organs, the Supreme Court, reconciliation commission and civil society organization and donor partners focusing on human rights.
“This annual meeting is mainly oriented towards review and evaluates the past set objective and what was achieved. We develop strategies so that the coming year they can realize. For instance last year we had four major objectives; decentralization of justice, fight against genocidal ideology, enhancement of laws in the country and consolidating peace and security in the country.” Pascal Bizimana Ruganintwari the permanent secretary in the ministry of justice told igihe.com.
Stakeholders present at the meeting included representatives of the lead sector ministry (MINIJUST), representatives from other concerned ministries and government institutions, representatives from the National Budget, National Development Planning and Research and External Finance Units of MINECOFIN, representatives from donor organizations, Civil society representatives and other delegates from government institutions as deemed by the lead ministry.
According to Jolke Oppewal the head of cooperation at the Netherlands embassy and the co-chair for the Justice and Reconciliation Sector told igihe.com that the objective of the meeting was to look at the sectors performance in the year 2010/11 that ended 30th June.
“Currently the sector is getting much better as institutions work together, they have much better planning and monitoring and they have well set targets and indicators on what they want to achieve related to a number of issues that are very important; what is the capacity of prisons compared to the number of prisoners, access to justice houses at the district level; are they there, how long do people have to wait before their trail? All these are indicators in this framework and the present conclusion of this morning is that a big majority of these targets has been achieved.” Jolke Oppewal
According to the coordinator of the Legal Aid Forum Mr. Andrews Kananga “Much has been achieved not only in 2010/11 even before because we have a framework that we are working in called EDPRS.
For the past three years, we have been working in that strategy and a lot has been achieved in terms to access to justice, we have a lot of achievement as far as decentralization of justice is concerned where by the government has put in place access to justice houses, equipment and trained officers working in those houses to be able to assist people in legal matters”
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