The Centre for Sustainability, Institute of Technology Sligo, Ireland. 1 Michael Ewing and Alison Hough The Meeting of the Aarhus Taskforce on Access to Justice th September 2007 An Introduction to the Access to Justice Indicators

The Centre for Sustainability, Institute of Technology Sligo, Ireland.2 was established in 2000 to promote accelerate and enhance worldwide implementation of Principle 10 at the national level.

Leadership: The Core Team 3The Centre for Sustainability, Institute of Technology Sligo, Ireland.

4 TAI strategies Develop and continuously refine an indicator-based tool to assess government performance Support civil society teams in an increasing number of countries to conduct assessments Utilize the results of assessments to urge governments to implement Principle 10

5 TAI Worldwide The Centre for Sustainability, Institute of Technology Sligo, Ireland.

6 Development of the Access to Justice Indicators Web-based tool since June 2006 Access to Justice Indicators 70 case studies worldwide 11 in Europe 10 in Ireland

The Centre for Sustainability, Institute of Technology Sligo, Ireland. 7 Indicator Topics A2J Topics Include: Law – Evaluate the national legislative and judicial frameworks Effort – Assess the government’s actions to provide access, including the implementation of laws Effectiveness – Assess if laws and government efforts resulted in effective practice

The Centre for Sustainability, Institute of Technology Sligo, Ireland. 8 Indicator Subtopics 1 1.Subtopics under Law include: –Scope and quality of general legal framework –Quality of the general legal limits –Scope and quality of specific legal framework –Legal requirements to build capacity of government agencies –Legal requirements to build capacity of the public –Legal requirements for timeliness

The Centre for Sustainability, Institute of Technology Sligo, Ireland. 9 Indicator Subtopics 2 2. Subtopics under Effort include: –Scope and quality of effort –Cost and affordability –Fairness and equitability –Timeliness –Channels of access –Effort to build government capacity –Effort to build capacity of the public –Efforts to build the capacity of sub-national governments

Indicator Subtopics 3 3. Subtopics under Effectiveness include: –Impacts of access –Outcomes of access –Government capacity-building –Capacity-building for the public –Capacity-building for sub-national governments –Capacity-building for the media –Capacity-building for civil society organizations The Centre for Sustainability, Institute of Technology Sligo, Ireland. 10

The Centre for Sustainability, Institute of Technology Sligo, Ireland. 11 ATJ Law

The Centre for Sustainability, Institute of Technology Sligo, Ireland. 12 ATJ Effort

The Centre for Sustainability, Institute of Technology Sligo, Ireland. 13 ATJ Effectiveness

Thank you for your attention. For more information TAI Secretariat c/o World Resources Institute 10 G St, NE, Suite 800 Washington, DC USA Internet: COMHRA (TAI in Ireland) The Centre for Sustainability, Institute of Technology Sligo, Ireland 14