'Background to Primary Justice in Malawi\r'

'BACKGROUND TO PRIMARY JUSTICE PILOT mould In May 1999, the Malawi Government and DFID/MaSSAJ (Malawi Safety protective covering and Access to arbiter) commissioned an external consultancy agency to pass a study on Primary Justice in Rural Malawi, to investigate issues that are link to the protection, safety and access to justice by the poorest and or so vulnerable groups in rural areas in Malawi. The enquiry report revealed that between 80 to 90% of the commonwealth in Malawi access justice in the cosy sector.However, it was again realized that the informal sector had several(prenominal) gaps which c whollyed for an intervention. Primary Justice Pilot Project was carried aside from 2003- 2007 aiming to train the identified gaps. The project examined the various roles of marriage counselors, village head persons, Chiefs, religious and party leadership and government officials in dispute resolution. These service providers were tack to be points of reference in matters re lating to land, theft of create produce, livestock, and household goods, witchcraft, matrimonial cases, inheritance issues and chieftainship, just to conjure up a few.The research revealed that there is urgent fatality to consolidate and develop locally credible and astray accessible systems of safety, security and justice that would operate indoors a human rights framework. The pilot burner project aimed to address a number of issues; 1. Capacity building of elemental justice service providers 2. Enhancing record keeping and bread and butter of cases 3. Enhancing networking and linkages- referral mechanisms; between the formal and the informal 4. Public sensory faculty 5. Dispute resolutionTo be able to win this, 14 District Implementing Agencies were identified and were referred to as â€Å"Entry Points” for the pilot Districts. Basically the role of the Entry Points was to receive capital from the Managing Agency, CCJP capital of Malawi, and use it to facilitate various activities which would aim to achieve the above five project objectives. Initially, GTZ was the Managing Agency and CCJP capital of Malawi took over from November 2006 to March 2007, where the pilot project phased out. Currently, CCJP Lilongwe and DFID is finalizing the concept of Primary Justice Malawi, covering all the 28 Districts.\r\n'