Legal Empowerment Leadership Course 2019

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Consent *

Family name (as in passport) *

First name (as in passport) *

Email address *

Gender *

Female

Male

Country *

Organization *

Are you applying from a civil society organization? *

Yes

No

What is the mission and main programs of your organization? *

Which of the following activities does your organization engage in? (Select all that apply) *

If other, please specify

How many years has your organization been doing legal empowerment work? *

Could you briefly explain what aspects of your work are directly related to legal empowerment, for example - How do you legally empower people or communities through your work as opposed to simply offering direct services? *

How many community paralegals (a.k.a. community legal workers, non-lawyer advocates,barefoot lawyers, or community representatives who assist their community with justice issues) has your organization trained, employed or monitored in the past 12 months? *

How many staff does your organization employ currently (excluding paralegals, if any)? *

What is the geographic scope of your organization's work? (Select all that apply) *

Local village, town or city

Province, state, territory, national region

National

Regional (multi-country)

Global

Which geographic regions do you work? (Select all that apply) *

Title / Position in the organization (Please include your key responsibilities and focus of work within your organization) *

How many years have you personally been working in legal empowerment? *

Could you tell us the top 3 thematic areas within the field of legal empowerment that are the priority focus of your work? *

Throughout the course, participants work together to explore solutions to problems that arise in their everyday work. Describe a challenge or opportunity your organization faces when engaging in legal empowerment, which you would like to work on during the course. *

Below the textbox you find examples of the kinds of opportunities we have in mind.

'My organization has long deployed grassroots legal advocates, but we've never had an adequate data collection tool. How can we roll out a practical, lightweight system that will give us information that can help us improve our effectiveness?'

'My program supports a number of grantees promoting social inclusion who have experimented with a community paralegal model. They've gotten good preliminary results and are exploring next steps. What can I do to help my grantees develop and grow their paralegal programs? '

'I'd like to learn from the experience of other countries where collective action and advocacy resulted in better policies promoting legal empowerment and better financing for the field. I hope to work with other stakeholders in my country on such an effort. '

'My program covers a small geographic area but there is great need throughout my country for legal empowerment services. I'd like to explore methods for scaling up our operations responsibly and sustainably.'

Which particular session/s in the course will be most helpful to address your challenge? (Choose maximum of 2 sessions) *

LEGAL EMPOWERMENT, ORGANIZING AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

RECOGNITION, REGULATION, AND FUNDING OF COMMUNITY PARALEGALS

COMMUNITY-DRIVEN DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS FOR ADVOCACY

LEGAL EMPOWERMENT, LAND RIGHTS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

LEGAL EMPOWERMENT AND GENDER EQUALITY

Which particular session in the course do you feel you have the most experience based on your work? (choose maximum 1 session) *

Legal empowerment, organizing and social movements

Recognition, regulation and funding of community paralegals

Community- driven data collection and analysis for advocacy

Legal empowerment, land rights, and environmental justice

Legal empowerment and gender equality

How might this course and the session/s that you have identified help you to refine or elaborate your plan? *

Have you applied for any past session/s of this leadership course? *

Yes

No

If yes, please state year/s:

Has a member of your organization participated in a past session of this leadership course? *

Yes

No

Would your organization nominate or support your participation in the leadership course? *

Yes

No

Are you a registered member of the Global Legal Empowerment Network, convened by Namati? *

Yes

No

If no, please register at the following link: https://namati.org/network/

Do you need support for your visa request? *

Yes

No

Do you wish to apply for funding support? *

Yes

No

A limited number of scholarships will be available on a competitive basis. Note that scholarships will not be available for applicants from donor institutions.

If yes, indicate for which costs?

Visa Fees

Travel

Accommodation

Tuition