UNDP Pay. Not as Good as WB, but not bad.

Wasting their time and someone else's money

Well that's it then.

Everything will be ok.

How many of these foreigner "driven" and totally useless workshops must we go through? UNDP seems to make a living out of wasting their time and someone else's money. Year in and year out. For a decade now.

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Subject: Ministry of Justice and UNDP organize consultation workshop on
customary law and local justice

Ministry of Justice and UNDP organize consultation workshop on
customary law and local justice

On 27 February, the Ministry of Justice, jointly with UNDP Justice
System Programme and with the support of UNMIT (United Nations
Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste), carried out in Dili a workshop on
access to justice and customary law with the attendance of more than
100 participants from organizations related to Human Rights, and the
justice sector. This workshop comes as a series of consultations
oriented to develop draft legislation on customary law and local justice.

Timor-Leste is young country which reached its independence in May
2002. As other post-conflict countries, it is developing its path to
consolidate its judiciary institutions. On the other hand, there is
an extended practice of customary institutions which precede the
State. One of the nation's challenges is to provide access to justice
to all its citizens by accommodating these traditional mechanisms
with the formal justice system.

To respond to this challenge, the Ministry of Justice, with the
technical support of UNDP Justice System Programme, has launched a
process of consultation through decentralized workshops in the
districts (Baucau, Oecusse) and sector consultations in Dili,
addressed to Human Rights NGOs, women's organizations, and justice
operators. In these workshops the participants have the opportunity
to discuss the problems they face, to evaluate channels for conflict
resolution and make proposals to improve the access to justice at local
level.

"Access to justice is a human right and essential element of a
democratic society and rule of law which contributes to peace and
stability. It means the capacity to have efficient mechanisms for
conflict resolution, protection of rights and control the abuse of
power", said Ms. Raquel Yrigoyen Fajardo, UNDP consultant on Access to
Justice.

The courts are indispensable for guaranteeing the protection of human
rights and the necessary check and balances in a democratic society.
Complementary to the formal justice system, the recognition of
conflict resolution mechanisms based on customary law can be an
important factor to enhance access to justice, especially for facing
daily life conflicts at local level.

The next consultation workshops will take place in Los Palos, Suai
and Dili in March/April followed by a national workshop in June 2009.

http://92.39.118.48/justice/index.php?mod=newsarchive&id=109

A waste: UNDP Justice System Extended For Five Years

Well, that is that then.

There will continue to be little improvement.

What a colossal waste of money.

Do you think donors have any idea what they are doing when they give money to UNDP to promote change in an area where the Minister is the problem – not the solution.

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Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:37 PM
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Subject: UNDP Justice System Extended For Five Years

UNDP JUSTICE SYSTEM EXTENDED FOR FIVE YEARS

Dili, 6 January, 2009

As a continuation and expansion of its support to the rule of law in Timor-Leste, the United Nations Development Programme and the members of the Council of Coordination (CoC), signed on 22 December 2008, the revised project document on Enhancing the Democratic Rule of Law through Strengthening the Justice System in Timor-Leste in a ceremony held at the new Prosecutor-General's Office in Suai. The CoC is comprised of the acting President of the Court of Appeal, Dr. Natérica Gusmão, the Prosecutor-General, Dr. Longuinhos Monteiro, and the Minister of Justice, Dr. Lúcia Lobato.

In her remarks at the signing ceremony the Minister of Justice noted that "we expect that this new revised programme will continue to provide support to the strengthening of the Ministry through continuous trainings at the Legal Training Center, to improving people's access to justice by the Public Defender’s Office, and for the correction service to meet international standards."

This project document is the result of the second revision of the Justice System Programme, and replaces the project document: Enhancing the Justice System to Guarantee the Democratic Rule of Law: Strengthening the Justice System in Timor-Leste, signed by the CoC and UNDP in December 2005.

This is a five-year project and an Annual Work Plan for each project year will be elaborated in thorough consultations among key partners and will be accordingly approved by the Council of Coordination, prior to its implementation.

"We expect that with the support of the UNDP Justice System Programme the Prosecution Services will be able to strengthen the working relationship between police and prosecutors in order to ensure effective case investigation and avoid increasing the backlog of cases", said Dr. Longuinhos Monteiro, Prosecutor-General of the Republic.

The programme was revised based on the findings and recommendations of the Revision Mission which were presented to the CoC and development partners.The CoC gave a mandate to UNDP to proceed with substantive revisions to the programme management structure and programme units, and consequent expansion of the objectives of the project.

"The revised UNDP programme will expand capacity development activities as a means to increase the current number of magistrates and public defenders and to ensure their full presence in all four judicial districts over the next years," stated Dr. Natércia Gusmão, acting President of the Court of Appeal.

A new key feature of the revised programme will be the establishment of a national Timorese Chief Executive Officer’s post. The Chief Executive Office post will be assisted by a UNDP Programme Justice Specialist. The CEO will be responsible for the overall management and implementation of the judiciary program to support the judicial institutions to uphold the rights enshrined in the Constitution of RDTL and to consolidate the rule of law.

"This next phase of the Justice System Programme will be important to reinforcing existing interventions conducted during the previous programme cycle while embracing key recommendations to reform its structure to further enhance its effectiveness," said the UNDP Resident Representative, Mr. Finn Reske-Nielsen.

The UNDP Justice System Programme in Timor-Leste is currently funded by the governments of Australia, Brazil, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and UNDP.



http://www.tl.undp.org/undp/undp-justice-system-extendedfor-fiveyears.html