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Project description
This project brought together Russian and Dutch experts in the field of legal aid and access to justice. The project succeeded in effectively influencing Russian policy makers in the field of legal aid, and also in assisting Russian regional governments to develop functional frameworks for designing civil legal aid systems. In this way the project made a substantial contribution to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of current and future regional Russian civil legal aid systems. The project intervention has also managed to bring the legal aid implementers and the policy makers closer together. The project team expects that this spin-off will contribute to paving the way for an ingrained more inclusive approach in the further development of the Russian legal aid systems.
This is another successful example of the CILC peer-to-peer approach, linking of Dutch, Bulgarian and Russian experts who demonstrated a practical and open attitude in sharing experiences and providing and explaining best practices.
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Project team
Lino Brosius
Project Manager
Ingrid de Haer-Douma
Project Officer
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