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Making the law work for everyone (pdf 1.6mb)

This report examines issues of legal empowerment of the poor.

The paper is divided into the following chapters:
- Making the law work for everyone
- The four pillars of legal empowerment
- Legal empowerment is smart politics and good economics
- Agenda for change
- Implementation strategies

The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor understands legal empowerment to be a process of systemic change through which the poor and excluded become able to use the law, the legal system, and legal services to protect and advance their rights and interests as citizens and economic actors.

 

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