Grant is provided under the Program Development and Support project to the U. N. Development Program/Peru (UNDP/P) to support ongoing development of the Office of the Court Administrator in Peru”s Judicial Branch. The Office was established in 1992 to serve as the technical arm of the Judicial Branch”s new Executive Council, which had been created to streamline decisionmaking in the Branch. UNDP/P will use the USAID grant to continue for 12 months its personal services contracts with the Court Administrator and his four advisors (in the areas of finances, information systems, organization, and personnel). By the end of the grant period, the Office of the Court Administrator will possess all the prerequisites for effectively managing the Judicial Branch.
