Regional administration of justice

The Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of the Offender (ILANUD) will implement the project, which will focus on training, TA, institutional support, and country-specific extension. Training efforts will focus on legal and administrative education. Twenty seminars/workshops and 12 short courses will be provided to, respectively, 300 and 250 national justice system and bar association representatives; 45 officials will take part in study tours. ILANUD will experiment with new modalities for short-term training, with an emphasis on the practical. Long-term training will include development of a specialized program in criminal justice administration, improvement of University of Honduras law faculty, and postgraduate training for 32 attorneys at the University of Costa Rica. TA will be contracted to, inter alia, help carry out justice sector assessments in each of the participating countries - Panama, El Salvador, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, and Honduras; collect criminal justice statistics; and design a model system for reporting legislation and jurisprudence. Also, law libraries in each country will be upgraded and a regional bibliographic data base established at ILANUD; ILANUD and national institutions will receive TA in curriculum and instructional materials design. Institutional support for ILANUD will focus on organizational development, project management, increased staffing of key divisions, and formation of a long-term development strategy; 3 long-term advisors will be provided. Support will also be provided to the national justice reform commissions (NJRC"s) which ILANUD has recently formed and to the Interamerican Institute for Human Rights. Finally, ILANUD"s extension facility, working with resident coordinators in each country, will provide funds and services in support of the following country-specific activities: design assistance to bilateral projects in each country; cost support to NJRC"s; and other assistance (e.g., law reform studies) needed to allow countries to begin national activities prior to the development of bilateral projects. Amendment of 6/16/86: (1) changes project number from 5960133 to 5970002; (2) includes Guatemala in all activities; and (3) explicitly funds the operating costs of a project support unit attached to USAID/Costa Rica. (PD-AAU-134) Amendment (PP Supplement) of 1988 extends PACD to 12/31/92 and increases funding. In the area of training, the amendment plans additional workshops, seminars, and regional short courses, and the development of new courses such as popular legal education; long-term training is virtually eliminated. With respect to TA, increased emphasis will be put on information dissemination, and new topics (e.g., agrarian and environmental law) will be added. Institutional development and support activities will be consolidated and strengthened, and TA from Florida International University to ILANUD will continue. The extension facility will be phased out. (PD-AAY-757)