ABSTRACT :The Justice for the Poor program in Indonesia has considerable experience of working in the area of women’s legal empowerment and access to justice. Its work with women-headed households and women paralegals show that enhancing legal knowledge is critical to securing basic rights and one’s economic livelihood.
The speaker will provide a brief overview of their Women’s Legal Empowerment and Developing Paralegalism Initiatives programs in Indonesia. She will discuss their strategy, approaches, outputs and lessons learnt. She will also present recent findings of their case study work on settlement of women legal cases through adat institutions in Aceh, highlighting a specific context of its work and the supporting and hindering factors to women’s access to justice.Tuesday October 26, 2010
12:30 pm - 1:30 PM
Room: MC 11- N 300
Speaker:
Lisa Noor Humaidah, Justice for the Poor Program, World Bank-Indonesia
Chair:
Christina Biebesheimer, Chief Counsel, LEGJR
About the Speaker: Lisa Noor Humaidah works for the Justice for the Poor Program in World Bank- Indonesia. She manages its Women’s Legal Empowerment and Developing Paralegalism Initiatives programs. Lisa has been involved with gender and development issues in Indonesia for 8 years. Before joining the Bank, she worked with the National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan).
About Justice for the Poor: The Justice for the Poor is a multi-country World Bank initiative that tackles theoretical and practical challenges of promoting justice reform within the context of legal pluralism. It operates in a number of countries in East Asia and the Pacific and Africa. In EAP, it prioritizes four regional themes: gender, legal pluralism, land and natural resources management, and development effectiveness. The program is housed with LEGJR.
The event is open to the public. If you will be attending from outside the World Bank, please contact Lakshmi Mathew, lmathew@worldbank.org / 202.458.2631 to arrange a guest pass.
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