Gender and Civil Society Promotion Associate

Background

The underlying idea of the Project is strengthening the rule of law and access to justice for vulnerable groups of the population, especially in rural and remote areas, by enhancing capacities of free legal aid providers, the Ombudsperson office, and justice sector actors as well as by improving their cooperation with civil society and non-governmental organizations to protect and promote human rights effectively. Project activities will focus on promoting human rights among vulnerable groups of population by strengthening capacities of Ombudsperson office in Uzbekistan as well as CSO focused on provision of free legal aid. The provision of free legal aid by CSOs (as well as other free legal aid providers) aims to ensure accessibility of justice. When working with free legal aid providers, emphasis will be given to promoting human rights, youth, gender equality and women empowerment especially in rural areas. Project also aims to digitalize the provision of free legal aid by supporting development of free legal aid system that will increase transparency and accountability of involved players. This system (after its introduction and wide usage) will be used for conducting regular legal needs analyses of vulnerable groups of population. Results of the legal needs analyses will be used to develop proposals and suggestions to government on improving human rights protection in Uzbekistan. The developed proposals and suggestions will be conveyed to government via national partners of the project: a) Ministry of justice and b) Ombudsperson office in Uzbekistan.

Therefore, Project takes a cross-sectoral approach among various human rights institutions and justice actors to strengthen the rule of law and human rights, building on current national priorities in the rule of law.

The Project Key Outcome is (UNDP Output): “Access to justice in Uzbekistan is adequately observed and promoted, leading to an enhanced trust in the rule of law with a po