Highlights: Strengthening Village Courts
for Fair and Accessible Justice
After Smiles Coveted Village Courts
The project aims at strengthening a system of alternative dispute resolution in 350 Union Parishads (UP) through the establishment of village courts. It intends to improve access to justice for disadvantaged and marginalized groups and enhance human rights systems and processes in Bangladesh. To em...
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Improve capacity of relevant stakeholders at national and local level
With the leadership of Deputy Directors Local Government (DDLGs) and Upazila Nirbahi Officers (UNOs) at local level for improving capacity of the 1,078 union parishads (UPs) under 128 upazilas the project provides all required forms-registers, furniture, ejlash (court bench), Village Courts Assistan...
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Justice and Strengthening Village Courts
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7,003
Service providers capacitated
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89,240
Dispute received
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10,461
Cases transferred from District Courts
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72.88%
Dispute resolved
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88.05%
Decisions implemented
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23,900
Application filed by Women
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15%
Women in decision-making process
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Resolved Thousands of Cases Efficiently - Successfully handled and settled numerous disputes, ensuring timely and fair justice for rural communities
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Resolved Thousands of Cases Efficiently - Successfully handled and settled numerous disputes, ensuring timely and fair justice for rural communities
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Resolved Thousands of Cases Efficiently - Successfully handled and settled numerous disputes, ensuring timely and fair justice for rural communities
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Resolved Thousands of Cases Efficiently - Successfully handled and settled numerous disputes, ensuring timely and fair justice for rural communities
About the AVCB
Activating Village Courts in Bangladesh Phase III (AVCB III) Project facilitates local authorities in making village courts functional at 1,080 unions with financial supports and a tri-partnership with European Union (EU), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of Bangladesh. The Local Government Division (LGD) of the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (MoLGRD&C) is implementing this project for creating wider access to dispute resolutions services for the rural people particularly poor and vulnerable at the community level.Following successful implementation of a Pilot Phase (2009 – 2015), AVCB III Project has been scaled up to 27 districts covering eight administrative divisions.
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The Objective
The overarching objective of the AVCB III project is to contribute to improve the access to justice for disadvantaged and marginalized groups in Bangladesh. To make local authorities more responsive to local justice needs and offer appropriate legal services in the form of well-functioning village courts To empower local people, especially women, the poor and vulnerable groups to seek remedies for injustices and to resolve their disputes at the local level in an expeditious, transparent and affordable manner.
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