Fighting Poverty with Justice
Fighting Poverty with Justice
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Hakí provides technical assistance to governments at all levels to strengthen public administration and promote equitable and sustainable development. Through our network of international and national-level experts, we offer the latest, innovative practices that incorporate rights-based approaches to development. Important issues covered by our work include:
Corruption prevention and detection. Install public administration standards and systems that improve ethics, transparency and compliance in key public functions such as procurement and public service provision.
Improve Justice Services for Women. Establish legal assistance and counseling centers and community-based paralegal networks that help women to combat gender violence and ensure inheritance rights;
Secure Land and Resource Rights. Increase land tenure security through social tenure domain model community-level land rights mapping; Strengthen property rights for natural resources to improve management, conservation and mitigate climate change;
Enhance Citizen Engagement and Build Civil Society Capacity to Improve Governance. Support civil society monitoring of public expenditures and service delivery; Strengthen civil society advocacy for land and property rights on behalf of farmers, informal sector workers, and other vulnerable populations;
Strengthen Access to Justice. Enhance court administration and case management; Assess and design national legal aid systems; Train customary justice leaders to prevent human rights violations at customary courts;
Build Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Environments. Provide mediation and community dispute resolution in post-conflict countries; Assist local civil society to conduct legal awareness campaigns that educate citizens on their rights and encourage greater civic engagement.
Our portfolio includes sectoral analysis, evaluations, and institutional training and capacity-building, working with various international donors, multi-lateral institutions, and national and municipal governments.
The ACT (American Collaborative Teams) initiative is preserving the public sector strengthening efforts of local partners around the world, after the recent destruction of foreign assistance. Learn more about ACT and join us!
Hakí works with businesses to ensure their investments respect communities, human rights, and the natural environment. Our global network of local experts and community organizations provides unparalleled insight and the ability to access local populations to ensure that investments and business supply chains respect human rights and protect the environment.
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All companies and their suppliers are eligible to participate in our proprietary Village Certified © standard. The Village Certified standard operationalizes the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ("Ruggie Principles"), the Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investments, and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Village Certified is the first and only mechanism that certifies that all investments occur with with FPIC (free, prior and informed consent)of communities and follow strict guidelines for assessing impacts on human rights and accounting for local land use rights and customary or communal ownership. We utilize innovative tools, such as social tenure domain software, to document and map community use, needs and areas of potential conflict. By working through local NGOs and with communities we ensure that business investments have local support and a greater chance to succeed.
Hakí works through its local partners in the World Equity Collective to provide technical and capacity-building support to local organizations responding to humanitarian crisis. We believe in greater localization of the humanitarian sector and work to connect local organization humanitarian response efforts to international donors.
Hakí works with investors and our network of local experts, entrepreneurs, and community organizations to enhance access to capital for innovative, new sustainable technology. Hakí recognizes the transformative impact of private capital and leverages our public sector and donor-funded work to bring to scale new social entrepreneurship models.
Hakí conducts extensive empirical action-oriented research and comparative analysis on the intersection of rights and development. Our research is conducted through and for the benefit of our local network partners and feeds into project management. We build the capacity of local partners to conduct objective policy analysis and measure the impact of their work – to encourage continued support and replication of successful programs. We utilize a comprehensive results framework to capture the variety of legal empowerment contributions – from increased community legal awareness to paralegal provision of justice services to advocacy efforts leading to national policy reform.
Hakí addresses the power dynamics inherent to issues of inequality. In every country, in partnership with Hakí Network members, we support national-level policy advocacy on behalf of local communities and disadvantaged populations, with a focus on land and property rights. Our advocacy efforts are strategic and based on analysis from our legal services work that identifies structural policy and rights issues that require higher level assistance. In many instances advocacy with the government is carried out as part of our technical assistance through donor-funded projects.
Hakí publishes the annual Global Land Rights Index. The Index measures the legal framework status of community and individual land and resource rights in all countries through a combination of legislative framework and policy analysis and on the ground implementation. Write us for a copy of the methodology and latest results.
Hakí international experts also provide legal and advocacy training to our local NGO partners to improve their capacity to effectively advocate for change and use law as a tool toward reform of laws and their enforcement. Hakí has also developed an international network of public interest lawyers and legal clinics that provide legal resources to cases as needed.
Hakí supports local, community justice providers around the world. Working with local NGO partners from our global network we provide legal services to vulnerable populations and promote reforms that increase access to justice. We combine both non-profit and market-based approaches to bring law and rights to the people.
Grassroots Justice Concept Paper
Hakí has developed the first global for-profit grassroots justice platform that uses markets to increase access to legal services in countries where lawyers are rare and expensive. Hakí's Grassroots Justice Program builds on microfinance concepts to provide cost-effective legal assistance for pressing legal issues, including land registration and disputes, access to public services, and gender discrimination, using a community-centered model that promotes improved service to clients and entrepreneurship.
