The Peace Building Fund (PBF) - Support to the
Justice Sector Reform Project
Project Background
Following the end of the war, a popular chorus echoed by
many people claimed that the incapacity of the justice
system to deliver required justice to people was one of
the main causes of the civil conflict.
The project was therefore designed specifically to
address the functional frailties that characterized the
country’s justice system both in the pre and
post-conflict era in order to ensure enhanced delivery
of justice and preclude the tendencies for relapse into
conflict.
Project Objectives
The objective of the PBF Justice Sector Reform project is
to contribute to the peace consolidation process in
Sierra Leone.
Project
Outcome
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Functioning Courts established to hear and adjudicate
the existing backlog of cases speedily.
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Improved functioning of the Courts so that they have
the capacity to speedily dispose of new cases and prevent new backlogs
from being created, and to generally improve justice delivery and reduce
Human Rights abuses
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A functioning Law Officers Department and
Prosecutorial system that has the capacity to prosecute the existing
backlog of cases, speedily charge and prosecute all new cases and
prevent new backlogs from being created while improving justice delivery
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Project well coordinated, monitored and reported
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Increased Access to Justice for all, particularly
Women and Juveniles and those in the provinces, to prevent future
backlogs and to reduce Human Rights abuses and excesses, especially to
the more vulnerable.
Link
with Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Goal 1:
Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger |
Sierra Leone