81273520-Long-term international expertise for legal aid services in Zambia & Short-Term Expert Pool

The contract is part of the project "Promoting Transparency, Participation and Access to Justice (EnACT)" in Zambia which will start in August 2021 and will last until July 2024. It has a financial volume of up to 13 million EUR. The overall objective of the project is to improve the access of the Zambian population to accountable institutions, to justice and to transparent government decision-making processes (outcome level). To achieve this objective the module advises its various state and non-state partners on policy reforms in the areas of participation, anti-corruption, transparency, accountability, and access to justice. State actors at national and sub-national level (in selected provinces) and civil society stakeholders are strengthened in their ability to shape appropriate legislation and policies on the basis of constructive dialogues, to implement this legislation and policy, and to monitor implementation. Complaint mechanisms are reinforced to enable citizens to report cases of corruption and lack of transparency in service provision. Better quality of legal advice facilitates access to fair and transparent justice delivery services especially for women, youth and people living with disabilities (PWD) in the realm of civil law including land rights, inheritance and property settlement law. The project aims to achieve its goal through four interlinked outputs. Output 1 aims to support state and non-state actors in participatory and evidence-based formulation and implementation monitoring of laws and policies. The objective of Output 2 is to strengthen selected accountability mechanisms of state institutions with the participation of civil society. Output 3 aims at strengthening state and civil society actors in the field of justice and legal aid to provide fair and transparent justice service delivery to citizens, especially to vulnerable groups. The objective of Output 4 is to support the application of innovative tools of digital transformation in legal aid.