Legal Aid Days as a Research Tool : Experiences from Northern Kenya
Providing legal aid as part of a research program can bring both methodological and community benefits. Legal aid days encourage people to open up more quickly, increase the amount of information people are willing to share, enable less vocal membe...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/984721468283763235/Legal-aid-days-as-a-research-tool-experiences-from-northern-Kenya http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30544 |
| Summary: | Providing legal aid as part of a
research program can bring both methodological and community
benefits. Legal aid days encourage people to open up more
quickly, increase the amount of information people are
willing to share, enable less vocal members of the community
to speak out and satisfy the desire of researchers to give
something back to communities - rather than just extract
information. Since 2007, the World Bank's justice for
the poor program has been partnering with the Legal Resource
Foundation (LRF), a Kenyan non-government organization
(NGO), working to implement field research in the arid lands
region of Northern Kenya. Together, they seek to understand
how the poor and marginalized navigate prevailing justice
systems. Legal aid days were included as part of the
research methodology, capitalizing on LRF's wealth of
experience in the legal aid sector. |
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