In this area, we include support for legislation development and literacy (top-down approach) and rights awareness (bottom-up approach). We connect awareness with the primary level of crime prevention and support as well the efficiency in the secondary (police performance) and tertiary (correction and restorative measures) levels of prevention. Also, we support the paths to access administrative, civil, labour, and criminal justice as well as any other specialized jurisdiction of the formal (court) system. Likewise, we support alternative dispute resolution mechanisms in a broader sense, including the services provided by the Ombudsman, the arbitration systems, and the mediation systems at a local level. The latter being sometimes fully formalized as pre-step for jurisdictional justice and sometimes not. And when is not formally recognized, we like to support venues for referring cases from community-based / traditional dispute resolution mechanisms to the formal court system and vice versa. Finally, concerning tertiary prevention, we support the efficiency in the implementation of court decisions at the time that we advocate for reducing provisional detention. We counsel as well as alternatives to imprisonment and the use of time in custody to prepare to succeed in social and economic integration.
IDEABORN provides this holistic approach through technical assistance contracts for identification, formulation and evaluation of justice and security sector support programmes.
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