Client: DFID
Value: £35,5million

British Council was recently contracted by DFID to manage Justice for All (J4A) programme. The goal of the programme is to improve personal safety and access to justice for all Nigerians by improving the capability, accountability and responsiveness of the key organisations in the safety, security and justice sector. The programme involves working in partnership with various institutions such as Ministry of Police Affairs and the Nigerian Police Force; Federal Ministry of Justice, State Chief Judges, and State Attorney Generals; Prison Service and the Ministry of Interior; and Anti-corruption agencies.

			1. More professional, efficient, effective and accountable policing and remand services. This includes strengthening the capacity and improving accountability of the National Police Force at Federal and State level in order to improve service delivery.
			2. Better access to justice and equitable results. It is difficult to access justice as the justice process is often slow and unfair and this predominantly affects the vulnerable Nigerians such as women and marginalised groups. To minimise this problem the programme will develop ways of reducing delays in courts by improving accountability and transparency through case management and tracking system; training of judicial courts and support staff; providing more access to alternative dispute resolution mechanisms; and improving access to customary and traditional courts.
			3. Greater effectiveness of selected anti-corruption agencies. The programme will achieve this by improving capacity of anti-corruption agencies and anti-money laundering institutions while improving coordination between them; improving the anti-money laundering regime by offering logistical solutions and training; employing preventive measures through public education, and improving investigative and prosecurial skills through training; increasing awareness among law enforcement agencies and judges, compliance by relevant international anti-corruption conventions and standards; and improving public approval and cooperation in dealing with corruption.
			4. Enhanced cross-sector coordination, linkages and oversight. Through enhancing cross sector coordination; building capacity to carry out end-to-end process analysis in the justice sector; increasing voice for CSOs in the sector; and supporting legislative processes to enable justice reform. Enhancing democratic oversight.

Client: DFID
Value: £16.8m

			Support to the Sudan National Police;
			Support to the Southern Sudan Police Service;
			Support to the Justice Sector.

Each component will address priority issues in institutional capacity and service relationships with the public. Though the components are described separately, a major objective will be to bring together police and justice systems – both across the institutions as well as between North and South where this will improve performance and access to justice. A major priority will be development at state level – focus states for piloting interventions will be selected during the inception phase in consultation with government counterparts. There will be a particular emphasis on the Transitional Areas – Southern Kordofan, Abyei and Blue Nile.

Client: DFID
Value: £27.0m

The purpose of the programme is to “support the development of an effective and accountable justice sector that is capable of meeting the needs and interests of the people of Sierra Leone, particularly the poor, the vulnerable and the marginalised”. The JSDP supports the current Sierra Leone Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) which includes action to improve access to justice for the poor; respect for human rights; the empowerment of women; and strengthening the participation of civil society. JSDP has adopted an integrated sector wide approach spanning the police, the judiciary, the legal sector, courts and prisons, as well as customary justice and informal sectors. JSDP has been responsible for the establishment of a Justice Sector Coordination Office that is tasked with oversight of justice reform at all levels in Sierra Leone. The Programme also includes a £1.5m project to support civil society demand greater accountability from Sierra Leone’s justice institutions through a targeted programme of capacity building, regional network development and support and small grants.

Client: DFID
Value: £30.5m

The aim of this Programme is to support the development of Nigerian-led justice sector reform so that pro-poor policies are implemented. The Safety and Security Component of the Programme has been working towards improved safety and security in Nigeria through a series of integrated interventions in support of key institutions including the Police, Informal Policing and Civil Society. The interventions aim to enhance safety and security by building the capacity of the key institutions to institutionalise and sustain the culture of respect for the rule of law. The Component focuses on Community Policing and Informal Policing Systems. Within the justice component of the programme, we have been providing support to the development of sector wide costed reform plans in 6 states. Activity has also prioritised reducing the number of Awaiting Trial Prisoners, the development of the Legislative and Policy Framework, the promotion of rights awareness, support for Traditional System and Customary Courts, support to the Judiciary and capacity building of Federal Justice Institutions, including the legal aid council. Within the growth component of the programme, we have focused on support in the areas of land registration and administration, commercial dispute resolution – including alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and commercial court “fast-tracking” - and anti-corruption initiatives (financial crimes and anti-money laundering).

Client: FCO
Value: £89,548

			Design of a pilot training programme for prison staff at Ilorin Prison, Kwara State, which was to be rolled out to other prisons & states in future;
			A training needs analysis and design of an institutional support programme for senior managers at the Prison Staff College of Kaduna;
			Provide specifications for priority equipment needed to equip Ilorin Prison

Ghana: The purpose of the consultancy was to provide the Government of Ghana in developing a Prison Service which meets its international obligations and commitments. This was to be achieved by enhancing the skills and capacity of its senior prison staff and the effectiveness of its records management system. It entailed identifying needs in order to make improvements in the training and development of senior management to improve overall effectiveness. The consultancies also involved the design work for the establishment and installation of an electronic prisoner records system in the new Ankaful High Security Prison and also identify other potential sites for future roll-out.

Client: DFID
Value: £0.5m

The British Council provided project management services in support of activities provided under the DFID Law Development Project. The project was started in 2000, before the end of the war and dealt immediately with helping the Judiciary to regain a presence in all the regional headquarter towns and Freetown through refurbishing court buildings to enable them to start functioning again. The project included a wide range of training programmes, including senior administrative staff, and police. Other important initiatives included starting law reporting, providing assistance through specialist services in legal drafting and prosecuting, and research into legal issues in gender and juvenile justice.

Client: DFID
Value: £3.6m

			Strengthened the management, analysis, design and delivery of police training across all ranks of the Sudan Police Force
			Introduced an evaluation capacity across the police training estate
			Built sustainable capacity for continuous improvements to police training
			Created these capacities in a self-sustaining Training Development Unit based in the National Police College in Khartoum

The southern component has focused on the successful delivery of a series of 3 week intensive training courses to provide 250 Southern Sudanese police officers with the knowledge and understanding of modern community policing and presentation skills to enable them to cascade the basic principles through the officer cadres and, on a more limited scale, NCOs.

Client: EC
Value: £150,000

This project was designed to help prepare the ground for safety, security and access to justice in Sudan by focussing on training and development activities that could quickly and purposefully be undertaken in advance of the then expected peace settlement. The project included support to the South Sudan Law Society (SSLS) in its human rights monitoring role by developing its information resource centre and staff capacity to use & manage information. The project supported the legislative drafting capacity of a joint north-south lawyer group through specialist training. The British Council also managed an intensive one-month training programme in the UK for candidates from the North and South of the country at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies.