This session focused on the integration of Legal Empowerment (LE) and Social Accountability (SA) as an innovative framework for advancing justice for women and girls. Globally, women face persistent challenges and gaps between the promise of justice and the reality in their communities, workplaces and homes. The current COVID-19 pandemic has only worsened these justice challenges, as the capacity of the justice sector to provide appropriate redress is reduced.After a first overview of the two separate frameworks, panelists concentrated on their strategies, tools and synergies, showing how one approach can reinforce the other, when used together. The two approaches have evolved separately but they share common aims and principles, by promoting a rights-based approach and operating from the bottom-up.Watch the recording above and listen to how the discussion moved from theory to practice, providing concrete case studies on how the integrated LESA approach has been applied through programming to address justice challenges for women and girls.
This session featured panelists Zainab Malik (Program Development Specialist at the International Development Law Organization), Raffaella Pizzamiglio (Research Specialist at the International Development Law Organization), Belice Odamna (Legal Adviser, Health at International Development Law Organization), Getrude Dyabene (Women, Children and PWDs Program Officer at Legal and Human Rights Center) and Noor Nakibuuka Musisi (Director of Programmes at the Center for Health, Human Rights and Development).