Transparency, monitoring, and accountability initiatives

Creation and strengthening of monitoring, transparency, oversight and accountability mechanisms for formal justice institutions and actors. This includes interventions such as:

• Strengthening of procedural justice approaches: Procedural justice approaches focus on ensuring that organisational processes are fair and impartial. This has often been approach used to ensure that policing is fair.
• Public complaints mechanisms: Interventions to gather and respond to complaints from external actors. For example, though phone, online, complaints boxes.
• Strengthening of ombudsmen capacity: Provision of additional resources or human capacity support to strengthen ombudsmen
• Independent audits: Professional external audits.
• Internal reporting and accountability systems: These may include internal governance mechanisms such as reporting and accountability systems, the creation of good governance champions, whistle blowing systems, and body cameras for police
• Publication of resources, process and outcome information to the public: Interventions to provide information on the internal functioning and decisions made within the justice system. This may include information on budgets, spending, court cases and decisions.
• Strengthening of monitoring and evaluation processes: Systems that monitor and support improved performance in the justice sector