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Project Title: Improving the role of the judiciary in providing response to organized crime in the country
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Period of implementation: March- December, 2009
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Project goal
This is a capacity building project for the Coalition “All for Fair Trials” and focusås on implementation of our recommendations which are a result of the multi-year process of trial monitoring of cases related to organized crime in general, and more specifically trafficking in human beings and corruption.
The need for Coalition’s engagement in such an activity comes from recommendations from the 2008 Evaluation Report on the Trial Monitoring Programme of the Coalition. The Report underlines the need for the Coalition to become more active in contributing to the ongoing judicial reform process in the country and put an extra focus on the recommendations from its reports.
Project overall goal is to contribute to strengthening the role of the judiciary in order to appropriately address legislative and institutional needs in fighting organized crime. |
Project activities
- Meetings with concerned parties: Ministry of Justice, Macedonian judges association, the Training Academy for Judges and Prosecutors, Basic Courts, Public Prosecutors’ Office
- Signing of a Memorandum for cooperation with Academy for Judges and Prosecutors and a Memorandum for cooperation with the Ombudsman
- Organization of eight roundtable workshops with judges and prosecutors
- Presentations at Law Faculties in the country
- Organization of 2 press conferences
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Contact
Donors
- OSCE Spillover Mission to Skopje
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Project: Establishing Corruption Trial Monitoring Programme
Period of implementation: January, 2008 - December, 2009
Project goal
Establishing Corruption Trial Monitoring Programme project comes as a result of the successful implementation of the preparatory, needs assessment phase, conducted throughout May-December 2007. In 2008, the project envisages establishment of a corruption trial monitoring programme within the coalition “All for Fair Trials” that will monitor the corruption related cases in the basic courts in Republic of Macedonia, supplemented by a publication of an analytical report of the received data, as well as organization of a round table and a press conference to raise the awareness among the professionals and the citizens of the country.
Through establishing a Corruption Trial Monitoring Programme for criminal cases related to corruption, the Coalition “All for Fair Trials” will measure whether the existing laws are being properly implemented and how efficient the legal procedure in the judiciary is. The Programme will be a witness of the changes and the improvements of the judicial system of Macedonia that strives to comply with those of the EU countries, and through its analytical report and given recommendations there, will be a constructive partner and free of charge consultant to the Government of the Republic of Macedonia contributing to the country’s rapprochement towards EU.
Project activities
- Trial Monitoring
- Organization of a round table
- Preparation and publication of the Analytical Report
- Press Conference
Contact
Slavica Dimitrievska – Project Coordinator
e-mail: sdimitrievska@all4fairtrials.org.mk
tel: +389 2 3215 263
Donors
- Swedish Helsinki Committee
- OSCE Spillover Mission to Skopje
- Foundation Open Society Institute in Macedonia FOSIM
- Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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