Data-Driven Progress for Access to Justice

About this grant

The program goal is to produce new knowledge on legal needs globally. The World Justice Project will work along four key activity areas: 1) data; 2) research; 3) policy; and 4) engagement to strengthen the evidence base for people-centered approaches to justice reform. As part of its public engagement to promote wider support for people-centered justice reforms, the grantee will stage the World Justice Forum in Warsaw in June 2025. This will provide an opportunity to position legal empowerment practice as a critical component in strengthening the rule of law and accountable democracy. In 2022-23, the grantee produced a range of research and analysis, notably key reports to the United Nations High-level Political Forum assessing the current state of evidence underpinning justice reforms. In particular, analysis around the viability of data sources to be used in measuring civil justice outcomes under Sustainable Development Goal 16. Established initially as a project of the American Bar Association in 2006, the World Justice Project was formally registered as an independent organization in 2009 working to advance the rule of law around the world.