Advice Office Support Project
Association of University Legal Aid Institutions Trust
- Program Civil Society
- Program Area Increasing Access to Justice
- Grant Amount $400,000
- Grant Period April 1, 2022–March 31, 2024
- Location Potchefstroom, South Africa
- Geographic Focus South Africa
About this grant
The project goal is to increase access to justice for poor and marginalized people in South Africa. To this end, the Association of University Legal Aid Institutions Trust will strengthen its existing programs to support selected community advice offices and university legal aid clinics to provide justice services. Past support helped the grantee increase the number of advice offices and law clinics with which it works. These clinics were situated in the Eastern Cape and Free State provinces. The grantee also responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by increasing grants to advice offices and providing responsive accompaniment services virtually. The Association of University Legal Aid Institutions Trust was established in 1998 and plays an important role in providing resources and back-up legal services to advice offices in South Africa.