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 three key activity areas — data collection and analysis, policy advocacy and technical assistance — to strengthen the evidence base for people-centered justice reform. This will include: 1) developing justice policy measurement frameworks; 2) identification of key tools and technologies to adapt and adopt justice innovations efficiently; and 3) capacity-building for justice sector actors in diverse country contexts. In 2024-25, the grantee generated a wide variety of research findings and analytical reports, including detailed assessments of the rule of law, democracy and justice across 110 subnational regions in the 27 European Union member states as well as other countries as diverse as Colombia, Malawi, the Dominican Republic and Uzbekistan. The grantee also launched the Warsaw Principles for the Rule of Law at the World Justice Forum. 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.