Judicial Reform Project

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The overall goal of the Judicial Reform Project is to create a judicial system that contributes to economic growth by facilitating private sector activity, and to social welfare by guaranteeing the basic rights of all citizens. The project will support two main sets of activities. Those directly related to the daily operations of the courts will be managed by the Judiciary and will include: 1) judicial process reforms, designed to improve the quality an swiftness of civil dispute resolution within the current legislative framework; 2) human resource management reforms, aimed at restructuring the incentives under which judges and clerical personnel operate in order to promote professional excellence and administrative efficiency; and 3) institutional strengthening programs. Activities not directly related to day-to-day court functions will be managed by the Ministry of Justice and focus on: 1) implementation of constitutional reforms, to establish the new institutions of the modern Bolivian judiciary; 2) alternative dispute resolution to improve access to dispute-resolution services; 3) legislative reforms designed to improve the legal environment for private sector activity, and 4) institutional strengthening, in support of the Ministry.