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Countries and Partners
Bangladesh
Since 2011 leaders in the Bangladesh Police force have been working with a team from Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) to design and institutionalize an indicator that encourages swifter and better police investigations. Their hope is to expedite investigations, improve the quality of evidence at trial, reassure victims and their families, reduce the duration of pretrial detention, and help reduce backlog in the courts...
Ethiopia
The Federal Ministry of Justice (MOJ) in Ethiopia has been working with the Harvard team since January 2012 to strengthen the capacity of the prosecution service to align measures of the performance of individual prosecutors with indicators for the strategic goals in the justice system...
Jamaica
The Jamaican government has been working with HKS on the design of indicators to support its effort to improve justice and safety. While it deals with persistent problems of violent crime, the government is trying to modernize and professionalize policing in ways that advance domestic ambitions for progress in justice and safety...
Nigeria
In Nigeria indicators have been developed that cut across multiple criminal justice agencies for Lagos State. First, working with the Attorney General of Lagos State and the CLEEN Foundation, we developed tool for conducting prison exit samples in order to learn more about the composition of the large population of in pretrial detention in the state’s federally-administered prisons...
Papua New Guinea
This project builds on the existing efforts of the Government of Papua New Guinea (GOPNG or PNG) to measure progress in safety and justice. This project's purpose is to strengthen the capacity of GOPNG and its partners in civil society to measure progress in safety and justice by using data based indicators to guide management and policy decisions and deepen the learning about the operation of the justice system as a whole...
Sierra Leone
Working with the Justice Sector Coordination Office (JSCO), a team from Harvard has been helping managers in justice sector agencies develop indicators that communicate progress toward strategic goals, learn more about problems in the justice system, and improve the performance of individual institutions...
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