Microjustice4All Legal Service Provision in Humanitarian Crises

Photo showing Microjustice at work in Peru

The legal aspects of emergency response, disaster relief and rehabilitation are essential and need to be structurally integrated into the humanitarian response. Victims of humanitarian disasters often lose their basic legal and administrative documents, which are necessary to prove their identity and ownership of property, or never had these documents in the first place. This leads to difficulty in obtaining refugee/internally displaced person (IDP) status, accessing aid programs and rebuilding their livelihoods. These problems are compounded by the fact that the institutional infrastructures are often damaged, making the bureaucratic processes slower. Microjustice4All (MJ4All) seeks to provide a solution to this complex web of problems.