ICT4Justice — ICT for Justice

ICT4Justice — ICT for Justice — is a flagship pan-African programme launched in 2019, centred around three complementary components: the Local Initiative for Justice (LIFJ), the Africa Month of Justice (#AfricaMonthOfJustice) and workshops on civic and digital space. It aims to bridge the gap between African communities and the continent’s legal instruments, which are often little known to the general public.

CONTEXT

In Africa, human rights violations and a lack of judicial transparency remain major challenges. African legal instruments — the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, CADEG, the Maputo Protocol, and the Constitutive Act of the AU — are little known to citizens and rarely promoted by civil society actors. ICT4Justice addresses this gap by harnessing digital technology as a tool for raising awareness and enabling citizen advocacy.

APPROACH

The programme combines three complementary initiatives: micro-funding for community projects via the LIFJ (up to $2,000 per project, minimum of 30 participants, digital component mandatory), an annual digital campaign running throughout August under the hashtag #AfricaMonthOfJustice, and regional workshops on civic space and digital freedoms.