Foreign Assistance: Rule of Law Funding Worldwide for Fiscal Years, 1993-98DIANE Publishing, 2001 - 51 pages In the early 1980s, the U.S. began helping Latin American countries improve their judicial and law enforcement organizations as a way to support democratic principles and institutions. Since then, the U.S. has also been providing rule of law and related assistance to various other regions of the world. This report examines U.S. rule of law assistance programs and places particular emphasis on rule of law activities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Specifically, it identifies: (1) the amount of U.S. rule of law funding provided worldwide (by region and country) in fiscal years 1993-98, and (2) the U.S. departments and agencies involved in providing rule of law assistance. Charts and tables. |
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Page 26 - Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe projects and 10 supplemental credits.
Page 28 - Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe...
Page 45 - rule of law" embodies the basic principles of equal treatment of all people before the law, fairness, and both constitutional and actual guarantees of basic human rights...
Page 3 - ... comprehensive information was not readily available about the various US rule of law assistance programs and activities. At your request, we examined US rule of law assistance programs and placed particular emphasis on rule of law activities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Specifically, we identified (1) the amount of US rule of law funding provided worldwide (by region and country) in fiscal years 1993-98 and (2) the US departments and agencies involved in providing rule of law assistance....
Page 9 - US rule of law funding is provided through the international affairs appropriations and is transferred 6In an effort to address long-standing congressional concerns that rule of law coordination efforts among the numerous departments and agencies in Washington, DC, were ineffective, State appointed a rule of law coordinator in February 1999. The coordinator's principal mandate is to work with all the US departments and agencies providing rule of law assistance to develop a framework for future US...
Page 10 - USAID and the Department of Justice oversaw the implementation of 70 percent, or about $683 million, of all US rule of law assistance programs and activities worldwide during fiscal years 1993-98. USAID focused on improving the capabilities of judges, prosecutors, and public defenders and their respective institutions as well as increasing citizen access to justice. Most of Justice's rule of law activities were carried out by its International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP),...
Page 4 - Data on US rule of law funding was not readily available, and some entities could not provide funding data for all the years of interest or had other problems in compiling the information we requested. Also, because the departments and agencies involved did not have an agreed-upon definition of what constitutes rule of law activities, we relied on each agency to provide us information for those activities it considered rule of law. In addition, we requested obligation data but were told by agency...
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Page 3 - ... assistance efforts to support legal, judicial, and law enforcement reform efforts undertaken by foreign governments. This term encompasses assistance to help reform legal systems (criminal, civil, administrative, and commercial laws and regulations) as well as judicial and law enforcement institutions (ministries of justice, courts, and police, including their organizations, procedures, and personnel). It includes assistance ranging from long-term reform efforts, with countries receiving funding...
Page 7 - multiregional" to denote rule of law assistance provided to several countries in two or more regions or when such assistance was not broken out by recipient countries. Source: Our analysis of US agencies