Over the last few years, people have been prompting courts, governments to deliver justice effectively as set forth in SDG16. Legal institutions have however struggled to address various justice problems and crises such as political instability, war and inflation do not make the situation any better. Every year, 1 billion…

The Justice Innovation Circle is our regional event that seeks to bring together innovators, justice leaders and policy makers to discuss opportunities in justice innovation through evidence-based practices, how to create an enabling environment for people-centred justice to thrive and to provide a platform to showcase our 20 innovators who…

By 2030, HiiL Innovation Hub East Africa’s mission is to have 50 million East Africans gain easy access to user-friendly justice. The journey to achieve this so far is promising,and as a hub we’ve been committed to achieve this goal through supporting justice startups across the region. …

In February this year, We kicked off the official Innovating Justice Challenge campaign in East Africa, West Africa, Middle East and the North African region. Of all the 64 applications we had in the East AFrican region, 4startups in Kenya and 2 in Rwanda emerged winners and were chosen to…

For centuries, Kenyan citizens have relied on the different avenues availed by culture and the constitution to access justice. However, since a formal constitution was set in place after independence, there has been an over-reliance in the formal justice system which has led to a backlog of cases. Currently, there…

There are at least 5.1 billion people or two-thirds of the world’s population who lack meaningful access to justice according to the 2019 Justice For All Report by the Task Force on Justice. This is an appalling statistic when we realize that a good majority of people globally are unable…

As We Are More, our core duty is to promote justice in a free and transparent manner. Corruption in the country is currently a major hindrance in the administration of free and fair justice. Due to the rampant spread of the vice, citizens of our country many a time prefer…

The Access to Legal Services Problem & Solution Erick Mukiza, the Executive Director of ESS Creative and Legal Foundation, started this organization after his mother, Grace Ndyetabura a primary school teacher, became a victim of not accessing justice affordably. In Tanzania, the cost of legal representation is very expensive and…

Utatuzi Center is a legal-tech startup in Kenya that champions for the use of legal technologies to create sustainable avenues for access to justice with a focus on dispute resolution and legal aid. Technology being a new reality dawning in the legal field has been met with resistance, hesitation and…