A Community-Based Practitioner’s Guide: Documenting Citizenship and Other Forms of Legal Identity

Publisher(s)
Namati, Open Society Foundations, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Topics
  Advocacy, Improving the law, Legal advice
Audience
  Civil society, Grassroots organisations, Legal advisors
Tools and Guides

A Community-Based Practitioner’s Guide: Documenting Citizenship and Other Forms of Legal Identity

  Jun 01th, 2018

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on establishing and operating a paralegal or other community-based program to help people obtain legal identity documents. It is primarily for people designing and managing community-based paralegal projects to help clients access documentary proof of citizenship and other forms of proof of legal identity, such as birth certificates. However, it will also be useful to those undertaking legal aid, litigation, and non-litigation advocacy work, as the issues that it seeks to address frequently lie at the intersection of laws and how they are applied in practice.