Namati

Namati trains and deploys grassroots legal advocates – sometimes known as ‘barefoot lawyers’

A World Bank study found that Timap’s paralegals managed to squeeze justice out of a broken system: stopping a school master from beating children; negotiating child support payments from a derelict father; persuading the water authority to repair a well. In exceptional cases, such as when a mining company damaged six villages’ land and abandoned the region without paying compensation, a tiny corps of lawyers can resort to litigation and higher-level advocacy to obtain a remedy. Timap for Justice has been recognized by International Crisis Group, Transparency International, President Jimmy Carter, the World Bank, and others as an innovative model for delivering justice services