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Foreign Assistance: Promoting Judicial Reform to Strengthen Democracies

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 1, 1993
Report No. NSIAD-93-149
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Summary:

The Agency for International Development (AID) has earmarked nearly $170 million for judicial reform projects in Latin America and has spent about $46 million. The most valuable lessons learned from AID's experiences in Latin America are that (1) imposing judicial reform on a country that is not ready for change is generally ineffective and wasteful, (2) addressing technical problems while ignoring political and institutional obstacles to reform is usually unproductive, (3) impact evaluations are important to making sound program management decisions, (4) obtaining support for the program from the entire U.S. team in the recipient country has been important to successful projects, and (5) having adequate staff with experience in judicial reform is essential.

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