On 19^th January 2018, LASPNET Board members and the Secretariat met with a team from the Democratic Governance Facility led by Mr.Wimm Stoffers, the Head of Facility. The meeting was held to introduce Mr.Esben Harboe, the new Program Learning Manager in charge of sphere 3 on Upholding human rights, Access to Justice and Gender Equality.

One of the objective of LASPNET’s current strategic plan is to promote research and knowledge management to support evidence based programming and advocacy for legal aid and access to justice. The Network in collaboration with other justice system actors has been at the forefront of advocating for the enactment of the National Legal Aid Policy to address the many challenges faced by the poor, vulnerable and marginalized in accessing justice in Uganda.

1. The Hon.Chief Justice speaking at the Conference

2.R-L Hon. Chief Justice Bart Katureebe, H.E Henk Jan Bakker, Dutch Ambassador to Uganda and Mr. Samuel Herbert Nsubuga, LASPNET Board Chairperson during the Conference

3. Innovators together with Justice System stakeholders during the Networking session on 7^th/09/17.

LASPNET with support from Action Aid Uganda (AAU) under the Fair Green and Global II (FGG II) project organized a training on risk assessment and security management for human rights defenders who include LASPs, on 18^th May 2017 in Kampala.