This publication is part of the Alternative Law Groups’ Stories from the field: Overcoming access to justice barriers through grassroots communities’ participation and collective action project.
This regional report brings together the country contexts in terms of access to justice, the sectoral legal issues, and the country challenges and strategies for legal empowerment. Finally, it offers key recommendations for bolstering legal empowerment across the world.
This report is based on the country reports commissioned by Alternative Law Groups (ALG) through a grant from the Institute for Development Research Centre (IDRC) on legal empowerment approaches of development law groups in Southeast Asia. The Philippines report was prepared by ALG; the Indonesia report, by the Indonesia Judicial Research Society (IJRS); the Malaysia report, by the Development of Human Resources for Rural Areas Malaysia (DHRRA); and for the Thailand case studies, by researchers Dr. Darunee Phaisarnpanitkul and Kornkanok Wattanapoom.
