Court Performance Measurement: A Practice Note for Justice Sector Practitioners
Measuring Success in Judicial Reform Initiatives: A Practice Note for Justice Sector Practitioners
The JusTRAC+ Program is focused on enhancing collaboration and strengthening evidence-based programming among justice sector practitioners in the U.S. Government and beyond. ABA ROLI facilitates the efforts of the JusTRAC+ thematic communities of practice (CoP) on Justice Sector Measurement and the Nexus of Transnational Organized Crime and Corruption including the development of practice notes for practitioners. The program is implemented jointly by ABA ROLI and the Rule of Law Collaborative at the University of South Carolina and is funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Enforcement Affairs.
This series of meetings were held between November 2020 and November 2022, and addressed topics like court responses and services during COVID 19; court adaptations post-COVID; environmental justice-focused foreign assistance programs; and gender, equity, and inclusion analysis in the criminal justice context.
The Measurement Talks built upon two themes addressed by the JusTRAC+ Community of Practice on Justice Sector Measurement – tools for measurement of success in judicial reform programs and the use of data in justice sector measurement. This four-event part series was held between September 2021 and October 2022.
These meetings offer participants an opportunity to gain insights to inform their work and to delve deeper into ways of addressing issues around transnational organized crime that can later inform approaches for the prevention, mitigation, and enforcement of the broad range transnational organized crimes addressed by the USG. These meetings were held between February 2021 and February 2023.
To aid the USG Justice Reform workforce to better meet these self-obscuring, mutually reinforcing threats—such as massive economic, political, social, and human costs that impede development goals across every aspect of human endeavor—the JUSTRAC+ program organized a Symposium Series focused on new tools, practices, and programs at the intersection of these three issue areas. This events took place between January 2021 and March 2021.
This series, held over the course of a week, brought together key contributors to articulate how changes to the USG’s approach to corruption—as described in the Strategy’s pillars and objectives—will be achieved, and how these are envisioned to advance the Strategy’s desired end states. The series took place in April 2022.
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