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EAST AFRICA EMERGING PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCATES PROGRAMME 2022 (Fully Funded): APPLY NOW

APPLY NOW FOR EAST AFRICA EMERGING PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCATES PROGRAMME 2022 (Fully Funded)

AdminSeptember 19, 2022

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Host Organization

Centre for strategic litigation

Target audience

Young legal professionals from East Africa

Application Deadline : 31 October 2022

Applications for Cohort 4

Are you ready to elevate your Public Interest Law Career?

The Center for Strategic Litigation aims to identify talented young lawyers, with between 1-5 years of work experience to learn from public interest litigation gurus, constitutional scholars and researchers, judges of the various courts, advocacy practitioners, both in class and in court. The goal of the programme is to build the next generation of public interest advocates in East Africa who share a commitment to and passion for promoting social justice and democratic values.

Are you one of them?

Overview of the Training Programme

The East Africa Emerging Public Interest Advocates Programme for young legal professionals is a flagship fellowship programme by the Center for Strategic Litigation that empowers young advocates through rigorous skills-based training and practical experience in public interest litigation.

The goal of the programme is to build the next generation of public interest advocates in East Africa who share a commitment to and passion for promoting democratic values.

This comes from the realization that there is a limited number of active public interest litigants as most lawyers prefer careers in private and other fields of law.

The fellowship provides up to 30 outstanding young advocates from Kenya, Tanzania (mainland), Tanzania (Zanzibar), Uganda, South Sudan, Burundi and Rwanda with an opportunity to learn from public interest litigation and advocacy gurus, academics, and practitioners, both in class and in court for six (6) months under the following carefully designed curriculum.

Residential Training

The training programme is inaugurated by a one (1) month intensive skill-based training programme that combines presentations, mock trials, public lectures, court visits,

Closing Seminars

The last one to two weeks of the programme are spent with the fellows engaging in a series of seminars, presenting their cases, their progress, the lessons learnt and the way forward.

and legal aid service.

Practicum

After completion of the residential programme, the fellows spend 4.5 months in the field where they are closely guided by experienced mentors to put in practice what they learnt in the residential programme to build and implement a project case.

BENEFITS

Economy travel to and from your country of residence by an approved route for you only ,CSL will not purchase any travel tickets for a fellow unless they can show proof of all valid travel documents (e.g valid passports).

CSL will not be liable for any loss or expenses (including airfares) for travel delays incurred by the fellow as a result of inaccurate information provided by the fellow, delays in submitting the appropriate forms to the relevant authorities or refusals of host or transit country authorities to grant a visa to the fellow.• During the travel period covered under the training programme, it is the fellow’s responsibility to comply with all local laws and legislation of the country to which he or she will travel.

Eligibility:

CSL aims to identify talented individuals who have the potential to make change. We are committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination, and encourage applications from a diverse range of candidates.

To apply for the fellowship, you must:

Be a citizen of the East African Community Member states and expected to reside in the region during the term of the fellowship.

Be able to start the programme by 13 February, 2023 and commit throughout all phases of the programme.
By February 2023, be a graduate lawyer admitted to the bar with between one and five years of relevant work experience
Be passionate about working with the community in pursuit of justice.