Partners
The website is funded by the Open Society Foundation for South
Africa (OSF-SA) and the Open Society Justice Initiative. The website
is managed by the Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town
The Open Society Foundation for South Africa (OSF-SA) is
a part of an international network of Foundations and programmes founded
and supported
by George Soros. Its mission in South Africa is to promote the values,
institutions and practices of an open, non-racial and non-sexist,
democratic, civil society, and it works for a vigorous and autonomous civil
society
in which the rule of law and divergent opinions are respected. OSF-SA
has 4 programmes in South Africa, namely the Criminal Justice Initiative;
the
Human Rights and Governance Programme; the Media Programme and the
Education Initiative.
The Criminal Justice Initiative (CJI) is both a grant-making
and operationalised programme with an interest in both criminal
justice and crime prevention. Since its inception in 1999, the CJI has focused
on funding activities that build innovation in policy and practice,
aimed
at benefiting women, children and young people. Its current
work
includes grant making and operationalised projects in the following
areas: Corruption,
Sentencing and Prisons, Policing, Local Crime Prevention, and
Access to Justice.
Website: http://www.osf.org.za/
The
Open Society Justice Initiative is
a new programme of the international Soros network, which aims to pursue
rights-based law reform and strengthen
legal capacity worldwide. Designed to produce practical benefits that
have broader policy implications, Justice Initiative projects employ a variety
of tools, including hands-on technical assistance to governments, NGOs
and
inter-governmental organs; litigation and legal advice; knowledge-dissemination
and network-building among law reform advocates; and counsel to donor
institutions supporting the rule of law. The Justice Initiative promotes
open society
values in several distinct, yet related, thematic program areas: national
criminal justice reform, international justice, freedom of information
and expression, equality and migration, anti-corruption, and legal capacity
development.
Website: http://www.justiceinitiative.org/
