Project title: Promoting greater civic awareness and engagement in judicial reforms and facilitating increased access to justice through holistic multi-agency action

Donor: The European Union, represented by the European Commission,itself represented by the Delegation of the European Union to Georgia

Partner organizations: Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association, Social Justice Center, Studio Monitor

Project duration: 01.01.2024 – 31.12.2026

Total amount of grant: EUR 967,343.37 

The amount received by IDFI: EUR 124,255 

The overall objective of the action: Promoting accessibility, independence, transparency, impartiality, and accountability within the justice system, including judicial reforms.

The activities to be implemented by IDFI:

 To improve access to reasoned court decisions, IDFI will implement the following activities:

- Producing annual monitoring reports on the accessibility of judgments from the Common Courts and the Constitutional Court of Georgia. To assess the accessibility of judgments from the Common Courts and the Constitutional Court of Georgia, a comprehensive methodology - the Judicial Transparency Index of Georgia - will be developed;

- Producing comparative analysis on the proactive disclosure of the reasoned judgments. Particularly, conducting extensive research on case law, legal acts,  recommendations, directives, and standards  from international bodies concerning the accessibility of court decisions;

- Monitoring the practical enforcement of the Constitutional Court of Georgia's judgment on the accessibility of judicial acts and producing the report. IDFI will identify the current legal and practical challenges and develop comprehensive recommendations to enhance public access to reasoned judgments of the courts;

- Initiating strategic litigation to overcome the barriers that currently impede public access to judicial acts. 

IDFI’s share budget for 2024-2026, including IDFI’s contribution:

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