JICA Activities

Initiatives for Legal and Judicial Development

JICA has been supporting the legal and judicial development in the countries listed below for.

• Cambodia
• Vietnam
• Indonesia
• Laos
• Nepal
• China
• Uzbekistan
• Mongolia
• Myanmar
• African region

Public relations materials

JICA magazine

Special issue on legal and judicial development

• Ensuring Basic Human Rights: A World in Which Everyone Can Shine (JICA's World July 2020) (English)
• Rule of Law for Sustainable Development and Access to Justice for All (JICA's World January 2017) (English)
• Protecting people, building nations (JICA's World April 2011) (English) (PDF/22.8MB)

Video materials (JICA-Net Library)

• JICA's legal and judicial development - Contributing to the "creation of rules" to support society - (created in March 2018) (external link: YouTube)

Social media account (Facebook)

Vietnam

• Project for Harmonized, Practical Legislation, and Uniform Application of Law Targeting Year 2020 (Japanese, English, Vietnamese) (external link)

Laos

• Project for Promoting Development and Strengthening of the Rule of Law in the Legal Sector of Lao P.D.R. (external link)

Book

On the occasion of the 20th year anniversary of our support for legal and judicial development in various countries, JICA published a book showcasing our long-standing cooperation not only to our partners in the international cooperation and the legal sector, but also to the general public.

• Japanese-style ‘legal and judicial development' to change the world: Legal and judicial development working together with developing countries (Japanese) (external link)

Brochures and reports concerning JICA's cooperation for legal and judicial development

Rule of Law and Human Security (created in FY 2020)

• Rule of Law and Human Security (English) (PDF/1.49MB)

Cooperation in the legal and judicial system development in Cambodia

This brochure was distributed at the ceremony for the application of the Cambodian Civil Code held on December 21, 2011.

• English (PDF/2.16MB)
• Khmer (PDF/2.11MB)

African region

The report on the information-gathering and confirmation survey in the African region has been uploaded!

• Information gathering and confirmation survey on the development of business laws in the African region (February 2022) (PDF/1.48MB)
• Information gathering and confirmation survey on the improvement of access to justice and building of networks in the African region (January 2022) (PDF/7.05MB)
• Information collection and confirmation survey on the protection and rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents in Kenya (September 2021)