Improved Administration of Justice, Costa Rica
USAID/Costa Rica
1988

MSD provided economic and technical assistance to consolidate and modernize the administration of justice in Costa Rica by enhancing sector coordination and planning; strengthening professional judicial education and training; and improving availability of up-to-date information on legislation currently in force.  Major achievements include the development of the National Commission as an effective instrument for planning, promoting, monitoring, and evaluating the execution of a coordinated national criminal justice sector program in coordination with key justice sector institutions; strengthening of the Judicial School involved in the training of judicial professionals; and creation of an automated system providing current, easily accessible information on legislation in force.  The design of the Justice Sector Reform Project in Costa Rica served as a catalyst for the conduct of a comprehensive range of reform activities, namely, brining together key justice sector counterparts and/or actors interested in judicial reform, raising awareness of the need for comprehensive and integrated reforms to address training of justice system officials and enhancing legislation through automation.