Deadline: 25 May 2017
Checchi & Company Consulting, Inc. (Checchi) is seeking applications for its Assistance for the Development of Afghan Legal Access and Transparency (ADALAT) Practical Legal Action and Clinical Education (PLACE) Grants Program to support improvement in quality and access to legal education.
Aims
The ADALAT PLACE Program aims to achieve the following objectives:
- Offer opportunities for practical legal education, on a gender balanced basis, to law and sharia students attending private universities;
- Improve students’ practical skills including interviewing, investigating, negotiating, lawyer‐client relationships, research, legal writing, strategic analysis, and advocacy;
- Increase access to legal advice and services through student‐run, professor and attorney‐supervised legal clinics;
- Supplement the teaching of legal theory and doctrine through effective means of delivering legal services and turning theory into action;
- Improve the ability of law and sharia graduates to offer meaningful legal assistance soon after graduation;
- Offer opportunities to law and sharia students to witness the impact of law in the daily lives of citizens, including opportunities to witness judges, prosecutors, government officials and police apply the law on a day to day basis;
- Offer opportunities to participate in, and receive academic credit for, competitive moot court programs;
- Ensure that practical legal education, through law clinics and practice‐oriented law courses, become permanently integrated into law and sharia curricula.
- Enhance capacity of professor/attorney‐supervised legal clinics on Clinical Legal Education.
Funding Information
- Checchi anticipates funding several grants between $75,000 and $150,000 for each grant program.
- The anticipated period of performance anticipated is up to 24 months from date of award.
- The anticipated start date for this program is on or about 25th July 2017.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility requirements for grant applicants are as follows:
- Must be registered as a legal entity in Afghanistan; if submitting an application jointly, all partners must be registered entities, and one of them must be responsible for managing and reporting on the grant.
- Private higher education institution(s)
- 3‐year operating history of law and/or sharia faculty
- At least 100 students enrolled during the preceding year in the law and/or sharia (Islamic jurisprudence) faculties
- At least 35% of the law or sharia teaching faculty must be permanent, or full‐time
- Must meet the objectives of ADALAT
- Proposal must include expected outcomes and results consistent with and linked to ADALAT’s objectives including an approach to gender integration.
- The selected universities for grant must receive vetting eligibility from the USAID Kabul Vetting Support Unit for the period of the grant agreement.
- Must agree to follow USAID Multi‐Tier‐Monitoring requirements for remote activity verification including possible use of third party monitors.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted electronically via given website.
For more information, please visit ADALAT PLACE Program.
