Our Projects
At JES, we deliver results. Since our founding in 1989, we’ve worked on hundreds of projects in 19 countries to improve people’s legal capability and build the capacity of their justice systems.
At JES, we deliver results. Since our founding in 1989, we’ve worked on hundreds of projects in 19 countries to improve people’s legal capability and build the capacity of their justice systems.
Funded through USAID’s MujerProspera Challenge, the project seeks to address and respond to barriers to economic prosperity and security faced by women survivors of violence in Guatemala, including trans women, Indigenous women, and women with disabilities, through an integrated and holistic approach.
In this project, JES was the lead organization on the Canadian side, and partnered with the American Bar Association Central Eastern European Initiative (ìABA/CEELIî).
As part of the Horn of Africa Capacity Building Program funded by Oxfam Canada, JES supported OXFAM Canada with civil society and justice strengthening with a gender focus in Ethiopia.
Training police, prosecutors, and judges in Guatemala on wiretap operations to improve their investigations on organized crime.
In 2020, JES conducted a diagnostic study on access to justice for Indigenous Peoples in Guyana.