JIA-CERJA has been engaged in a strategic advisory mission supporting national authorities in addressing prison overcrowding and pre-trial detention reform.
The mission combined institutional diagnostics, comparative analysis and stakeholder consultations, with a particular focus on alternatives to incarceration and procedural improvements.
Reform roadmap
A reform roadmap has been validated with partner authorities, articulating short-term operational improvements and longer-term legislative reforms.
3
Tracks of the reform roadmap (operational, procedural, legislative)
12+
Stakeholder institutions engaged in the validation process
24m
Implementation horizon of the validated roadmap
Approach
The advisory drew on JIA-CERJA's standing methodology - diagnose, contextualize, sequence - to translate technical analysis into a politically credible programme of work.
Sustainable reform requires combining quick operational wins with the longer institutional work that only happens with time.
The work is now entering an implementation-support phase, with continued accompaniment of partner authorities and institutional partners.