Tuesday, 10 September
Time: Full Day
Venue: Yellow Pagoda Hotel, Kathmandu
With IDPC

Title: Drugs, human rights and access to justice: what is the connection?  Goals: 1) Increase the number of advocates working towards drug policies based on human rights and harm reduction in Asia, especially in South Asia 2) Increase the capacity of community and civil society representatives to advocate for drug policies based on human rights and harm reduction in Asia, especially in South Asia, including through engagement in relevant UN processes.

Tuesday, 10 September
Time: Half Day
Venue: TBA, Kathmandu
With iProbono

Internal strategy workshop focusing on the strengthening of the partnership and collaboration initiatives between LAPSOJ and the iProbono Team

Wednesday, 11 September
Time: Full Day
Venue: Yellow Pagoda Hotel, Kathmandu
With IDPC

Title: Drugs, human rights and access to justice: what is the connection?  Goals: 1) Increase the number of advocates working towards drug policies based on human rights and harm reduction in Asia, especially in South Asia 2) Increase the capacity of community and civil society representatives to advocate for drug policies based on human rights and harm reduction in Asia, especially in South Asia, including through engagement in relevant UN processes.

Wednesday, 11 September
Time: Full Day
Venue: Nepal Law Campus, Kathmandu
With BABSEACLE & Nepal Law Campus

The workshop will focus on the Goals, Models, Programmes and Methods of CLE, and provide a practical road map of how CLE helps to achieve and strengthen Access to Justice.

Wednesday, 11 September
Time: 3:00pm -5:00pm
Venue: To Be Determined 
With  Network of Women Lawyers for Research and Change 

The network is going to conduct a roundtable discussion on the scope, practices, gaps and need for paralegal practices and its role on enhancing access to justice in the Nepalese context. This roundtable seeks to generate concrete and innovative recommendations on how community paralegalism could be pursued with new vigor today and in the future. Renowned national experts in this field have accepted the invitation to contribute ideas on the above mentioned agenda, based on the insights they gained in their particular field of expertise.

Wednesday, 11 September
Time: Full Day
Venue: Yellow Pagoda Hotel, Kathmandu
With Namati, OSF/OSJI & BABSEACLE

The workshop will focus on the diversified ways and means, individuals, communities and networks achieve greater access to justice through Legal Empowerment.

Concept Note & Agenda A2J Exchange LEP and Paralegal Workshops (Sept 11-12)

Thursday, 12 September
Time: Full Day
Venue: Yellow Pagoda Hotel, Kathmandu
With IDPC

Title: Drugs, human rights and access to justice: what is the connection?  Goals: 1) Increase the number of advocates working towards drug policies based on human rights and harm reduction in Asia, especially in South Asia 2) Increase the capacity of community and civil society representatives to advocate for drug policies based on human rights and harm reduction in Asia, especially in South Asia, including through engagement in relevant UN processes.

Thursday, 12 September
Time: Full Day
Venue: Yellow Pagoda Hotel, Kathmandu
With Namati, OSF/OSJI & BABSEACLE

The workshop will focus on the diversified ways and means, individuals, communities and networks achieve greater access to justice through Legal Empowerment.

Concept Note & Agenda A2J Exchange LEP and Paralegal Workshops (Sept 11-12)

Thursday, 12 September
Time: Full Day
Venue: Yellow Pagoda Hotel, Kathmandu
With Namati, OSF/OSJI & BABSEACLE

The workshop will highlight recognition efforts in diverse contexts and seek to clarify the relationship to and distinctions from other professionas in the justice sector and other related services. It will offer concrete discussions of how national policies can support and promote accessibility of community-based justice providers. 

Thursday, 12 September
Time: Full Day
Venue: Yellow Pagoda Hotel, Kathmandu
With Tyler Tipping & Woods, Law Council of Australia, Law Society Pro Bono Services Singapore,  Lanna Lawyers & BABSEACLE

This workshop will provide insights and specific strategies into why and how Bar Associations can & should support pro bono. It will do so through an interactive workshop involving key  Bar Association members and others legal service providers, from the region and worldwide.

Thursday, 12 September
Time: Full Day
Venue: Kathmandu School of Law, Kathmandu
With BABSEACLE, HSF, DLA Piper/New Perimeter & Kathmandu School of Law

The workshop will aim to help the participants explore the variety of ways and means pro bono can and should be done by legal service providers, with a key focus on the use of interactive/practical legal ethics/professional responsibility/access to justice/pro bono lessons using the Clinical Legal Education (CLE) methodology.  

Thursday, 12 September
Time: Full Day
Venue: Yellow Pagoda Hotel
With iProbono, Faculty of Law Hong Kong University & Kathmandu School of Law

The workshop, having a main focus on pro bono lawyers and other legal service providers, will focus on the ways and means that non-university based Street Law (Community Legal Education Programmes) can develop concrete and actionable project plans (“written roadmaps”) for implementing innovative justice education partnerships and practices that unite and strengthen collaborations. 

Monday, 16 September
Time: Full Day
Venue: Yellow Pagoda Hotel, Kathmandu
With HRBA2J-Asia, Kathmandu School of Law, UNDP

The workshop will: 1) analyze the link between the UN Guiding Principles, the different business-related issues in Asia  2) Provide a Training of trainers on business and human rights issues using the training manual produced by the Northeast Asia group of HRBA2J-Asia 3) Develop training programs on the application of the UN Guiding Principles.

Monday, 16 September
Time: Half Day (Morning)
Venue: Yellow Pagoda Hotel, Kathmandu
With IDPC

This roundtable will focus on providing a consultative platform  to develop advocacy strategies utilizing the UN human rights review mechanism known as the ‘Universal Periodic Review’ for advocates, legal service providers and community leaders for action. 

Monday, 16 September
Time: Half Day (Afternoon)
Venue: Yellow Pagoda Hotel, Kathmandu
With Rup Narayan Shresthai & IDPC

The half-day roundtable discussion will focus on having a policy dialogue on institutional mechanisms related to People Who Use Drugs and legal services providers in Nepal.

Monday, 16 September
Time: Full Day
Venue: TBA, Kathmandu
With ROLE UK  & a4id

The workshop will provide legal service providers with a theoretical understanding of development issues and how they relate to the law. It will also give participants an insight on how legal service providers can practically use their legal expertise to contribute to the development agenda.

Tuesday, 17 September
Time: Full Day
Venue: Yellow Pagoda Hotel, Kathmandu
With HRBA2J-Asia, Kathmandu School of Law, UNDP

The workshop will: 1) analyze the link between the UN Guiding Principles, the different business-related issues in Asia  2) Provide a Training of trainers on business and human rights issues using the training manual produced by the Northeast Asia group of HRBA2J-Asia 3) Develop training programs on the application of the UN Guiding Principles.

Wednesday, 18 September
Time: Full Day
Venue: TBA, Kathmandu
With iProbono

Internal strategy workshop focusing on the strengthening of the partnership and collaboration initiatives between iProbono/LAPSOJ ESCR Fellows Exchange