81304347 - Strenghtening evidence based Case Management in Bangladesh courts

Published

1 February 2024

Place of performance

Bangladesh

Procedure

neg-w-call

Lots

1

Notice number

00067955-2024

Reference

eb4dbc1d-3156-42e9-be01-6b32e2966e9a

Official source

Official source

CPV codes

• 75231100Servicios administrativos relacionados con los tribunales de justicia

Description

Description of project Formal state justice in Bangladesh is difficult to access for the poorer part of the population: Bangladesh is ranked 129th out of 139 countries in terms of access to justice in civil disputes. The starting point is the poor state of the judiciary in Bangladesh, which is characterized by considerable overload and, as a result, excessively long proceedings. According to a report commissioned by the government and carried out by the module "Judicial and prison reform to promote political human rights and the fight against corruption" supported extensive survey on the justice sector (Justice Audit), the percentage of cases that are already pending and not yet completed in relation to the new cases received has increased continuously in all instances for years. This case backlog was, for example, the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court is forecast to have 72% pending, uncompleted cases in 2022 compared to the total number of all cases. At the same time, the rate of cases concluded in the courts with a conviction is very low, in some courts even less than 1% of the total cases. This shows that a large proportion of cases could have been dismissed at an earlier stage …

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Who is the buyer of this tender?

The contracting authority is Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (European Union).