A Community-Based Practitioner’s Guide: Documenting Citizenship and Other Forms of Legal Identity | Land Portal
A Community-Based Practitioner’s Guide: Documenting Citizenship and Other Forms of Legal Identity

Resource information

Date of publication: 
June 2018
Resource Language: 
Pages: 
146
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This guide provides step-by-step instructions on establishing and operating a paralegal or other community-based program to help people obtain legal identity documents. It is primarily for people designing and managing community-based paralegal projects to help clients access documentary proof of citizenship and other forms of proof of legal identity, such as birth certificates. However, it will also be useful to those undertaking legal aid, litigation, and non-litigation advocacy work, as the issues that it seeks to address frequently lie at the intersection of laws and how they are applied in practice.

Authors and Publishers

Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Laura Goodwin, Laura Bingham

Publisher(s): 

Namati: Innovations in Legal Empowerment

Namati is an international organization that tests the potential of legal empowerment through innovative interventions and research. Through our work, we seek a better understanding of the impacts of legal empowerment and the most effective mechanisms for achieving them. 

Our Mission


The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant societies whose governments are accountable and open to the participation of all people.


We seek to strengthen the rule of law; respect for human rights, minorities, and a diversity of opinions; democratically elected governments; and a civil society that helps keep government power in check.


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