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rights. In this sense, efforts for the good economic development of the country should be
accompanied by social development stopping the increase in the gap between rich and poor.
The National Programme for the Fight Against Poverty have been focusing its actions and
interventions in two main specific fronts: improve infrastructures (like access to water and
basic sanitation), and social and economic integration of the most affected population groups
as well as population based in critical areas.
Closely related with the fight for poverty eradication is the Cape-verdean Institute of Scholar
and Social Action (created in 1983, destined to work with scholar and social actions for
student population from backgrounds of low income) and the Institute for Employment and
Professional Training (created in 1979, with the aim to promote the increase of employment
vacancies, improve quality of offers fighting like this unemployment via the execution of
active politics for employment and professional training), both with the philosophy that
education, training and capability are important tools in the fight against poverty.
The access to Rights and Justice is made by the strong programme in place. On top of the
legislative programmes above mentioned, we should also mention investments made to
endow the country of better infrastructures in the justice sector - courts, prisons - creating
conditions and also efforts made to train its professionals like magistrates, justice officials and
prison guards.
An important initiative was to create Law Houses in 2005, and these are non-judicial
structures, trained to promote the access to justice and rights, guaranteeing namely
information and juridical consultation to citizens. They stimulate the development of
citizenship and the civic participation, disclosing judicial and extra-judicial means existent for
conflict resolution. The Law Houses aim to provide citizens with knowledge of their rights
and duties towards a specific case of its quotidian living experiences. Through these it is
possible for citizens to have access to judicial consultation supported by lawyers through
partnerships with the Cape Verde Lawyers Organization (OACV). Besides this, there is an
aim to refuge victims of violence and grant alternative solutions to conflict. It is an important
project to guarantee access to justice by deprived population.View entire presentation