As part of the implementation of its Accountability and Capacity Strengthening Program, APAP holds moot-court competitions among the students of the law faculties of the various institutions of higher learning in Ethiopia. This, it is believed, helps to sensitize both students and faculty members about human rights and the various international human-rights instruments, particularly those focusing on economic, social and cultural rights.

APAP will hold the fourth moot-court competition on the Mekelle University campus sometime this coming fall (autumn). Based on its experience, APAP expects this year’s competition to be even more successful than any of the three held before—both in the way it will be held as well as on the impact that it is expected to have, given the high media coverage it will inevitably enjoy and the attention that it will draw from the pertinent government bodies.

The feedback that APAP got from the institutions of higher learning where the competition was held earlier is encouraging. The institutions of higher learning where the competition was held earlier are, of course, Addis Ababa, Bahir Dar and Jimma Universities—in that order.