With financial support from the NGO known as Christian Aid and in close collaboration with the Organization for Social Justice in Ethiopia (OSJE), APAP launched a project aimed at enhancing the capacity of judges, prosecutors and the police in the South Omo Zone of the SNNPR and in the Borena Zone of the Oromiya Region.

A baseline survey and needs-assessment had been conducted in the town of Jinka, in the South Omo Zone, from May 21 to 28, 2008 to gauge the knowledge gap prevalent in the town pertaining to the law of the land and human-rights—especially with regard to the international human-rights instruments to which Ethiopia is party and are now part of the law of the land. The assessment, which had targeted the members of the judiciary, the prosecutors and the police of the locality, was conducted through interviews, focused discussions and document analysis. The findings of the assessment will be used as input for manual development and as a baseline to measure the impact of the project at the end of the project period.