The institutional capacity building component of the “Enhancing Access to Justice in South Omo” Project, which has been implemented by APAP in collaboration with Christian Aid, was carried out during the last periods of the grace period.

The first part of the project, the successful implementation of which was part of the December issue of the e newsletter, aimed at enhancing the knowledge of capabilities of the members of the Zones' law enforcement and administrative officials on laws, human rights and good governance issues related to each organ of the government .

The other component of the project, aimed at complimenting and sustaining the above effort by building the institutional capacity of the mentioned targets, by availing equipments and pertinent legal and human right resource materials to target as well as opening of resource center.

Accordingly, APAP based on the findings of a need assessment conducted for the purpose, provided pertinent legal and human rights resource materials and one computer and printer each to the four of the target organizations i.e. Zone High Court, Justice Office, Police and Prison Administration.

A resource center that contains human rights and law resource materials was opened with the necessary furnitures i.e. chairs, shelves, tables ,books and legislations provided by APAP as part of the city library provided by Jinka city administration for the purpose of the center.