Financing People-Centered Justice: From Rhetoric to Resources

​This World Social Summit side event brings together government representatives, grassroots justice innovators, and technical experts to explore how financing can be mobilized and targeted to support people-centered justice. While justice is essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and advancing social and economic rights, financing for justice remains critically under-prioritized in national budgets and international development assistance. This session will spotlight high-impact, low-cost models of justice service delivery implemented by community-based organizations and share practical insights on budgetary pathways for financing people-centered justice through national planning and development cooperation.

​Join us for an interactive discussion on how to shift from rhetoric to resources: making people-centered justice not just a shared aspiration, but a funded priority. Whether enabling access to identification, protecting vulnerable populations from violence, or resolving disputes, justice lies at the intersection of social protection, inclusion, and empowerment. This event offers a critical opportunity for collective reflection and policy alignment on integrating justice financing into broader development strategies for inclusive and equitable development.

​The event is online. A Zoom link will be shared prior to its start.

​For more information, see: https://www.sdg16.plus/events/financing-people-centered-justice-from-rhetoric-to-resources.

​Hosted by the Pathfinders’ Justice for All program, the Justice Action Coalition, the Uganda Association of Women Lawyers (FIDA- Uganda), TAP Network, and the African Center for Excellence on Access to Justice.