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The Program The Inter-American Program of Judicial Fa-
cilitators helps the judicial institutions to
The purpose of the Inter-American Pro- establish a National Service of Judicial Fa-
gram of Judicial Facilitators of the OAS is cilitators; there are no facilitators from the
to support the institutions of the member OAS; the Program does not provide any
services to the population, neither does it
states of the organization so that in their
societies the justice system is improved,
particularly for social sectors in vulnerable intend to train or supervise the facilitators.
It seeks to make the judicial powers value,
conditions, by establishing national servi- run, and finance a service of access to jus-
ces of judicial facilitators and the training tice for the population in general.
of judicial operators.
The IPJF backs up the establishment of
a National Service of Judicial Facilitators
(NSJF) in the countries that request its
assistance and have a signed an agree-
ment of collaboration. In those cases, it
sets up a project of assistance. Through
this project, the Program encourages and
supports so that the regular structures of
the Judicial Power, institutional counter-
part in every country, and the rest of the
operators adopt the service.
