The council has in collaboration with UNODC, PRAWA and other stakeholders in the justice sector in Nigeria developed a five year national legal aid strategic plan to enhance access to justice delivery to indigent and vulnerable Nigerians. Once the National Strategy on Legal Aid is adopted, the Legal aid service providers will be able to work more cohesively and this would definitely impact more positively on the Human Rights record of Nigeria m. THE CLEARING HOUSE SYSTEM The council in collaboration with PRAWA and the Nigerian Bar Association initiated two different models of clearing house system in the federal capital territory (FCT) (north central) and Enugu state (south east). The legal aid council led the Abuja model. The model was designed to provide access to quality legal representation and link them up with lawyers registered with the scheme. The project has built the council capacity to own the mandate given to it in its ACT to be the clearing house for access to justice to the poor in Nigeria which it does by engaging private practitioners who willingly apply to do probono service and register cases they take up.A baseline study for both Abuja and Enugu conducted in June 2011 indicated pretrial detainees in both male and female spent an average period of 592and 407 days in Enugu and Abuja respectively, the duration has reduced to 339 and 254days for Enugu and Abuja respectively. In recognition of the success of the scheme in these two states, the partners rolled out a nationwide program me in last quarter of 2014 with the support of justice for all and the United Kingdom department for international development (DFID). n. The Council has produced an illustrative book on the Child Rights Act / Law, to educate children and parents alike, which is presently being distributed to schools across the nation. o. The service delivery records of the Council, from inception to December 2016 are as tabulated below: Table 16: - Legal Aid Cases from Inception to 2016 Nature Granted Completed of Cases 121,563 77,820 Criminal Civil 24,509 16,311 PDSS 25,433 25,433 Total 171,505 119,564 Source: Legal Aid Council, Nigeria: 31

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