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Greetings from Budapest! Here are some reflections from day two of the Legal Empowerment Leadership Course.
First session: Case Study I - The paralegal movement in the Philippines
“Each step we take is a cry for justice”
- Community mobilization is a process
- Legal empowerment can be the goal or the process
- In the Philippines, there are 50,000 people for each judge - You need paralegals in the Philippines!
- Huge organizing effort and social movement in the Philippines, paralegals working together with lawyers rather than substituting with each other
- They walked because they persisted, their persistance put pressure on the company and the government
- Paralegals do better with lawyers, not necessarily with substitution
Here are some amazing graphic notes by @poltenko
Second session: Community-driven data collection and analysis for advocacy
“Data is a hammer, you can hit yourself with it or build a house with it”
- Data is necessary, but it is risky, can go wrong, you need the right data
- Data gives a sense of agency
- Data sovereignty: who owns it?
- Data visualization tells better stories
- Data management cycle from Namati Myanmar [Data Management Cycle.pdf|attachment]
Here are some amazing graphic notes by @poltenko
Working group sessions
- Our problems are interconnected, and our solutions can be interconnected
- A law for a local government can be effective, rather than a national law
During this week we´ve found opportunities to dig deeper into our work.
Best,
110 million people
60 thousand plus lawyers (1:1833 plus) 
22 hundred judges (1:50 thousand) 
can do better with paralegals