Legal Services Facility (LSF) is leading non-profit organization that strives to increase access to justice for all, in particular for women through a legal empowerment approach.  Established in 2011 the LSF is committed to promoting protection of human rights for all through enhancing the availability, affordability, accessibility, and acceptability of quality legal aid services through over 4000 paralegals and 200 legal aid providers organizations scatted across the country main land and Zanzibar.

In implementation its mandate the LSF do direct implementation of its programs as well as sub granting to organization which provide legal aid, women social economic empowerment programs, criminal justices, Alternative disputed resolutions and Access to justice program as a whole in both  Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar.

LSF works closely with the government of Tanzania at all levels, development partners, access to justice actors, private sector, UN originations, and other like-minded stakeholders within and across the Region to ensure equitable access to justice for all with special focus on poor women, girls, People Living with disability and other vulnerable groups. 

Key Results Areas

Goals: LSF’s strategic goal is to enhance access to justice for all, in particular for women in the next five years. More specifically, LSF aims at:

1.       Increasing accessibility of quality legal aid services to the marginalized communities in particular women.

We focuses on increased accessibility of quality basic legal aid services for women and marginalized groups across the country. Through grant making and management emphasizing on innovation and the use of technology by legal aid providers and paralegals, women and marginalized groups are able to obtain quality legal advice, assistance and representation in accordance with acceptable legal aid services standards.

2.       Promoting legally empowered communities, in particular women.

We empowerment communities with legal knowledge through legal awareness and empowerment by legal aid providers and paralegals so that they are able to shape and reform laws and practices as well as advocate for civic, political, and social-economic rights and entitlements through both individual and collective actions.

3.       Enhancing a conducive environment for sustainable access to justice.

We focuses on advocacy initiatives aiming at reforming structural inequalities within the access to justice system, advocating for laws, regulations and practice reforms to conform to regional and international access to justice standards.

4.       Institutional development and sustainability of LSF and the legal aid sector

We focuses on enhancing the performance and sustainability of LSF as an organization and on the other enhancing the coordination and support of access to justice and legal aid actors to collectively work together on the delivery of legal aid services