Armas Alvarado, Henry

The social outreach of law: experiences from linking universities and communities in promoting access to justice in Peru

This paper is a result of the Citizen Participation in Human Rights Advocacy Learning Fellowship Programme at the Institute of Development Studies in 2002. The author shares his experiences from the PROSODE (Proyecci¾n Social de Derecho/ Social Outreach of Law) programme at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He describes how the programme was built up by a group of students and how they embark upon planning, funding and implementing the programme.