The Justice Gap and the Budget Black Hole - PROMOTING JUSTICE FOR ALL

Opening up justice budgeting and ensuring that it responds more effectively to people’s needs will require a comprehensive assessment of the social costs of unmet justice needs; the cost of services currently deployed; the potential costs of alternative interventions; and the impact of investment on the justice outcomes people need and want. [...] The best practices that have emerged in fiscal and budget policies—as well as research and activism based on budget data and analysis—have demonstrated the links between the fiscal and budgetary dimensions of public policies and the evolution of social justice goals in several fields. [...] 6.1 Human rights budgeting The understanding of the content of human rights as a bundle of powers associated with various levels of state duties and obligations led to the recognition of the fundamental relationship between rights and public institutions, investments, and actions and, therefore, of their direct connection with fiscal policy and public budgets.16 Some of the most widespread tools a. [...] The Justice Gap and the Budget Black Hole: Promoting Justice for All Through Budget-Based Work 10 7.1 Costs First, to the extent that the justice gap is also a public investment gap, the proper determination of its size and scope requires a comprehensive identification and calibration of: • Social costs associated with situations of unmet justice needs, and • Actual cost borne by the state and by. [...] A more limited work, along the same lines, referring to the type of legal needs attended by the Network of Access to Justice Centers in Argentina can be found in, “Study of the impact of Justice on the inclusive growth of citizens,” Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, 2019, 20 Trevor Farrow and Lesley Jacobs, The Justice Crisis: The Cost and Val.