Domestic financing for justice: who spends most on justice?

‘Basic and ‘people-centred’ justice The analysis in this paper is based around the concept of a ‘basic’ justice system – what it would take to provide a minimum level of the basic elements of a functional, country-wide, front-line justice system. [...] The analysis is based on the data they reported to the IMF, using the COFOG definition of the justice sector (‘public order, law and safety’) described in Section 2.3 above. [...] In the health sector, data on the numbers of people who benefitted from targeting spend to front-line services, and to the resulting improved overall health outcomes for the country (compared to the relatively few people who benefitted from hospitals in capitals), enabled donors to make the case to ministries of finance and health, for changed priorities and a refocusing of health spend. [...] It was suggested during the discussion that the reasons for this may be that requests are made for the kind of things that donors have traditionally funded in the justice sector in the past, and so it is assumed will want to continue to fund. [...] It may also relate to the capture of the justice sector and its budget by the elite, who have little interest in ensuring nationwide access to people- centred justice or responding to the needs and wishes of their citizens (Domingo, 2016; Denney and Domingo, 2017).