IMPROVING IMPLEMENTATION OF CURRENT LAWS
In many cases, USAID’s first efforts to support the
rule of law are to improve and implement the countries’
current laws. By enabling the existing legal systems to work
effectively and more legitimately, USAID paves the way for
later revision and reform. Strengthening of current legal
systems initially grew into support for a later judicial reform
movement that began in Argentina and spread throughout Latin
America and the Caribbean, bringing much-needed improvements
to the courts and criminal justice systems across the region.7
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