THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA JUDICIARY OF TANZANIA JUDICIARY STRATEGIC PLAN 2020/21 - 2024/25 2 JUDICIARY STRATEGIC PLAN 2020/21 - 2024/25 THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA JUDICIARY OF TANZANIA JUDICIARY STRATEGIC PLAN 2020/21 - 2024/25 Towards Citizen-Centric Justice Service Delivery July, 2020 JUDICIARY STRATEGIC PLAN 2020/21 - 2024/25 3 4 JUDICIARY STRATEGIC PLAN 2020/21 - 2024/25 TABLE OF CONTENT 1.0. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................1 1.1. Background ...................................................................................................................................1 1.2. Institutional Framework of the Judiciary .......................................................................................1 1.2.1. The Court System ............................................................................................................2 1.2.2. The Court of Appeal .........................................................................................................2 1.2.3. The High Court ...............................................................................................................2 1.2.4. Court of Resident Magistrate and District Court .............................................................2 1.2.5. Primary Court ..................................................................................................................3 1.3. Judicial Service Commission .........................................................................................................3 1.4. Development of the Strategic Plan (2020/21 – 2024/25) ..............................................................3 A. Judiciary Clients and stakeholders .............................................................................................4 1.5. Structure of the Strategic Plan .......................................................................................................6 2.0. SITUATION ANALYSIS ................................................................................................................7 2.1. The basis of the situation analysis ..................................................................................................7 2.2. Review of Strategic Plan 2015/16 - 2019/20 .................................................................................7 2.2.1. Governance, Accountability and Management of Resources .......................................7 2.2.1.1. Strengthening Judicial Ethics Committees ..................................................................7 2.2.1.2. Gender Issues .............................................................................................................8 2.2.1.3. National Fiber Optics .................................................................................................8 2.2.1.4. Capacity building to the Judiciary Staff ......................................................................8 2.2.1.5. Knowledge and experience sharing .............................................................................9 2.2.1.6. Access to Justice and Expeditiousness .........................................................................9 2.2.1.7. Access to court Information, ....................................................................................11 2.2.1.8. Court Brokers and Process Servers, ...........................................................................11 2.2.1.9. Review of complex and outdated Laws and Rules of procedures ...............................11 2.2.1.10. Simple index of court Rules and laws, ......................................................................12 2.2.1.11. Case backlog ............................................................................................................12 2.2.1.12. e - case management system .....................................................................................12 2.2.1.13. Video conference (VC) and Audio-Visual Recording Facilities .................................13 2.2.1.14. Decongestion of Registries .......................................................................................13 2.2.2. Public trust and stakeholder’s engagement ................................................................13 2.2.2.1. Reflections on the Public trust and stakeholder’s engagement and the General Public Perception ........................................................................................14 2.3. Issues and Challenges that affected implementation of 2015/16 – 2019/20 .................................15 2.3.1. Infrastructure Development .....................................................................................15 2.3.2. Capacity of the Institute of Judicial Administration Lushoto (IJA) ...........................15 2.3.3. Technology ..............................................................................................................16 2.3.4. Amendments of Laws and Rules ...............................................................................16 2.3.5. Change of Mindset ..................................................................................................16 2.3.6. Human resources .....................................................................................................16 2.3.7. Financial Constraints ...............................................................................................17 JUDICIARY STRATEGIC PLAN 2020/21 - 2024/25 i 2.4 Strategic gap analysis ................................................................................................................. 17 2.4.1 SWOC Analysis ..................................................................................................... 17 2.4.2 Stakeholder Analysis ............................................................................................... 19 2.5 Pending Strategic issues and the Way forward ............................................................................ 19 2.5.1 Infrastructure and retooling .................................................................................... 19 2.5.2 Systems development for quick and effective case management .............................. 20 2.5.3 Human Resources Management (Adequacy and Capability) .................................. 20 2.5.4 Leveraging Information and Communication Technology ...................................... 20 2.5.5 Governance and accountability .............................................................................. 21 2.5.6 Financial Resources Mobilization ........................................................................... 21 3.0 FRAMEWORK OF THE PLAN ..................................................................................................22 3.1 Mission ..................................................................................................................................... 22 3.2 Core Values ............................................................................................................................... 22 3.3 Strategic Pillars and Key Result Areas (KRA) ............................................................................. 23 4.0 IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK AND RESOURCES MOBILIZATION ..........................50 4.1 Institutional Arrangements ........................................................................................................ 50 4.2 Decentralized Implementation of the Plan ................................................................................ 50 4.3 FINANCIAL (BUDGET) REQUIREMENTS ........................................................................ 51 5.0 PERFORMANCE MONITORING .............................................................................................53 5.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 53 ANNEX THE RESULT FRAMEWORK FOR MONITORING IMPLEMENTATION OF JSP 2020/21 – 2024/25 ................................................................................................................................ 54 Results Framework – Description and definitions .......................................................................................... 69 ii JUDICIARY STRATEGIC PLAN 2020/21 - 2024/25 ACRONYMS ADR - Alternative Dispute Resolution CCA - Chief Court Administrator CJ - Chief Justice CoA - Court of Appeal CPC - Civil Procedure Code DAHRM - Director of Administration and Human Resources Management DCM - Director of Case Management DICT - Director of Information, Communication and Technology DJSIE - Director of Judicial Supervision, Inspection and Ethics DPM - Director of Planning and Monitoring DRM - Director of Records Management GEPG - Government Electronic Payment Gateway GovNet - Government Network HCMIS - Human Capital Management Information System HEM - Head of Estate Management HIEC - Head of information, Education and Communication HQ - Headquarters ICT - Information and Communication Technology IEC - Information Education and Communication IJA - Institute of Judicial Administration – Lushoto IJC - Integrated Justice Centers JDU - Judiciary Delivery Unit JoT - Judiciary of Tanzania JSC - Judicial Service Commission JSP - Judiciary Strategic Plan KPI - Key Performance Indicator KRA - Key Result Area LAN - Local Area Network M&E - Monitoring and Evaluation MoF - Ministry of Finance MTEF - Medium Term Expenditure Framework