Legal Development Network is a union of non-governmental community-based organizations that promote people-centered justice by legal aid, legal education, strategic advocacy, and other legal empowerment tools. The union began its formation in 2009 under the name “Network of Centers of Legal Information and Consultation”. At that time, 8 organizations decided to unite their efforts to develop common approaches to providing legal assistance in communities, generalizing typical appeals and standardizing the provision of legal assistance.

Today the Network unites organizations in the majority of Ukrainian regions. These LDN’s member organizations provide the population with basic legal information, actively cooperate with local authorities to solve individual problems and protect public interests, implement alternative dispute resolution, developing territorial communities and local leadership.

Every month, thousands of people address the offices of the Network and through its online services for legal assistance. A wide range of legal issues the lawyers of the Network work with include but are not limited to: land, labor, social and family cases. Much attention is paid to solving the problems of internally displaced persons and veterans.

Mission:

We empower people legally, protect human rights and freedoms, and develop communities

Strategic activities:

• Legal empowerment – creating a critical mass of people who know their rights, are able and motivated to protect and
  promote them
• Professional legal support for communities – shaping environment for building territorial communities that are able to address their problems in a legal way
• Institutional capacity of the Network – development of a coherent union of civil society organizations operating in the community’s interest