Honorable Mr. Zakarias Erkola, Deputy Director General – Chief Executive of the Training and Justice System Reform Sector.

A tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Institute, Addis Ababa University, and Justice for All to develop an Afan Oromo legal dictionary.

A national consultative forum with federal and regional law and justice institutions

Closing program of the trainee prosecutors’ training, which has been conducted in collaboration with the Addis Ababa Justice Bureau, held on January 28, 2024.

Honorable Mr. Zakarias Erkola

Deputy Director General (State Minister) of the Federal Law and Justice Institute – Training and Justice System Reform Sector.

The Training and Justice System Reform Sector consists of three Chief Executive Offices, namely: the Chief Executive Officer of Judicial and Justice Institutions Training, the Chief Executive Officer of Justice System Reform and Legal Information Center, and the Chief Executive Officer of Legal Professionals Assessment and Competency Certification. The Chief Executive Officer of Judicial and Justice Institutions Training is responsible for providing training to newly recruited legal professionals entering the justice system so that they are well equipped in attitude, skills, knowledge, and ethics before beginning their professional duties. In addition, based on training needs assessments conducted among justice sector professionals, the office provides problem-solving in-service training. Furthermore, it offers training to legal directorates and prosecutors working in various ministerial offices through cost-sharing arrangements. Currently, since only a few regions in the country have justice sector training centers, the office also provides need-based training for judges, prosecutors, and investigators in regions without training centers, as well as police officers involved in human rights-related duties in correctional institutions. Another key responsibility of this office is to coordinate relevant stakeholders to ensure standardized curricula and training systems across regional training centers and to develop and implement harmonized training curricula. The Chief Executive Officer of the Justice System Reform and Legal Information Center primarily aims to coordinate and harmonize justice sector reform and legal education programs, as well as to support efforts to improve the justice and legal system through the dissemination of legal and justice-related information. In addition, it collects, organizes, and analyzes legal and justice information and, using modern information technology, ensures that such information is widely accessible to users and stakeholders. The Chief Executive Officer of Legal Professionals Assessment and Competency Certification is responsible for establishing and implementing an assessment system that ensures legal professionals deployed in law schools and justice sector training institutions possess the required knowledge and skills.