El Salvador project 519-0296 · 1984–1994 · good governance · Checchi and Co. Consulting, Inc. (CCCI)

Summarizes final evaluation (XD-ABD-289-A) of a component of the Judicial Reform Project in El Salvador to establish a Revisory Commission of Salvadoran Legislation (CORELESAL) to review and revise national legislation affecting the criminal justice system. The evaluation covered the period FY84-10/90. CORELESAL was organized as a policy level body with representatives from the Executive Branch, the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Court, that Attorney General's Office, the Public Defender's office, the Ministry of Defense, the bar associations, and the law schools. This diverse representation was devised in order to guarantee a thorough airing of proposals by the groups most involved in the system, and to promote an apolitical approach to the reform process. Under the Commission was a technical group in charge of actually drafting the legislation. Some of the best legal minds in the country were hired as part of this technical body. Despite a rather high level of productivity on the part of CORELESAL (in areas other than criminal justice), and a recent increase in the amount of legislation which it had drafted being passed by the legislature, CORELESAL's has not had a fundamen

Source: DEC abstract, PD-ABD-289 (1991). The source's own text.