Across the world, civil society legal empowerment programs are making important contributions to securing access to justice and inclusive development. Many such programs deploy community-based paralegals to provide practical avenues to seek rights and resolve disputes. Such programs add to the range of access points to justice, offer additional avenues to pursue government accountability and improve community knowledge of their rights often at a scale and level of legitimacy in the community that is not readily available to government initiatives alone. The evidence base for the impact of...