7.4 Legal Literacy

The concept: the law made known to the people — the citizen's legal empowerment (the rights known, the remedies understood, the duties clear). The methods: the school curricula's law components; the radio and media programmes (the legal-advice broadcasts); the street-law and community programmes (the simplified materials, the local-language sessions); the campaigns (the constitution's and the new codes' popularisation; the bar-and-CSO camps); the publications (the plain-language guides — the citizen's handbook genre). The Nepal practice: the constitutional-literacy and code-awareness campaigns of the transition years; the campuses' and NGOs' outreach; the literacy as the AID's and PIL's foundation storey (the demand created — the users informed).