With support from the EU, UNDP has partnered with national stakeholders in Belize and Saint Lucia to develop tools and resources to assist jurisdictions in these two countries to promote effective and evidence-based early diversion – pre-trial diversion – in the criminal justice system, focusing specifically on the use of early diversion as a tool to reduce backlog of cases.

This toolkit was developed to capture information and resources that can help the criminal justice actors and communities throughout the Caribbean create or enhance pre-charge diversion programs and policies, including a model diversion agreement, data collection guidelines, and tools and resources to help focus early diversion in criminal proceedings. This toolkit aims to strengthen trust in the justice system through affordable, confidential, and people-centered resolution methods embodied as part of restorative justice.