Child Rights and Access to Justice Fellowship by Enfold Proactive Health Trust (2025-28). Submission Deadline: 27th October 2025.

Child Rights and Access to Justice Fellowship by Enfold Proactive Health Trust (2025-28). Submission Deadline: 27th October 2025.

About the Project:

Improving children’s access to justice and their experience of the juvenile justice system is the need of the hour. Enfold Proactive Health Trust seeks to work towards this through a Child Rights Fellowship Programme that will encourage litigating lawyers to represent children in conflict with the law in the Juvenile Justice Boards (JJBs), Children’s Courts and High Court (if necessary) and advance rights-based and child-sensitive procedures and processes to help fulfil the project goals.

The Fellowship Programme:

• The Fellowship Programme is designed with a three-pronged approach:
  • to provide legal assistance and representation to children in conflict with the law.
  • to connect children to rehabilitative services and support on a case to case basis.
  • to facilitate documentation that generates knowledge resources and evidence for wider dissemination and use to inform law, policy and practice on access to justice for children in the juvenile justice system.

Fellowship Details:

1. The Fellowship Programme will identify 24 lawyers with 4 to 6 lawyers per district to represent children in the JJBs, Children’s Court and High Court (if necessary).
2. Each Fellow will be required to provide quality legal representation and support to children in conflict with the law (CiCL), based on a set of guiding principles shared with them.
3. Selected Fellows will undergo a three days’ orientation and training upon selection and a refresher training after one year.
4. Fellows will receive regular mentorship from identified experts. Mentors will facilitate their personal growth as child rights advocates, while guiding them in applying a child rights-based approach & juvenile justice principles to case analysis, legal strategies, and client interactions.
5. Fellows will document the cases and case experiences as per a pre-decided format shared with them.
6. Fellows will participate in online peer learning sessions and monthly webinars to develop their knowledge and skills and become part of a larger child rights fraternity.
7. Fellows will collaborate with an identified civil society organisation (CSO) to achieve the rehabilitative goals of the JJ Act. CiCL requiring rehabilitation support that cannot be met with the help of legal intervention can be referred to the identified CSO for support and follow-up.
8. Fellows will receive a monthly fellowship grant of Rs. 25000.

Who can apply:

➔ Persons with at least 2-3 years of litigation experience, especially who have previously worked on social causes.
➔ Self-motivated and passionate about child rights.
➔ Should be based in the district where they are practicing.
➔ Can dedicate 30 months towards the fellowship programme.
➔ Preference will be given to fellows who belong to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, persons with disabilities, and persons belonging to gender minorities.

Screening Process:

The Fellow will be selected though a rigorous screening process, which will entail the following:
(i) All applications will be online, using a Google Form in either English, Hindi or Kannada.
(ii) Shortlisted applicants will be contacted by 3 November 2025 for a virtual interview round with a local selection panel.
(iii) Enfold will take two weeks to process the application.
(iv) The final selected legal fellows will be announced tentatively by mid-November.
(v) The legal fellowship will begin from 1 December 2025 and continue until May 2028.

For Registration Link:

Submission Deadline:

Last date for filling the google form is 11:59 PM IST on 27 October 2025.

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Write to childrightsfellowship@enfoldindia.org in case of further queries.

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