4 Digits Consulting – Judiciary and Public Sector Support received grant award from U.S. Agency for International Development, for the project “Institutional Strengthening of the High Court Council” in Serbia.

The purpose of this two-year project is to provide technical and material assistance to judicial institutions in Serbia, primarily to the High Court Council of the Republic of Serbia, in order to strengthen its institutional capacity and to improve judicial independence and efficiency as key pillars of the 2013-2018 National Judicial Reform Strategy in Serbia. The goal is to support the High Court Council as well as the Supreme Court of Cassation to enhance their internal capacity to track results and to be able to impose measures when it is necessary, in order to solve the problems in efficiency.

Improved judicial efficiency, as overall goal of the grant, should include several results: less expensive court case processes, savings made in administrative part of the court procedures, reduction in number of old cases, faster case resolution, improved court users satisfaction, better internal communication.