The draft Uzbekistan-2030 strategy has set a number of targets aimed at enhancing attorneyship job, improving legal aid system, and increasing the effectiveness of anti-corruption factors.
According to the draft, it is planned to increase the level of electronic document exchange between lawyers and courts, law enforcement agencies and other state agencies in civil, administrative and economic cases to at least 50 %. It is also planned to increase the number of lawyers by at least 2,000.
In the fight against corruption, the goal is to rise by at least 20 points in the Corruption Perceptions Index published by Transparency International. It is also planned to increase the ratio of placing data in machine-readable formats, in particular, in the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format, to 100 % in public procurement.
Furthermore, it is planned to ensure that the ratio of non-competitive public procurement does not exceed 20 % (except for emergency situations and procurements through single source), and that 100 % of regulations be developed based on the corruption-free legislation principle.
Uzbekistan has about 5,000 lawyers for 38 million people (15 lawyers per 100k people), placing it low globally, ahead only of Turkmenistan and Tajikistan in lawyer-to-population ratio; while exact current Tashkent figures aren't clear, it's a small ratio, with demand exceeding supply, though reforms aim to increase numbers.
