IDLO’s Assembly of Parties, held in Rome Headquarters in November 2008, approved the Strategic Plan for 2009-2012 that will guide IDLO’s programming and management objectives, and set a performance reporting framework.

1. Promoting Justice to Create Opportunity

2. International Development Law Organization
Who • Inter-governmental Organization wholly dedicated to Rule of
Law and Development
How • Programs for Economic, Social and Institutional Development
• Legal Professionals; Governments; Policy Makers;
Target Regulators; and Civil Society in Developing Countries,
Transition Economies and countries emerging from conflicts
• In-Country Programs: 175Countries
Where
• Project Offices: Banda Aceh, Bishkek, Kabul
• Rome Headquarters, Regional Centers in Cairo and Sydney
• Alumni Legal Network in 44 Countries

3. IDLO Governance and Advisory Structure
Assembly of Parties
Standing Committee liaises Member States
with IDLO Management
Australia Egypt China
Austria France Romania
Board of Advisors Bulgaria Italy Senegal
10 members elected by
Member States Burkina Faso The Netherlands Sudan
Colombia Norway Tunisia
Ecuador Philippines USA
International Advisory
Council Afghanistan, Georgia, Jordan, Madagascar,
Mauritania, Mozambique, Paraguay, Poland,
the Central African Republic, Kenya, the
Secretariat Republic of Congo and Turkey are currently
in the process of becoming new Member
Over 200 staff, 30+
States.
nationalities

4. Global Network of Alumni

5. IDLO Strategic Plan 2009-2012
IDLO’s mandate conceives of an
interrelationship between two distinct
concepts: Law and Development
IDLO’s goal is to enable progress and facilitate
long term, sustainable advances in the
realization of effective rule of law and good
governance

6. IDLO Strategic Plan 2009-2012
To enable progress and facilitate long term,
sustainable advances in the realization of
effective rule of law and good governance
SO1 SO2 SO3 SO4 SO5
National Legal
Global Knowledge
Plans & Empowermen Networks
Challenges Generation
Frameworks t Facilitate Build networks
Support actors Generate
Support means for which
to address knowledge and
achievement of securing the stimulate legal
legal / disseminate
formalized legal rights of and
regulatory best practices
national legal the individual, institutional
aspects of in legal /
reform particularly of reform
emergent regulatory and
agendas and vulnerable processes
global issues institutional
peace building populations and
undermining reform
plans those in crisis.
development

7. Program Streams
IDLO believes that there are three main spheres around which development
oriented legal and regulatory change can occur and within each sphere,
IDLO has defined specific program themes:
ECONOMIC SOCIAL INSTITUTIONAL
Trade Law Environmental and Legal and Judicial
Natural Resources Reform and
Investment Law Law Administration of
Justice
Microfinance Law and Land Law
Regulation Governance
Health Law
Intellectual Property Access to Justice
Human Trafficking
CROSS-CUTTING
Gender
Human Rights

8. Program Examples
Economic Growth • Commercial Law Judicial Capacity Building Project in the
and Trade Kyrgyz Republic in partnership with the EBRD.
• Institutional Development Activities in the Judicial Training Center;
• Training in commercial and civil-commercial matters;
• Apprenticeship program in the commercial courts of Russia for select junior judges;
• Development and equipping of a commercial law library in the Judicial Training Center; and
• Preparation and dissemination of a bench book relating to key pieces of the commercial law
framework.

9. Program Examples
Economic Growth
and Trade
• Microfinance: Building Inclusive Financial Sectors &
Supportive Legal and
Regulatory Frameworks
Three-year worldwide program (2006-2008), financed
by the Omidyar Network, which enables legal
professionals to take an active role in the industry by
providing advice and assistance on the legal,
regulatory and practical aspects of microfinance.
The program includes 12 regional workshops provided
in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.
Inter-regional policy dialogues upon completion of the
regional workshops.
A final international workshop to evaluate impact of
program activities on each region.
Research and Professional networking.
The IDLO Microfinance website.

10. Program Examples
Social Development • Implementation of Land reform in Burkina Faso
Collating all legislation and
regulation relating to land, water,
forestry and other aspects of the
environment.
Ensuring that microfinance
facilities are made widely-
available to the rural population
in order to maximise the
opportunities presented by the
land law reform.
Institution-building and
infrastructural support at a local
and national level. Including
support to local authorities
responsible for implementing the
law.
Communicating the legislative
changes and explaining how they
will affect the day-to-day lives of
the rural population.

11. Program Examples
Social Development • Water Resources Management
No substance is more essential to life itself. The effective use of water resources is an
essential means for developing countries’ to improve health, mitigate risks, and alleviate
poverty.
Yet significant obstacles stand in the way. Developing countries face major difficulties in
conceiving and developing the laws, regulations and institutions required to manage their
water resources.
To meet these needs, in recent years IDLO has developed expertise on the legal framework
for water resource management. We’ve since gone on to help legal communities in such
countries as South Africa, Cameroon and Senegal improve their water law and regulation for
the benefit of their citizens.

12. Program Examples
Social and Institutional • Post-Tsunami Legal Assistance Initiative for Indonesia and
Development: Legal Sri Lanka: Legal Awareness, Legal Aid, Local Institutions
Empowerment and NGOs Capacity Building, Women and Children’s
Rights.
Indonesia
Legal Assistance to Women.
Educational film in the areas of
land, inheritance and guardianship
screened in more than 100 villages
in the Aceh region.
Legal information articles printed in
the Serambi newspaper on a
weekly basis.
Community Mediation and Legal
Skills Training to over 1,000
community leaders through the
Aceh province.
Protecting and Promoting the Legal
Rights of Tsunami Children, in
partnership with UNICEF the
projects aims to improve the legal
protection afforded to orphaned
children.

13. Program Examples
Institutional • Re-establishing the Rule of Law in Afghanistan
Development
• Compilation and indexing of over 2400 Afghan laws;
• Training programs for one third of all sitting judges;
• Preparation for entry into the Judiciary in 2006 and 2007;
• Publication of a Bench Book on judicial ethics and criminal
procedure, and a Glossary on Human Rights and International
Law.
• Technical assistance for the newly established Independent
National Legal Training Centre and curriculum development for
the first academic year;
• Creation of a training unit within the Ministry of Justice;
• First legal training courses for the Ministries of Foreign Affairs,
Commerce and Industry, and Mines;
• Technical assistance and training on gender and criminal
justice for judicial sector actors, the Parliament and legislative
working groups;
• Legal aid training for students from the Faculty of Law and
Political Sciences and the Faculty of Shari’a of Kabul
University;
• Formation of an Afghan non-governmental organization, the
Legal Aid Organization of Afghanistan (LAOA), providing legal
services to the poor and disempowered.

14. Program Examples
Institutional • Building the capacities of the Egyptian Council of State
Development
Two roundtables with members of the
Egyptian Council of State and high-level
representatives of the Councils of State of
France, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco
and Tunisia.
Training program on the role of
Administrative Courts; Techniques of
legislative drafting; Intellectual Property
Rights; Investment Law; and the concept of
Conflict of Interest.
Study tour of France, Belgium and Germany
for twenty judges.
The the first benchbook ever to be written
in the Arab region.
Interactive knowledge sharing methodology
using satellite communication technology.
Extensive upgrading and modernization of
the Council of State Law library.

15. IDLO Contacts
Headquarters and Rome Training Center
Viale Vaticano 106
00165 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 06. 4040 3200 Email:
idlo@idlo.int Web site: www.idlo.int
Arab Regional Office (Cairo) Asia Pacific Regional Center (Sydney)
The ‘Ibrahim Shihata Center’ Old Glebe Court House
47C, Abu-Elfeda Street 2, Talfourd Street
11211 Zamalek Cairo, Egypt 2037 Glebe NSW, Australia
Tel: + +202 27350116 Tel: +61 2 85856700
Emai: cairo@idlo.int Email: aprc@idlo.int
Project Offices in: Afghanistan (Kabul), Indonesia (Banda Aceh) and Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek)