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: over 175 Countries
Where
• Project Offices: Banda Aceh, Bishkek, Juba, Kabul
• Rome Headquarters, Regional Centers in Cairo and Sydney
• Alumni Legal Network in 44 Countries
3. IDLO Governance and Advisory Structure
Member States
Assembly of Parties
Standing Committee liaises Australia Egypt Romania
with IDLO Management Austria France Senegal
Bulgaria Italy Sudan
Board of Advisors
10 members elected by Burkina Faso Kenya The Netherlands
Member States China Norway Tunisia
Columbia Paraguay USA
International Advisory Ecuador Philippines
Council
Afghanistan, Georgia, Jordan, Madagascar, Mauritania,
Af h i G i J d M d M i i
Mozambique, Poland, the Central African Republic, the
Secretariat Republic of Congo and Turkey are currently in the
Over 200 staff, 30+ process of becoming new Member States.
nationalities
4. Strategic Plan 2009-2012
IDLO s
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. 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 GROWTH INSTITUTIONAL
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
AND TRADE DEVELOPMENT
Trade Law Environmental and Legal and Judicial
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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-
CROSS-CUTTING
Gender
Human Rights
8. Program Examples
Economic Growth • Commercial Law Judicial C
C l d l Capacity Building Project in
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and Trade the 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 • Microfinance: Building Inclusive Financial Sectors
and Trade & 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
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
(November 2009).
• Research and Professional networking.
• The IDLO Microfinance website.
10. Program Examples
Social Development • HIV and Health Law program
In 2009, IDLO launched a 3-year program sponsored by
the OPEC Fund for International Development and by
the Gates Foundation, to address legal aspects of major
public health issues in developing and transition
countries, particularly HIV, in three areas:
• Access to justice - Increase community legal
awareness, and strengthen and expand HIV legal
services
• Law enforcement - Sensitize police, judges and other
government officials to apply laws consistent with
public health goals
• Law reform - Build lawmakers’ capacity for reform
based on evidence, international law and best
practice
The program includes research, consultations,
documentation, evaluation and dissemination of best
practices; and the support of IDLO alumni
associations and other professional networks to
address the legal aspects of HIV and health.
11. Program Examples
Social Development • Avoiding Deforestation in Aceh, Indonesia: Land,
Resource Rights and Local Communities
Deforestation and forest degradation, mostly of tropical forests in developing countries, is one of the
main drivers of climate change. In this context of international global challenge, the IDLO Program
focuses on the impact on local forest-dependent communities of reducing emissions from
deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) projects through the lens of Rule of Law and Good
Governance. The Program combines:
• St k h ld consultation and di l
Stakeholder lt ti d dialogue;
• Field research at community level recording the perspective of local communities;
• Review and analysis of the existing legal and regulatory context in which REDD currently operates
in the Indonesian Province of Aceh, with a particular focus on land rights, access to resources,
forest conservation and management; customary and statutory legal systems;
12. Program Examples
Institutional Development • Re-establishing the Rule of Law in Afghanistan
• 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;
g
• 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
non-governmental organization,
Legal Aid Organization of Afghanistan (LAOA), providing legal
services to the poor and disempowered.
13. Research Program Example
• Legal Empowerment Research Program
This program is meant to advance practical knowledge on means of addressing the legal needs of
the poor in developing countries. IDLO intends to use the knowledge generated to strengthen the
evidence base for mainstreaming legal empowerment in poverty reduction and economic and
reduction,
social development strategies. The project comprises 6 components:
• A collection of working papers on
innovative programmatic approaches to
legal empowerment;
ega e po e e t;
• Field research in various countries
investigating how customary justice
systems can be used as vehicles of legal
empowerment;
• Piloting of community land titling
legislation in Liberia, Mozambique and
Tanzania;
• Enhancing the legal empowerment of girls
through access to education, birth
registration and property, and protection
from exploitation and child labor in
Ethiopia, Kenya, India and Bangladesh
• Protection of traditional knowledge and
cultural heritage of indigenous
communities; and
• Research into microfinance to expand
income opportunities for the poor.
14. IDLO Contacts
Headquarters
Viale Vaticano, 106
00165 Rome, Italy
Rome
Tel: +39 06 40 40 32 00
Email: idlo@idlo.int
MENA Regional Office (Cairo) Asia Pacific Regional Center (Sydney)
The ‘Ibrahim Shihata Center’ Old Glebe Court House
47C,
47C Abu-Elfeda Street 2,
2 Talfourd Street
11211 Zamalek Cairo, Egypt 2037 Glebe NSW, Australia
Tel: + +202 27 35 01 16 Tel: +61 2 85 85 67 00
Emai: cairo@idlo int
cairo@idlo.int Email: aprc@idlo int
aprc@idlo.int
Project Offices in: Afghanistan (Kabul), Indonesia (Banda Aceh), Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek) and
Southern Sudan (Juba)
www.idlo.int
