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International Development Law Organization

WhoWho • Inter-governmental Organization wholly dedicated to Rule of Law and Development

How How • Programs for Economic, Social and Institutional Development

TargetTarget • Legal Professionals; Governments; Policy Makers; TargetTargetRegulators; and Civil Society in Developing Countries, Transition Economies and Countries Emerging from Conflicts

• In-Country Programs: over 175 Countries • Project Offices: Banda Aceh, Bishkek, Juba, Kabul• Rome Headquarters, Regional Centers in Cairo and Sydney

WhereWhere

• Alumni Legal Network in 44 Countries

IDLO Governance and Advisory Structure

Assembly of Parties Member StatesMember States

Assembly of Parties Standing Committee liaises with IDLO Management

Australia Egypt Romania

Austria France Senegal

Bulgaria Italy Sudan

Australia Egypt Romania

Austria France Senegal

Bulgaria Italy SudanBoard of Advisors

10 members elected by Member States

Bulgaria Italy Sudan

Burkina Faso Kenya The Netherlands

China Norway Tunisia

Bulgaria Italy Sudan

Burkina Faso Kenya The Netherlands

China Norway Tunisia

International Advisory Council

Af h i G i J d M d M i i

Columbia Paraguay USA

Ecuador Philippines

Columbia Paraguay USA

Ecuador Philippines

SecretariatOver 200 staff, 30+ nationalities

Afghanistan, Georgia, Jordan, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique, Poland, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo and Turkey are currently in the process of becoming new Member States.

nationalities

Strategic Plan 2009-2012

IDLO’s mandate conceives of an IDLO’s mandate conceives of an IDLO s mandate conceives of an interrelationship between two distinct

concepts: Law and Development

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

IDLO’s goal is to enable progress and facilitate long term, sustainable advances in the

realization of effective rule of law and good realization of effective rule of law and good governance

realization of effective rule of law and good governance

Strategic Objectives 2009-2012

Program Streams

ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC GROWTH INSTITUTIONALINSTITUTIONAL

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 ECONOMIC GROWTH AND TRADEAND TRADE SOCIALSOCIAL DEVELOPMENTDEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONALINSTITUTIONAL

DEVELOPMENTDEVELOPMENT

Trade Law Environmental and Legal and Judicial

Investment Law

Microfinance Law and

Natural Resources Law

Land Law

gReform andAdministration ofJustice

Regulation

Intellectual PropertyHealth Law

Human Trafficking

Governance

Access to Justice

CROSSCROSS--CUTTINGCUTTING

Gender

Human Rights

Global Network of Alumni

Program Examples

C l d l C ld• Commercial Law Judicial Capacity Building Project in the Kyrgyz Republic in partnership with the EBRD.

• Institutional Development Activities in the Judicial Training Center;

Economic Growth and TradeEconomic Growth and Trade

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 • Preparation and dissemination of a bench book relating to key pieces of the commercial law

framework.

Program Examples

Economic Growth and TradeEconomic 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 • 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 • A final international workshop to evaluate impact of program activities on each region (November 2009).

• Research and Professional networking.• The IDLO Microfinance website.The IDLO Microfinance website.

Program Examples

Social DevelopmentSocial Development

In 2009, IDLO launched a 3-year program sponsored by

• HIV and Health Law program

the OPEC Fund for International Development and bythe Gates Foundation, to address legal aspects of majorpublic health issues in developing and transitioncountries, particularly HIV, in three areas:

• Access to justice - Increase community legalawareness, and strengthen and expand HIV legalservices

• Law enforcement - Sensitize police, judges and otherLaw enforcement Sensitize police, judges and othergovernment officials to apply laws consistent withpublic health goals

• Law reform - Build lawmakers’ capacity for reformbased on evidence, international law and bestpractice

The program includes research, consultations,documentation, evaluation and dissemination of bestpractices; and the support of IDLO alumnipractices; and the support of IDLO alumniassociations and other professional networks toaddress the legal aspects of HIV and health.

Program Examples

Social DevelopmentSocial Development

Deforestation and forest degradation, mostly of tropical forests in developing countries, is one of the

• Avoiding Deforestation in Aceh, Indonesia: Land, Resource Rights and Local Communities

main drivers of climate change. In this context of international global challenge, the IDLO Programfocuses on the impact on local forest-dependent communities of reducing emissions fromdeforestation and forest degradation (REDD) projects through the lens of Rule of Law and GoodGovernance. The Program combines:

St k h ld lt ti d di l• Stakeholder consultation and 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;forest conservation and management; customary and statutory legal systems;

Program Examples

• 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;

Institutional DevelopmentInstitutional Development

• 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.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 • Formation of an Afghan non-governmental organization, the Legal Aid Organization of Afghanistan (LAOA), providing legal services to the poor and disempowered.

Research Program Example

• Legal Empowerment Research Program

This program is meant to advance practical knowledge on means of addressing the legal needs ofthe poor in developing countries. IDLO intends to use the knowledge generated to strengthen theevidence base for mainstreaming legal empowerment in poverty reduction and economic andevidence base for mainstreaming legal empowerment in poverty reduction, and economic andsocial development strategies. The project comprises 6 components:

• A collection of working papers oninnovative programmatic approaches tolegal empowerment;ega e po e e t;

• Field research in various countriesinvestigating how customary justicesystems can be used as vehicles of legalempowerment;Piloting of community land titling• Piloting of community land titlinglegislation in Liberia, Mozambique andTanzania;

• Enhancing the legal empowerment of girlsthrough access to education, birthregistration and property, and protectionfrom exploitation and child labor inEthiopia, Kenya, India and Bangladesh

• Protection of traditional knowledge andcultural heritage of indigenouscultural heritage of indigenouscommunities; and

• Research into microfinance to expandincome opportunities for the poor.

IDLO Contacts

Headquarters

Viale Vaticano, 106

00165 Rome Italy00165 Rome, Italy

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 Abu-Elfeda Street 2 Talfourd Street47C, Abu-Elfeda Street 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 Email: aprc@idlo intEmai: cairo@idlo.int Email: aprc@idlo.int

Project Offices in: Afghanistan (Kabul), Indonesia (Banda Aceh), Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek) and Southern Sudan (Juba)

www.idlo.int