1. Promoting Justice to Create Opportunity AID FOR TRADE CONFERENCE Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland Hanoi, Viet Nam March 17, 2010 Giulio Zanetti IDLO

2. In-Country Programs: over 175 Countries Project Offices: Bishkek, Juba, Kabul Rome Headquarters, Regional Centers in Cairo and Sydney Alumni Legal Network in 46 Countries Who Where Target International Development Law Organization How Inter-governmental Organization wholly dedicated to Rule of Law and Development Legal Professionals; Governments; Policy Makers; Regulators; and Civil Society in Developing Countries, Transition Economies and Countries Emerging from Conflicts Programs for Economic, Social and Institutional Development

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

4. 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:

5. Trust Results Intn. Org.’s unique value proposition Access Non-political, culturally sensitive In-house expertise in major legal systems Multi-lingual, multi-cultural team Thought leader on law & development Proven capacity to deliver practical solutions Agile, quick to address emerging issues 25 000 direct program participants in over 175 countries Focused (IDLO: the only IGO with sole focus on RoL) IGO Status gives access to leaders of governments Brings groups of different backgrounds together

6. Program Examples Aid for Trade initiative in Sub-Saharan Africa in partnership with the Finnish MOFA. 4 components: 1) Investment; 2) IP; 3) EPA negotiation and 4) Agriculture Two main beneficiary countries: Zambia and Ethiopia; A number of activities linked to achieve concrete results (RBM) + M&E; Es of results: new IP policy; new IP laws, NEUTRAL support for EPA negotiation, new law on seeds Enhanced capacity of officials of Ministry of Trade and Industry + IP Office and Investment Authority Economic Growth and Trade

7. Program Examples Economic Growth and Trade Three-year worldwide program, 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 (November 2009). Research and Professional networking. The IDLO Microfinance website. Microfinance: Building Inclusive Financial Sectors & Supportive Legal and Regulatory Frameworks

8. Program Examples Social Development 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. HIV and Health Law program

9. Program Examples Social Development 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: 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; Avoiding Deforestation in Aceh, Indonesia: Land, Resource Rights and Local Communities

10. 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; 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. Institutional Development

11. 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 social development strategies. The project comprises 6 components: A collection of working papers on innovative programmatic approaches to legal empowerment; 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.

12. IDLO Contacts Headquarters Viale Vaticano, 106 00165 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 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.int Project Offices in: Afghanistan (Kabul), Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek) and Southern Sudan (Juba) www.idlo.int