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Kyrgyzstan: Promotion of Rule of Law The project aimed to enhance the capacity and effectiveness of oversight mechanisms and to implement judicial and legal reforms. To elaborate a set of legislative and institutional measures necessary to introduce a targeted case management system, including regulations for implementing the case management system, recommendations for corresponding institutional arrangements and a binding commitment by the relevant Kyrgyz bodies to ensure the necessary financial framework for the operation of the future case management system is sustainable. Kyrgyz judicial practitioners.
Mongolia: Strengthening Commercial Mediation in Mongolia: Legal Assistance on the Revision of Mediation Law and Promotion of Commercial Mediation to SMEs The project aims to assist the Government of Mongolia in improving the regulatory environment, institutional setting and practice of mediation in Mongolia, and promoting and facilitating the use of commercial mediation on a national scale with a particular focus on creating enabling environment for online mediation. 1) To support the development of a policy and legislative analysis and recommendations. 2) To further capacity development of mediators. 3) To promote commercial mediation to small and medium-sized entreprises. Direct beneficiaries: Judges, lawyers and mediators, and small and medium-sized enterprises. Indirect beneficiaries: Business community at large.
Global: Study on Representation, Participation, and Empowerment of Women in Customary and Informal Justice Systems This project aimed to generate evidence-based recommendations for policymakers and practitioners to strengthen women’s representation, participation and empowerment in customary and informal justice (CIJ) systems, contributing to improved access to justice for women and, more broadly, to women’s empowerment and gender equality, the rule of law, stabilization, and peace and security. 1) To understand the main structural factors and processes that advance or impede women’s meaningful participation within CIJ systems, and how women’s participation impacts the provision of CIJ services and access to justice – including to formal justice – more broadly. 2) To establish a typology of women’s participation in CIJ systems and assess the different and varied roles that women in CIJ systems play. 3) To highlight how women’s participation in CIJ systems constitutes or leads to the empowerment of diverse women to resolve justice problems. 4) To generate detailed recommendations for policymakers and practitioners on women’s empowerment, gender equality and rule of law assistance. 5) To support better, more innovative, and evidence-based policy and practice that strengthens women’s representation, participation and empowerment in CIJ systems, contributing to improved access to justice for women and in general, consonant with targets in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, especially those associated with Sustainable Development Goals 5 and 16. Direct beneficiaries: Policymakers and legal practitioners; governments, especially justice and women’s ministries and commissions; bilateral and multilateral donor agencies; United Nations agencies, especially United Nations Development Programme, Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and UN Women; international organizations; Justice Action Coalition. 
Indirect beneficiaries: Women participating in CIJ systems.
Kyrgyzstan: Judicial Capacity Building - Phase V The project aimed to contribute to the development of a business-enabling environment in Kyrgyzstan. 1) To assist the Supreme Court, Council of Judges and Judicial Training Center (JTC) in Kyrgyzstan to establish and institutionalize a well-functioning Judicial Candidate Training Program. 2) To develop a Strategic Plan. 3) To create and equip a Commercial Law Library. Judges newly-appointed to the local courts, the Supreme Court, the Council of Judges and the JTC.
Global: Capacity Building Program to Support the Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol - Part II The project aimed to increase capacity of parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to operationalize the Nagoya Protocol in a country-tailored manner that effectively contributes to sustainable development, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability goals. To identify, train and support national legal advisors that can actively advance the long-term process of developing, implementing and revising Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) regulatory frameworks in their countries. National lawyers and policymakers, CBD parties, stakeholders engaged in ABS issues.
Global: Strengthening Legal and Judicial Capacity to Support Economic Development in MENA and Other Developing Countries The project aimed to strengthen legal and judicial capacity to support economic development in the Middle East and Africa. To promote effective dispute resolution and strengthen institutional capacity as vital components of commercial and economic law development by emphasizing how institutions (courts and regulators) perform their function, and how commercial and economic laws are applied in practice.
Kenya: Justice Sector Reforms to Enhance Access to Justice The project aimed to enhance access to justice for Kenyans, particularly women, the poor and other disadvantaged groups, through strengthened institutional capacity to administer justice by the Judiciary. 1) To strengthen the institutional capacity of the Judiciary to administer justice. 2) To enhance the legal, policy and institutional framework for access to justice in Kenya. Direct beneficiaries: Office of Chief Justice (OCJ), the Office of the Deputy Chief Justice (ODCJ), the Office of the Chief Registrar of the Judiciary (CRJ), the Judiciary Service Commission, the National Council on Administration of Justice (NCAJ), the Judiciary Training Institute (JTI), the National Council for Law Reporting (Kenya Law), the Judiciary Committee on Elections (JCE), the Political Parties Disputes Tribunal (PPDT), the Family Division of the High Court, the Environment and Land Court (ELC) and the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Division of the High Court. 
Indirect beneficiaries: The citizens of Kenya, especially the marginalized groups including women.
Jordan: Judicial Institute of Jordan - Commercial Law Judicial Training The project aimed at enabling Jordanian judges to deal more effectively and independently with commercial law cases, with a particular focus on cases related to intellectual property and competition law. 1) To provide practical modules of judicial training for Jordanian judges, to enable them to deal more effectively with intellectual property and competition law matters. Judiciary of Jordan
Somalia: Capacity Building of the Financial Reporting Center (FRC) The project aims to build an effective, fit-for-purpose Financial Reporting Center (FRC) in Somalia. Strengthen the FRC’s capacity to safeguard Somalia’s
financial system from money laundering and terrorist financing in collaboration with key domestic partners (including regulators, law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and other Somali authorities), regional and international partners and bodies as relevant, and the private sector by collecting, analyzing, and disseminating financial intelligence for the investigation and prosecution of financial crimes. Direct beneficiaries: The FRC; Somaliland Bank; Somali Banks; Money Transfer Businesses (MTBs); Mobile Money Service Providers; and key Designated
Non-Financial Professions and Business groups.  
Indirect beneficiaries: National Anti-Money Laundering Committee (NAMLC) and Somali citizens, particularly poor and financially-excluded populations, relying on remittances and remittance service providers for financial services.
Tunisia: Legal Environment for Smallholder Farmers’ Integration in Markets – Needs Assessment The project aimed to explore the legal environment for smallholders’ access to markets and the value chain in Tunisia. 1) To Identify current national and local legal and governance barriers hindering access to markets for smallholder producers, particularly women and youth, with a focus on access to land and natural resources, contract farming, cooperative work and access to finance, and identify priority areas for IDLO programmatic support. 2) To identify priority areas for IDLO programmatic support and introduce local solutions into the national road map for the sustainable transformation of national value chains, from a rule of law perspective. Direct beneficiaries: Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries of Tunisia, local governments. Indirect beneficiaries: Smallholder producers, especially women and youth.
Tunisia: Strengthening Institutional Capacity for Investment Agreements The project aimed to strengthen the legal and institutional capacity of Tunisia to negotiate and implement international investment agreements, and enhance the country's ability to attract and maintain foreign direct investment. 1) To develop and implement a Tunisian Model Bilateral Investment Treaty. 2) To strengthen the capacity for drafting and negotiating economic agreements. National Judiciaries, commercial courts, Judicial Councils/Training Centers/Institutes, Economic Chambers and Chambers of Commerce, women entrepreneurs, and investment agreement negotiators.
Mongolia: Strengthening Enforcement of Court Decisions - Capacity Building (Phase I) The project aimed to assist Mongolia in building stronger and better functioning legal institutions responsible for the commercial law sector, and to increase business confidence and investment climate. To support the more effective enforcement of court decisions by strengthening Mongolia's General Executive Agency of Court Decisions, and building the capacity of Mongolian bailiffs by: 1) developing and delivering modules of practical professional training that enhance the knowledge, skills and performance of enforcement officers; 2) establishing a pool of trained trainers that is able to deliver the modules in the identified areas on a long-term basis; and 3) enhancing the institutional capacity of the Agency. Mongolian bailiffs and the General Executive Agency of Court Decisions.
Africa Regional (Tanzania and Uganda): Building Sustainable Approaches to Reduce Discrimination and Advance Access to Justice for People Living with HIV and Other Key Affected Populations The project aimed to strengthen the enabling legal environment for the response to HIV and AIDS by developing the knowledge and skills of lawyers to support human-rights based responses to HIV, and building legal academics and community leaders’ awareness of, and engagement in, HIV and AIDS-related legal issues. 1. To develop a cadre of lawyers - professors and students - committed and equipped with the knowledge and skills to support human rights-based responses to HIV; 2. To build legal academics and community leaders’ awareness of, and engagement in, HIV and AIDS-related legal issues. Lawyers, legal academics and community leaders’ in Tanzania and Uganda.
South Sudan: Facilitating Access to Justice The project aimed to improve access to justice services for rural and marginalized citizens by building the capacity of civil society and rule of law actors, and increasing citizen awareness of legal and human rights issues.
Global: Legal Guidebook on Sustainable Economic Development and Climate Finance The project aimed at ensuring that green economy actors and policy makers at national, regional and local levels gained tools to apply legal and institutional responses fostering low emission and climate-resilient development strategies through a Legal Guidebook on Sustainable Economic Development and Climate Finance. 1. To ensure that green economy actors and policy makers at national, regional and local levels gain tools to apply legal and institutional responses fostering low emission and climate resilient development strategies. Green economy actors and policy makers at national, regional and local levels.
Kenya: Supporting the Implementation of the New Constitution: Increasing Access to Gender Justice The project aimed at enhancing the institutional capacity of the Family Division of the High Court to efficiently and effectively administer gender justice, and enhancing the capacity of Kenya’s judiciary to address sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the workplace as part of the judicial transformation process. To enhance access to gender justice and eradication of gender discrimination within the Kenya Judiciary. Direct beneficiaries: The Judiciary-Family Division of the High Court, the Office of the Deputy Chief Justice of Kenya, the Judiciary Training Institute and the Judiciary Task force on Sexual Harassment.
Mongolia: Commercial Law Judicial Training - Phase 2: Ensuring the Sustainability of Previous Assistance The project aimed to develop the capacities of Mongolian judges in commercial law through tailored judicial training and educational materials, and advise the Judicial General Council of Mongolia on an appropriate methodology for reviewing judicial decisions, with a view to establishing an institutional mechanism to enhance the quality and consistency of judicial decisions. 1) To provide high quality professionally-relevant training to Mongolian judges who have not previously undergone training under Part One, in order to strengthen their ability to deal effectively with commercial matters; 2) To strengthen the institutional efficiency of the Judicial General Council (JGC) through the development of the decision review function. Direct beneficiaries: The Mongolian judges and the Judicial General Council (JGC); Indirect beneficiaries: Mongolian business community and court users.
Kenya: Advancing Policy, Legislative and Institutional Reforms Relating to Biodiversity and Human Rights Mainstreaming The project aimed to mainstream human rights in the biodiversity framework at the national and global level. 1) To develop text proposals for mainstreaming human rights in the post 2020 global biodiversity framework in the lead up to the Fifteenth Conference of Parties (COP 15).
2) To provide technical support to national institutions to ensure compliance with international treaties on protection of biodiversity. Direct beneficiaries: national institutions.
Indirect beneficiaries: women, indigenous groups, local communities, and the poor and vulnerable groups.
Global: Building the Evidence on Legal Preparedness for Biodiversity Mainstreaming The project aimed to contribute to the generation of evidence on the impact of building legal preparedness in catalyzing and scaling up action to mainstream biodiversity. 1) To review how countries have used the new generation of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) to develop cross-cutting national biodiversity strategies, set up the conditions for legal preparedness, and commit to cross-cutting legal reform and implementation. 2) To scope and identify trends in the domestic laws related to the promotion of biodiversity mainstreaming.
Liberia: Strengthening TIP Response in the Justice and Security Sectors The project aimed to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) in all its forms in Liberia To enhance the capacity of law enforcement and justice actors to investigate, prosecute and adjudicate TIP. Direct beneficiaries: Liberia National Police (LNP), Liberia Immigration Service (LIS), Liberia Drugs Enforcement Agency (LDEA), Judiciary (Judicial Institute, judges, magistrates and public defenders), Ministry of Justice (prosecutors and city solicitors), Ministry of Labour, National Anti-Trafficking Task Force (NATT), Liberia Female Law Enforcement Agency. Indirect beneficiaries: Survivors or trafficking in persons (TIP) and residents of Liberia at risk of TIP.
Guatemala - Strengthening and Expanding HIV-Related Legal Services - Travel 1) To establish synergies among participants, and to identify paths and discuss methodologies to develop and/or strengthen and scale up the legal services for PLHIV and KPs at the regional level, and particularly in Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru. The project aimed at supporting the hosting of a regional meeting on HIV-related legal services at the Spanish Cooperation Training Center of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation in La Antigua, Guatemala. -Human rights institutions; -civil society organizations providing legal services for people living with HIV (PLHIV) and key affected populations (KPs); -regional networks of PLHIV and sex workers; and -IDLO’s local partners: Iturbide Foundation in Guatemala; Vida Nueva in El Salvador; PROSA (Program for self-help support for PLHIV) and IESSDEH (the Institute of Health, Sexuality and Human Development Studies of the Cayetano Heredia University) in Peru; CEPVVS (the Ecuadorian Coalition of PLHIV) in Ecuador; and Letra S in Mexico.
Burundi: Research on the Effect of Land Tenure Registration on Land Disputes and Women's Land Rights The project aimed to generate useful knowledge on the impact of community-based land tenure registration on land disputes and ways to enhance that impact; and generate useful knowledge on how to preserve and strengthen women’s customary rights to land in land tenure registration. 1. To generate useful knowledge on the impact of community-based land tenure registration on land disputes and ways to enhance that impact; and 2. To generate useful knowledge on how to preserve and strengthen women’s customary rights to land in land tenure registration. Citizens of Burundi
Liberia: Strengthening Justice Institutions to Improve Access to Justice for Women and Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) The project aimed to improve institutional capacities at the national and local levels to better respond to SGBV crimes, and ensure increased access to justice for victims/survivors of SGBV. 1) To improve institutional capacity at the national and local levels designed to respond to incidents of SGBV and ensure access to justice for women and survivors of SGBV. Women and survivors of SGBV.
Egypt: Strengthening and Expanding HIV-Related Legal Services and Rights - Phase III The project aimed to develop the capacity of legal and public health actors in Egypt to further develop an enabling legal and public health environment for the national response to HIV, focusing on legal services for people living with HIV and key affected populations, as well as access to medicines for the treatment of HIV. 1. To improve access to high-quality HIV-related legal and health care services. 2. To strengthen the legal and policy environment for HIV prevention and treatment. Non-governmental legal sector actors, public health advocates; people living with HIV; key populations, such as sex workers, drug users, and men who have sex with men; and Government legal sector and public health officials
Moldova: Commercial Mediation and Arbitration (Phase IV) The project aims to improve the investment climate in Moldova by facilitating the use of commercial mediation and arbitration on a national scale and increase the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanisms offering a faster and more satisfying dispute resolution tool to people and to the entrepreneurial sector. 1) To assist the Government of Moldova with promoting and facilitating the use of commercial mediation on a national scale. 2) To assist the Government of Moldova and existing institutions in the field of arbitration with improving access to arbitration and raising the level of skills relevant for arbitration with the overall goal of making the use of ADR a business norm in Moldova. Direct beneficiaries: Ministry of Justice, Mediation Council, Mediation Center, Chamber of Commerce and Industry, National Institute of Justice, Faculty of Law. Indirect beneficiaries: Moldovan judicial and business sectors.
Mali: Access to Justice Pilot Program in Mopti The project aimed to address the population's needs to access lawful and effective dispute resolution mechanisms to solve criminal law related disputes in central Mali. 1) To empower victims of crime in the region of Mopti to access justice and obtain tangible 
and fair results from the perception of users through the courts and, in appropriate cases, 
through inter-communal and other informal justice mechanisms, depending on the nature 
and seriousness of the grievance at stake. 2) To raise awareness of the traditional leaders, communities and the general public of the 
applicable legal framework and international standards as well as their ability to apply the 
knowledge in practice through their involvement in dispute resolution mechanisms as providers and users. 3) To support the Mopti First Instance and Appeal Criminal Courts redressing criminal law violations in 
compliance with applicable domestic laws and international standards with tangible results 
that are enforced in a timely manner to the satisfaction of the local population. Direct beneficiaries: The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and Malian formal and informal justice sector. Indirect beneficiaries: Malian citizens.
Somalia: Sustainable Pathways to Peace in Somalia - Countering Extremism with Social Healing and Community Based Reconciliation Ceremonies The project aimed to reduce the level of violence and the threat of violence in the targeted areas and to enable the population to experience improved human security. 1) To enhance community and civil society capacity, through the Quraca Nabadda (QN) process, as part of the process of reconciliation, trust, and reintegration of low-risk, ex Al-Shabaab (AS) combatants. 2) To enhance the Ministry of Justice capacity to support reconciliation. Target districts’ local communities, with a special focus on low-risk disengaged combatants and victims; Federal Government of Somalia; Somali Ministry of Justice; and Somali Ministry of Interior and Federal Affairs.
South Sudan: Strengthening the Courts and Legal Education - Phase II The project aimed to improve access to, and administration of, justice in South Sudan by strengthening the capacity of the Judiciary of South Sudan and the College of Law of the University of Juba. To improve access to, and the administration of, justice in South Sudan through enhanced knowledge and skills of legal professionals. Lawyers, judges and prosecutors in South Sudan.
Moldova: Supporting Transparency and Ethics in the Prosecution Service (STEP): Moldova’s Extraordinary Prosecutor Vetting Commission This project aims to increase public confidence and trust in the justice sector. 1) To increase the ability of the Prosecutor Vetting Commission (PVC) to evaluate prosecutors. 2) To improve the capacity of PVC operations. 3) To enhance access to information for non-governmental organizations, intergovernmental organizations and the Moldovan public. Direct beneficiaries: The Prosecutor Vetting Commission and its Secretariat. 
Indirect beneficiaries: Superior Council of Prosecutors, Office of the Prosecutor General, Moldova’s anti-corruption institutions, prosecutors and civil society.
Somalia: Somalia Joint Justice Programme The program aimed to contribute to sustainable security, peace and development by strengthening justice institutions to deliver professional and standardized justice services to communities, particularly women, children and internally displaced persons (IDPs), and guarantee better protection of individuals’ rights. 1) To develop action plans at local level through inclusive community dialogue on justice and security issues, that inform the support for institutional strengthening, federalization of the justice sector, financial sustainability and the establishment of accountability mechanisms. 2) To strengthen the capacity of key justice institutions to deliver on the priorities identified in the community dialogue. Direct beneficiaries: Alternative Dispute Resolution Centers, Ministry of Justice, Attorney General's Office (AGO), Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Unit at the AGO, Somali Bar Association. Indirect beneficiaries: Citizens of Somalia