The Africa Law Initiative Council (ABA-Africa) is a public service project of the American Bar Association. Its purpose is to provide legal expertise, advice and training to judges, lawyers and government officials throughout Africa.

The American Bar Association’s Asia Law Initiative (ABA-Asia) is a public service project that provides technical assistance in support of legal reforms in the countries of Asia.

CEELI is a public service project of the American Bar Association that advances the rule of law in the world by supporting the legal reform process in Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia and the Middle East.

It is an American Bar Association goal to advance the rule of law around the world. The ABA has a history of implementing public service projects that provide technical assistance in support of legal reforms. Toward this end, the ABA created a new initiative, ABA Iraq, to assist in the reconstruction of the Iraqi legal system.

ABA/LALIC is dedicated to collaborating with legal institutions throughout Latin American and the Caribbean in their ongoing efforts to strengthen the rule of law in this region of the world.

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In collaboration with the American Bar Association Section of International Law, the United National Development Programme offers a number of programs throughout the world on issues of justice system reform, public finance, policymaking, technology, and other issues critical to justice system development.

From the website: "The Centro de Estudios de Justicia de las Américas is an international agency that was created in 1999 by the institutions of the Inter-American System. Its headquarters is located in Santiago de Chile and its members are the active member states of the Organization of American States. Over the past twenty years, nearly every country in the region has promoted wide-reaching judicial reform programs. The main areas that have been addressed are criminal justice, government, access to justice, and management. However, there is a widespread perception that the reforms have not produced all of the desired results. Furthermore, systematic and in-depth evaluations of the changes that have been implemented thus far have not been undertaken, which has caused the strong impulse that originally accompanied the reforms to wane. JSCA was created in order to reverse this process and provide new impetus for the modernization of justice systems in the region."

From the website: "The International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization of more than 4,000 members at all judicial levels in 86 nations. Since forming in 1991, the IAWJ has united women judges from diverse legal-judicial systems who share a commitment to equal justice and the rule of law…Through pioneering judicial education programs and worldwide collaboration, the IAWJ is working to advance human rights, eliminate discrimination on the basis of gender and make courts accessible to all."

From the website: "The [International Bar Association] Judges' Forum offers an opportunity for judges from all jurisdictions to meet and discuss issues that are of common and current interest to members of the judiciary. Membership of the Forum is open to judges of all levels of court and seniority, whether exercising general or special jurisdiction, and including part-time retired judges…The activities of the Forum are normally concentrated on organisation of sessions at the Annual Conferences of the IBA. It has been the practice in recent years for those sessions to be co-sponsored with other IBA Committees and Constituents, dealing with subjects of mutual interest such as litigation, education, ethics and elimination of bias."

Please visit the website of the Worldwide Judges Center for more information on the International Organization for Judicial Training.

From the website: "The International Program Division was created by the [National Center for State Courts] in 1992 to assist courts, legislators, and other justice system components outside the U.S. Through the International Programs Division, NCSC offers a comprehensive resource to governments, courts, and related justice system components that seek innovative solutions to justice systems problems. The Division conducts educational programs, consulting services, leadership training, applied research, and technological innovation to help judicial systems worldwide strengthen the rule of law, improve the administration of justice and enhance civil society efforts."

From the website: "USAID is an independent federal government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. [Its] Work supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. foreign policy objectives by supporting: economic growth, agriculture and trade; global health; and, democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance."