International Development Law Organization

Name

International Development Law Organization

Website

https://idlo.int

Company type

Private

Founded year

1988

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

International Legal and Governance Services

NAICS

International Affairs (92812), Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities (922), Offices of Lawyers (54111)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Rule of Law & Justice Sector Reform (BPADAGAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Governance, Democracy & Rule of Law (BPAGABAI), Development Cooperation & Foreign Aid Administration (BPAIAIAG), Rule of Law, Justice & Corrections Support in Conflict Settings (BPADAFAI), Law School Research Centers & Institutes (e.g., Law & Economics, Human Rights) (EDAHAIAJ)

Keywords

• International law reform
• Rule of law development
• Legal capacity building
• Governance advisory services
• Justice sector reform

Headquarters

HQ city

Rome

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Others

Core offering

International Development Law Organization is a law reform organization founded in 1988 and headquartered in Rome, Italy. With 251-500 employees, the organization operates in the international development and legal reform space, working on rule of law and governance initiatives across multiple jurisdictions. The organization provides legal and development expertise to advance justice-sector reform in partner countries.

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Products and services

• International Development Law Services Legal reform and rule of law development services delivered by a Rome-headquartered organization with 251-500 employees, targeting governments and international partners in the development sector.

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Direct peers

• UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime): UNODC operates extensive rule-of-law and justice reform programming alongside its crime and drugs mandate, often in the same fragile-state environments and frequently as an implementing partner or competitor to IDLO on justice-sector donor funding.
• International IDEA: International IDEA is another intergovernmental organization headquartered in Stockholm focused on democracy, governance, and the rule of law—sharing IDLO's intergovernmental membership model, donor base, and thematic portfolio on constitutional and justice reform.
• Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF): ASF is a Belgium-headquartered NGO deploying lawyers in fragile and conflict-affected states to strengthen justice systems and provide access to justice—a narrowly overlapping mandate with IDLO's access-to-justice and legal-empowerment programming.
• ABA Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI): ABA ROLI is the American Bar Association's dedicated rule-of-law foreign assistance program operating in over 60 countries on justice reform, legal profession strengthening, and anti-corruption—directly mirroring IDLO's mandate and competing for the same donor (especially USAID) funding pools.

Regional players

• Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC): SDC is Switzerland's development agency with extensive rule-of-law programming, often working through IDLO and partners in priority regions; it is a recurrent donor and joint-program partner, with program overlap concentrated in the Balkans, North Africa, and West Africa.

Broad incumbents

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ): GIZ is the German federal agency's primary implementing arm for international cooperation, running large rule-of-law programs worldwide on behalf of BMZ that compete with and complement IDLO's mandates in nearly every region of operation.
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): UNDP is a far larger UN agency with a much broader development mandate, but its governance and rule-of-law service line directly overlaps with IDLO's core work and competes for the same member-state and donor resources on justice programs.
• World Bank Group: The World Bank's governance global practice funds massive justice and rule-of-law reform operations, often subcontracting implementation to organizations like IDLO while also competing for direct attribution of governance outcomes with member states.
• USAID: USAID funds a substantial share of global rule-of-law programming and depends on implementers like IDLO, ABA ROLI, and others; while a funder rather than peer in the strictest sense, it competes strategically for in-house technical capacity that crowds out the same donor pool.
• UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO): The FCDO is a major bilateral donor running rule-of-law and governance programs across its priority countries, often co-financing with or commissioning IDLO and similar actors on justice programming that directly compete for the same outcomes.

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