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The
International Development
Law Organization (IDLO) and the World Bank Institute
have launched a new distance learning center in Rome
(Italy) to provide knowledge sharing and capacity
enhancement programs on good governance, public sector
reform, decentralized public management, corruption,
judicial reform and transparency. Supported by trust
fund from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
aimed at increasing European participation in WBI's
capacity building programs, the IDLO center has become
a member of the Global Development Learning Network
(GDLN) and will facilitate a variety of virtual learning
programs with participants in and around the European
time zone.
Frannie
Léautier, WBI's Vice President, remarked at
the opening of the IDLO center in Rome on 26 May 2003:
"This innovative partnership will lead the way
to a much stronger impact of our governance capacity
enhancement work". Since its creation in 1983,
IDLO has managed programs for 12,000 lawyers, judges
and high level officials from over 160 developing
and transition countries. The new partnership with
WBI aims to scale up IDLO and WBI's capacity building
programs on governance by reaching an ever larger
number of experts, policy makers, media representatives
and other professionals involved in the development
process.
Since
initiating the pilot phase in February 2003, IDLO
has delivered programs on e-government, procurement
and public private partnerships to a wide number of
countries including Afghanistan, Egypt, Ethiopia,
Ghana, India, Jordan, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sri
Lanka and Tanzania. The GDLN center at IDLO will be
open to participants from other organizations based
in Rome on capacity enhancement work.
IDLO
homepage: http://www.idlo.org/
Distance
Learning Center inauguration: http://www.idlo.org/DLC_launching.htm
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