Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development

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The GFLJD Working Groups are the engine of the Forum’s collaborative work. They translate shared priorities into action by co-generating legal knowledge, tools, and reform strategies. Working Groups are designed to be flexible and partner-led, allowing members to shape agendas, define deliverables, and adapt to emerging issues. Each group operates with autonomy while remaining aligned with the GFLJD's broader strategic vision and governance structure.

A key strength of the Working Groups is their capacity for cross-pollination of ideas across the Forum’s partners. Members from academia, the judiciary, development agencies, civil society, and the private sector collaborate across institutional lines, enabling theory to inform practice and practice to refine theory. This multidisciplinary, cross-regional engagement ensures that outputs are not only innovative, but also grounded, inclusive, and scalable.

 

GFLJD Working Groups

  1. Water Law. Focuses on strengthening legal frameworks for the sustainable management and governance of water resources, addressing cross-border, environmental, and climate-related challenges. Lead: Christina Leb
  2. Environmental Justice. Aims to integrate principles of environmental justice into legal systems and development policy, ensuring that marginalized communities have access to legal remedies and protections in environmental matters. Lead: Remi Moncel
  3. Domestic Resource Mobilization. Works on improving legal tools and strategies for more efficient, equitable tax systems and fiscal governance, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Lead: Nneoma Nwogu, Nightingale Rukuba-Ngaiza (co-lead)
  4. Access to Law and Justice. Promotes inclusive legal empowerment by developing tools and approaches to improve access to law, legal information, and justice services for underserved populations. Lead: Christian Brugerolle
  5. Fundamental Rights and Development. Explores the intersection between fundamental legal rights and sustainable development, and promotes legal frameworks that strengthen dignity, equality, and participation in development processes, especially in contexts of fragility, conflict, and systemic exclusion.
  6. Gender Justice and Empowerment. Advances gender justice through legal empowerment, policy reform, and access to rights, as well as addresses harmful practices, including Female Genital Mutilation, while promoting broader legal tools to protect and uplift women and girls across diverse cultural and legal contexts.