Within the existing partnership between ACRLI and the Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law (HiiL), a new project comprising the development of Rule of Law Country Reports is launched in each of Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon.

This project comes as one of the recommendations emanating from the international meeting on “Recent Events in the Arab countries: Horizons, challenges and Consequences for the Rule of Law and Justice Reforms” which was held in The Hague on 23-24 May 2011 with two main objectives: (i) To make a first inventory of needs given the events in the Arab world over the past months; and (ii) To identify a roadmap for reform to be taken forward by the meeting’s participants and both organizations in an informal setting referred to as the Rule of Law Spring Group.

This project acts as the first action in the implementation of the identified roadmap for reform and will gradually expand to encompass the execution of all other recommendations.

Besides the Rule of Law country reports, the project shall include various activities such as national workshops to discuss and validate the reports, in addition to outreach activities to disseminate these reports among the legal communities in the mentioned countries and in front of the implicated decision makers.