Since its foundation, Global Latitudes has emerged as an innovator in providing consulting services that support the furtherance of good governance and strengthened rule of law. Our goal is to provide public institutions and civil society with the skills, knowledge, and tools they need to undertake and sustain programs related to their long-term development and reform goals. Global Latitudes provides services in all stages of project life cycle, from assessment, design, and implementation, to monitoring and evaluation. Depending on client needs, we may provide individual short-term technical expertise or long-term, in-country teams.
Rule of law:
The term rule of law embodies the basic principles of equal treatment of all people before the law, fairness and effective guarantees of human rights. Global Latitudes has broad expertise in the development and execution of programs to assist in the establishment of sound legal and regulatory frameworks; the reform and restructuring of judicial institutions; strategic planning; court management; and enforcement of court decisions. Global Latitudes has introduced to many countries modern management concepts, such as professional court administrators, with measurable and sustainable impacts on efficiency.
The following are our key service areas: • Capacity building of the judiciary, prosecutors, public defenders, and other justice institutions • Court administration and management improvements including financial planning and oversight, and human resource management • Designing and improving judicial centers and court facilities • Strategic planning, policy making, and fostering policy dialogue • Legal frameworks, including civil and criminal procedure codes • Legal and judicial training to enhance technical and managerial skills • Delay reduction programs • Performance standards, audits, and management statistics • Information technology and justice sector automation • Alternative dispute resolution systems, including integration of formal and informal justice systems • Ethics and discipline systems • Commercial courts • Commercial laws and regulatory frameworks • Enforcement of judgments • Court facility design and improvement; • Resource, budget, and financial planning and oversight • Human resources management • Post conflict justice issues, including transitional justice mechanisms • Enhancement of access to justice, especially for disadvantaged groups • Strengthening civil society advocacy, participation, and monitoring • Promoting public education and opinion surveys
Governmental Integrity and Performance Areas:
Global Latitudes learned early in our work with justice systems that the rule of law will prevail only if underlying issues of government integrity and corruption are also addressed. Global Latitudes has developed reforms to combat corruption, track financial resources, and investigate illicit enrichment of public officials. Global Latitudes has also developed programs in financial controls, auditing, procurement, and civil society advocacy that support open government and transparent processes. Our teams also work to focus on issues of grand corruption and measures that must be taken to reduce the costs to society of corruption.
The following are our key service areas in the governmental integrity and performance areas:
• Legal and regulatory reforms to strengthen transparency and accountability
• Strengthening the legislative function
• Strengthening of public sector institutions
• Ethics and disclosure of finances and assets by public officials
• Strengthening anti-corruption agencies, ombudsmen, and inspector general institutions
• Strengthening institutions responsible for investigation and prosecution of corruption
• Improving quality management in the public sector
• Developing E-government programs
• Improving capacity of the government to maintain financial controls and carry out audits
• Strengthening delivery of governmental services
• Developing financial management systems including audit and internal controls
• Increasing public procurement efficiency and transparency
• Promoting civil society advocacy and monitoring of government performance
• Providing public information, education, and opinion surveys of government performance
• Strengthening government capacities for conflict prevention
• Strengthening the media
Program Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation:
GL experts, in addition to program implementation, work on the design, monitoring, and evaluation of programs in our core areas of rule of law and government integrity. We are able to bring to bear the years of experience of our senior staff in the development of new programs and also in the evaluation of the impacts of current programs. We offer an approach for analyzing country- and subject-specific conditions and crafting appropriate program strategies. We then help our clients make strategic decisions on how and where to invest scarce resources based on quantifiable program indicators.
Our service areas include:
• Conducting assessments and evaluations of current programs
• Design of programs with emphasis on rule of law and government integrity
• Assessing the adequacy of a government's frameworks for rule of law and government integrity and performance
• Establishing performance monitoring programs
• Evaluating completed programs
