Training

2013 JUDICIAL, COURT AND CASE MANAGEMENT FOR JUDGES

Overview 

Judges and other Judicial Officers face increasingly complex challenges in managing and adjudicating cases. This seminar focuses on the principles and techniques for the development and management of a modern, efficient, fair and transparent court system and judicial proceedings, from a judge’s perspective. References will be made to the experience of judges in the United States as a basis for discussion. The seminar will include presentations on the judge’s role in court and case management for the efficient adjudication of cases, as well as site visits to local federal and state courts and court support institutions. Selected sessions and site visits will be combined with the “Court and Case Administration for Court Administrators” seminar which will be conducted concurrently with this seminar.

Course Outline

Basic Concepts and Principles (presented concurrently with Court Administration Seminar)

• Overview of the United States legal system and its component state court systems
• The role of an independent judiciary in trial and appellate courts
• Court structures
• Fundamental principles of judicial management and court administration

General Issues of Judicial Management

• Securing the independence of the judiciary through administration
• Judicial leadership
• The role of the judge as manager
• Judicial integrity: ethics and codes of conduct for judges

Specific Issues of Judicial Management

• Court governance
• Budget and finance
• Judicial education
• Strategic and long-range planning

Case Management (presented concurrently with Court Administration Seminar)

• Case management principles and practices
• Evaluation of court procedures and case processing
• Developing and implementing a case management plan
• Establishing a case management system
• Technology for case management
• An efficient clerk's office: filing and other systems

Course Advisor

James G. Apple is currently President of the International Judicial Academy, a non-profit educational institution in the District of Columbia which he founded in 1999. He was formerly a senior staff officer at the Federal Judicial Center, the U.S. federal courts’ agency for education, training and research. He has conducted or co-conducted almost 100 seminars and conferences on issues of judicial and court administration and other topics related to modern court systems for judges and court and legal officers from countries around the world.

2013 PROJECT MONITORING AND EVALUATION

Overview

This course familiarizes participants with project monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems and tools that focus on results in international development. The course offers participants both a conceptual framework and practical skill development

Course Outline 

Results-Based Management (RBM) in International Development

• Understanding and distinguishing between monitoring and evaluation in the context of RBM
• Results Chain: inputs, processes, outputs, outcomes and impacts for development projects, programs or strategies
• Importance of feedback and lessons learned
• Role of partners and stakeholders
• Significance of "soft" assistance
• Implications for country offices

Planning for and Executing on the Monitoring and Evaluation Processes

• Key principles for overall work planning
• Purpose and timing (including ex-post) of monitoring and evaluation
• Involving key partners and stakeholders
• Building monitoring and evaluation teams with defined roles and strong capabilities
• Establishing a hierarchy of project objectives
• Defining scope of monitoring and evaluations
• Selecting analytical tools, methodologies or approaches enabling measurement and attribution
• Importance of data quality and collection and baseline data
• Measuring and assessing project/program output relevance, efficiency and effectiveness in achieving outcomes
• Measuring and assessing level, sustainability, innovativeness, replicability and scalability of impacts from project/program outcomes on physical and financial assets; human assets; social capital and people's empowerment; food security; environment and communal resource base; institutions, policies and regulations
• Budgeting
• Managing monitoring and evaluation processes
• Anticipating and resolving problems

Tools, Methods and Approaches Facilitating Monitoring and Evaluation

• Performance indicators and common rating systems 
• Logical framework approach (Log Frame)
• Theory-based evaluation 
• Formal surveys
• Rapid appraisal methods
• Participatory methods
• Field visits
• Public expenditure tracking surveys
• Economic analysis, including cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis
• Project evaluations
• Impact evaluation analysis
• Evaluation and tracking plans
• Annual reviews and reports
• Comparative overview of other tools, methods and approaches used by leading global institutions

Knowledge and Learning

• Learning from evaluative evidence and applying recommendations from feedback
• Publication of evaluative evidence and feedback material
• Improving evaluation feedback
• Knowledge management
• Institutionalization of learning

Course Advisor

Mr. Robert Ross is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) with more than 30 years of experience serving as a senior executive and officer in both private industry and consulting organizations. He focuses on improving business process execution, increasing profitability, and mitigating business risk exposure. Mr. Ross recently provided consulting services in support of USAID/US State Dept. initiatives to strengthen contract and project management capacity in several ministries for the Government of Iraq.

2013 TRAINING PROGRAMS

The International Law Institute conducts a series of training programs annually. Programs offered in 2013 are listed below. Program content specializes in legal, economic, management, legislative and governance matters and is geared for government officials, academics, legal and other private sector professionals.

Our seminars are presented at our headquarters in Washington, D.C.

[In addition to those programs listed below, ILI conducts approximately 10 customized private programs yearly, held either in Washington, D.C. or abroad for governments, funding agencies and other organizations with special training needs and schedules.] See Special Programs

* For courses that include an IPAD, if participants do not wish to have one included, their tuition will be reduced to $3950.

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