A new paper, “The Rule of Law Movement, Past and Future: The View from EWMI,” reflects on over 30 years of EWMI Rule of Law programming from the mid-1990s through the 2025 shuttering of USAID.
In the paper, EWMI’s Rule of Law experts, Vice Presidents Mark Dietrich and Nicolas Mansfield, take readers through the three primary stages of the Rule of Law journey—institution building, the search for political will, and the emergence of people-centered justice. The authors provide an overview of EWMI initiatives that brought sustainable changes and others that did not and conclude with some lessons learned and concrete recommendations for charting a way forward for the Rule of Law community.