Welcome to A4ID
A4ID is a global charity that works in partnership with the world’s leading law firms.
Welcome to A4ID
Providing access to the best legal advice for those engaged in the fight against global poverty.
Welcome to A4ID
Our vision is the law and lawyers playing their full part in the eradication of global poverty.
We partner with
Announcement!
We are delighted to announce that Advocates for International Development (A4ID) and Law Works have agreed to merge and become a single organisation. We hope to complete the merger by mid-summer. As two of the leading charities in the sector providing vital access to legal services for those who need it most, the merger will create a stronger, more resilient, efficient and effective organisation that is better able to meet the increasing demand we are seeing.
The merged entity will, amongst other things, be a combined brokerage for the provision of domestic and international pro bono legal assistance for individuals, NGOs, and community-based organisations.
Roger Leese Alasdair Douglas
A4ID, Chair Law Works, Chair
A4ID is one of our most important pro bono partners. Not only do they provide us with a healthy pipeline of projects that inspire and engage Weil attorneys all over the world, they also offer extensive training programmes and thought leadership events which educate our attorneys on a range of issues that are relevant to our pro bono and commercial clients.
Miriam Buhl | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Our mission and the
Sustainable Development Goals
What we do
As a global charity, A4ID delivers an unparalleled opportunity for law firms and companies internationally to make an outstanding contribution in meeting the needs of the world’s poorest citizens. We do this primarily as facilitators, matching international legal expertise with local need in more than 100 jurisdictions. Read more
Our mission
To be a voice of the legal community, to inspire and enable lawyers to join the global fight against poverty and to ensure that legal support is available for those engaged in that fight.
The Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were agreed by 193 countries at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015. They set 169 targets and further indicators that every UN member state will use in framing their agendas and political policies until 2030. Read more
How we do it
We believe that the law can and should be used more effectively to eradicate global poverty.
But we know that in many instances the law is a barrier to sustainable international development.
Because unequal access to legal expertise can prevent development we ensure everyone engaged in the fight against poverty has access to free legal support.
We have a network of over 50,000 legal experts and to date we have facilitated over £30 million worth of free legal advice for more than 700 development organisations.
We play a strategic role in creating effective and efficient solutions to eradicating global poverty.
Engaging the legal profession in that process, we work towards finding and implementing legal solutions to development challenges.
Our projects increase the impact of development organisations’ work while also influencing policy decisions, supporting social enterprise and empowering local communities.
We work in partnership with lawyers and development organisations to raise awareness about the role law can play in tackling poverty.
We enable lawyers and development organisations to share knowledge and develop new responses to fighting global poverty.
The Sustainable Development Goals
A4ID is committed to inspiring and enabling lawyers to join the global fight against poverty, and to ensure that legal support is available for those engaged in that fight. Please click on the relevant SDG icon to learn more about the specific objectives.
Learning
A4ID provides a range of training programmes that are aimed to inform and empower lawyers to get involved in development issues and to assist our development partners to fulfill their own goals on the road to the SDGs.
Knowledge Groups
A4ID organises many different events, exploring the critical role that the law can play in international development.
