With our partners, we follow five essential steps:
1. Planning and Assessment: We identify project goals, funding sources, and project length.
2. Program Design: We identify critical success factors and key performance indicators, draft a timeline and a budget, and target participants.
3. Implementation: We assist local partners in meeting their goals and in obtaining support for on-going programs.
4. Monitoring and Evaluation: We evaluate program implementation based on achievement of objectives and adherence to the timeline and budget. Continuous monitoring and project re-evaluation ensures that projects address changing needs.
5. Ongoing Support: We include our alumni in our Alumni Partnership Program, in collaborative research, and in information-exchange networks.

ICLAD programs can include a range of services:

• In-country workshops for legislators, government officials and drafters, parliamentary staff, university faculty, and other participants in the lawmaking process


• Trainings for civil society participants to improve their ability to participate meaningfully, advocate effectively for good governance, and contribute their knowledge to the lawmaking process


• Consultation and technical assistance to address issues of special concern


• In-situ support for the initial phases of the program


• Training for trainers who will institutionalize ongoing legislative strengthening programs


• Country and language-specific courses, training manuals, and materials


• Creation of legislative research centers to improve local research capacity


• Inclusion in the Alumni Partnership Program, and enrollment of key individuals in e-Learning courses or in an ICLAD Residence Program to sustain program goals


• Building of local and global alliances to provide ongoing support