IDLO Reviews

The organization is marred by mismanagement and incompetence in the senior leadership. There is no evidence of forward planning and decision making skills. Because crucial decisions are not made there is constant uncertainty. When decisions are made people in the field are not listened to. Recruitment is a major problem. There is no transparency and a lot of nepotism. There are people who have worked for IDLO for years both in Rome or in field offices who are not competent and may even harm the organization but are not let go or are rehired because they have been working for IDLO for many years. At the same time talented people are let go or they resign because they are so frustrated and demotivated by the nepotism, incompetence and mismanagement they witness.

This organization is a real joke, especially when you think that its mission is justice. Pay scale inequality is constantly present, managers of multi million projects who are very young and have little experience but simply knew the right person at the right time, the organization has been constantly restructuring and never gets it done so there is very high staff turnover and little job satisfaction within it generally. There are no internal staff regulations and no proper HR exist so positions are made up for people who need to get hired and good CVs are left out if you don't know anyone internally. Total scam, stay away from it!