STAGE 1: Training and Team Building

Recruit and build political/strategic and technical teams of talented and homegrown personnel to whom the ILD transfers its experience and methodologies.

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The ILD’s efforts to alert and educate political leaders and policy-makers about how our reform ideas can help their countries make the complex transition to an inclusive market economy begin even before a contract is signed. We are well aware that while interest from a head of state/government regarding our services is crucial, the Reform Program will never get off the ground unless there is a constituency of reform supporting the project –at every step of the way. For each potential client country, we mount an “awareness campaign” that will inform the public about what their government is trying to accomplish and how it will benefit the relevant stakeholders. Crucial to building the case for reform is the “Pre-Diagnosis” –a snapshot of the main causes and magnitude of exclusion, along with the common extralegal practices that people use to make transactions and protect their assets. ILD researchers can execute the required research and analysis –in a representative area of the client country– within eight weeks. PRE-DIAGNOSIS Assess and analyze the main causes and magnitude of exclusion. Identify the most common extralegal practices and norms that ordinary people create spontaneously to make transactions and protect their assets. Estimate the quantity of dead capital sitting in the extralegal business and property sectors. At this stage, it is important to establish the connections among dispersed and sometimes seemingly unrelated extralegal practices, government and market failures, and the hidden institutional costs and benefits of different legal norms. To ensure the commitment of the top leadership of the client country and at the same time, to create the required local capacity to implement the Reform Program, the ILD has created an empowerment/training strategy. This strategy is geared toward recruiting and building political/strategic and technical teams of talented and homegrown personnel to whom the ILD transfers its experience and methodologies. These fully empowered, adequately trained and closely monitored local teams will design and implement customized reforms in their own countries at later stages. Once the Program is underway, there is also a continual awareness and consensus building effort not only to keep political leaders and stakeholders informed on how things are progressing but also to create a well-informed vanguard of reform and widespread support for its implementation.

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