The ILD History

For more than 25 years the ILD has been observing the genesis and effects of exclusion in the developing world. Walking the streets and the rural byways of local shantytowns, we identify -- and measure -- the assets and vast potential of the poor, the legal obstacles that keep them outside the rule of law, the extralegal practices they resort to in order to do business and protect their belongings; and organize our findings into archetypes that become the building blocks of reform. With that information in hand, we then design reforms acceptable to all and implement them. The ILD’s approach is thus the result of decades of on-the-ground experience that have included a series of utter failures and relative successes from which we have learned and grown.