Transcript Slide 1

OVERVIEW
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Our approach to LED
Action ideas/tools
Country activities
Case examples
Lessons learned
Reflection-W/shop
Perspectives, scope and focus
Focus
Objectives
Competitiveness; economic
Spatial-local,
dynamism; resilience
regional, cityhinterland; potential;
Governance/process Locally driven development;
empowerment; capacity
Outcome
(i) Business devt services;
enabling environment Investment,
(ii) business; jobs, income,
municipal revenue; (iii) quality of
life, equity, sustainability
LED Training Series
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The Quick Guide
The Manual
The Toolkit
Actions Guide
Key LED Concepts
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Capital
Total Economy
Leakage
Business enabling environment
Cooperation VS competition
Stakeholders
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Participation
Getting
Started
Ten
Steps
to
Planning
Excellence
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Adjust
& Modify
Monitor &
Evaluate
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Situation
Assessment
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Visioning
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Issues &
Objectives
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Organizational &
Implementation
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Action
Planning
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Strategy
Development
Source: W. Trousdale, EcoPlan International, In
LED Tools and Action Ideas
There are 31 Action Ideas for LED
•Local Government
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•Initial Actions
7
•Advanced Actions
19
- Marketing and Knowledge Management
- Entrepreneur and Small Business Support
- Physical Revitalisation, Infrastructure and Land Planning
- Organisational Development for LED
-Finance
-Investment
•Broad Based Actions
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Relevant LED Action Ideas
•Policy and regulation
• Demo project
•Local procurement and buy local campaigns
• Skills training
•SMEs development
•Physical infra investment
•Cooperatives
•Partnerships
•Micro credit
•Support to informal economy
Activities
Romania
Brazil
Chile
Mexico
Regional
Egypt
Jordan
Palestine
Somalia
Sudan
Syria
Yemen
Kenya
Rwanda
Tanzania
Uganda
Senegal
Afghanistan
India
Indonesia
Korea
Nepal
Pakistan
Philippines
Vietnam
tool development • manual adaptation and translation • training of trainers • action planning • follow up
Local application: Horezu, Romania
• Town Center Upgrading
• Sustainable Tourism Strategy---moving to super
local
• Value adding activities in agriculture
• LG capacity building
Regional Collaboration-Philippines
• Iloilo City and the nearby
Guimaras province as one
economic development areaagriculture, fisheries and
tourism
• Competition and
complementarities-Baracay
(tourism), Negros (fisheries),
Cebu (commerce and trade)
• Strategic areas of devt: tourism
(agro and heritage,
transportation and
communication)
Adapting at the national level:
Vietnam
• Adapting the LED series for local socio
economic development planning
(language, context, content, )
• Modules for province, district and
commune and for officials and technical
staff
• Testing in 4 provinces before rolling out
nationally
Lessons of Experience
• Good assessments and champions are essential
• Getting the private sector on board is a key
challenge
• We should look for “Quick Wins” –Technical
capacity and funding is the challenge here
• LAs can play a critical role in improving cost of
doing business and building partnerships
• Local should be defined flexibly and in a
dynamic context
Reflecting …
• LAs are not yet proactive on LED (knowledge on role,
exposure to tools, and practices elsewhere) + structural
and governance aspects
• Entry barriers for informal and small operators to take
advantage of public investments and procurements
(regulatory reform + contractual provision in big
contractors + capacity building of small contractors)
• Opportunity for inter-municipal economic development
cooperation/regional approach?
• Which sectors most benefit from improvement in water
and sanitation sectors (this could be part of LE
assessment and priority for investment promotion)
Reflecting…
• Entreprenuership culture and drive are equally critical as
the finance and the hardware aspects (what business
start up and development service providers are there,
how are they performing and what can we do to
strengthen them)
• Need building on previous efforts (CDS??)
• The economics of service delivery in the context of small
towns (a win win business model for LAs, service
operators?)
• Serious concern about M & E; but this needs indicators,
base line and process; and only the local communities
determine it