1. OVERVIEW Our approach to LED Action ideas/tools Country activities
Case examples
Lessons learned
Reflection-W/shop

2. Perspectives, scope and focus
Objectives
Spatial-local, regional, city-hinterland; potential;
Competitiveness; economic dynamism; resilience
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

3. LED Training Series 1) The Quick Guide 2) The Manual 3) The Toolkit
4) Actions Guide

4. Key LED Concepts Capital Total Economy Leakage
Business enabling environment
Cooperation VS competition

5. Ten Steps to Planning Excellence
While this process appears as a series of distinct steps to be followed in succession, each question and step will likely be revisited as information emerges, alternatives are refined, and new people, ideas and perceptions are brought into the process

6. LED Tools and Action Ideas There are 31 Action Ideas for LED
Local Government
Initial Actions
Advanced Actions
- Marketing and Knowledge Management
- Entrepreneur and Small Business Support
- Physical Revitalisation, Infrastructure and Land Planning
- Organisational Development for LED
-Finance
-Investment
Broad Based Actions 1 7 19 2 4 5

7. 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

8. Activities Romania Afghanistan India Indonesia Korea Nepal Pakistan
Brazil
Chile
Mexico
Regional
Kenya
Rwanda
Tanzania
Uganda
Senegal
Afghanistan
India
Indonesia
Korea
Nepal
Pakistan
Philippines
Vietnam
Romania
tool development • manual adaptation and translation • training of trainers • action planning • follow up
Egypt
Jordan
Palestine
Somalia
Sudan
Syria
Yemen

9. Local application: Horezu, Romania
Town Center Upgrading
Sustainable Tourism Strategy---moving to super local
Value adding activities in agriculture
LG capacity building

10. Regional Collaboration-Philippines
Iloilo City and the nearby Guimaras province as one economic development area-agriculture, 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)

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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)

14. 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