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| Value chains, linkages and service markets: Syntheses, conferences and more |
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| Local Economic Development - Key Documents and Links |
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| Country(ies) | Indonesia, South Africa |
| Implementing agency(ies) | GTZ, ILO, Mesopartner, OECD, World Bank Group |
| Funding agency(ies) | BMZ, Department for International Development (DFID), World Bank Group |
| Date completed | August 2008 |
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Description
Local Economic Development (LED) is a strategy for promoting local economies as a way to fight poverty. LED programs often include elements of service market development and/or value chain development and vice versa. This entry provides some key documents and links to information on LED. More will be added as it becomes available; the latest addition is a link to a new collaborative website on LED launched by ILO, at www.LEDKnowledge.org.
Below is a handbook on Local and Regional Economic Development (published in Feb 07) based on GTZ's work in South Africa. It includes principles, strategies and intervention areas for LRED as well as many tool for implementing LRED and an extensive reading list for further information.
Also below is a case study of LED in Indonesia from GTZ (2004).
The LED team of the Urban Development Unit of the World Bank have recently published a Trainer's Manual on Making LED Strategies. The site as a whole, with some very useful background documents (such as a Primer) and LED case studies sorted by region, can be found at www.worldbank.org/urban/led.
Below is a Paper by Shawn Cunningham and Jorg Meyer-Stamer which argues that the orthodox approach to LED suffers from serious flaws; it makes recommendations on more promising approaches.
The NRI hosts a number of Papers on LED, including "Addressing poverty through local economic and enterprise development: A review of conceptual approaches and practice", by Davis and Rylance, 2005.
The mesopartner April newsletter includes some interesting comparisons between the value chain and the M4P approaches. Their Dec. 05 Newsletter had an interesting editorial, on a similar theme: 'How do ¿Enabling Environment¿ and ¿Making Markets Work for the Poor¿ relate to LED and PACA?'
Other interesting sites are at OECD and SDC.
Organizations offering training on LED include the ILO Turin Centre and mesopartner.
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