SV WiRAM - Anja Gomm - March 20021 Local / Regional Economic Development Promotion Main ideas...

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Local / Regional Economic Development Promotion

Main ideas

Factors for implementation

Relationship to your work

Aim:

information on new product development

get your inputs / feedback

motivate your future contributions

Contents:

LRED as a product


LRED and product development

Concept paper

Product description

Refer-ences

Humanresour-

ces

Knowhow

Dept. 41 and 45

Regional structures and clients

Various projects

Training e.g.toolkit

SNs Asia


LRED promotion, in order to ...

... create an interlinked local economy

... multiply impacts

... support ownership with local development

... create local competence to face change

... build comparative advantages


So what is LRED?

Competitiveness of the economic sector

within a defined local setting


The main idea of LRED Promotion

LRED Promotion is locally driven

... is essentially about networking

... wants to strengthen the economic competitiveness of the area

... can benefit many parts of society

... involves actors from different sectors

... wants to initiate cooperation / synergies


The main idea of LRED Promotion

... but ...

... the mixture is, and the process!

The elements of LRED Promotionare not new …


LRED Policy?

Industrial policy – technological focus

SMME policy – firm-specific focus

Regional or spatial development policy – network focus

LRED brings together key insights from different policy areas:


What is new?

Targeting measures on particular sectors

Strategic coordination of diverse measures

The direction!

Self-reinforcing business networks

Influencing the factors of competitiveness

With a common goal

Within a locality / region


Who are the actors in LRED Promotion

Decentralised administration and Government,

Regional development agencies,

Chambers and professional associations,

Individual actors of the local and regional economy (enterprises),

Civil society


Who can benefit from LRED Promotion ... ?

SMEs and start-ups

Decision makers and implementers in partner institutions

Employees and unemployed

Areas of structural change

Industrial or agricultural areas

Decentralised political entities

... and where?


Needs to consider for LRED Promotion

Local interest in a 3-5 year process

Ability for local self-management and responsibility of the process

Potential of the area: e.g. economic opportunities, skilled staff, training institutions, existing local initiatives

Local actors and their specific interests


Decisive factors I

Actors

Political framework conditions

Dimension

Incentive system

Financial means

Dynamic, initiative, commitment, taking of responsibility

Existing policies, decentralisation, budgets, measures

Commercialisation, competition, legitimisation

Public + private investments

Size of area, population, economic region / cluster


Decisive factors II

Competitiveness through assisting a favourable conjuncture of factors

– Private sector activities

– Markets

– Resources

– Institutions

– Skilled staff

Entrepreneurs, linkages

Existing + potential, functionality

Physical, technological, infrastructure, attitudes

Associations, BDS providers, research units

Training institutions, research

Potentials


Steps in LRED Promotion1 . Planning, initiating the process Contacting existing initiatives, lining out fields of

intervention, agreeing on possible support

2. Identifying the potential Identifying actors, jointly analysing comparative

advantages, planning common activities, formulating visions for the area with indicators of success

3 . Developing / strengthening the initiatives Actors are implementing measures in their organisations /

institutions, supporting the common objectives / vision

4. Anchoring and securing the initiatives Initiatives running on their own accord,

new initiatives developing, further specification of the local / regional development objective / vision

toolkit tools


How does this relate to your work?

Many sector specific tools are involved in LRED

1. Which tools can supplement your work?

For a more comprehensive impact in the regional context

2. Can you develop new, future perspectives for intervention?


How does your work relate to L/RED?

1. What are the changes needed in your sector specific approaches?

To incorporate a regional dimension

Many sector specific tools are involved

They need specification for the regional demand

e.g. partners involved, starting points


Analytical and Process Management Tools

Analysis ofcompetitiveadvantages

Participatoryanalysis and

planning

Roundtables

Qualification

of decision

makers

Man

age-

men

t of

proce

sses

SWOT

analysis

Creat

ing a

com

mon

object

ive

/ vis

ion

Identi-ficationof locationalfactors


Networking Tools

Institutionalpartnerships

PPP Initiatives

Strategic alliances

Networkmanagement

Exposurevisits


Private Sector Promotion Tools

Development ofregional (local)“labels” for trade

Setting up ofproduction chains-> value adding

Technologytransfer

Clusterpromotion

Introduction ofnew financinginstruments forSMEs /FSE

SMMEpromotiontools


Setting up of production chains

Mapping of thevalue system

(commodity chain)

Valueadding

Marketanalysis

Analysis ofproduction

process

Currentstakeholder

analysisFacilitationof business

linkages

Linkage toBusiness

developmentservices

Facilitationof further

specialisedassistance


Employment promotion tools

matching labour market supply and demand

Qualification of job seekers etc.

Initiatives ofunemployed


Assistance and links

www.wiram.de for background on the sector projectand the product description LRED

www.wiram.de/toolkit for the test version of the LRED toolkit

[email protected] for any further questions, inputs or feedback

Contact Josef Grimm: [email protected] 23

Your input and / or

attendance is needed!!

„Eigenmassnahme“

Rural employment promotion

Aimed at: advancing the development of employment-promoting approaches in rural areas

Working with: institutions from the public and private sectors and civil society in Southern Africa

Working on: Analysis of effectiveness of current approaches Development of new elements and best practices Discussion at regional conference October 2002

with publication of findings

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