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posted by: ledna-team
11.01.2010
LEDNA has been awarded the Africities 2009 Prize for excellence in Local Development. This award acknowledges the work accomplished by LEDNA during its short existence as well as LEDNA's strong participation during the Africities 2009 Summit namely the organisation of 4 workshops which each time attracted from 150 to 250 participants.
posted by: lexlindeman
04.01.2010posted by: ledna-team
24.12.2009On 17 December 2009 during the Africties Summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, was held the first meeting of LEDNA’ s Steering Committee. According to the institutional organisation of LEDNA as stipulated in the Strategy 2009-2011, the steering committee is the directional organ of the program. It represents African local governments and is composed of five Mayors representing each of the five African regions. The current Steering Committee is constituted by the following personalities:
posted by: ledna-team
24.12.2009The Africities 2009 Summit in Morocco Marrakesh came to a close last Sunday. According to most participants the Summit was a total success and broke all past records!
posted by: Serge-Zelezeck
04.12.2009An interesting discussion on the concept of gentrification as it applies to the African urban reality has been unfolding on the LEDNA platform. The discussion throws a shining light on the inadequacies of top-down slum eradication policies, points to the triple phenomenon of Suburb/peri/centri-urbanisation which corresponds strikingly to the geographical mobility of upper/middle/low classes in most African cities, and questions the rush for urban infrastructure for infrastructure’s sake. Read the entire discussion here.
posted by: Gwen-Swinburn
13.11.2009Great opportunity for NGOs in Malawi ! Scotland's International Development Fund open. Check this out now.
External Affairs Minister Michael Russell today invited Scottish non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working in Malawi to bid for funding from the Scottish Government. Scottish NGOs, working with partners in Malawi, can apply for grants from the International Development Fund to support their work on the four agreed priority areas of civil society and governance, sustainable economic development, health and education.
posted by: Gwen-Swinburn
13.11.2009Online resource for the understanding your local economy Cities Alliance resource. Friends, Cities Alliance is in the process of updating its web site- so it is currently not easy to find this fundamental resource we developed for practitioners. Here it is in English and French. Please can the LEDNA team do an update of these resources to correct the broken link to LEDNA home pages.
posted by: Gwen-Swinburn
13.11.2009National LED legislation is being considered by many countries. See this legislation from the UK that received Royal Assent today.
posted by: ledna-team
12.11.2009"Open Business Forums" in Nigeria have successfully been used for public-private dialogue and to publicly address issues of local economic development. A private sector development programme in Nigeria has now published a manual for radio stations on how to organise such forums. The manual is a practical guide for radio professionals to establish programmes that will create a win-win-win scenario for the radio station, listeners and advertisers. The manual practically explains how radio stations can establish 'open business forums'.
posted by: ledna-team
10.11.2009Radio is a powerful means for reaching out - even into the rural communities - for information sharing, but also for being a "watchdog" for local politics. Small Business Radio Programmes have successfully been used in the middlebelt of Nigeria. Read some brief, yet absolutely stunning cases about how radio was used for successful public-private-dialogue in the rural areas of Nigeria.
