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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.

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REMINDER!!! The LEDNA slogan competition is still on!

Develop a slogan that summarises the essence of LEDNA in a few words! The slogan will appear on the website and will be officially published together with the logo whenever LEDNA is represented.

Don't forget, there is a valuable prize to be won! The award will be a 50,-Euro voucher for internet shopping!

Deadline is the 1st November 2009. All slogans will be displayed on the website for your comments!

Send your proposals to serge.zelezeck@ledna.org

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Develop a slogan for LEDNA !

Members of LEDNA are invited to join the competition. Formulate the best slogan and win a voucher worth 50 Euro.

Deadline is 1st November 2009.

Conditions for participation:

The Competition is open to LEDNA members and the slogan must be a very catchy phrase that summarises well the purpose of LEDNA.

To participate, send your slogan to serge.zelezeck@ledna.org

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A two-day workshop on the establishment of an LED national programme in Zambia and Botswana was held from 20 to 21 August 2009 at the United Cities and Local Government of Africa (UCLGA)'s offices in Pretoria. Organised jointly by UCLGA and LEDNA, the workshop was attended by representatives of the Local Government Association of Zambia, the Botswana Association of Local Authorities and the South African Local Government Association.

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The LEDNA team is in the process of identifying sites and resources that have a lot of relevant free knowledge for LED practitioners. Here are some we have already found http://www.ledna.org/en/taxonomy/term/1216.  We are looking for more. Or key criteria are as follows:

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I love the idea of an open resource-sharing website where LED experts and non-experts have access to LED- related resources and the opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences. The first time I entered LEDNA’s website, I instantly remembered the long hours I once spent searching for information on LED projects. Thus, I really appreciate the effort and work of building this website, without a doubt LEDNA is a great reference point for LED resources and expertise.

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Country Resource Portal on LEDNA - Example Kenya

Did you know our LEDNA knowledge hub has classifed many LED resources and experiences by individual countries, In Africa and globally!  Take a look here at our Africa Country portal. You can access this from the home page on the left. Once in the country Portal you can find resources for specific countries in Africa, see here for our resources on KENYA as an example. Non LEDNA members will be able to see all the knowledge resources, reports, limks and blog posts. Members will in addition be able to see (and contact) LEDNA members living in specific countries, they will be able to see individual members intersts skills and needs. Non members can join for free, and everyone is welcome, you can join quickly from our home page www.ledna.org.

LEDNA has commissioned a series of reports on local economic development activirty in more than 20 African countries. These reports can all be found on our LEDNA knowledge hub here. The forms, methodology and guidelines for the desk research can be found here. The research is ongoing and has been funded by SDC, UNCDF, USAID, ILO and GTZ.

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Local Economic Development friends, I am urgently looking for projects and practitioners engaged in Youth LED and Youth Entrepreneurship projects, in East Africa ideally, but also all over Africa. Let me know your soonest please and we can share then with donors interested specifically in these LED programme areas. Reply to my blog here, or if you prefer to gwen.swinburn@ledna.org

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Friends,
2009 has seen a good start for our first full year in operation. The network is building nicely and thanks to members like Jason Mukaya in East Africa, and others who are contributing comments, blogs, questions and links, we are now really getting some momentum amongst the membership. The South African practitioners have also committed to engaging with LEDNA members through blogging etc. This is all just great and what we hped and expected would happen once the platform was up and running.

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