indicators

Understanding your Local Economy: Identifying Data Requirements and Guide

This chapter presents extensive resources on indicators in four dimensions, economic structure, local endowments, human capital and institutions. It provides for light touch assessments as well as more elaborate, case studies included.

Understanding your Local Economy: Key Issues and Quick Reference Materials

This Cities Alliance resource is a summary of methods tools and resources on how to organise economy assessments, identify data, collect and analyse data. It provides a short introduction to more detailed resources.

Measuring State-Business Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper prepared by the Institutions and Pro-Poor Growth research institute in the UK explores how to measure the impact of effective state-business relationships on economic growth.

New indicators monitoring and evaluation materials uploaded thanks to LEDNA member Peterc and a UNCDF project we have been woring on, theere are a number of really useful new resources on LED M and E and indicators. Go to latest contributions and you can find them.

Read more

Please see this week that thanks to LEDNA member Peterc and a UNCDF project we have been woring on, theere are a number of really useful new resources on LED M and E and indicators. Go to latest contributions and you can find them. There is a report that we have been working on that will be uploaded to LEDNA as soon as it is published. Thanks to Peter and UNCDF

Gwen Swinburn LED Adviser

Read more

Enterprise Incubator

This World Bank incubator project from Armenia exemplifies how innovative private-public mechanisms for providing business development services can be piloted. Inspiration can be drawn from the project on how to evaluate and monitor an incubator.

Sustainable Land Management Project, Ethiopia

By improving assets registration, ownership can be better secured and collateral quality can often improve. Inspiration can be drawn from the outcome level indicators in this World Bank land management project from Ethiopia.

Municipal Wastewater Project, Hungary

This World Bank wastewater project in two municipalities in Hungary can provide inspiration when setting indicators for improvements of sewage and wastewater systems.

Microfinance Poverty Assessment Tool

This Poverty Assessment Tool includes a multi-dimensional Poverty Index for donors and investors who require a standardized, globally applicable set of poverty indicators to make poverty-focused funding decisions and to compare MFIs across regions.

Support to Decentralized Planning and Financing

The recently completed UNCDF ‘Support to Decentralized Planning and Financing in the Provinces of Nampula and Cabo Delgado’ has quite detailed indicators. While not a pure LED project, it nevertheless has many of the key ingredients of LED, making it a suitable case study.