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Local Economic Development Toolkit

This is a comprehensive, online toolkit for a major LED effort in Ukraine- it includes methods, implementation options, baselines and strategies. The LEDNA team will try and link the many useful individual pages into the relevant LEDNA knowledge hub page to allow easy access. Thanks to USAID.

Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic

The Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic is a knowledge program to improve public understanding of what network infrastructure does to promote economic growth in Africa. It assists policy makers in setting priorities for infrastructure investments and also provides a baseline for monitoring progress.

Economic Baseline Study for Ten Nominated Districts in KwaZulu-Natal

This economic baseline study offers an economic portrait of ten districts in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa). The baseline study can provide inspiration when conducting an economic assessment.

Beating the Odds: Sustaining Inclusion in a Growing Economy

This comprehensive study describes an assessment approach that combines multiple disciplines and diagnostic tools to explore the many dimensions in of poverty. The report aims  to support the development and implementation of effective pro-poor policies. It focuses on Mozambique, but the approach is applicable in other countries. Indicators used in this study could inspire the development of indicators for similar or smaller scale studies elsewhere

Value Chain Development , Ethiopia July 6-10

6 Jul 2009 - 10 Jul 2009

Where: Ethiopia

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baseline enterprise-development implementation monitoring-and-upgrading Strategy value-chains

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Strengthening Agricultural Technologoes among People Living with HIV

Partners worked together to promote the use of appropriate technologies to improve productivity of small-scale agricultural activities implemented by people living with HIV (PLHIV) under the Regional Outreach Addressing AIDS through Development Strategies (ROADS) Project implemented by FHI in the two border towns of Busia, Kenya, and Busia, Uganda (figure 1). This activity was funded by USAID/East Africa.

The process involved identifying simple technologies to increase farm and garden outputs and linking clusters of people living with HIV (PLHIV) with local agricultural institutions including the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA),

Department of Culture and Social Services, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), and Busia Agricultural Training Centre (BATC) in Kenya and the MOA, Ministry of Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO), and National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) in Uganda, as well as community development officers, community-based organizations (CBOs), and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the districts. FANTA facilitated the development of a participatory learning process to motivate groups of PLHIV to learn the new technologies to increase farm and garden output.

Thanks to USAID Dec Express

Economic Regeneration A guide to national & local indicators

This manual, whilst targetted at English local government economic development practitioners is helpful to give a framework on indicators and how to measure within the UK context- it can inform thinking on trying to set indicators especially for measuring LED strategies. Produced by the UK Audit Commission.

Monitoring and Evaluation - Collection of Resources

Here is a comprehensive resource on both monitoring and evaluation from USAID. There are short descriptions to links to secific resources. Whilst not specifically using LED a topic these resources will be useful for beginners as well as advanced practitioners.

LED plans for newly decentralized municipalities throughout Georgia

Follow this link for access to numerous LED plans assembled by newly decentralized municipalities in Georgia, at the assistance of USAID, CHF International, and Urban Institute.

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Cities Outlook 2009 [English Cities]

This is one of the first reports to address the impact the 2008 recession will have on English cities. It offers ideas on comparative analysis, and uses indicators to compare past and future city economic performance. Clearly more data is available in England than in most LEDNA countries, but it gives ideas and perspectives.

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