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The work of the Centre on local governance is part of the LEED Programme’s activity on decentralisation, partnerships and local governance (Activity 1), which seeks to identify ways to co-ordinate labour market policies with economic development and social inclusion programmes and assess the impact of decentralisation and partnerships between government, civil society and business on the effectiveness of policies and local governance. LEED Partners will be associated to various projects through the Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance, supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economy and Labour.
What's new
Capacity Building Seminar for New and Nascent Local Development Partnerships in Central-East and South-East Europe, Trento, Italy, 10-12 November 2008
The objective of this 2.5-day seminar is to improve the functioning of local partnerships. The seminar is aimed at local partnership practitioners and their counterparts in local and national governments. The seminar will focus on three main themes: (i) what makes local partnership building successful?; (ii) what are the key elements of a national support framework for local development partnerships?; and (iii) how to manage and improve performance?
Events
Capacity Building Seminar for Partnerships on "Designing and Delivering Skills Strategies for Cities", Trento, Italy, 11-13 June 2008
The objective of this seminar was to improve the capacity of partnerships to design and deliver integrated skills strategies. It focused on three main themes: (i) understanding local skills needs; (ii) building an integrated skills strategy and (iii) assessing the impact: moving from quantitative to qualitative assessment.
Round Table on "Local Governance in Local Development: the Role of Local Development Partnerships", Zagreb, Croatia, 10-11 March 2008
This round table was the conclusive part of the review project "Capacity Building for Effective Partnerships – An Active Review in Croatia" that the OECD LEED Programme and the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID) mission in Croatia have jointly undertaken since 2007.
Report on “Enhancing the Capacity of Partnerships to Influence Policy”, Trento, Italy, August 2007
The OECD LEED Programme released a report on "Enhancing the Capacity of Partnerships to Influence Policy” which gathers the experience of the two capacity building seminars organised by the Trento Centre for Local Development in close co-operation with the Forum office unit at the Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) in Vienna Austria.
Capacity Building for Effective Partnerships – An Active Review in Croatia, January-July 2007
The review was a joint project between the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID). It was implemented by the OECD LEED Trento Centre for Local Development, the USAID Mission to Croatia and USAID’s partner institution World Learning.
Seminar on “Enhancing the Capacity of Partnerships to Influence Policy”, Dublin, Ireland, 18-20 April 2007
This 2.5-day seminar was the second stage of a capacity building programme designed for experienced partnerships from OECD member countries. After a lively first seminar in Vienna, this second meeting allowed a more in-depth discussion on how partnerships can enhance their capacity to influence policy at the local, national and international levels.
Seminar on “Enhancing the Capacity of Partnerships to Influence Policy”, Vienna, Austria, 5-7 December 2006
The 2.5-day capacity building seminar was designed as a series of highly interactive sessions around good practice examples presented by seminar participants and OECD experts. Debates about the role and capacity of partnerships in influencing policy at local, national and international levels addressed questions relating to trust and legitimacy, applied communication strategies and accountability frameworks.
Capacity building seminar on “Building Development Strategies for Cities and Regions”, Trento, Italy, 23 - 27 October 2006
This 5-day capacity building seminar focused on the local development strategy design and implementation and more specifically it emphasized the role of strategy in integrating different drivers, factors and enablers of local economic development. This event brought together 60 experienced policy makers and practitioners from Central, East and South East Europe working in the area of regional and local development strategy building
Experts meeting on "Local Development and Migration", Tirana, Albania, 1 June 2006
The expert meeting was a follow-up to the OECD study visit to the regions of Gjirokaster, Tirana and Vlore in 2005 as part of the OECD cross-country activity on local integration of migrants into the labour market. The experts meeting debated the draft policy recommendations resulting from the study visit.This event was jointly organised by the OECD LEED Centre for Local Development and the International Labour Office (ILO) with its Subregional Office for Central and Eastern Europe.
Stakeholders Meeting “Developing Skills for Endogenous Development”, Tirana and Shkoder, Albania, 29-31 May 2006
This conference looked at local development assets and capacities in Northern Albania with a focus on the traditional handicraft sector, including skills development and the role of partnerships in the design, implementation and evaluation of local development strategies. This event was jointly organised by the OECD LEED Centre for Local Development and the International Labour Office (ILO) with its Subregional Office for Central and Eastern Europe.
International Partnership Fair, Austria, Vienna, 13-15 February 2006.
This unique conference was organised for partnership practitioners, such as co-ordinators and partners of alliances, as well as policy makers aiming to exchange partnership experiences. The International Partnership Fair provided opportunities to meet, learn from each other and build new co-operation relationships.
Conference on "Local Development and Governance in Central, East and South-East Europe", Trento, Italy, 6-8 June 2005
This international conference was organised by the OECD LEED Programme and the LEED Trento Centre for Local Development (Italy). It addressed the progress made in Central, East and South-East Europe in the field of governance and implementation of local development strategies.
Forum Meeting on "Enhancing the Effectiveness of Partnerships", Vienna, 26-27 April 2005
The First Forum Meeting was a unique opportunity to re-assess today’s need for partnerships, debate on best ways for government, business and civil society to work in partnership in practice, exchange know-how and experiences of existing partnerships and discuss the main innovations in funding partnerships.
Seminar on "Implementing Local Development Strategies", Trento, Italy, 21-27 November 2004
This one-week seminar has been especially designed for policy-makers and practitioners from South, Central, and Eastern Europe responsible for local development issues. This training was organised by the LEED Programme through the LEED Trento Centre for Local Development.
Seminar on "Building Local Partnerships in the Balkans", Tirana, Albania, 22-23 April 2004
This event was organised in co-operation with the European Training Foundation and presented the results of the first phase of a project launched in 2003 to build partnerships for local development in Albania and Kosovo (Serbia and Montenegro).
For further information on these activities, please contact Andrea-Rosalinde.Hofer@oecd.org
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