Mission and objectives of the Trento Centre

The mission of the Centre is to build local development capacity in OECD member and non-member countries in Central, East and South Eastern Europe. The Centre builds on the LEED Programme’s longstanding commitment to providing assistance in the design, implementation and assessment of local development strategies and its expertise on local governance, entrepreneurship, social inclusion and evaluation.
The main objectives of the Centre are:

• to improve the dissemination capacity of best practices in the design and implementation of local development strategies and facilitate the transfer of expertise and exchange of experience between OECD member and non-member countries;
• to improve the quality of public policy in economic, labour market and social areas, implemented at the local level, through continuous monitoring and assessment of current policies and practices and identification of innovations in key local development drivers and tools;
• to strengthen the relationship between policy makers, local development practitioners and the scientific community;
• to reinforce participative and representative democracy at sub-national level by initiating and supporting a dialogue between national and sub-national legislatures on local development issues.

See the focus areas of the OECD LEED Trento Centre