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The 47th session of the LEED Directing Committee was held in Prague on 8 December 2005. Delegates from LEED member countries and organisations discussed ongoing and forthcoming activities. This meeting was held back to back with the seminar on Local Development as a Driver for Growth in Central and Eastern Europe on 9 December.
The Czech Republic has made impressive progress to nurture local economic and employment development over the past few years. It has implemented an ambitious regional development programme to encourage the emergence of endogenous and bottom-up development strategies and reformed its governance structure to facilitate policy co-ordination, adaptation of policies to local conditions and participation of business and civil society in the orientation of policies.
Ten years after the Czech Republic joined the OECD and the LEED Programme, what are the lessons that can be learned from the Czech experience in local development? What are the current challenges and obstacles? What are the new orientations that the government is proposing to take and what can we learn from international practice to maximise their chances of success? These issues were addressed in this seminar in which policy makers, local development experts and practitiones from Central and Eastern Europe took part on Friday 9 December.
For more information on this event, please contact Sylvain Giguère.
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