Seminar on Employment, Economic Development and Local Governance in Latvia, Riga, 18 January 2005

This seminar was a unique opportunity to debate the results of recent local governance developments in Latvia in the light of experience from other countries, analyse the main obstacles met and identify ways to progress further.  In particular it compared the results obtained by new forms of governance experimented with in various parts of the Baltic Rim and addressed some critical issues related to their effectiveness in generating better economic and social outcomes.

The outcomes of the seminar will feed into the broader activity on local governance and employment of the LEED Programme and its Centre for Local Development in Central and Eastern Europe, based in Trento, Italy, where a major conference on these issues will be held on 6-8 June 2005. The results of work in Riga will be published in an OECD publication.

For more information, please contact Ekaterina.Travkina@oecd.org

• Download the agenda
• Presentation of Mr. Ingus Alliks (in Latvian)
• "The Pros and Cons of Partnerships", by Marion Byrne
• "Local Governance in Estonia", by Jussi Jauhiainen
  (Download also the power point presentation)
• "Area-based Partnerships: An Example from Finland", by Erja Lindberg
• "How to enhance cross-border cooperation on local development and governance?", by Šarūnas Radvilavičius
• "The Governace of Employment and Economic Development in the Baltic States", by Alf Vanags
• "The Possibility to Create Large-scale Regional Governments in Latvia", by Ligita Začesta and Maris Pūķis