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To assist and advice countries, regions and localities in the design and implementation of local economic, employment and social development strategies, programmes and initiatives that are able to respond effectively to the challenges of globalisation. To promote a culture of evaluation; review evaluation practices, provide guidance and build capacity to improve evaluation methods; build monitoring indicators of local development.
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Local development capacity assessment in EU candidate countries and potential candidates in the Western Balkans: a LEED Project for 2011/2012
This joint initiative by the European Commission Enlargement Directorate-General and the OECD LEED Programme is focused on providing an assessment of the current local development capacity in view of EU accession in the EU Candidate countries and potential candidates in the Western Balkans, notably: Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244), Montenegro and Serbia.
Supporting evidence-based local strategy making: a LEED Project for 2011/2012
The work will provide guidance to local development organisations on how to prepare evidence-based strategies using relevant local information systems and evaluation frameworks. Practical manuals, web-based tools and peer learning mechanisms will be provided for information gathering, evaluation and their analysis.
Events & Activities
2010
Workshop on "Measuring local development policy delivery", Paris, France, 4 November 2010
This forth FIELD workshop reviewed the innovative tools and methods used as part of local information systems by local development organisations to: i) measure the factors that impact on the effective delivery of local policies; ii) identify policy needs, shape policies and programmes that can best address these needs, and; iii) understand if policies are bringing results.
Workshop on "Measuring entrepreneurship and SME development at local level", Paris, France, 27 September 2010
This third FIELD workshop reviewed the innovative tools and methods used as part of local information systems by local development organisations to: i) measure the factors that impact on entrepreneurship and SME development; ii) identify policy needs, shape policies and programmes that can best address these needs, and; iii) understand if policies are bringing results.
International Summer School for cooperation and local development, Trento, Italy, 26 July-5 August 2010
The OECD LEED Trento Centre for local development, the Training Centre for International Cooperation (TCIC) and EAFIT University of Medellin, in collaboration with the Trentino Federation of Cooperatives and EURICSE, set up a joint “International Summer School for cooperation and local development”. The scope of the School is to organise specialised courses on socio-economic development and to create an international platform to exchange experiences and knowledge between public officers and practitioners from OECD member and non member countries that deals with cooperation and local development issues. The first edition of the Summer School on “Community and local development: defining a strategy of growth for localities” took place from 26 July to 5 August 2010 in Trento.
Workshop on "Measuring unemployment and exclusion from the labour market", Paris, France, 21 June 2010
This second FIELD workshop reviewed the innovative tools and methods used by local development organisations as part of local information systems to i) measure the factors that impact on unemployment and exclusion; ii) identify policy needs, shape policies and programmes that can best address these needs, and; iii) understand if policies are bringing results.
Workshop on "Measuring skills and human capital in local economies", Paris, France,12 March 2010
The objective of this first FIELD workshop was to review the innovative tools and methods used, as part of local information systems, by local development organisations to: i) measure skills supply, demand and utilisation in local economies, ii) identify policy needs, shape policies and programmes that can best address these needs and iii) understand if policies are bringing results.
Framework for Information Exchange in Local Development (FIELD), 2010
This project supports local development organisations in strengthening their information systems. It provides guidance on data collection, analysis and use in policy making, customised to conditions in each participating area. It helps policy makers to build evidence on: What makes your local economy work? What drives it forward, what holds it back? Where and how policy should intervene? Is policy bringing results?
2009-2008
Framework for Information Exchange in Local Development (FIELD), 2006/2009
The rationale for this project was to respond to these problems by building an OECD Framework for Information Exchange in Local Development (FIELD) that local development organisations can use in a co-ordinated way in order to collect, exchange and learn from local development information. The focus was on encouraging the self-collection by local development organisations of indicators of local economic and employment development performance and policy needs and information on how policy instruments are used and with what impacts. The Framework also provided a forum for the exchange of information amongst participating local development organisations.
Evaluation framework for local development strategies in the Czech Republic, May 2009
A Report and a Guide on evaluation for local development strategies in the Czech Republic have been prepared by the OECD Local Economic and Employment Development Programme in collaboration with the the Ministry for Regional Development of the Czech Republic as part of the OECD LEED activity on “Strategic Evaluation Frameworks for Local Development”.
Evaluation framework for local development strategies in Hungary, May 2009
A Report and a Guide on evaluation for local development strategies in Hungary have been prepared by the OECD Local Economic and Employment Development Programme in collaboration with the Ministry for National Development and Economy of Hungary as part of the OECD LEED activity on “Strategic Evaluation Frameworks for Local Development”.
Final seminar on "Strategic planning and evaluation for regional and local development in Latvia", Riga, Latvia, 17 June 2008
This seminar presented and debated the result of work undertaken by the OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Programme on how best to support the design, implementation and evaluation of local development strategies in Latvia.
Visit of a delegation from the Czech Republic, Trento, Italy, 1 April 2008
The Trento Centre hosted a meeting with a delegation of five representatives from the Ministry of Regional Development (MMR) of the Czech Republic to discuss the first draft diagnostic report prepared by Czech experts outlining evaluation issues in the Country. The meeting was organised within the framework of a joint project on “ Evaluation of Local Development Strategies in the Czech Republic” that will provide a methodology for the development of a “strategic framework”’ that will permit analysis of the impact of government policies on regional and local development in the Czech Republic.
2007-2006-2005
Workshop on local development policy and performance information tools,Trento, Italy, 18 April 2007
The expert workshop on Local Development Policy and Performance Information Tools aimed at discussing the options for developing a framework for information collection, analysis and comparison for use by local development actors in Central and Eastern Europe.
Capacity building seminar on “Evaluation as a tool for local development strategy building” Trento, Italy, 10-12 July 2006
The seminar brought together the policy makers and practitioners from the CEE and SEE countries allowing for discussion i) how to best introduce and implement prior assessment so that it serves as a tool for local strategy design and delivery ii) how to best support the local level so that evaluation becomes an opportunity for learning and stops being perceived as a threat.
Seminars on "Evaluating Local Development Strategies":
(i) 19 July 2005 - Slovakia
(ii) 11 October 2005 - Hungary
(iii) 22 November 2005 - The Czech Republic
For further information, please contact Stefano.Barbieri@oecd.org.
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