Local Economic Development

Research for Local Development

Local and regional experiences were a valuable resource for creating sustainable strategies.

Many initiatives and programmes addressing climate change will have co benefits for development and local environment, representing win win strategies.

For example, capitalizing on the LDP approach, UNCDF has recently embarked on testing strategies to promote local economic development and local environmental governance, and is exploring the potential to leverage information and communications technologies to support local development.

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D. Linkages and synergies with other environmental conventions and, as appropriate, with national development strategies 49 56 11

1. Social development strategies for the enhancement

3. Social development strategies for the generation of productive employment

To finance development projects, poor and lower middle income countries must devise and implement tax strategies to increase domestic revenue.

Such programmes should include long term strategies aimed at establishing the best possible conditions for sustainable local, regional and national development with a view to combating poverty.

The Programme of Action highlights a number of development strategies which are important in promoting sustainable development.

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Emergency assistance should be designed so as to benefit long term development strategies.

Project formulation Clear development strategies and programmes are an important prerequisite to project formulation.

UNCDF niche in local development

Mobilization of domestic resources for development

Strengthening good governance fighting corruption putting in place the policies and investments required to drive growth led by the private sector and maximizing domestic resources to fund national development strategies those are important for creating optimal conditions for sustainable human development.

More and more countries were integrating sustainable development principles into national and local development strategies.

African countries need to further strengthen their efforts to implement national development strategies.

Similarly, development strategies must take environmental issues into account.

Project formulation Clear development strategies and programmes are an important prerequisite to project formulation.

ICT needs to be integrated into the national development strategies of the least developed countries.

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(a) Seven training courses dealing with municipal institutional development local government management and local development in Africa, Asia and Latin America seminars on local development and local government management in Latin America

The primary clients for LDPs in the LDCs are poor rural communities and their local governments, which request UNCDF support for local development.

Local governments, partners for development Programme organized in cooperation with United Cities and Local Governments

To enable persons with disabilities both to contribute to and benefit from development, disability sensitive strategies, policies and programmes are needed across the development agenda.

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They have to develop more effective strategies in assessing local needs, allocating recourses and defining priorities.

Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development

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(i) Developing countries should recommit themselves to taking primary responsibility for their own development by strengthening governance, combating corruption and putting in place the policies and investments to drive private sector led growth and maximize domestic resources to fund national development strategies

Countries were advised to abandon their national development strategies in favor of globalization, market liberalization, and privatization.

Little effort is made to include families in development strategies, and family enterprises are rarely considered in the context of economic development initiatives.

20. The main objective of technical cooperation activities under this programme is to provide assistance in promoting the development of indigenous building materials and construction industries and to propose strategies to remove obstacles to the flow of resources from global, national and local sources for the development.

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These initiatives as well as bilateral and multilateral cooperation should be harmonized with national development strategies.

Linkages and synergies with other environmental conventions and as appropriate with national development strategies

The MDGs provide the benchmarks for all our development endeavours and have been integrated into our poverty reduction strategy paper and our national development strategies.

Colombia supports sustainable development, respects the terms of the agreements reached at the Earth Summit and is working with its neighbours, with other nations and its own communities to devise strategies that will allow it both to benefit from and to preserve its natural resources.

The field offices also helped local civil society organizations to participate in development policy debates occurring within a system of local development councils strengthened under the peace agreements.