This Operational Guide is the result of a joint effort between researchers and technical experts with a broad field experience in Local Economic Development (LED) around the world. It is based on practical experiences of managing rehabilitation and stimulating economic recovery in post-crisis situations in many different countries and seeks to incorporate cross-cultural and sub-regional experiences.
The major objective of the Guide is to illustrate:
Why Local Economic Development is particularly effective in post-crisis situations. This question will be treated in Part II (theoretical).
How to implement LED in practice is addressed in Parts III and IV. Each section begins with advice on different points to consider before introducing practical step-by-step methodologies, enriched by "tool-sections" that contain helpful examples, contacts, questionnaires etc. for implementing every day activities at the grassroots level