Casanova, F
Local
development, productive networks and training: alternative approaches
to training and work for young people. Cinterfor/ILO. 2004,
157p
The new local development approaches have opened up great opportunities
for improvement in training and youth employment policies, which
have been the subjetc of searching debates over the last few
decades. When we consider young people not so much as a statistical
category, or as a group with certain disadvantages that make
it more difficult for them to find employment, but more as active
participants in their own development and that of the community,
we will be closer to the target of having integral strategies
for training and for promoting decent work. When we pay more
and better attention to the individual characteristics of local
districts and societies and their productive networks we will
know more about the problems and the opportunities which young
people have, and we will be nearer the objective of training
which is more pertinent and useful, and of better quality.
de IBARROLA, M., Coord.
Local
development and training: towards an integral view of youth
training for work. Cinterfor/ILO. 2002. 236p
This book edited by Maria de Ibarrola offers a different perspective
to approach the relations between training and work. Instead
of selecting in a lineal way the training programmes, using
criteria such as whether they involve schooling or not, the
features of the institutions that offer them, the follow up
of graduates or the effects on employment, work and income,
this book offers an open look to what is going on in a city
or a local context in terms of training for the young.
Dixon-Fyle, Kanyhama
Accessibility
Planning and Local Development. The application possibilities
of the IRAP methodology, 1998.
As an effective means to reduce the isolation
experienced by a great share of the rural poor, the Development
Policies Department (POLDEV) of the ILO has been promoting for
several years now a local-level, multi-sectoral planning tool
called Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning (IRAP). This
planning tool is intended to be used by local planners and practitioners
and to complement rather than replacing existing planning practices.
It is currently applied in a number of countries in Africa and
Asia where it is giving encouraging results.
The present paper, which was prepared in the framework of an
interregional project on rural transport and accessibility financed
by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
(Sida) and managed by POLDEV, explores the linkages between
rural accessibility planning and the local development process.
The paper provides indications concerning the likely usefulness
of the IRAP tool within specific planning contexts. It also
identifies areas for future work to enhance the potential of
IRAP.
Lazarte H, Alfredo
An
instrument to promote Entrepreneurship and Decent Jobs at Decentralized
Level. LED / ILO.
The International Labor Office, according to its constitutional
mandates and responding to the particular appeal of the international
community during the Social Summit (Copenhagen, 1995), is working
together with the UNDP, UNOPS and other development agencies
on a Local Economical Development approach (LED). Generally
speaking, the LED approach promotes and supports activities
related to employment creation and income generation.
The past 6 years this approach has been
successfully implemented in countries in a special situation
like war affected countries, countries in transition, countries
affected by natural disasters as well as countries affected
by social conflicts. ILO is for example in charge of LED activities
in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, South Africa, Mozambique and
Ukraine. The LED approach was developed by ILO and its partners
in Central America.
Lazarte, Aldredo; Hofmeijer, Hans; Zwanenburg,
Maria
Local
Economic Development in Central America. The Prodere Experience.
Enterprise and Cooperative Development Department, ILO.
This paper outlines the important role of Local Economic Development
Agencies (LEDAs) in PRODERE, a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency
UN programme for displaced persons, refugees and returnees in
Central America. PRODERE, which was funded by the Government
of Italy, was implemented between 1990 and 1995 as part of the
international community's efforts to consolidate the peace process
in Central America. Within the framework of PRODERE, the ILO
was responsible for the promotion of LEDAs. An evaluation of
PRODERE undertaken by the Oscar Arias Foundation and the OECD
found that the LEDAs had been a crucial factor in the success
of PRODERE.
The paper shows that LEDAs can play a key role in rebuilding
local economies following a period of civil conflict. Aiming
at job creation through the promotion of economic initiatives
by the local population, mostly in the form of small enterprises
and cooperatives.
Other documents and sources of information
and documentation on Local Development
Investing
in Farmers as Researchers: Experience with Local Agricultural
Research Committees in Latin America. Ashby, J.A.; Braun,
A.R.; Gracia, T.; Guerrero, M.P.; Hernandez, L.A.; Quiros, C.A.;
Roa, J.A.. CIAT, 2000
This book is about a new kind of institution, one in which poor
farmers take charge of an agricultural research process that
benefits both them and their community". The local agricultural
research committee or CIAL (its Spanish acronym) aims, with
the help of trained outsiders, to encourage farmers to conduct
their own agricultural research and to involve their community.
This participatory approach is effective insofar as the CIAL
provides results meaningful to the host community. The methodology
is designed to ensure effective training for both farmers and
interested outsiders, and to be relevant to different institutional
and cultural settings. The W. K. Kellogg Foundation supported
the project that originally developed the methodology. An overview
is given in English, Spanish, and French. Also available in
Spanish.
International
Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Teaching material
to work with at Local Agricultural Research Committees.
Rural
Sustainability Indicators for Central America.
Brochure:
Rural Innovation Institute
VII
National Meeting of Exchange of Successful Sustainable Rural
Development Experiences. Boca del Río, Veracruz,
Mexico, October 18-20, 2001. Documents in spanish
The papers of the Rural Development Seminar at this Mexican
event allow to know about the strategies and interventions made
by various Latin American countries with regards to the promotion
of regional development, the strengthening of productive chains,
the attention to minority groups and the successful experiences
of rural development in Latin America.
Karl Herweg (CDE), Kurt Steiner (GTZ), Joep
Slaats (KIT).
Guidelines
for Impact Monitoring. Sustainable Rural Development Information
System (SRDIS). CIESIN/World Bank
The
land poor. Essential partners for the sustainable management
of land resources. The Popular Coalition to Eradicate Hunger
and Poverty. IFAD, FAO, WFP, the European Commission and the
World Bank.
This document aims at highlighting the role and importance of
the main instruments of sustainable agriculture and rural development:
agricultural policy reform and agricultural reform, population
participation, income diversification, land preservation and
efficient management of basic products. There appear then some
problems and solutions regarding sustainable agriculture, contributions
to improve Government interventions, possibility of working
in association with international organisations and support
to alliances between different production sectors.
Rural
finance for the poor. International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD), Rome, Italy, April 2001.
Assuming that the large majority of the poor and poorest are
rural, this document states that the sustainable reduction of
poverty is based on self-help, the access to sustainable financial
services and the development of microfinance institutions. This
is accompanied by an analysis of recent progress made and the
persisting difficulties encountered regarding the implementation
of several projects and programmes in different regions.
The
Online Sourcebook on Decentralization and Local Development.
Regional Unit of Technical Assistance (RUTA)
Publications
and miscellaneous documents
Page containing publications regarding
the systematisation of experiences and training instruments
related to local development in El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua,
Guatemala, Honduras and Panama.
