LOCATI-
Newsletter:
Local Competitive Advantage Training Initiative
LOCATI is a programme to transfer skills in Local Economic Development (LED) to local stakeholders in various locations in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. LOCATI is sponsored by InWEnt and conducted by Jörg Meyer-Stamer and IFOK (Henning Banthien, Constanze Helmchen). It started in November 2001 and ran until September 2003. You get more information in the collection of LOCATI newsletters.
The goal of LOCATI is to enhance local stakeholders' ability
- to stimulate local economic development initiatives
- to support local actors in their effort to create employment and income
- to professionalize the management of local and regional development and organize strategic alliances
- to leverage the potential and competitiveness of local firms
- to leverage the potential of the national and international economy for the locality and, the other way around,
- to enhance the locality for external investors.
- public sector stakeholders
- private sector stakeholders
- NGOs and associations
- specialised consultants
Local Competitive Advantage Training Initiative addresses three aspects which are essential for LED initiatives.
- Participatory Appraisal of Competitive Advantage
- the Hexagon of LED
- network management and conflict mediation, which become major challenges as LED initiatives evolve.
To get more information about LOCATI, get in touch with the InWEnt desk officer in charge, Bernhard Adam, or with the LOCATI trainers -- Henning Banthien, Constanze Helmchen, Jörg Meyer-Stamer.