LED Strategy Casebook

When asked what is the most serious problem facing their community, most Mayors will include unemployment at or very near the top of the list. Mayors want to know how they can reduce unemployment and poverty in their municipalities. 

A core aim of this LED Strategic Planning and Practice Casebook is to highlight practical knowledge and approaches that can be used by municipal governments and communities to understand, design and implement integrated LED strategies. This Casebook seeks to provide an understanding of municipal approaches to LED strategic planning by identifying good practice in strategic planning methodology. The Casebook serves as a collection of six local economic development strategies that provide examples of good practice from across Europe and from the Cities of Change network. The Casebook also contains good practice notes and comments. 

Most municipalities are tempted to develop long and highly detailed strategies, however, if the process is to be truly effective and output-oriented, the key is to develop short, well written strategies that are inclusive and encourage stakeholder involvement and input. As this Casebook demonstrates, the link between the evidence base, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, and the vision, goals, objectives, programs and projects needs to be fully understand if a community is to develop an LED strategic plan. The strategies contained in this Casebook each demonstrate strong linkages between the evidence base and LED strategic aims. 

• LED Strategy Casebook  -  220 pages PDF 1.25 MB

With Cases from the
  Humber Region, United Kingdom
  Zenica Municipality, Bosnia & Herzegovina
  Vushtrri Municipality, Kosovo
  Smolyan Municipality, Bulgaria
  City Of Rezekne, Latvia
  City Of Poprad, Slovak Republic

• LED Strategy Casebook (shortened version)  -  139 pages PDF 737 KB

With Cases from the
  Smolyan Municipality, Bulgaria
  City Of Rezekne, Latvia
  City Of Poprad, Slovak Republic