Local and regional authorities play an important role in developing the economy, job creation, and fostering ecosystems for entrepreneurship. Local Economic Development (LED) strategies offer a structured and integrated approach for economic development that builds on the existing economic advantages of a region.
With the help of an LED-framework, local authorities bring governments, businesses, knowledge partners, and citizens together to identify priorities and develop a local strategy. Multi-stakeholder cooperation ensures that activities – across economic sectors – strengthen each other, are sufficiently supported by the local authorities, and benefit the local community.
This course discusses challenges, roles of national, regional and local authorities, the private sector and civil society and the potential of collaboration of all stakeholders for local economic growth. Participants will explore LED as a framework and as a practical process, from identifying local strengths to implementing strategies such as entrepreneurship promotion, value-chain development, matching educational curricula with labour market needs, fostering inclusive development, and public-private partnerships.
Engaging with colleagues from different countries, contexts, and backgrounds offers valuable learning opportunities. It is an addition to what you gain from the training itself. The expert facilitators and field visits were also amazing; it was really helpful to see the theory in its practical application.
This course is aimed at professionals involved in local economic development processes at national regional, and local government, NGOs and donor and development organisations.
Particularly relevant for professionals working at organisations, such as local economic development departments, municipal planning and investment units, chambers of commerce and business support agencies, ministries of trade, industry, or labour.
After this course, participants will receive a professional certificate of completion from The Hague Academy for Local Governance.
*Professionals working in local government or for local NGOs on the DAC list of ODA-recipient countries (OECD) may qualify for a reduced course fee. Contact us for details.
Guided by high-level, international experts, participants will:
Experts who are involved in this course:
The course includes visits to a municipality where civil servants will explain the LED-strategy and implementation. Participants will also visit a ‘triple helix’ institute where public, private sector work with research and development institutes, a vocational training school and the private sector. Furthermore, participants will work on different case studies from the work-practice of participants to apply the LED process to a locality and facilitate peer-to-peer exchanges. The training includes daily presentation by participants to further reflect and share lessons learned from their specific context.
Find the practical information for the course here.
After submitting your completed application, you will receive a confirmation of receipt. Once we have assessed your application and admitted you to the course, we will send you an invoice with payment details.
Payments can be made by bank transfer or by PayPal request. We offer the option of paying in one or two instalments. An advance payment of 50% secures the reservation of a seat at the training until the payment deadline, one week prior to the course start date. Your participation in the course is guaranteed only after receipt of full payment.
Please note that The Hague Academy accepts registrations on a first-paid, first-served policy.
Some countries require a visa to enter the Netherlands. Please check with The Netherlands or the embassy for the visa requirements related to your country. Because of the length of time needed for the visa procedure, we advise you to start this process as soon as possible. Once we have received your payment for the course, The Hague Academy will send you an acceptance letter which will assist you in arranging your visa to The Netherlands.
Under certain circumstances, participants may need to cancel their participation in the course. For cancellations before the payment deadline, we will reimburse the paid amounts minus an administration fee of €350.
To prevent late cancellation, we strongly encourage you to start with your visa application procedure at least six weeks before the start of the training programme.
We will charge a cancellation fee of 50% of the course fee for participants cancelling between four and two weeks prior to the start of the training. If you cancel your participation within the two-week period before the start of the course, then you have to pay 80% of the course fee.
No-show will result in paying 100% of the course fee.
It is always possible to nominate a suitably qualified candidate to replace you without extra charge, in the event that you cannot attend the course.
The Hague Academy for Local Governance reserves the right to cancel a course if the number of participants is insufficient or due to any other unforeseen circumstances. In this case, your payment will be 100% reimbursed. Other costs such as transportation or hotel cannot be reimbursed.
Do you want to receive more practical information? Download our brochure!
Explore our latest news, stories and publications!
At the Hague Academy, we specialise in developing training programmes that fit your specific needs. Contact us if you are interested in a customised training!
