Deadline: 24 March 2015
Mid-career professionals from NGOs and civil society organizations and eligible organizations are invited to participate in the two-week long short-course titled Local Economic Development: Catalysing vibrant rural economies. The course is to be held from 28 September to 9 October 2015 in South Africa.
The course is highly interactive and will build on the participant’s own experiences and personal cases. These will serve as building blocks for ‘bankable’ project proposals that will be developed during the course.
Upon completion of the course the participants will
- Have good understanding of conceptual frameworks to identify development opportunities for rural communities and spin-offs for rural wealth creation.
- Be able to appreciate the linkages between poverty and livelihood strategies, the role of agribusiness development and effective services delivery, and the potential of local-to-local markets and value chains to ‘work for the poor’.
- Be able to facilitate participatory approaches and methodologies for innovation and change processes.
- Be able to apply tools and instruments for strategic and effective interventions catalyzing processes that boost rural economies.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be mid-career professionals of government departments, non-governmental and civil society organizations, business associations, development agencies, universities and colleges for higher education, and for other professionals working in the domain of market-driven local economic development.
For more information, please visit Local Economic Development.
