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Local and Regional Economic Development (LRED) has become the focus of attention to overcome the multiple obstacles of low skills level, low enterpreneural culture, inappropriate or weak support mechanisms, lack of access to financial and business development services, availability of space, inequality in allocation of resources in relation to proximity to develop centers, local inertia and despondency and numerous other barriers and market failures that lead to high unemployment, low income and thus widespread poverty

The experience gained with LRED in Ghana so far have supported the belief that one of the best ways to assist in overcoming the multiple challenges to local and regional economic development is to introduce efficient, effective and low-cost approaches to empowering the public and private sector and civil society to start economic development processes and take up local or regional economic opportunities.

GTZ-Supported Programme for Sustainable Economic Development

The LRED approach which is a component of the "Program on Sustainable Economic Development (PSED) has been introduced in Ghana since the year 2005 by GTZ's Rural Trade and Industry Promotion Project (RUTIPP).

The component aims at improving the business and investment climate at local and regional level and seeks to strengthen public-private dialogue.

It works through capacity development of key and private stakeholders in order to develop and disseminate sustainable LRED strategies.

LRED interventions carried out by GTZ are grounded in the assumption that there is a logical link between the expected impacts LRED activities can have in a given local area.

BENEFITS FOR THE PUBLIC SECTOR

Technical support for the initiation of systems for monitoring performance with regard to economic development within the local government system
Learning about the actors present in the region, the economic assets available in the region and the fact that "region" is a meaningful concept
Learning about ways to engage with various actors, ways to identify and manage joint initiatives
Improvement in public-private dialogue
The needs of the public sector from the perspective of how to improve the quality of delivery of services will be addressed

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