Project Context

 As part of its work to strive towards “Poverty reduction in communities vulnerable to child trafficking through the promotion of decent work in the North West region (TC-RAM) Project” the ILO provided funding for the empowerment of local councils about local economic development. The TC-RAM project development objective is to “increase income opportunities within communities vulnerable to child-trafficking through local economic development”. Central to this strategy is the involvement and empowerment of local economic development players at the grassroots level including the poorest, the mobilization of local existing resources and assets, and strong public-private partnerships (local government, the private sector, and civil society) for the economic advancement of the municipality. In that line, a IDF was hired in the capacity of social engineer to introduce and educate the councils to local economic development.

Activities

IDF, with another independent consultant from Kumu Fed, carried out three-day workshops in the three councils covering the following topics:  Introduction to the LED Approach; LED and rural development; How to plan and implement LED strategies; LED tools and methodology; and Gender equality and gender mainstreaming through LED strategy.

Results and Impacts

Following the presentation of the various topics, observations, brainstorming, question and answer sessions during the workshops, it was clear that these three municipalities have potential economic-booming areas.

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