Brief description of conectaDEL the program for teaching and observation of Local Economic Development knowledge in Latin America and Caribbean.

1. programa para la enseñanza y observación del conocimiento DEL en comunidad en America Latina y el Caribe

2. Argentina Perú Chile Guatemala Brasil

3. • General objective: to support decentralization
processes in the region by building capacity
for public-private integrated management of
sustainable local economic development
• (LED) processes in the participating countries
• Specific objective: to train technical and
policy professionals in order to improve their
capacity to design, implement, and manage
production sector development and job
creation initiatives, using a LED and decent
work approach.

4. Preparation
Component 1 Component 2 Component 3 Component 4
Strategic Diagnosis and US$ Fund
Training material LED courses
alliances beneficiaries projects
profiles
Image and Basic training Tutorships Projects selection
Difussion Contents and
case studies Training for
Webblog + Social trainers Distance course Guidance
Network of
Network and
seniors and
Contents Feedback on specialization
specialists
methodological
Methods onsite inputs
and online Project proposals
learning
Component 5 Component 6
Knowledge Observatory and
management program
monitoring
Best practices Dissemination
of results
Program replicate
in other countries Evaluation

5. • General impact expected
• Improvement of the business climate perceptions in the
territories benefited by the program.
• Increase of the investment (public and private) and employment
levels
• Reforms to the political and institutional framework for
promoting LED introduced as a result of program activities
• Growth of the number of LED initiatives or projects in execution
• Increase the income, sales, and productivity (total sales/total
costs) of the firms supported by the LED pilot projects

6. • After program completion
• A curriculum for training in local development and employment
that can be adapted to the characteristics of each territory
where training is offered has been developed
• At least four institutions per country have been added to the
roster or strengthened as providers of high-quality training
courses in territorial economic development and employment .
• In the regions covered by the program, public-private relations
have improved, i.e., operational meetings between the two
sectors have increased by more than 50% and at least two
specific initiatives are under way in each region/macro region,
in addition to the projects developed under component 4.

7. • http://www.conectadel.org/
• http://blog.conectadel.org/