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The distance-learning course in local development management is organised around the following teaching materials
  • Teaching Units
  • Working papers
  • Handbooks

The twelve Teaching Units that make up the course constitute a backbone to which are linked complementary support materials and materials used to examine specific topics in greater depth.

The contents of the Teaching Units are organized into the following modules and skill areas:

TRAINING UNIT
 CONTENTS TOPICS
TU 1 - Local Development as the Promoter of Change
  • Structure and changes
  • Industrialization and social modernization.
  • Territory, economics and society, keys to the strategic conception of development.
  • Local Development: theoretical principles and recent evolution.
Theory of Local Development
TU 2 - Local Development: Decentralization and Participation of the Civil Society
  • Basic concepts of local development.
  • The added value of local development.
  • Local development as public policy.
  • Decentralization of capacities and articulation of decision levels.
  • Regional institutions and local communities.
  • Local cooperation, consensus, public - private collaboration.
Analysis of the social and economic context.
TU 3 - Strategic Planning
  • Gathering of information, analysis and interpretation of data.
  • Participatory planning workshops.
  • Setting objectives, results and activities.Priorities and feasible strategies.
Analysis of the social and economic context.
TU 4 - Structures and Management Mechanisms
  • Organization of the State. Central/federal, regional/provincial and municipal administration.
  • Local Administration: the province, the micro-region and the town. Municipal associations.
  • Models of management of local services: direct and indirect management. Development agency and agent.
Analysis of the social and economic context.
TU 5 - Entrepreneurship: the Engine of Local Economic Development
  • Forms of organizing economic activity.
  • Small enterprises and self-employment.
  • Social and associative economy.
  • New sources of employment.
Local Development and Enterprise Managemen
TU 6 - Initiative and Innovation For Enterprise, Employment and Income Generation
  • Service centres for the support of enterprise.
  • Centres for technological innovation - technology parks.
 		 Local Development and Enterprise Management
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