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This activity examines the ways to improve governance through better coordination of policies, better adaptation to local needs, and better participation of civil society and business in their orientation, in view to take an integrated approach to local development.
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from 10-Nov-2008 to 12-Nov-2008
The objective of this 2.5-day seminar is to improve the functioning of local partnerships. The seminar is aimed at local partnership practitioners and their counterparts in local and national governments. The seminar will focus on three main themes: (i) what makes local partnership building successful?; (ii) what are the key elements of a national support framework for local development partnerships?; and (iii) how to manage and improve performance?
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from 11-Jun-2008 to 13-Jun-2008
The objective of this seminar was to improve the capacity of partnerships to design and deliver integrated skills strategies. It focused on three main themes: (i) understanding local skills needs; (ii) building an integrated skills strategy and (iii) assessing the impact: moving from quantitative to qualitative assessment.
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from 18-Feb-2008 to 19-Feb-2008
This meeting sought to identify the best ways for partnerships to contribute to the design and implementation of skills development strategies which can boost competitiveness and make the economy more inclusive. More than 130 partnership practitioners, managers, national co-ordinators of partnership networks, and policy makers from OECD Member and non-member countries joined fruitful debates.
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on 10-Dec-2007
Within the framework of the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union, the Portuguese Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity organised, in partnership with the OECD LEED Programme and the European Commission, a seminar on “Development of Skills, Local Development and Partnerships”.
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30-Aug-2007
The OECD LEED Programme has just released a report on "Enhancing the Capacity of Partnerships to Influence Policy” which gathers the experience of the two capacity building seminars organised by the Trento Centre for Local Development in close co-operation with the Forum office unit at the Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) in Vienna Austria.
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from 18-Apr-2007 to 20-Apr-2007
This seminar was the second stage of a capacity building programme designed for experienced partnerships from OECD member countries. This meeting allowed an in-depth discussion on how partnerships can enhance their capacity to influence policy at the local, national and international levels.
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from 01-Mar-2007 to 02-Mar-2007
The Third Forum Meeting focused on cross-sectoral and multi-level collaboration, supporting the exchange of experience and practice between partnerships and exploring ways to overcome common obstacles. The Forum meeting provided a unique occasion for such an exchange, offering opportunities for in-depth discussion within a series of interactive working sessions.
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from 05-Dec-2006 to 07-Dec-2006
This seminar was designed as a series of highly interactive sessions around good practice examples presented by seminar participants and OECD experts. Debates about the role and capacity of partnerships in influencing policy at local, national and international levels addressed questions relating to trust and legitimacy, applied communication strategies and accountability frameworks.
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on 08-Nov-2006
The seminar was jointly organised with the Romanian Ministry of Labour, Social Solidarity and Family. It offered highly interactive sessions and working groups around best practices, and brought together policy makers, partnership managers, local development practitioners, and OECD experts. The event was a unique opportunity to learn about developments in building partnership throughout OECD countries.
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08-Aug-2006
LEED has launched this comprehensive site with over 300 documents focusing on partnerships and related policy fields. The database includes information published by public organisations, research institutions, and international organisations. This activity is carried out within the framework of the LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance.
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on 01-Jun-2006
The expert meeting is a follow-up to the OECD study visit to the regions of Gjirokaster, Tirana and Vlore in 2005 as part of the OECD cross-country activity on local integration of migrants into the labour market. The experts meeting will debate the draft policy recommendations resulting from the study visit.This event is jointly organised by the OECD LEED Centre for Local Development and the International Labour Office (ILO).
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from 13-Feb-2006 to 15-Feb-2006
The Fair was held at the Parkhotel Schönbrunn on 13-15 February 2006. This conference was organised for partnership practitioners, such as co-ordinators and partners of alliances, as well as policy makers aiming to exchange partnership experiences. The International Partnership Fair provided opportunities to meet, learn from each other and build new co-operation relationships.
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14-Sep-2005
With this brochure, the OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance releases a set of information sheets on area-based partnerships in the European Union, North America and Asia Pacific, whose mission is to improve governance and foster local development.
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28-Oct-2005
This publication has been released following the workshop on "Local Employment Development" organised in Tokyo, Japan, in 2005. This was a joint event of the LEED Programme and the Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT). The book includes the papers presented at the workshop with report of some successful cases of regional employment development in each country, which was added to the papers based on the discussions at the workshop.
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