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UNIONS OF MUNICIPALITIES AS ENABLERS OF LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Union of Tyre Municipalities

11 Oct 2022

support communities to engage in municipal processes and procedures to ensure that UoMs and municipalities are responsive to their needs.” The project’s geographic areas of intervention are the Urban Community Al Fayhaa, the Federation of Municipalities of the Northern, Coastal and Central Matn, and the Union of Municipalities of Tyre with a total of ninety-two (92) partner municipalities. [...] Implementing the LED assessment in the three (3) Unions of Municipalities is the first step of the MERP strategic approach to LED which aims to initiate, develop, and implement a comprehensive four-stage LED process with the UoMs, member municipalities, the private sector, and the local communities including refugees, displaced, and host communities of each target areas as follows: • The implement. [...] The overall goal of the LED assessments is to support UoMs and member municipalities to build a robust knowledge of the national and local governance systems, urban and territorial constraints and potential, existing economic and market structures, and the available human capital. [...] Since it falls within the direct remit of local authorities, territorial planning defines ways to optimize the use of the geography and the territorial characteristics of the area and their relationship with the economic and social landscape. [...] Moreover, the performance of UoMs is also related to the social capital and good ties that the UoM has with the local residing communities and the national authorities, where fallouts and relationship breakdowns lead to major hurdles and gaps in the concerted economic development effort.
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160
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Kenya

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