Podcasts on LED, value chains and other themes, Mesopartner, 2008

Description
Click on any of the links below, to listen to Mesopartner's podcasts on a variety of development themes (particularly in relation to Local Economic Development, or LED). The most recent podcast is listed first in each case.

The Value Chain series

Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke and Martin Doherty talk about sanitary and phytosanitary standards in global value chains

Jörg Meyer-Stamer interviews Mark Lundy about CIAT's experience with value chain development

Jörg Meyer-Stamer interviews Lizbeth Navas-Aleman, IDS Sussex, on her research on global value chains

Shawn Cunningham and Jörg Meyer-Stamer introduce the value chain concept


The Tools series

A simple format to engage with LED stakeholders

Using Porter's Five Forces framework in a workshop

Whom and how to invite to a workshop?

Some things to consider when designing an LED workshop

The Concept series

David Walke explains the do's and don'ts in the introduction of one stop shops

Peter Knorringa explains what social capital is and how it can be addressed in LED

Gerry Delany explains the concept of Business Retention and Expansion

At mesopartner's LED Summer Academy, Jim Tanburn presented the issue of "Enabling Environment"

Shawn Cunningham and Jörg Meyer-Stamer discuss the issue of cluster promotion

Summary of results
The LED Case Study series

Michael Feiler, project manager at IBA See in Lusatia in eastern Germany, explains their experimental, innovation-focused approach to the conversion of a region that has been shaped by decades of open pit lignite mining

Zdravko Miovcic, director of EDA - Development Agency, Banja Luka, shares experiences and lessons learnt in many years of doing LED in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Michele Clara, industrial development officer in the Cluster and Business Linkages Unit of the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) shares some of the lessons learnt over many years of cluster promotion

Sonja Ende interviews Margaret Joshua who is working with GTZ's LED programme in Nigeria. Margaret shares the experience with Business Development Committees that have been created at a local level in order to improve the local business environment

Mpumi Fundam, responsible for LED in the Amatole district municipality (i e the region around East London) in South Africa, and Colin Mitchell, the author of the Genesis method, explain how Genesis helped Amatole to identify its potential competitive advantage, formulate a strategic perspective and identify catalytic projects

Jorg Meyer-Stamer interviews Zini Godden, a South African LED trainer and facilitator, on her experience with LED training courses for councillors, i.e. the elected representatives in local government

Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke has a conversation with Andrea Schunk who is involved in tourism development in Colonia de Sacramento, a world cultural heritage site in Uruguay

Shawn Cunningham and Christian Schoen share insights from a PACA Exercise in the Marble Mountain cluster close to Da Nang, Vietnam

Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke interviews Vinicius Lages of SEBRAE, Brazil's small business promotion organisation

Frank Waeltring interviews LED practitioners from several South East European countries

Christian Schoen interviews Hayder Al-Bagdadi and Atjeng Kadaryana on the experience with the gtz-supported RED programme in Central Java, Indonesia

Jörg Meyer-Stamer interviews John Lawson about his experience as an LED facilitator in rural areas of Limpopo province, South Africa



Associated Activities and Documents
Synthesis Documents
»	Local Economic Development - Key Documents and Links (2011)