mesopartner's Annual Report 2007 is now available.
26 September 2007
A new working paper is available, authored by Doug Hindson: Donor Approaches to Local Economic Development in Africa
20 September 2007
GTZ has just published a study prepared by Jörg Meyer-Stamer and Frank Wältring: Private Sector Development in Rural Areas -- Assessing the Applicability of PSD Instruments in Agricultural Economic Development.
14 September 2007
A revised and updated version of the working paper on RALIS is available.
02 August 2007
We have produced an overview of mesopartner Training Products, i.e. the capacity building workshop formats that have proved to be robust across countries.
20 July 2007
The Third International Summer Academy on Local Economic Development was a great success. Please click here for testimonials by participants.
10 July 2007
Updated flyers are available for two of our methods: The Compass of Local Competitiveness and .
28 June 2007
Our Annual Report 2006 is now available.
12 June 2007
Both Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke and Jörg Meyer-Stamer acted as trainers at the ILO's "Strategies for LED" course.
30 April 2007
A new working paper is available, authored by Doug Hindson and Jörg Meyer-Stamer: The Local Business Environment and Local Economic Development: Comparing Approaches
09 April 2007
We have launched our first audio programme: The Local Economic Development Podcast.
26 March 2007
The date for the Third International Summer Academy on Local Economic Development has been confirmed as 16 - 20 July 2007. Demand is very strong, and the event was fully booked by mid-April.
19 February 2007
mesopartner Working Paper No. 9 is now also available in English: Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke, Benchmarking Territorial Competitiveness
05 February 2007
A new publication is available: Jörg Meyer-Stamer, Designing a Regional Development Agency: Options and Choices
17 January 2007
Our working paper No. 1, an introduction to PACA, is now also available in French, thanks to Valerie Hindson's translation. If you are interested in applying PACA in a francophone setting, please don't hesitate to get in touch with valhindson @ gmail.com.
22 November 2006
Jörg Meyer-Stamer was one of the keynote speakers at the GTZ / IFAD / InWEnt / SDC / ILO conference "Local and Regional Economic Development to Overcome Povery in Asia".
28 July 2006
mesopartner's Second International Summer Academy on LED has just been successfully completed. Some statements of particpants: "This is a well organized knowledge factory" -- "It gave a lot of ideas, very practical, good balance of subjects and workgroups, very helpful and motivating" - "Very good and smooth cooperation of the facilitation - very good team!" -- "It was a wonderful experience for LED practitioners" -- "Excellent sharing of knowledge & experiences" -- "Excellent organization with great variety of useful methods and concepts" -- "It was great fun and I thoroughly enjoyed it".
Please click here for a report on the Summer Academy.
20 July 2006
mesopartner's Annual Report 2005 is available in English and Spanish.
06 June 2006
Papers that mesopartners have produced for GTZ are now available:
Jörg Meyer-Stamer and Frank Wältring: Value Chain Analysis and "making markets work for the poor" (M4P) -- Poverty reduction through value chain promotion. GTZ 2006.
Frank Wältring: "From Idea into Action". The implementation and metamorphosis of the BDS concept. GTZ 2006.
03 April 2006
Information on how to register for the Summer Academy on Local Economic Development 2006 is now available.
10 March 2006
The Academia de Verano, the LED Summer Academy for Spanish-speaking practitioners, was a great success. A summary report is available in English and in Spanish.
21 February 2006
Jörg Meyer-Stamer has prepared an input for a workshop at UNCTAD, Good practices in the promotion of business linkages from an operational perspective: evidence from the field.