Creation of Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) in Peru
Over the past decade, Peru has been one of the region’s fastest-growing economies, with an average growth rate 5.9 % in a context of low inflation (averaging 2.9 %). But currently, GDP growth is slowing down, which has stimulated the Peruvian Government to implement various policy reforms.
An OECD Territorial review (2016) explains that:…
Smart City and "Smartes Land" Solutions in Germany
Smart city and rural development is not only about digitalisation. It requires efforts to make the best use of the technologies and people that are available. Mesopartner participated in the Smart Country Convention Conference in Berlin in November this year to promote their Hexagon approach on Smart Rural Area Development (see…
Sustainable Skills Market Systems Development for Refugees and Host Communities in Eastern Sudan
In 2019, Mesopartner will support the GIZ in Eastern Sudan to promote skills development that strengthens the employment and economic opportunities of refugees and host communities in the Eastern Sudanese states of Gedaref and Kassala. We will apply Mesopartner's complexity-sensitive approach based…
Visit by Lebanese Municipalities affected by Syrian Refugee Crisis to Hamm/Germany for the Promotion of Development Partnerships with German Municipalities
After Frank Wältring from Mesopartner co-organised and facilitated a Local Economic Development (LED) Workshop with LED practitioners from German and Lebanese cities and districts in April 2018 in Lebanon (see mp at work), in October 2018 we…
Systemic Innovation in Regions at University Leipzig
For more than 10 years now Mesopartner has been teaching Regional Competitiveness at Leipzig University but it is always fun and rewarding to work with the students again due to their high level of motivation. In this Master’s Course on Small Enterprise Development (SEPT) at the University of Leipzig, 30 students from 20 countries with work…
Understanding technological change and the role of meso organisations
During 2018, Shawn Cunningham was contracted by the research organisation Trade and Industry Policy Strategies (TIPS) to lead research that would enable a new Chief Directorate for Future Production Technologies at the South African department of trade and industry to develop its strategy and approach.
The result of…
Quality policy in Caribbean countries
Mesopartner has won a tender from the Caribbean Development Bank to advise on the development of a quality policy in three CARICOM member countries. Antigua & Barbuda, Grenada and Suriname were selected. Each country has its own economic structure and it is about developing the National Quality Infrastructure according to the needs and opportunities of…
CALIDENA in the Dairy Sector in rural Nepal
In 2018, PTB and its project counterparts in Nepal decided to apply the CALIDENA approach in the milk and dairy sector with a specific regional focus on the midwestern region, particularly Province 5. The key event of the CALIDENA process, the CALIDENA Diagnosis Workshop, took place in early October 2018 in Nepalgunj, co-facilitated by Christian Schoen,…
Tourism Value Chain Analysis (VCA) in Northern Shan State, Myanmar
In September 2018 commissioned by the ILO, Christian Schoen was leading a tourism VCA in Hsipaw, Myanmar, with a local team of tourism actors and local government representatives. Hsipaw is a nature and trekking tourist destination in Northern Shan State, attracting almost 30,000 tourists per year,…
Disruptive Technologies for Private Sector Development in the DRC
Over the last few months, Mesopartner has supported the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to make sense of how they can use technology support to support their private sector development work. The report, written under DFID DRC’s Decision Support Project implemented by…
