CITY STRATEGIES & GOVERNANCE
CITY STRATEGIES & GOVERNANCE
This Agency is focused on promoting entrepreneurship and boost local economy. It’s a dynamic agent in local economic development, gathering the different agents, ideas and resources available. It’s closely linked to the municipality, to the strategic plan of the city and it has its own structure.
Tags: Citizen Participation, Employment, City Development, Strategic Planning
The purpose of local economic development and entrepreneurship promotion is to build up the economic capacity of a local area to improve its economic future and the quality of life for all. It is a process led by the municipality where public, business and nongovernmental sector partners work collectively to create better conditions for economic growth and employment generation, as well as social improvement, environmental preservation and institutional process.
It’s a bottom-up process , where all the different ideas are discussed and agreed. Based on citizen participation and on a SWOT analysis, the local economic development main objective is to promote the endogenous economic potential by encouraging entrepreneurship in the key identified economic sectors.