United Kingdom

Hello, I'm Andy from the UK. I work full time at a cheap web design company but I also take a strong interest during my free time in Ledna and similar organisations that concern develoment in Africa - look forward to find out more from your very informative site, thanks for sharing!

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MicroInsurance Summit 2010

23 Feb 2010 - 25 Feb 2010

Where: United Kingdom

http://www.hansonwade.com/events/microinsurance-summit-...

communication insurance literacy marketing microinsurance microinsurance indicators

Shared by ledna-team - 27/01/2010

3rd Annual LSE Local Economic Development Forum: Making LED Work

6 Mar 2010

Where: United Kingdom

http://ledmakingitwork.weebly.com/index.html

cooperation developing countries globalisation governance led

Shared by ledna-team - 25/01/2010

2010 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship

14 Apr 2010 - 16 Apr 2010

Where: United Kingdom

http://www.skollfoundation.org/skollworldforum/index.as...

social change social entrepreneurs

Shared by ledna-team - 21/01/2010

National LED legislation is being considered by many countries. See this legislation from the UK that received Royal Assent today.

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Measuring Sustainable Urban Regeneration Performance – case studies

Sites upgrading and local regeneration can be used as part of a strategy to improve attractiveness for both businesses and labor. This paper uses case studies from three European cities to assess the sustainability of current urban regeneration practice. The case studies can provide examples of performance indicators on regeneration.

Measuring Sustainable Urban Regeneration Performance

Sites upgrading and local regeneration can be used as part of a strategy to improve attractiveness for both businesses and labor.This paper evaluates the use of indicators as a means of measuring the performance of regeneration against sustainability criteria.

Developing Indicators to Inform Local Economic Development in England

This paper by Cecilia Wong explores the underlying dimensions of LED indicators based on a conceptual framework of 11 factors that are widely perceived to be the major determinants of LED. The relative strengths of relationship between the LED indicators and various performance variables are investigated.

Case Study: Municipality of Grimsby

This case study from the Municipality of Grimsby (UK) shows how the local government dealt with a declining economy and increasing unemployment during the mid-1980s. Taking its point of departure in a competitiveness assessment, the local government initiated a series of sector-based programs to diversify the economy away from fishing. Among the initiatives is a Food Processing Cluster Development strategy.

Place Survey 2008, England

England has done a Place Survey in 2008, which provides information on people’s perception of their local area and the local services. The survey includes useful indicators used to measure local governments’ performances.