Document: Case Study - Compass of local competitiveness in the Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality

The Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality (IYM) in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa has been active in Local Economic Development (LED) for the last years and has developed an institutional structure around its LED initiatives, including an LED unit, an LED stakeholder forum and a number of LED projects that are already being implemented. This case study descibes and evaluates the process in IYM and the use of the Compass tool in LED.