Document: Local Economic Development - Towards a common framework for GTZ LRED interventions in South Africa

This handbook for LRED practitioners is based on GTZ’s recent experience in supporting Local and Regional Economic Development (LRED) in South Africa. It enriches and enhances GTZ’s general conceptual approach to LRED with practical experiences, further concepts and additional tools based on the LRED experience of a variety of programmes. These programmes provide a diverse range of knowledge and experience by looking at LRED from different angles, such as Rural Economic and Enterprise Development (REED), Local Economic Development (LED) and Community-based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM). To make optimal use of the synergies and complementary benefits and to align GTZ’s work on LRED, it was decided to systematically combine and compile this diverse knowledge and experience on how to foster local and regional economic development.