Event: Strategies for LED - Focus on Green Jobs

The International Training Centre of the ILO in cooperation with OECD, UNCDF, LSE, RED-DETE, LEDNA, Mesopartner, UNDP, SENAC, CAN, EUROsociAL and IAF is organizing a two-week course for development practitioners with the title
"Strategies for Local Economic Development: focus on green jobs”
 

Highlights of the course

• Many high level experts of all partner organisations
• Lots of best practices and knowledge sharing on LED and Green Jobs
• 1 big event with focus on Green Jobs at the local level
• 3 days of study visits to innovative LED initiatives with a Green Jobs focus
• A highly interactive/international course design with 3 languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese)
• 1 local dialogue day joining local representatives of Workers, Employers and local Government on their experience with social dialogue at the local level

Who should participate?
This course is aimed at all those involved in the decision-making, design and implementation of development strategies at the local level, including:

• Local, regional and national officials concerned with economic development or planning and environmental policies;
• Experts from international organisations, NGOs, Chambers of Commerce and other bodies dealing with territorial development, environment, etc.
• Representatives of workers, employers, local business organisations, cooperatives and other member based organisations;
• Economists and other social scientist, environmental experts

Objectives
The main objective of this course is to provide participants with the necessary knowledge, tools and best practices to enhance their skills in the design and implementation of innovative and green LED strategies. At the end of the course participants will be able to:

• Recognise the linkage between globalisation, environment in general and climate change in particular, and sustainable local economic development;
• Appraise best practices of green development strategies and their potential for decent job and enterprise creation;
• Identify key economic sectors in their local economies with sustainable employment potential;
• Engage in social dialogue and partnership building for sustainable local economic development strategies.

Contents & Methodology

This course will build on the experience of the participants and their interaction with experts throughout their 2-week learning experience.
The format of the course will vary, including classroom and conference style sessions and experiential learning during study visits.
In particular, the course will focus on 3 axes:

• LED – principles, stakeholders, process and initiatives;
• Green jobs – what opportunities and best practices to create “green jobs” in response to current employment and environment challenges?
• What can I do to green my local economy?

This year’s seminar will include a special “Local Dialogue Day” when the participants will engage in interactive discussion with representatives of workers, employers and governments at the local level. The discussion will put emphasis on the role of social dialogue at the local level in the context of the current global crisis and the growing employment potential of green jobs.

Study Visits
This course includes study visits to innovative LED experiences giving participants the opportunity to exchange with local stakeholders directly involved in the initiatives.

Specialists
The ILO’s LED course is hosting LED specialists and practitioners both with academic and practitioners’ background with important experience in the field of LED and green jobs in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America. Thoughout the course, the participants will meet, interact and exchange with high level experts working in the LED Programme at the London School of Economics, the LEED Programme of the OECD, the LED and Green Jobs Programme of the ILO, the LED Programmeof UNCDF, the cluster and networks development programme of UNIDO, the Systemic Design Programme of the Politecnic University of Turin, the LED Programme of SENAC Sao Paolo, the Latin American LED network RED-DETE, the African LED network LEDNA, the Green Jobs Initiative in the Italian micro and small business association CNA, etc.