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The Interamerican Development  Bank launched the fifth edition of "Gobernarte-Eduardo Campos Award" to award the best innovative ideas of subnational governments of Latin America and Caribbean. The award aims at identifying the best public loca experiences in BID countries, emphasizing criteria such as innovation an sustainability This year you can apply to the following categories: Participative citizenship...

With the application of 160 experiences from more than 15 countries in the Latin America and the Caribbean, it closes the 1st Regional Call "Experiences that make a difference: Gender Equality and Economic Empowerment of Women in the Territories of Latin America and the Caribbean" that has been promoted and launched by UNDP within the framework of the DELGEN * initiative - Local Economic Development and Gender. The experiences...

The Colombian Network of Economic Development Agencies (Red Adelco) executes the  Strategic Territorial Competitiveness - CET project, granted by the European Union, as complementary support to the Colombian Government through the Ministry of the Interior, for the implementation of the Public Policy of Local Economic Development within the framework of the Sectoral Reform Contract for Territorial Strategic Competitiveness in Colombia.  The...

ADELNEH, the first Local Economic Development Agency created in Haiti, is working to enhance the sustainable and human development of the North-east Department, located on the border with the Dominican Republic.   ADELNEH was created in February 2016 in the city of Ouanaminthe through the institution of its Board of Directors by the General Assembly of members. Its constitution has been the product of a year of work focused on...

1st ECN training "Demystifying Alternative Finance:  From Crowdfunding to Cryptocurrencies",  May 22-23, 2018 | LOCATION: Brussels, Belgium.   Within the last years, early-stage funding has witnessed a small revolution that has the potential to fully change the financial world as we have come to know it.  It started some years back, when the first crowdfunding platforms were launched, when...

The local economic development agency of the northeast of Haiti, ADELNEH, is taking steps towards its structuring and promotion to provide a better accompaniment to the development structures of its territory. In this sense, the LEDA has inaugurated a new headquarters in the border city of Ouanaminthe, has developed local economic development forums and is implementing a BANKADEL Haiti solidarity microcredit for the local population.