“RESCO” is a participatory methodology for assessing the economic territorial resources and elaborating value chain strategies for sustainable, competitive and inclusive development.
It has been designed by ILS LEDA and successfully used in 13 countries in the last 18 years the framework of UN or EU international cooperation projects.
The following principles constitute the conceptual and operational RESCO backbone
1) It assesses the territorial value chain
2) It is participatory, and based on focus group of actors involved in the value chain
3) It is based on a assessment picture, including a set of components, to be assessed, each one including factors, variables, and indicators.
4) It uses the optimum ignorance approach.
5) It uses the Quick Collective Appraisal (QCA) method for making rapid decisions and choices free from conflicts.
6) It is flexible and adaptive.
7) It allows local actors to be aware of their excellent resources, to build sense of belonging, to experiment or exercise collective actions and decision, test the advantage of new form of participatory governance, and be ready to step forwards to institutional ones.
