LEDCast
This podcast is about Local Economic Development (LED). The authors will discuss interesting topics in the field of LED. Industry experts will be interviewed and practical tools will be discussed.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 67
- Years Active
- 2007 - 2010
Cases #4: SEBRAE, SMEs, supplier development and value chains
Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke interviews Vinicius Lages of SEBRAE, Brazil’s small business promotion organisation. He explains how an SME-oriented supplier development project with Petrobras evolved into a v…
00:30:05 |
Sun 20 Jan 2008
Cases #3: Experiences with LED in South Eastern Europe
Frank Waeltring interviews LED practitioners from several South East European countries. They share some of their main learning processes.
00:23:32 |
Thu 20 Dec 2007
Value Chains #4: Standards and certification
Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke and Martin Doherty talk about the relevance of sanitary and phytosanitary standards in global value chains, their impact on producers, and possible responses by producers, inclu…
00:37:37 |
Sat 15 Dec 2007
Tools #4: Mad - Glad - Sad
Colin Mitchell explains a simple workshop format to engage with stakeholders at a very early stage of an LED process, asking them: What makes you mad? What makes you glad? What makes you sad?
00:16:01 |
Sat 08 Dec 2007
Value Chain #3: CIAT's experiences in Central America
Jorg Meyer-Stamer interviews Mark Lundy of the Agribusiness Group at the Center for Tropical Agriculture, www.ciat.cgiar.org. They talk about CIAT's "learning community" around value chain developmen…
00:41:45 |
Sun 25 Nov 2007
Tools #3: Using the Five Forces Concept as a Workshop Format
Shawn and Jorg explain how to use Michael Porter's Five Forces Concept as a tool in a quick workshop with local businesses from the same subsector.
00:19:28 |
Sun 18 Nov 2007
Value Chains #2: Learning in Global Value Chains
Jorg Meyer-Stamer interviews Lizbeth Navas-Aleman, fellow at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, about her research on the learning that takes place, or doesn't take place, a…
00:23:37 |
Sun 11 Nov 2007
Case #2: Regional Economic Development in Central Java (gtz RED)
Hayder Al-Bagdadi, Atjeng Kadaryana and Christian Schoen discuss the achievements and learning processes in the Regional Economic Development Programme [gtz-RED] in Central Java, Indonesia.
00:36:52 |
Fri 02 Nov 2007
Value Chains #1 - Introduction
With this show we start a new series in the LEDcast. We look at value chains: What are they? How are they relevant for local economic development? How can you promote them?
00:30:07 |
Sun 14 Oct 2007
Case #1: LED in a poor rural location in South Africa
Jörg Meyer-Stamer interviews John Lawson, an LED specialist currently involved in a major EU-supported LED programme in South Africa's Limpopo province. John reports on his experience with initiating…
00:29:24 |
Sun 23 Sep 2007
Concept #3: Business Retention and Expansion
Gerry Delaney, a South African LED consultant, explains the main features of the Business Retention and Expansion (BR&E) approach to LED.
00:26:56 |
Sun 16 Sep 2007
Tools #2: Designing an LED workshop
In this episode, Jörg Meyer-Stamer and Colin Mitchell continue their conversation on how to prepare a workshop. What are the issues that you consider when you design the sequence of activities in a g…
00:18:53 |
Sat 08 Sep 2007
Tools #1: Organising an LED workshop -- whom and how to invite
In this episode, Jörg Meyer-Stamer and Colin Mitchell discuss one of the critical issues in the organisation of a workshop: How do you invite the right people? And how do you handle the management of…
00:15:28 |
Mon 03 Sep 2007
Concept #2: Local enabling environment
In this episode, we present a conversation that was recorded at mesopartner's Summer Academy on Local Economic Development. Jim Tanburn shares his views on the topic of "local enabling environment" -…
00:37:13 |
Sun 26 Aug 2007
Concept #1 - What is a cluster?
From now on, we will run parallel series on concepts, tools, cases, and specific issues. This is the first episode under 'concepts'. It addresses the topic of 'clusters' -- what are they, and why are…
00:31:06 |
Sun 19 Aug 2007
Reflecting on the first dozen episodes
With this episode we complete the first dozen. We take this as an occasion to reflect on our learning process, and to discuss some of the comments that we received from listeners.
00:24:02 |
Mon 23 Jul 2007
LED at the ILO
Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke, mesopartner, interviews Martin Gasser of the ILO's International Training Center about the ILO's approach to LED.
00:20:00 |
Sat 23 Jun 2007
The three meanings of facilitation in LED
The three meanings of facilitation in LED are facilitating a learning experience, a workshop or meeting, and an LED process. We discuss what often goes wrong in facilitation, and what to do about it.
00:27:46 |
Sat 16 Jun 2007
LED as a process
We discuss why LED needs to be conceptualised as a process. It is crucial to build credibility, trust, confidence and creativity. An LED process is a learning process. It is also, unfortunately for e…
00:31:58 |
Sat 26 May 2007
Pro-poor Tourism and Local Economic Development
Christian Schoen interviews Jonathan Mitchell about the relationship between the pro-poor tourism approach and local economic development.
00:30:26 |
Sat 19 May 2007
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