Quelles sont les stratégies efficaces pour promouvoir le développement économique dans les collectivités à faible revenu?

I believe we need to teach and fund experiential entrepreneurship. Another idea is to teach the trades like carpentry, mechanics and electronics. Give young people a skill and they learn to earn and change the economics in rural and low income communities.

Creating Opportunities for Low-Income Societies Lower-income societies require a functional environment and access to available resources for production and value addition on various products. Therefore, partnerships and networking will support their effectiveness in increasing household income, as well as promoting economic development at the national level.

Strategic Approach to Economic Development: Holistic Evaluation: Understand both the challenges and strengths within the community. Identify Barriers: Recognize elements that impede economic growth like infrastructure deficiencies, educational gaps, or health challenges. Highlight Strengths: Focus on inherent assets like local skills, traditions, or available resources that can be leveraged for growth. Participatory Method: Engage community members in the assessment to ensure a genuine, ground-up approach. Prioritize Goals: Based on the assessment, set clear, actionable objectives for economic development. Community Engagement: Keep community members informed and involved, ensuring that development aligns with their needs and aspirations.

Goal prioritization is of paramount importance. For instance, if a community requires significant health interventions, addressing these issues is a prerequisite for the success of other economic development endeavors. Without addressing health concerns first, other initiatives may struggle to yield positive results.

Low income communities have varied reasons for their circumstances. In some case the issues are geographic, in others ideological and or political and just plain economic. Therefore, as author of Object Oriented Development in Africa, I found that just like in Software Development we need to identify specific requirements for regions including economic user cases. What this means is we can build generic solutions that allow for variable considerations in any given low income community. This stops us coming up with an all size fits all solution.

Building partnerships and networks should start within the specific community and it should spread from this center to geographical neighboors. One community can develop in its own habitat with its surrounding neighboors. Networking should be able to build bridges between neighbooring communities without any external and unknown influences for these communities. There are several development funds tried to create networks between developed countries and developing countries and most of them failed.

Human has an instinct to survive and be social with his or her counterparts in the community. This is where the education should start to stimulate the desire to live for learners. Surviving under different social and environmental conditions depends on developing very different skills.

Well outlined in this section. Creating opportunities for low-income and no income community members is gratifying. They so desperately want work and a career to support themselves and family. Mentoring, practical trainng and building skill sets pays immediate dividends. I can't say enough about the impact that creating economic opportunities can do for these low income communities. More people and groups need to step forward and step up.

Agreed, mentioned in my first comment. Thanks This fact is pretty important within new generations that want to be part of all processes and not only be hired as employees.

Local economic development creates opportunities for diverse segments of the community, regardless of income, education, or skills. It acts as a catalyst for holistic area-wide growth, generating both direct and indirect sustainable employment. Prioritizing local industry development proves more viable than focusing on a specific societal segment, fostering inclusive progress.

It is a cross cutting element than a stand alone step of its own. We can not only set up programmes to address economic empowerment only. Planning for such interventions shall not take in place in silos away from other social and contextual characteristics of a given community/population.

One very important factors to promote economic development is the conducive legal framework. Without this element, there will eb always limits and obstacles for economic development. The conducive legal framework doesn't reduce bottle necks and obstacles only, it creates the right business environment, provides incentives, direct and guide investments, and achieve decent work and an equitable environment for economic competition. The legal framework is very important!

Tourism Development: Leveraging local culture, heritage, and natural resources to attract tourists and generate income. Sustainable Development: Promoting environmentally sustainable practices to protect natural resources for long-term economic growth.

Public-Private Partnerships: Collaborate with businesses and organizations to pool resources and expertise for community development projects. Support Small Agriculture: Promote small-scale farming and agriculture as a source of income and food security ex. Training, market linkage , farmers cooperative support ,diversified crops and livestock,etc...)