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Welcome to the Developing Economies Locally through Techniques and Alliances (DELTA) homepage
February 17, 2009
The DELTA Local Economic Development program was first launched in Kosovo in 2002 as a joint collaborative undertaking sponsored by the World Bank and the Open Society Institute (Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative). Since then it has been extended to Albania, Mongolia, Moldova and has now being replicated a third time in Kosovo. Plans are under way to extend the program to Peru and Indonesia in 2008.
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DELTA provides training and expert assistance to municipal teams (comprised of the members of the local government and the business community) to develop medium- to long-term economic development plans. The goal of the strategies is to improve the business-enabling environment and to generate private sector growth in each partner municipality.
This comprehensive website details the entire project methodology employed in operating such a program. It has been developed by the Foundation for Local Autonomy and Governance, which acted as the chief implementing partner for DELTA Albania. These pages are intended to serve two primary purposes:
- to educate and guide municipalities, donors and experts alike in undertaking local economic development strategic planning; and
- to highlight the strategies that have been completed under DELTA Program in Kosovo and Albania
There has been a growing consensus in the donor community about the need for government and private sector leadership to forge partnerships for economic development. One of the most important areas of public-private sector interface is in the areas of national business enabling environment. However, barriers to private sector development often occur at the sub-national or local level. Local taxes, municipal fees, and other administrative obstacles may originate in city hall, rather than in the national parliament. Furthermore, local governments often do not have the capacity to develop or implement policies or programs that can help foment growth in their municipality by concurrently removing barriers to investment, developing and institutionalizing public-private partnerships, and formulating economic development strategies about ways to exploit comparative advantages of their region, municipality, or town. Therefore, the impact of national-level policy reforms may be weak, particularly in countries that are going through the decentralization process.
With this in mind, the DELTA program was designed to forge strong public-private partnerships at the municipal level to create alliances for improving the business climate and for stimulating creative ideas, after undertaking a municipal competitive assessment, to foster private sector growth.
DELTA OVERVIEW
KOSOVO
- Implementing Partner: Riinvest Institute for Development Research
- Municipalities with finalized strategies: Istog, Kacanik, Klina, Prizren, Podujeva, Viti, Vushtrri, Peja, Lipjan, Gjilan, Ferizaj, Drenas, Dragashi, Kamenica, Malisheva, Obiliqi, Shtime
ALBANIA
All Kosovo and Albania strategies available in Albanian language upon request
MOLDOVA
MONGOLIA
In the Summer of 2005 LGI and the World Bank commissioned an independent report on the Delta program's experiences and impacts in Kosovo and Albania. The report provides a fairly concise overview of the entire project rationale, methodology, successes, limitations and areas for improvement. For further details please click on the Delta Case Study Evaluation Report.
For more information about the DELTA program, or to learn about ways to support the municipal strategies, please contact Scott Abrams at ascott@osieurope.org
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