Hosted by the World Bank’s Social Sustainability and Inclusion (SSI) Global Practice; Agriculture and Food (AGF) GP; Community and Local Development Global Solutions Group; Rural Livelihoods and Jobs GSG; and Local Economic Development Knowledge Silo-Breaker (LED-KSB)
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
4:00pm-5:30pm (Ethiopia time) | 9am-10:30am (Washington DC time)
Local Economic Development (LED) is a territorial approach and is defined as a process by which public, business, and non-governmental sector partners work collectively to create better conditions for economic growth and employment generation.
This webinar will engage policymakers and development partners to discuss key recommendations from the recently published local economic development (LED) paper “Facilitating an Inclusive and Long-term COVID-19 Recovery in Ethiopia with a Local Economic Development Approach” and how these recommendations could be operationalized through an upcoming LED Pilot that the World Bank is supporting in the Somali Region of Ethiopia.
The proposed pilot aims to build the capacity of the woreda government to lead and sustain an LED approach that will help transform livelihood and income-generating programs from ad hoc, isolated subsistence approaches to a transformative approach that brings together government, the private sector, social enterprises, digital enterprises, development, and humanitarian partners around a common vision for longer-term local economic growth.
Chair & Moderator
Parmesh Shah, Global Lead, Rural Livelihoods and Jobs Global Solutions Group
Opening Remarks
Doina Petrescu, Manager Operations, World Bank
Nigatu Bogale, DRDIP National Coordinator, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Ethiopia
Speakers
Matthew Stephens, Senior Social Development Specialist, TTL Ethiopia LED Pilot
Ashutosh Raina, Social Development Specialist, Co-TTL, Ethiopia LED Pilot
Fireside Chat
Mohamed Adulahi Farah, DRDIP Coordinator, Somali Region
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Ethiopia Local Economic Development Webinar
Hosted by the World Bank’s Social Sustainability and Inclusion (SSI) Global Practice; Agriculture and Food (AGF) GP; Community and Local Development Global Solutions Group; Rural Livelihoods and Jobs GSG; and Local Economic Development Knowledge Silo-Breaker (LED-KSB)
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
4:00pm-5:30pm (Ethiopia time) | 9am-10:30am (Washington DC time)
Local Economic Development (LED) is a territorial approach and is defined as a process by which public, business, and non-governmental sector partners work collectively to create better conditions for economic growth and employment generation.
This webinar will engage policymakers and development partners to discuss key recommendations from the recently published local economic development (LED) paper “Facilitating an Inclusive and Long-term COVID-19 Recovery in Ethiopia with a Local Economic Development Approach” and how these recommendations could be operationalized through an upcoming LED Pilot that the World Bank is supporting in the Somali Region of Ethiopia.
The proposed pilot aims to build the capacity of the woreda government to lead and sustain an LED approach that will help transform livelihood and income-generating programs from ad hoc, isolated subsistence approaches to a transformative approach that brings together government, the private sector, social enterprises, digital enterprises, development, and humanitarian partners around a common vision for longer-term local economic growth.
Chair & Moderator
Parmesh Shah, Global Lead, Rural Livelihoods and Jobs Global Solutions Group
Opening Remarks
Doina Petrescu, Manager Operations, World Bank
Nigatu Bogale, DRDIP National Coordinator, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Ethiopia
Speakers
Matthew Stephens, Senior Social Development Specialist, TTL Ethiopia LED Pilot
Ashutosh Raina, Social Development Specialist, Co-TTL, Ethiopia LED Pilot
Fireside Chat
Mohamed Adulahi Farah, DRDIP Coordinator, Somali Region
Teresa Ongaro, Senior Inter-Agency Coordination Officer, UNHCR
Neway Alemayehu, Managing Director, INKOMOKO Ethiopia
Paul Joicey, Team Leader, SHARPE - Strengthening Host and Refugee Populations in Ethiopia
Rediet Abiy Kassaye, Program Manager, IKEA Foundation
Recording