Search

City Cluster Economic Development

Project details

Country

  • Global

Client

  • Asian Development Bank

Project Timeframe

  • 2009 - 2010

Key Services

  • Land Administration

Project Key Information

Developing an approach for cities to analyse their competitiveness and to identifying ways to facilitating the development of industry clusters.

Project Narrative

The purpose of the project was to develop an approach for cities to analyse their competitiveness and to identify ways to facilitating the development of industry clusters. The research was very innovative for the ADB, as it involved an approach of action learning. This is where a local research institutes are used to facilitate the development of a new approaches to project design through local industry partnership. It involves learning by doing process. Industry and government partners are encouraged to work in collaboration to identify issues that are adding to the externality costs of doing business.

Key services provided

Strategic Planning and Management Services (SPMS) working with the Centre for Urban Studies (Dhaka); National Institute for Urban Affairs (India) and Savanatha (Sri Lanka) developed and tested a framework for analysing and developing industry clusters as a means of supporting sustainable economic development in Asian Cities. The second phase of the project involved the preparation of cluster business plans and pre-feasibility studies for ADB loan funds. The cluster analysis was used to enable key elements of strategic infrastructure to be identified that needed strengthening in order to facilitate the development of new economic activities, The gap analysis was able to show skills deficiencies in industry supply chains and quality assurance training needs to improve production output of firms comprised in a clusters. The research resulted in leaning outcomes for industry managers on the advantage of collaborative actions to reduce production costs. The project identified nine industries that have significant potential to develop the economies of Dhaka, Delhi and Colombo economies. Three major projects were identified and developed to support the growth of the ITC and Rubber industry in Colombo and the garment industry in Delhi. The industry partners are now working with government to develop joint education and training faculties to upgrade the skills of workers in different stages of supply chains – especially micro enterprises which need significant training in using new technologies and quality assurance

Related Projects

  • Global

Global Land Facility Programme

LEI are partnering with lead, Tetra Tech, in the implementation of the Land Facility program, funded by the UK FCDO. The Land Facility (LF) is designed as an offer to partner countries with a UK post, to co-design effective programs of land related reform. It can provide rural, forestry and urban land governance expertise and assistance to support partner governments’ efforts to expand their capacity to plan, manage and implement national land administration policy, legislation and system reforms.

Project Narrative Effective land governance systems are key to economic growth, rural livelihoods, climate change resilience, and women’s rights. Land is a key root cause of conflict, with increasing competition

Read More
Vanuatu Land Development, Greater Port Vila Infrastructure, Affordable Housing Vanuatu, Resilient Settlements Development, VARS Project Vanuatu, Land Development Strategy Vanuatu, Housing for Low-Income Earners Vanuatu, Vanuatu Urban Planning, Informal Settlements Upgrading, Flood Mitigation Vanuatu, Vanuatu Land Administration, Greenfield Residential Development, Public-Private Partnerships Vanuatu, Vanuatu Land Policy Advisory, Vanuatu Land Development Legal Services, Community Trusts Vanuatu, Sustainable Urban Growth Vanuatu, Vanuatu Infrastructure Development, Land Subdivision Vanuatu, Vanuatu Government Land Development
  • Vanuatu

Vanuatu Affordable and Resilient Settlements (VARS) Project: Procurement of Land Development Policy, Legal and Marketing Advisory Services

The International Development Agency of the World Bank Group is supporting the Government of Vanuatu (GoV) with the Vanuatu Affordable and Resilient Settlements Project (VARS) in an amount of US$25 million, to achieve a long-term vision to provide potable water, sanitation, roads, drainage, and electricity to low-income households.

Project Narrative The overarching development objectives of VARS are to (i) improve access to and resilience of infrastructure and services in selected new and existing settlements, and (ii) strengthen land

Read More
Lesotho 2 Compact, Millennium Challenge Corporation, MCC Lesotho, Lesotho economic growth, Lesotho Land and Gender Activity, Market Driven Irrigation Horticulture, MDIH Project Lesotho, rural income improvement Lesotho, irrigation infrastructure Lesotho, commercial horticulture Lesotho, gender equity Lesotho, Lesotho irrigation systems, rural land registration system, gender reforms Lesotho, smallholder farmers Lesotho, anchor farmer Lesotho, irrigation scheme development, land use planning Lesotho, rural land market Lesotho, landholder rights Lesotho, Community Councils Lesotho, land registration Lesotho, Lesotho resettlement services, commercial farming partnerships Lesotho, Tetra Tech consultancy, Land Equity International, Lesotho agriculture projects, rural livelihoods Lesotho, agricultural production agreements, Lesotho land reforms
  • Lesotho

Market Driven Irrigation Horticulture (MDIH) Land and Gender Activity

The Lesotho II Compact was an agreement between the US government-funded Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the Kingdom of Lesotho (GoL). It was a $US300 million programme to address binding constraints to economic growth in Lesotho. The Lesotho II compact consisted of three projects designed to combat constraints to economic growth by either strengthening private sector participation and/or by improving government coordination, capacity and execution.

Project Narrative The Lesotho Land and Gender activity (L&G Activity), supported the Lesotho Millennium Challenge Account-II (MCA-Lesotho II) to meet the objectives of the Market Driven Irrigation Horticulture (MDIH) Project

Read More

Related News Stories

In spirit of reconciliation, Land Equity International acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea, and community. We pay respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Contact us
Search