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How do we get there?<br />

Leadership, governance<br />

and delivery<br />

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4.1 Leadership, governance and delivery<br />

Delivering the regional economic strategy<br />

in the region<br />

The East of England Development Agency (EEDA) prepares the regional<br />

economic strategy (RES) with and on behalf of the region. Implementation,<br />

however, is the region’s shared responsibility. The test of the strategy will<br />

be its success in changing behavi<strong>our</strong> and investment, to bring about<br />

<strong>sustainable</strong> prosperity and an <strong>economy</strong> that can adapt to global issues<br />

and competition.<br />

To this end the RES will be used to:<br />

• direct the activities and investment of key regional and national<br />

agencies, particularly in areas such as transport and skills that are key<br />

drivers of regional productivity growth<br />

• in<strong>for</strong>m the economic outcomes agreed with local authorities through<br />

Local Area Agreements, and enable local government to contribute<br />

effectively to the region’s <strong>sustainable</strong> economic growth<br />

• provide the basis <strong>for</strong> <strong>our</strong> discussions with the government and the EU<br />

in areas that will influence the achievement of <strong>sustainable</strong> economic<br />

growth in the East of England.<br />

The key components of RES delivery and per<strong>for</strong>mance management will be:<br />

• clear and effective governance arrangements, owning and<br />

managing delivery of improved economic outcomes at regional<br />

and sub-regional level<br />

• an East of England Implementation Plan<br />

• Local Area Agreements<br />

• Multi Area Agreements<br />

• Integrated Development Programmes or equivalents<br />

• robust <strong>sustainable</strong> community strategies and local development<br />

frameworks.<br />

Delivery arrangements <strong>for</strong> the RES will need to be adaptable to take<br />

account of:<br />

• the implications of an early review of the regional spatial strategy (RSS)<br />

• institutional changes affecting major delivery partners, such as<br />

local government re<strong>for</strong>m and the creation of the Homes and<br />

Communities Agency<br />

• progress in implementing the Sub-national Review of Economic<br />

Development and Regeneration (SNR), including the move towards a<br />

single regional strategy.

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