LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR TBILISI ... - LED

2. Integration of strategic management framework
Cities operate on the basis of different legal regulations that define city
responsibilities and polices which articulate community goals. The city
development strategy (CDS) covers community long term vision, gaols,
objectives and is the guideline for all city development activities. While the
cities operate not only as basic municipal services supplier but they are more
and more active as a coordinator and active partner in all initiatives important
for the city development, we are in the situation that many other programs are
also developed to coordinate joint activities within different sectors. Local
economic development ( LED) programs are the examples of local
government leaders with stakeholders assessing economic competitiveness
of the city and defining goals and tasks that should be undertaken. It is
important to integrate strategies on the level of aims, but it is even more
important and much more difficult to find the way that LED strategy
implementation can be incorporated into CDS implementation process.
All strategies are developed on the basis of strategic planning methodology.
While some tools and procedures specific for a given sector can be used,
basic elements of strategy development process are similar:
• organization,
• competitive assessment,
• strategy formulation,
• strategy implementation,
• strategy monitoring and review.
The LED strategic planning methodology that was implemented within World
Bank’s Cities of Change program can be fully utilized for Tbilisi purpose. The
methodology was based on a five-stage process:
• organizing effort,
• doing the competitive assessment,
• preparing the strategy,
• implementation of the strategy,
• developing the monitoring and evaluation system.
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