Phase 2: Assessment - (PDF, 101 mb) - USAID

Implementing Sustainable Tourism Projects in the USAID Context
Module 4: PROJECT DESIGN – ECONOMIC GROWTH
Duration: 3 hours 45 min
PARTICIPANT OBJECTIVES
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
• Understand current USAID approaches to achieving
economic growth and poverty reduction
• Collaborate on designing an effective tourism intervention that addresses economic
growth, competitiveness, business development, and other infrastructure
development and financing needs
• Establish an effective set of EG-related indicators for sustainable tourism
SESSION OUTLINE
SLIDE Description
1. Participant Objectives
2. USAID Framework for Economic Growth
3. USAID Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction Program Areas
4. What basic levels of intervention does USAID utilize to address issues?
5. Considerations for Interventions at All Levels:
6. Enabling Environment: Potential Enabling Environment Level Issues Affecting Tourism
7. Enabling Environment: Major Intervention Areas Relating to Enabling Environment
8. Enabling Environment: Sample Policy and Legal Environment Intervention Areas
9. Enabling Environment: Sample Governance & Sectoral Planning Intervention Areas
10. Enabling Environment: Sample Infrastructure Intervention Areas
11. Enabling Environment: Sample Financing/Capital Intervention Areas
12. Enabling Environment: Sample Social Issues: Gender
13. Enabling Environment: Sample Social Issues: Health and Safety
14. Enabling Environment: Sample Social Issues: Education
15. Enabling Environment: Sample Social Issues: Poverty Reduction
16. Enterprise Level: Competitiveness at a Firm Level Requires Creating a Unique and
Sustainable Competitive Position
17. Enterprise Level: Potential Enterprise-level Issues Affecting Tourism
18. Enterprise Level: Cluster-Based Approach to Competitiveness and Economic Growth
19. Enterprise Level: Enterprise-level Interventions
20. Can both enabling environment and enterprise-level interventions be used to address an
issue?
21. Tourism Enterprises: Exercise 4-1
What are some of the issues and interventions at the Enabling Environment and
Enterprise level that could affect the success of tourism?
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