In the framework of a collaboration established in the KIP Pavilion during the EXPO Milan 2015, FORMAPER, the Agency of the Chamber of Commerce of Milan for entrepreneurial training and services, invited ILS LEDA to start carrying on the RESCO methodology in Russia.

FORMAPER is leading the European Union Project, named Blago, in the Siberian territories of the Irkutsk region, the Buryatia Republic, and the Altai Republic with the aim of strengthening the capacities the local actor in promoting and managing sustainable development.

In this framework, FORMAPER and ILSLEDA carried out a mission from 22 November to 1 December, during which the RESCO methodology was introduced through 2 training sessions. The result was 60 representatives of NGOs and municipalities habilitated to apply the methodology in the territories of the Blago Project

RESCO (Resources for sustainable and competitive development) is the ILS LEDA methodology aimed at providing an analytical tool for assessing and prioritising the local economic potentialities, and drafting territorial development strategies.

The RESCO methodology is carried on through various steps, as shown in the picture. It is implemented through a participatory approach, including all the local actors that are, in a way or another, involved in the economic development, such as producers, local administrations, universities, service providers, NGOs and social groups.

These actors are gathered in different focus groups, one for each territorial resource or value chain, and they are the protagonist of the action-research.

RESCO has been already applied in many countries in the last 15 years. In the Russian case, ILS LEDA will provide, after the first training, assistance at distance for supporting the formed people in applying the RESCO methodology in their territories.

To know more RESCO methodology

SOURCE : www.ilsleda.org