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Regional Governance : Opportunities for Development and Rural-Urban Interaction in Functional Regions. Project components. Identify and map (GIS) linkages between communities in “regions”, particularly urban and rural relationships - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Regional Governance:
Opportunities for Development and Rural-Urban Interaction in
Functional Regions
Project components1) Identify and map (GIS) linkages between
communities in “regions”, particularly urban and rural relationships
2) Assess governance mechanisms used to manage these relationships, identify gaps, investigate alternatives
3) Assess the contribution of community linkages to local and regional sustainability and create a “regional economic capacity index”
4) Knowledge mobilization: collaboration, communication, application
Regional governance1) Active labour market strategies (discussion paper, Lysenko thesis)
2) Regional governance background paper
3) Pilot region data collection and relationship mapping (‘08/’09)
4) Assessing strategic plans and processes – provincial + pilot regions (summer /fall‘09)
5) Options and suggested applications (’09-2010)
Active Labour Market Policy Paper
• Efforts by government to alter workings of labour markets vs. income replacement, market adjustment
alone. Addresses structural unemployment problems by:
• Modifying supply of labour • Increasing demand for labour• Improve functioning of labour market
Examples: job matching, training, subsidies
By Dr. David Freshwater
“locally oriented ALMP may be a useful component
of regional development strategies”
The Norwegian Experience • Locally designed ALMPs allows for an
individualized approach• With unemployment insurance/benefit
restrictions, and activation programmes
Local agency, government, private sector collaboration
Regional Governance in NL• Nearly 160 identified regional entities
• 46% formed since 1990 - RDAs, Chamber 50s/60s
• More than 20 ways “regions” are defined
• Literature review
• Questionnaires
• Interviews
Survey of Regional Organizations
• 35 of 71 organizations have a mandate for labour
market development activities, 38 are involved
• Organizational challenges: $, HR, cooperation
Regional Governance in NL
• Challenges facing their regions: outmigration, demographics and labour shortages
• Mixed degrees of cooperation – key for the future
“Pilot” regions
-Includes one each of: urban-adjacent, non-adjacent, and remote rural regions -Defined according to existing governance boundaries
2006 pop. figures from NL Community Accounts
Pop 3088 including Blanc Sablon
Pop. 8410
Pop 6280
“Rural remote”
“Non-adjacent”
“Adjacent”
Pilot Regions• Regional profiles and asset mapping• Regional meetings• Questionnaires:
T-NWI (41): 19 businesses, 17 community, 5 regional NGOs
Labrador Straits (43):18 NGOs, 18 community, 7 regional NGOs
Irish Loop (48): 33 businesses, 7 community NGOs, 5 regional
Pilot Regions• Economies in transition • Sense of community optimism (business): IL - 72% , T-NWI – 68%, LS - 67%, • Why?: growth, development of new roadways,
housing (IL) vs. tourism, quality of life (T-NWI) • Lack of optimism - mainly because of
outmigration, lack of young people and an aging population, lack of jobs/industry
–Regional collaboration extremely important but only present to some degree
– limited on labour market development, capacity constraints but also opportunities for partnership development
Mapping Community Development Relationships
Businesses, Local NGO and Regional NGO Respondents
Business Relationships(Irish Loop)
Business support - other
• Student services (1)• Fed’l and prov’l $ for work
terms , employment progams (2)
• CBDC – pilot HR project (1)
Labour force support
• ACOA (5) • Service Canada/HRSDC• BDC• NLOWE• SWASP• ENL• HNL• Natural Resources • Province – misc• Destination St. John’s• City of St. John’s• CBDC (3)• Local tourism assoc. (2)• ILDB• Irish Loop Chamber• Financial institutions
Urban-centred supports
Labour Market Development
Activities
Labour Market Development
Activities
Business support (18), Employee Support (5), Job matching (4), Direct employment /wage subsidy (4), Indirect – community development (2), Policy & planning (1), Job training?
Irish LoopRelationship Maps
Local NGOs
Results were calculated from 10 local NGO´s:
• 4 Public services• 3 Service groups/clubs• 2 Development organizations• 1 Church group
Indirect – Community Development (17), Policy & planning (4), Job training (1), Direct employment/wage subsidy (1), Job matching?
Note: Many unspecified
Labour Market Development
Activities
Some Key Points• Identification of “players” and links in development
networks - also who and what links are missing?
• Rural urban linkages in community & econ. development
• Significant business-to-business relationships (50-55%), particularly in tourism, retail - referrals
• Regional differences: ACOA IL, vs. INTRD in LS (15-17%)
• NGOs as “indirect” labour market support – role in ALMP?
• NGOs - citizen collaboration + municipal
• Gaps in labour market development (training, planning)
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Rural-Urban Linkages …are multiple and complex
• Functional integration• Trade and commerce• Institutions and governance• Common environments• Common identities (B. Reimer)
• Regional sense of place often differs from administrative boundaries and is varied
• Irish Loop vs. Lab Straits • T-NWI –Twillingate New World Island
(5/19), Notre Dame Bay (4), Central (3), Kittiwake (0)
Interdependencies differ within provinces
• Rural remote – 1st order urban (policy, some financial) vs. 2nd order urban (shopping, services)
• Rural non-adjacent – 2nd/3rd order urban (shopping, services, policy and planning, some labour flows)
And between them …
Rural-urban interactions
Food and natural resources
Ecosystem servicesCulture, ideas, sense of region
Finance/investment
People
Jobs, shopping , tourism, trade
Adapted from K. Lynch (2005)
Governance
Infrastructure and public services
Next Steps• Reports on pilot regions and regional
governance questionnaires• Assessment strategic plans and labour
market activities
• Discussions with pilot regions and other stakeholders on future options
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