Aim: Local development strategy is a widespread and commonly used instrument in public management. Strategies are … applied by municipalities to develop their full potential. A key factor in effective use of strategies for local development … local development strategy required a range of different exploratory methods and techniques. The research process was based …

mark a paradigm shift from top-down approaches to bottom-up approaches of local development. Through this approach … local development planning and are hardly implemented, as they do not match the strategies and rationalities of key actors … planning and implementing local development initiatives. While nationaland district-level planning agencies remain devoted to …