The Arab Planning Institute (API), organized the training program “Local development strategies and policies formulation skills ”, during the period 03/20 to 03/24 / 2016, for the benefit of Palestinian Economic Council for Development & Reconstruction/Palestine in Amman.
The program introduced participants to the general concept of development, as well as the objectives, characteristics, requirements, and challenges of the local development in the State of Palestine. It also presented the requirements and challenges of decentralization, and its role in the local development. The program analyzed and evaluated the local experience of State of Palestine through the stages and steps of diagnosis process in order to prepare local development strategy and focused on the needs, and requirements to reinforce local development experience in Palestine. Finally, the program analyzed the Arab and international experiences, and accessed the institutional capacity development in local communities in order to benefit from the success elements of the local development strategy .