The key stakeholders involved in LED include:

• Municipalities with the mandate for economic and social development, and who plan for and coordinate development at local level;
• Communities including poor producers and consumers, and CBOs at local level;
• Private sector operators including inputs and marketing services - local, national, regional and international; financial service providers, financing production, providing facilities to access grant payments etc;
• Public sector providers of business support eg extension providers, including government, NGOs and private sector;
• Local, regional and central government departments that establish the policy environment.