Khanya-aicdd has secured funding from the Conference, Workshop and Cultural Initiative Fund (CWCI), an EU-SA Partnership Programme, for a 6 months dissemination project to share outcomes from the recent research on pro-poor LED policy and practice in urban and rural areas of South Africa. The project was implemented between January-July 2006 and involved arural practitioner workshop (download report here), a national conference on LED. The presentations and papers presented at the conference have been posted on the dplg website at www.dplg.gov.za, An academic journal on LED as well as regular LED Newsletters and Briefings.

For further information on this dissemination project contact kian@khanya-aicdd.org

The full list of LED Briefings is listed below:

• LED Briefing no.1:Investigating Pro-Poor LED in South Africa
• LED Briefing no.2: A Framework for Monitoring and Evaluating LED
• LED Briefing no.3: LED and Route Tourism
• LED Briefing no.4: Findings on Rural and Urban Pro-Poor LED in South Africa
• LED Briefing no.5: Furthering the Local Economic Development Agenda in Africa
• LED Briefing no.6: From LED to SLED? Local Government and the Politics of Sustainability
• LED Briefing no.7: LED and the biodiversity economy: who benefits most?