Old industrial areas
Good practice case study
Catalan Strategy for Employment, Spain
Catalonia region’s industrial background has been based on textiles, engineering and shipbuilding. The Catalan Strategy for Employment (ECO) is an initiative developed by the Generalitat of Catalonia – the government of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia. The Catalan Strategy for Employment (ECO) goes some way to overcoming the proliferation of partners and partnerships. It offers technical assistance to all the local pacts, but equally importantly, places them in the framework of an overall strategy for the wider region. This allows the transfer of experience from one locality to another.
Key lessons from the ECO are that:
- regional partnership structures should create political as well as managerial capacity;
- any overarching regional strategy will have to cater for local partnerships and strategies that develop at different paces;
- effective networking within and between localities requires principles of subsidiarity and complementarity to be applied at the regional level.
Case study
Catalan Strategy for Employment (Estratègia Catalana per l’Ocupació) [pdf, en, 16kb]
