Governance: institutions, local leadership and the role of regional development agencies

2016 ◽  
pp. 36-49
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Local Leadership ◽  
Development Agencies ◽  
Governance Institutions

The Role of Annual Reports in Ensuring Accountability

2018 ◽  
pp. 446-469
Author(s):  
Tolga Demirbas
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Specific Region ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
The Public ◽  
Great Pressure ◽  
New Type ◽  
Development Agencies

Regional development agencies (RDAs) are governance-based institutions that aim to help a specific region to socioeconomically develop by ensuring cooperation among the public sector, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations within that specific geographical region. In Turkey, which was not able to eliminate the regional differences via centralized policies, development agencies (DAs) were established as “the new-type organizations of public management” in the early 2000s. Taking part in regional development that is a vital area and not having a usual organization have increased the expectations from these agencies. Today, there is a great pressure on DAs concerning their accountability. The best way to understand the level of accountability of DAs that have an approximately 10-year history is to analyze the annual reports they have to announce to the public. This chapter carries out a content analysis on disclosure items in the annual reports of 25 DAs in Turkey and examines their level of accountability to their stakeholders.

Rural and Regional Development: The Role of the Regional Development Agencies in England

2003 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Ward ◽  
Philip Lowe ◽  
Tom Bridges
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Development Agencies

From Government to Governance: Polish Regional Development Agencies in a Changing Regional Context

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Ferry
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Democratic Accountability ◽  
Eu Accession ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Policy Environments ◽  
Development Agencies ◽  
Policy Arena ◽  
Theoretical Analyses

This article charts the evolving role of Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) in Poland. It argues that changes to regional institutional and policy environments, linked to processes of regionalisation, EU accession, and the administration of European Union structural funds, have prompted increasing diversification of RDA activities. Moreover, questions of democratic accountability and economic efficiency are becoming increasingly pointed. Has regionalisation boosted the democratic accountability and regional orientation of agencies? Has administrative reform simplified agencies' delivery of development programmes? What influence has the administration of structural funds had on this? The article explores these issues, stressing generally that theoretical analyses of RDA activities must take increasing account of agency “positioning,” i.e., their role and purpose in an increasingly crowded and complex regional policy arena. Future scenarios for the evolution of RDAs in Poland are also outlined.

scholarly journals The Role of Regional Development Agencies in Turkey

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnoud Lagendijk ◽  
Serap Kayasu ◽  
Suna Yasar
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Development Agencies

scholarly journals Regional Development Agencies within the Governance Structures for Regional Development in the Countries of the Former Yugoslavia

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 771-807
Author(s):  
Tatjana Jovanić
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Governance Structures ◽  
Potential Candidate ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Development Agencies ◽  
Regional Partnerships ◽  
Desk Research

Regional development agencies (RDAs) have been established in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, where the development of economically underdeveloped areas primarily targeted the federal republics and autonomous provinces. The role of RDAs has been underpinned by the EU due to significance of the cohesion policy for new EU member states (Slovenia and Croatia), the process of association and negotiations on regional policy and the coordination of structural instruments for candidate and potential candidate countries. The paper elaborates on whether and to what extent the RDAs are expected to enhance national administrative capacities for programming, coordination and implementation of financial assistance. On the basis of a normative analysis of policy documents, relevant legislation and desk-research of the core competences and activities of the RDAs, the paper aims to portray the institutional arrangements for regional development, in particular the role of RDAs in the promotion of productivity and growth. Although regional partnerships have emerged as new collaborative governance structures, the principle of partnership is not fully respected as a result of strong centralization, the multitude of actors with overlapping roles and the underdeveloped systemic communication with stakeholders.

scholarly journals A Study on the Regional Development Agencies as Project Based Development Model

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sülün Evinç Torlak ◽  
Bilsev Gürsan
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
New Development ◽  
Development Concept ◽  
Development Agencies ◽  
Second World

Development concept, especially regional development concept has become the most important topic to even out the regional imbalances after the Second World War. The most important date has been after 1929, beginning with big crisis in the world. Regional development agencies which are the role of growth and development key have been established since the early of 1930’s, initially in America, and then in European Countries together with in some other Eastern Countries. Today, the key role of the development within the framework of ‘new development perception’ form the basis of project logic, in other words; project based development model which the agencies are intervening notably. This model is on the agenda, with the strong impact of regional and cohesion politics of European Union and takes the role excessively through grants and funds which development agencies are seen as the place of implementation of those policies. Many different sector-specific projects from infrastructure to protection of heritage, presented to the related authorities are being executed. Supported projects within grants and funds help people changing viewpoints; improve competences and direct people to act through project logic as well. This case carries the meaning of the strong impact of development by relieving the problems or needs through projects. In this study, some definitions related with development, development project examples to the published extent by European Commission and the case of the model that is very new to Turkey within project examples of development agencies have been examined using the comparative analysis method.

Regional SME and Development Agencies

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-67
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
New Method ◽  
Development Interventions ◽  
The Common ◽  
Development Agencies ◽  
Social Economic Development ◽  
Insight Into

In Chapter 2, the author shared research evidence on the role of regional SME and development agencies, which are profiled as factors of SME support, regional development, and improvement of competitiveness. The author inquires whether it is possible to experiment with new institutional concepts with a basic role given to the agencies as facilitators of social-economic development reaching out locally, regionally, globally, and in particular, rurally. Such institutions have as their substance a series of development interventions that flow and merge into each other without sharp divisions that might inhibit entrepreneurship and, as will be seen later, rural development. What is proposed here is not a new institution as such but, rather, a new fashion of using the existing development infrastructure. The author develops this approach as experimentation with institutions, which is meant mainly to provide an insight into the fragmentary function of the common social-economic development rather than to propose a totally new method of developing an economy at the local and rural level.

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