Supporting decentralisation, local governance and local development through a territorial approach

This guidance provides a comprehensive overview of the TALD analytical framework that is meant to help EU delegations assess the policy, institutional and technical capacity constraints affecting territorial development in a given context; and to determine where and how they can best intervene to support it. Building on this, the guidance seeks to help EU delegations more effectively use the TALD framework to undertake the identification, design and implementation of country-specific interventions to support decentralisation, local governance and territorial development (DLGTD) in partner countries. Ideally, readers should approach this material systematically and sequentially in order to see where the EU is coming from and going to in the area of DLGTD support. However, the guidance has been organised with a modular structure, divided into parts that can be read independently from each other to target the specific questions raised.