From national to local, from local to national: towards greater policy coherence and effectiveness

Chapter 4, “From national to local, from local to national: towards greater policy coherence and effectiveness”, explores policy coherence and the importance of local strategies for job creation and the economic recovery effort. The chapter examines (1) Opportunities for effective local strategies which focus on greater flexibility to changing local opportunities and challenges, improved utilisation of scarce resources through better targeting and greater support for national plans through local leveraging (2) Challenges to local strategies highlighting the need to find common ground among actors for effective policy implementation, improve managerial and technical capacities, and expand local financial space and (3) Recommendations for effective policies and strategies to achieve greater policy coherence. 