LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICE SERVICES
Responsibilities and functions of local economic development office Marketing
• Preparation, updating and distribution of promotion materials
• Organization of promotional events
• Participation in trade fairs and exhibitions business
• Organization and/or participate in information campaigns about the importance of foreign direct investment and promote business concept that reflects to the local community
• Presentation of the local government at the regional, national and intarnational levels, in activities related to the LED
Maintaining of existing, attracting new and expanding of local business activities
• Constant contact with representative of investors (domestic and foreign)
• System approach in dealing with potential investors
• Organization of visits to the economic potential for the potential investors
Contacts and direct support of the local business community
• Daily contacts with local entrepreneurs, research to improve their business skills
• Assessment and evaluation of options for strengthening the capacity of the support of local economic development
• Provide legal and technical assistance, advising and timely provision of informations
• Creating a training program for start ups in business and business associations
• Organization of training for small and medium companies and entrepreneurs in the domestic of writting projects and preparation of documentations for loan requests
• Providing assistance to local entrepreneurs in the registration and pre registration
• Promoting the concept of entrepreneurship and public-private partnerships
• Support to the strategic planning process
• Daily communication with the council for strategic planning
• Monitoring the activities and meetings of the council
• Supervision of projects coming from the strategic plan for the led
Financial stimuls
• Contacts for banks that have branch office in the municipality in order to use date from financial market andappropriate representatives of the local business community
• Identification of current financial resources and the recommendations of the most appropriate financial package of services and credits to users of the LED office
• Preparation of recommendations for the creation of local microfinance and guarantee workforce development
Workforce develepment
• Cooperation with the National employment service-municipal branch
• Preparation and implementation of training program for instructors and consultants in the area of LED and entrepreneurship
• Preparing data base of available labor force in the municipal
• Providing informations to unemployed about the possibilities to start their own businesses, the needs of investors and self-employment programs
- Incentive of economic exchange in the cross border region Montana-Pirot
- Modernization of local cultural centers in the cross border region Cupren-Pirot