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The Learning Wheel* of REED

*Learning Wheel is a trademark held by Dr. Jürgen Hagmann

The ten cornerstones of REED

The conceptual framework, building on the experiences and lessons learned from practical experience in rural projects, consists of ten cornerstones for intervention. These are clusters of successful elements of intervention approaches dealing with rural economic and enterprise development. Although there are many links and interdependencies between them, the cornerstones can be broadly classified into four categories:

• policies and institutional framework,
• infrastructure, services and markets,
• entrepreneurial competence, and
• stakeholder involvement and linkages.

The Cornerstones are:

1. An enabling environment that provides for an attractive investment climate and dynamic entrepreneurship.
2. Adequate mechanisms, processes and structures that address local needs.
3. Active private sector institutions and linkages.
4. Functioning and effective infrastructure (hard and soft).
5. Access to integrated and open markets.
6. Access to effective and efficient support services and resources.
7. Adaptive management capacity and entrepreneurial competence within business and enterprises.
8. Local organisations, groups and associations (representing the poor) as building blocks.
9. Active participation in and ownership of development processes by well-linked stakeholders.
10. Ongoing learning from success and failure by all stakeholders.

Each cornerstone contains:

• a description of the cornerstone,
• major issues to be addressed,
• key strategies,
• ways of implementing these strategies, and
• links to websites, materials and best practices.