80% OF THE RURAL POPULATION LIVE CLOSE TO CITIES
- Urban and rural areas enjoy different and often complementary assets, and better integration between these areas is important for socio-economic performance.
- Potential linkages include demographic, labour, public services and environment aspects.
- Local governments alone cannot manage these interactions alone in developing both urban and rural populations.
- The OECD looks at how governance can evolve to help manage this integration and influence the prosperity of places and people.
- Rural-urban partnerships can enhance and better manage rural- urban relationships
- Rural-urban partnerships are an effective way to respond to the need to govern these interactions and to foster economic development and well-being.
WHY PARTNERSHIPS?
- Urban and rural territories are interconnected through different types of linkages that often cross traditional administrative boundaries.
- Effective rural-urban partnerships can help attain economic development objectives for both.
- Stronger connections facilitate better access to jobs, amenities and different types of services.
- Rural-urban partnerships help regions to: enhance the production of public goods; achieve economies of scale in public service provision and can help develop new economic opportunities.
WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES?
- Involving the private sector, which plays a crucial role in enhancing the connection to the regional economy, remains a challenge.
- Co-operation can be difficult when there is a large difference in size, resources and capacity between urban and rural areas.
- Other factors barriers to effective partnerships include regulatory and political obstacles, lack of trust and policy fragmentation.
A NATIONAL URBAN AGENDA
- Governments can encourage the integration of urban and rural policies by working towards a common national agenda.
- National government should encourage better integration across policy sectors, such as between agricultural and regional development policy.
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TOGETHER TOWARDS THE NEW URBAN AGENDA
AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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This report provides a framework to understand the changing relationships between urban and rural areas.
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IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE THROUGH 'RURBAN' PARTNERSHIPS
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Stronger connections between urban and rural areas facilitate better access to jobs, amenities and different types of services.
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POPULATION GROWTH LINKAGES
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Paper on how population growth in rural regions is affected by the relationship with their nearby urban centers
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STRATEGIES FOR RURAL-URBAN PARTNERSHIPS
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Slide presentation on building rural-urban partnerships.
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