Community Economic Development
RDÉE Canada’s Canadian Community Economic Development Strategy aims to meet the needs of Francophone minority communities in matters relating to planning and intervention in economic development and planning in human capacity building. Each of the major themes in which the network is involved has two axes, for a total of four planning and intervention axes, which are:
Theme no. 1 : Planning and intervention in economic capacity building
- Axis 1: Services and support to start-up and existing companies
- Axis 2: Services and support to industries and economic sectors
Theme no. 2 : Planning and intervention in human capacity building
- Axis 3: Services and support for employability
- Axis 4: Services and support for strengthening community capacities in economic and employability development
Each of the four planning and intervention axes aims to identify development activities in the four priority areas of intervention of RDÉE Canada and its network, which are:
The strategy has materialized as various services for businesses and communities, such as consulting, searches for funding, economic planning and skills development, to name only a few. These services may vary from one region to another.
All RDÉEs offer services and conduct activities under axis 2, 3 and 4 with funding from HRSDC’s Enabling Fund. Some RDÉEs offer services and conduct activities under Axis 1 as well—four western organizations have done so for the last 10 years with the support of WED, RDÉE Nouvelle-Écosse and Île-du-Prince-Édouard have been supported since last year by ACOA, and RDÉE Territoires du Nord-Ouest has received recent support from Industry Canada.
By offering these services to communities and business, our network promotes business development, economic development projects and sustainable employment.
