• If you care, you act seriously. How to organize good workshops for the commune’s development strategy?

    • 20 February 2024
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Construction, evaluation and implementation of local & regional development strategies
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    One of the conditions for developing a good strategy is to listen to residents and entrepreneurs, especially leaders and decision-makers.

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  • Fate guides the creative, drags the passive. I review drafts of city development strategies.

    • 26 January 2024
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Construction, evaluation and implementation of local & regional development strategies
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    I don’t just develop city development strategies. Mayors also let me review their projects. I’ve done two recently. The idea is that I find their imperfections, the authorities correct them and the strategy becomes better – for residents, business and the environment.

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  • Strategies of communes will be more *eco*. The draft of new regulations has just been submitted to the parliament.

    • 10 January 2024
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Construction, evaluation and implementation of local & regional development strategies
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    A draft amendment to the *Environment Protection Law* has just been submitted to the Polish Parliament, obliging the authorities of all 2477 communes to set not only social, economic and spatial strategic goals in their strategies, but also “climate and environmental” ones!

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  • Siġġiewi & Roseto strategy. Indirect but strong relationship between social integration and health & safety.

    • 28 December 2023
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Traveling in search of local development and inspirations for local & regional governments
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    Roseto is a small city in the USA (PA) that surprised scientists in the 20th century. The mortality rate of its inhabitants, Italian migrants, was approximately 1/3 lower than the average. This phenomenon could not be explained for a long time.

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  • Strategy and masterplan. It is not enough to have some strategy, even a legal one. You need to have good one.

    • 20 December 2023
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Training, public speaking & consultations
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    The recent amendment to one of Polish legal acts determined that the MASTERPLAN takes into account in particular the spatial policy of the commune specified in the commune’s development strategy or the supra-local development strategy of communes.

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  • Self-government in Malta. Can we use their experiences in the development strategies of our communes?

    • 13 November 2023
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Traveling in search of local development and inspirations for local & regional governments
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    As part of my travels in search of local development and inspirations for local & regional governments, I had the honor and pleasure of talking about Maltese local governments with the Acting President of Malta Prof. Frank Bezzina and with the Director General for Local Government in the Office of the Prime Minister of Malta, Natalino Attard

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  • How to develop a commune/city’ development strategy that responds to global and local challenges?

    • 31 October 2023
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Training, public speaking & consultations
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    A lot is happening in politics, law, economy, technology, society, environment, etc. How can you find your way in this with your commune/city? What its development strategy you should develop, adapt and implement?

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  • Lectures at J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí n. Labem on strategic failures of local governments, Ústí, Czech Republic

    • 20 October 2023
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Lectures at foreign universities
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    There are few things only that can teach you as much as a solid, but well-thought-out failure! This also applies to strategic governance of the cities’ & communes’ development.

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  • A strategy that will bring the rural commune of Dobrzyniewo Duze to a new, higher level of development

    • 4 October 2023
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Construction, evaluation and implementation of local & regional development strategies
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    The Development Strategy of the Dobrzyniewo Duże Commune for 2023-2033, prepared by me, was adopted unanimously. I also prepared the previous one, and within its framework the authorities and employees of the commune managed to achieve a lot.

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  • Lectures at Manisa Celal Bayar University on reforms and development strategies of Polish communes, Manisa, Turkey

    • 1 October 2023
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Lectures at foreign universities
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    As many as several dozen professors and doctoral students came to my lecture at Manisa Celal Bayar University. Self-government is also a hot topic in Turkey, so current Polish reforms in the field of development strategies of communes are of great interest here.

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