Presentation by Gerard McCleave, Director of Strategy and Regeneration, Ilex urc. 9th Annual Meeting of the OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance (Dublin-Kilkenny, Ireland), 26/27 March 2013. http://www.oecd.org/cfe/leed/9thfplgmeeting.htm

1. 9th Annual Meeting
IMPLEMENTING CHANGE:
A NEW LOCAL AGENDA FOR
JOBS AND GROWTH
In co-operation with the EU Presidency, Irish Government and Pobal
26-27 March 2013, Dublin-Kilkenny, Ireland
WORKSHOP D: ENABLING GROWTH AND INVESTMENT:
STRATEGY,SYSTEM AND LEADERSHIP
Gerard McCleave
Director, Strategy & Regeneration, Ilex URC Ltd

2. Derry~Londonderry
Gerard McCleave
Director, Strategy & Regeneration
Ilex URC Ltd

3. Derry~Londonderry 2008/2009
• Significant challenge bearing on leadership, energy, shared vision, structures and
relationships
• Vertical and uncoordinated initiatives
• Deficiencies in joined up thinking and integration of effort
• Serious weakness in delivery capacity
• High deprivation and restricted life opportunities

6. Creating One Plan: Taking Control
Step One: Strengthen co-ordination through the establishment of a
“Leadership” or “Strategy” Board
Step Two: Create and agree a single vision and plan
Step Three: Create a system to Deliver Successfully

7. Creating One Plan: 3 Fundamental Principles
1. Integrated process
2. Participative – whole system approach
3. Robust evidence base

8. Intensive Process of Analysis and Engagement
• 1 Future Search event 120 participants
and year long follow up process 12 Sectoral Working Groups
• 1 Strategy Board 40 strategy board
members 12 Strategy Board meetings
12 Visions
• 12 SWGs 417 SWG members registered, at 58 Key Priorities
least 200 SWG meetings 189 Proposals
• 83 Citi-Scope Survey Enumerators
153 Consolidated Actions
interviewed 480 representative residents,
• 14 Focus Groups with 165 participants 110 Supporting Actions and 43 Foundation Actions
covering all Section 75 catergories 5 Transformational Themes
• 6 plenary sessions 5 integration Meetings 11 Catalyst Projects
• 1,000+ regular visitors to
yourcityyoursay.com
• 1,000+ yourcityyoursay E-zine recipients
• 46,000 summaries of the draft Plan to Future Search + Citi-Scope + Econometric
every household Model (Oxford Economics) + Government
• 5,000 copies of the Plan to key Statistics (NIRSA) + Space Syntax + OECD
stakeholder groups
• 22,000 copies of the Plan for every
primary and post primary school child

10. The Step Change

12. First Successes…
• One Plan embedded in NI Programme for Government and Economic Strategy
• Significant project funding secured > £400M
 UK City of Culture 2013
 University Expansion
 Infrastructure Investment
• Local Development System operational
...but challenges and opportunities remain
• Local Government Reform
• Protracted economic slowdown
• Maintaining focus, buy in and momentum

13. www.cityofculture2013.com