Roadmap Toolbox

Roadmap Step: Financing

Monitoring is crucial for understanding the process of smart village development and implementation, as well as the outcomes and results. It can help identifying specific needs, barriers and enabling factors and can shed light on strengths and weaknesses of the stakeholder engagement process. It can also contribute to adapting the strategy (and its targets) as and when necessary. Monitoring needs to be based on a S.M.A.R.T. approach, continuously ensuring that the actions defined by the strategy are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and timely.

A structuring aid for criteria-based decision-making about alternative financing models

The alternative financing models roadmap tool is meant to help structure your information seeking and decision-making process about alternative financing models.

The Youth Fund – Engaging young people in local development

The purpose of this method is to involve young people in local development, to increase their connection with the local community and provide opportunity to finance their own projects/ initiatives. The tool can improve youth participation in local development and increase youth capacity to implement project ideas.