The local government has to be productive and able to offer economic opportunities to the poor, create wealth, generate jobs, increase incomes, and ultimately improve the quality of life for the long term prosperity and welfare of locality. A strategic plan for sustainable development is needed to change existing local conditions, mindsets by building capacity, organizing participatory processes and empowering stakeholders. The New Constitution of Nepal 2015 has delegated full authority to local government regarding the overall development of the locality such as a municipality. However, many questions about stakeholders’ participation, transparency, accountability, openness, the capacity of people and local governments, inclusiveness, and equality are being raised. In this context, a case of economic development strategy set by Chaudandigadhi Municipality has been studied to answer these questions. Both primary and secondary data collection methods have been used to justify qualitative and quantitative research methods. This study has concluded that municipal authorities have to be empowered and development actors have to be harmonized and consolidated in local economic development activities.

At this point, little is known about local government responses to the economic crisis caused by COVID-19. This crisis is happening on Main Streets around the nation. This article examines how some local governments are taking collective action in partnership with other governments as well as with organizations at the local and regional levels. What is unique is that collective action is rare as it relates to traditional economic development practices, yet it is occurring and leading to offerings of multi-institutional grants and low-interest loans. However, some newer supply- and demand-side actions are the result of a lack of resources and need for expediency. Practitioners can learn about the collaborative economic development actions that governments are taking and how these partnerships can stabilize their local economies.

Local economic development is a process in which local governments and community organizations are involved to encourage, stimulate, maintain, business activities to create jobs through increasing human resource capacity to create better products and fostering industry and business activities on a local scale. This study aims to find the appropriate concept approach in overcoming the problem. The Local Economic Independence approach was used in building this model by using 167 coconut farmer respondents, and path analysis was used as a data analysis tool. Research finding showed that 1) together and partially the local economic development variables ; human resource development, capital development, market development, development of economic institutions, simultaneously and partially have a significant effect on Local Economic Development; 2) Direct development of economic institutions has effect on Local Economic Development; 3) development of economic institutions have interactive effect on Local Economic Development of coconut farmer in the Sri Tiga village of Banyuasin district. The results of the study show that partially the variables of human resource development, capital development, market and social development have a significant effect on the development of community economic institutions. It is necessary to pay attention to 5 (five) factors, including: human resource factors, factors of capital, marketing factors, social (cultural) factors, as well as factors of community economic institution development. As for some factors that still have problems developing the business of coconut farmers in managing coconut waste in the village of Sri Tiga, among others, marketing factors, capital factors, and human resource factors.