By offering a variety of services, your LDC breaks away from the “wall to wall” services usually offered to businesses and promoters of economic projects. The LDC proposes a model tailored to the specific characteristics and needs of the local and regional community.

Moreover, when dealing with your LDC, you are dealing with local people who can better assess the opportunities offered by your initiative. In a nutshell, your LDC helps you speed up and simplify the execution of employment-generating projects.

Through its structuring action, your LDC contributes to reinforcing partnership between the municipal decision-makers, the business community and the cooperative, trade union and social economy sectors, thus creating a new momentum for local development.

Assuming a key role in your region’s economic activity, your LDC promotes leadership in regional development and materialises a new model of shared decision-making between the State and the community..

Your LDC offers significant financial and technical support to help you start up, consolidate and develop a business project. Services such as:

• consulting and referral services;
• assistance in developing a business plan, including pre-feasibility studies;
• search for funding;
• individualised support and follow-up of your business;
• financial assistance;
• entrepreneurship training support;
• referral to specialised services, including in the area of export and technology development, or to services provided by organisations such as regional development cooperatives.

Your LDC has an integrated budget provided by the government and the municipalities to fulfil its mandates.