3: Technical Assistance
Provide technical assistance. Other Information:
Direct technical assistance -- Since we have a small staff, we focus our direct technical assistance and strategic outreach
on a few sectors. We choose sectors based on four criteria: 1. Something is already happening. Thus ILSR does not have to
try to get a community involved but rather to inform and guide its involvement. 2. The work illuminates and furthers the local
self-reliance paradigm. 3. Success is possible in the short term. 4. The skill set needed to provide useful assistance is
available either in-house or within our networks. Based on these criteria, we focus on the following areas: solid waste, energy,
retail business, and telecommunications. The first two are sectors we have worked on since our founding. Retail was added
in the late 1990s and telecommunications in 2005.
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