| Summary: | The objective of this guidebook is to offer practical advice to stakeholders on assessing the relevance of an SCG to particular contexts and designing and implementing an SCG program to maximize impact and minimize risks. The targeted stakeholders include, but are not limited to, national and subnational governments, program designers, development practitioners and others working on topics of subnational and city competitiveness. The SCG tool is a good fit for awide range of places that would benefit from and could engage in creating a better enabling environment for competitiveness and economic transformation. An SCG offers a means for incentivizing a better understanding of what is needed to enable private sector agents to thrive and create jobs for inclusive growth in specific places; over time, helping identify changes in mandates needed to appropriately empower subnational governments to achieve these objectives; and better tailoring capacity enhancement support to subnational governments and other critical actors. In that sense, the SCG is a complement to existing tools that may have wider applications, such as existing frameworks for competitiveness and local/subnational institutional performance improvement
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