Most of the materials in this section are directly related to Central and Eastern Europe and contain a variety of materials, including the community economic renewal (CER) and local economic development (LED) guides and workbooks developed for the use of local community leaders in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Macedonia, and Bulgaria as part of the USDOL projects carried out in Central and Eastern Europe. It also includes the manuals and guides prepared in 2003 for the USAID and made available for use in other countries in the region at the conclusion of USDOL projects.

Materials were also collected as part of a technical assistance project under the auspices of the International Labor Organization carried out by Dr. Hansen for the ILO for the Chinese Ministry of Labor (MOL) in 1998. Dr. Hansen was asked to design a survey instrument based on his visits to several pilot cities selected by the Chinese MOL in Shenyang and Chin Dao, China. Information gathered during the site visits was used to write a questionnaire for a baseline survey conducted by the government to ascertain the training needs of managers of local economic enterprises created by local governments, to facilitate the creation of training programs and projects to help communities and to provide employment to unemployed workers in the government designated target cities and regions, and to help enterprise leaders more effectively manage existing enterprises to address the employment needs of workers in their areas of responsibility.