EcoPlan helped facilitate a workshop organized around the four-volume Strategic Planning for Local Economic Development, a joint UN-HABITAT-EcoPlan publication. The event focused on interactive group training, where participants learned from each other, the trainer, and the training materials. It included Country Dialogues where local and regional participants were able to exchange information and knowledge, and was attended by representatives from many Middle Eastern nations. Questionnaires were sent out before the event, with responses informing the key questions that helped to focus these workshop sessions.