Policy capacity focuses on the managerial and organizational abilities to inform policy decisions with sound research and analysis, and facilitate policy implementation with operational efficiency. It stems from a view of the policy process that is rational and positivistic, in which optimal policy choices can be identified, selected, and implemented with objectivity. By itself, however, policy...

Small municipalities, if taken individually, have difficulty in implementing energy policy and sustainable projects (economic, environmental social), because they do not sufficient financial human resources. The idea is to regenerate a territorial area following the principles of innovation development, that applicability concept Smart Villages on an entire “small” territory with homogenous cha...