1. Plug the leaks (outflow of resources)
2. Initiate and encourage new enterprises (business and social entrepreneurship)
3. Support and improve existing enterprises/business retention
4. Develop human resources
5. Encourage work sharing arrangements
6. Strengthen the informal economy
7. Recruit compatible businesses from outside of the community
8. Increase local ownership of businesses and resources
9. Develop required physical infrastructure
10. Improve environmental management of local organizations, institutions, firms
11. Increase community involvement in natural resource management
12. Restore the local environment
13. Undertake other quality of life improvements (e.g. health, social, recreational amenities)
14. Celebrate local identity and culture
15. Create sectoral development strategies (e.g. tourism, high tech)
16. Develop local mechanisms for financing CED