The LEADER approach and the

Community-Led Local

DevelopmentMgr. Vivien Kohútová

Local Action Group Chopok juh

The LEADER (Liaisons Entre Actions de Développement de l’Economie Rurale -Links Between Development Actions Regarding the Rural Economy) is anapproach to promote the integrated, endogenous, sustainable development ofrural areas.

LEADER

approach

3. LAG:Local public-

private partnership

4.Facilitating innovation

5. Integrated and multisectoral

actions

6. Cooperation7.

Networking

8. Financial and administrative

devolution

1. Area-based localdevelopment

approach

2. Bottom-up elaboration and

implementation of strategies

Translocal specificities

Local specificities

Vertical specificities

The Leader approach and the Community-Led Local Development in the 2014-2020

The LEADER approach will continue to

be a compulsory element in each rural

development programme.

The Community-Led Local

Development (CLLD) is an option; it is

financed by the CSF funds, it can

mobilise local communities and

organisations to contribute to

achieving the Europe 2020 Strategy

goals.

The main aims of the Commission proposal withthe use of CLLD are:

to encourage local communities to developintegrated bottom-up approaches where there is aneed to respond to territorial and local challenges;

to build community capacity and stimulateinnovation from within communities andterritories;

to promote community ownership by increasingtheir participation;

to assist multi-level governance by providing aroute for local communities in shaping theimplementation of EU objectives.

The key components of Community-led Local Development

the local action groups: representatives of local public and private socio-

economic interests (entrepreneurs, associations, local authorities) where

neither the public sector nor any single interest group should have more than

49 % of the decision-making power;

the local development strategies need to be coherent with the relevant

programmes of the CSF Funds through which they are supported;

the area and population coverage of a local strategy should be coherent,

targeted and offer sufficient critical mass for its implementation. It is up to the

LAGs to define the areas and population that their strategies will cover, but

they must be consistent with criteria that the Commission will lay down

through a delegated act.

Member States will define the approach to CLLD across the CSF Funds and

should include references to it in the Partnership Contracts.

A multi-funded strategy allows local

development strategies to have a

broader scope and to be better adapted

to the territory:

it implies involving a wider variety of

partners that can better define and deal

with common cross-cutting challenges;

it helps to avoid overlaps between

strategies as it receives support from

different funds.

It may increase the total budget

available for local development, given

that a LAG will have access to several

sources of financing.

The choice of a LAG for mono-funded or multi-funded local development strategies shouldconsider the following:Multi-funded strategies are more complex todesign and implement and require experienceand capacity. Solid preparation and capacitybuilding actions are a must.

Multi-funded strategies require broader LAG

partnerships. This brings more possibilities but

also more complexity and requires better

management.

In former periods investments were made to

create delivery structures. It is essential to

safeguard the results of this investment,

including the existing local dynamic,

structures and strategies.

Challenges and concerns of the multi – funded strategy

Most stakeholders embrace a refreshed application of the “LEADER method” and

welcome lessons from the past;

As community-led local development is area-based and can be financed by the

different CSF Funds, it is an ideal methodology for building linkages between

urban, rural and fisheries areas;

in cities and urban agglomerations, the potential for applying participative

approaches to a range of urban challenges is huge and the Commission suggested a

specifically earmarked priority for sustainable urban development in the structural

funds.

The challenge of CLLD to revitalise local democracy by new ways of involving

citizens, opens news perspectives and invent new local economies and societies.

The rural LAGs will be able to co-operate not only with partners implementing a

LDS in a rural area, as in the current period, but also with partners from non-rural

areas within the EU developing cooperation around major themes that are better

deal with on a bigger scale.

CLLD may also be implemented in cross-border cooperation programmes, provided

that the local development group is composed of representatives of at least two

countries, of which one is a Member State.

Conclusion

Prof. Alberto MANELLI

Director General

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