scholarly journals Variety in local development strategies and employment: LEADER programme in Andalusia

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 43-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mercedes Rodriguez ◽  
Luis Miguel Sanchez ◽  
Eugenio Cejudo ◽  
Jose Antonio Camacho
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Rural Development Policy ◽  
Populated Region ◽  
Programming Period ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Action Groups

For the period 2007–2013 LEADER became the fourth axis of rural development policy. One of the main characteristics of LEADER is that it adopts a bottom-up approach. Local Action Groups (LAGs) have to define and implement area-based local development strategies (LDSs). In this paper, we examine the relationship between variety in the LDSs implemented by LAGs and employment safeguarding over the programming period 2007–2013 in Andalusia, the most populated region of Spain. Firstly, we construct several indicators to capture differences in the number of projects carried out, the grants awarded, the investments made and the safeguarded employment. Secondly, we carry out an exploratory factor analysis. We use cluster analysis to classify LAGs applying similar LDSs. The results obtained show that there is no ideal strategy for employment safeguarding and that spending high amounts of money in a few numbers of projects does not guarantee success. Thus, most LAGs do not show any clear specialisation pattern but obtain moderate results in terms of employment safeguarding. This supports the idea that LAGs need to have sufficient flexibility to find a balance among the different objectives of the rural development policy and to translate this balance into the funding of projects.

scholarly journals Effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability in local rural development partnerships

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 31-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krisztián Kis ◽  
József Gál ◽  
Antal Véha
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Rural Regions ◽  
Policy Compliance ◽  
Institutional System ◽  
Rural Development Policy ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Action Groups

Due to the ever-increasing role the LEADER approach is playing in realizing rural development policy, Local Action Groups (LAGs) have become key actors in the institutional system of rural development. Through their activity in supporting and improving local development, they represent a spatial organizing force in rural regions. Their operation can effectively contribute to the competitive and sustainable development of their local area, within the framework of European rural development policy. Compliance with this role requires the active and conscientious work of the LAGs, both in the process of programming and implementation. In this paper, we aim to present the impact mechanism of the operation of LAGs and its determinant factors. Based on expert evaluations, we investigate the experiences of the implementation of the LEADER approach for rural development from the viewpoints of effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability.

scholarly journals A LEADER-megközelítés helye és szerepe a vidékfejlesztési politika megvalósításában

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-60
Author(s):  
Krisztián Kis ◽  
Rita Szekeresné Köteles
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Sustainable Rural Development ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Rural Development Policy ◽  
Action Groups

The LEADER approach as a sustainable development streamline based on local resources, means a paradigm of competitive and sustainable rural development. The Local Action Groups (LAGs) as local development organizations forming in the framework for applying the concept of LEADER method, have an important role in realization of objectives of the rural development policy at local level. The execution of the rural development policy can be interpreted as the fulfillment of levels building on each other in an objectiveinstrument type of implementation, which is pervaded by the LEADER approach. The LEADER is not only a successful way of rural development, but a concept or a model that pervades and embraces the whole process of programming and execution of rural development from the policy level to the implementation of projects.

scholarly journals Rural development policy: An alternative development strategy for τhe case of Greece

2012 ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Ελένη Καραβέλη ◽  
Γιάννης Δούκας
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Alternative Development ◽  
Current Period ◽  
Rural Development Policy ◽  
Programming Period ◽  
Of Greece

This paper presents the implementation of European Rural Development Policy (RDP) in Greece for the programming period 2007-13. First, the introduction of ‘regional’ elements in Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the course of its reforms is discussed. Second, the directions and means of RDP in the current period are examined and the Commission’s proposals for the next programming period are presented. Third, the targets, measures and allocation of funds of RDP in Greece are analysed based on the experience of the previous period and given the chronic diffi culties and obstacles that this policy approach faces in Greece.

scholarly journals Functioning of the Local Groups of Action (LAG) in the Aspects of Sustainable Rural Development Policy

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Michalcewicz-Kaniowska ◽  
Małgorzata Zajdel ◽  
Cosmina-Simona Toader
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Sustainable Rural Development ◽  
Continue Research ◽  
Rural Development Policy ◽  
Local Leaders

Abstract In recent years rural areas of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodship have seen very significant changes, especially with the participation of the Rural Development Program 2007-2013. The aim of the article was to diagnose the factors determining the implementation and management of the Leader 2007-2013 program in the institutional and personnel aspect in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodeship, and to diagnose the functioning of the Local Action Groups as the actors responsible for shaping the regional and local sustainable rural development policy, RDP 2007-2013 program. As a result of the research, there is a need to continue research leading to an assessment of the effectiveness of LAG activities and the creation of local leaders, which may have a significant impact on local community participation in moderating local development.

scholarly journals A Territorial Perspective On Eu´S Leader Approach In Denmark: The Added Value Of Community-Led Local Development Of Rural And Coastal Areas In A Multi-Level Governance Settings

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Aagaard Thuessen ◽  
Niels Christian Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Coastal Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Programming Period ◽  
Action Groups

AbstractThis paper investigates the added value of the territorial governance approach LEADER in the multi-level governance setting of rural and coastal development. Using focus group interviews in five Danish rural and fisheries local action groups (LAGs) from the 2007-2013 programming period, the paper demonstrates that pursuing the LEADER method at the LAG level enhances rural development in the form of leverage, democratisation and bottom-up decision making that none of the other levels in the multi-level governance setup of LEADER would be able to provide. However, some of the method’s seven concepts are not fully used. Maintaining a focus on all of the method’s concepts could allow for even greater rural development.

scholarly journals Rural development policy and local governance: Implementing the Leader axis in South-eastern Peloponnese-Greece

2018 ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Helen Caraveli ◽  
Anastassios Chardas
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Rural Regions ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Substantial Role ◽  
Structural Problems ◽  
Rural Development Policy

The new model of agricultural policy in Europe, applied through the Rural Development Programmes (RDPs), has been considered most appropriate for the case of Greece, given the structural problems of this country’s farm sector (including the high proportion of mountainous, less favoured areas in its territory) and the need for mild forms of local development, which will ensure maximum use of endogenous resources. An integral part of the rural development policy of the CAP is a decentralized type of governance, based on a ‘bottom-up’ approach and implemented through the LEADER programs. Within this context, regional and local actors, state, private or representing civil society organizations are assigned a substantial role in designing and implementing RDPs in their localities through the creation of horizontal or vertical synergies. Though the LEADER philosophy can be instrumental in the successful application of RDPs in Greek rural regions, it has been rather little researched and investigated. This paper aims at filling this gap in the literature by examining the possibilities of introducing the bottom up approach in the governance of rural regions in Greece, where the old-type ‘sectoral’ (vs. the holitistic development) approach continues to dominate agricultural policy and where local decisions have traditionally (and certainly in the last 30 years or so) been controlled and directed by the central state. A crucial question is can the LEADER type of governance help in the regeneration of the country-side promoting internal cohesion in Greece? The issues discussed in the paper assume further significance in view of the current financial and economic crisis, and the wave of return migration to rural areas it has led to, which assigns rural regions a substantial role in the overall development process.

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