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LDnet | Category LD Studies & Evaluations

Category LD Studies & Evaluations Organize Objects Hide subcategories objects ..   Name Type Category ACTIVITÉS ET PRODUCTIONS DES PACTES LOCAUX wiki LD Studies & Evaluations ADETEF Study wiki LD Studies & Evaluations Bibliography on monitoring and evaluation wiki LD Studies & Evaluations Cohesion policy support to local development – commissioned by EC-DG REGIO (ADETEF-AEIDL-City […]

LDnet | LD and the EU funds: European Commission proposals for 2014-2020

LD and the EU funds: European Commission proposals for 2014-2020 On: 2012-05-08 12:43 (4902 Reads) The Commission proposals for the EU funds in the 2014-2020 period mark a turning point in favour of local development. The general regulation devotes a section to “Community-led local development” and states that to facilitate the implementation of multi-dimensional and […]

LDnet | Community-led local development: making it a success

Community-led local development: making it a success By: Group of Experts On: 2012-05-08 11:52 (5756 Reads) This statement has been prepared by a group of LDnet experts and is supported by several European civil society organisations and networks with a long experience and deep knowledge of local development for their consideration and endorsement. Comments and […]

Perspectives of Civil Society in European Rural Development

Goran ŠOSTER Now more than ever, the perspectives of civil society in European rural development are dependent on the programmes of leading nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and the ability to implement them. The majority of NGOs have come to the conclusion that they have to act in alliance with similar organisations from other countries. Different international […]

LDnet | Participatory evaluation of local development

Participatory evaluation of local development By: Jela Tvrdonova On: 2012-03-11 21:01 (5351 Reads) Jela Tvrdonova The evaluation of rural development policies – in compliance with the EU Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework is the process of the assessment of the public and private funds intervention according its results, impacts and needs, which shall be satisfied. […]

Towards new ideas for the local development approach

Fernando Barreiro Public policies in the field of social and territorial cohesion should question the supposition that economic activities have always to be distributed in an homogeneous way to benefit the poor and vulnerable people, who live in marginal territories without economic growth. The pretension of distributing in the territory of a country economic growth […]

Cameron’s Big Society

Peter Ramsden What does UK Prime Minister Cameron’s “Big Society” mean in practice? On the left it is argued that the Big Society is simply a smokescreen for cuts in the public sector in general and local government in particular. on the right the Red Tory’s like Philip Blond – director of new Think Tank […]

LDnet | What is community led local development

Community led local development implies a bottom up approach that directly involves the local community in its own development. Local authorities may support community led local development but the impetus normally comes from local enterprises and civil society organisations. The idea of community led local development has now made its way onto the agenda of […]

LDnet | Toby Johnson

AEIDL toby.johnson@poptel.org I have been involved in the co-operative movement since 1977 and have been in Brussels since 1994. I work mostly with AEIDL as part of the team supporting the learning networks among ESF managing authorities. I monitor and maybe mentor COPIE in inclusive entrepreneurship and BFSE in the social economy.