Background The EU PROGRESS programme supports and disseminates comparative analytical information in the field of employment, facilitates information sharing and dialogue, provides policy makers and implementers with financial support, to test social and labour market policy reforms. It also supports the implementation of the EU legislation in the field of employment, social policy and working […]
LEDA Programme
The LEDA Local Employment Development Action programme was an EU funded action learning programme in the 1980s and 1990s. Started in 1986 involving 12 areas, it expanded to a Europe-wide network of 45 local areas by the tme of its completion in 1996. The programme had a focus on local employment actions with the idea […]
Court of Auditors report on LEADER
The European Court of Auditors produced a report on the LEADER Special Report No 5/2010 — Implementation of the Leader approach for rural development EXECUTIVE SUMMARY I. Leader is a method to achieve the objectives of the EU’s rural development policy through bottom-up implementation rather than the traditional top-down approach. Compared with traditional methods of […]
LEADER
LEADER The local development programme for rural areas. LEADER is a European Commission initiative to support the development of rural areas across the European Union (EU). First introduced in 1991, it is designed to complement other rural development programmes. There have been three ‘rounds’ of LEADER as a programme in its own right: LEADER I […]
URBACT stories
URBACT is a European exchange, learning and action programme with a large site full of project material from over 45 projects each of which lasts for either 2 or 3 years. you can see the main site at They also have URBACT YOUTUBE channel(cache) Results from the first round of approximately 25 projects have been […]
The RegGov project: final report
RegGov: Regional Governance of Sustainable Integrated Development of DeprivedUrban Areas Integrated approaches to the development of deprived urban neighbourhoods have proved to be successful in many of the old EU Member states over the last decades. However, good practice examples of how to develop, implement and fund such policies are rarely known at awider European […]
Notable practice in regeneration
Six case study examples of ‘holistic’ regeneration from the United Kingdom and Europe. For each of the six case studies, reports on the priorities of the programme, partnership working, management arrangements, outputs and outcomes, and the projects completed or underway. Bradford Trident New Deal for Communities; Castle Vale renewal (Birmingham); Manor and Castle regeneration (Sheffield); […]
LED case studies from World Bank
From the World Bank Website. These LED approaches and accompanying case studies were carried out under the World Bank Delta programme Republic of Korea Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority(cache) Created with the aim of improving the business enabling environment for foreign enterprises and workers, the Incheon Free Economic Zone is a specially designated area that […]
ESF Actions to promote Local Employment Initiatives: country review United Kingdom
This report focuses on the UK and its four constituent programmes for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (NI). The four national programmes in the UK operate independently of each other. Although there is a rich heritage in terms of local development and LEIs in the UK, there is no explicit mention of them in […]
ESF Actions to promote Local Employment Initiatives: country review Spain
In Spain, the devolution of powers for employment and social inclusion was completed during the past ESF programming period (it was completed by 2002). LEIs developed under the umbrella and in close relationship with place-based delivery mechanisms supported by other funds such as PRODER in rural areas, or regeneration policies in deprived urban areas. In […]
ESF Actions to promote Local Employment Initiatives: country review Germany
Since 2000, in all 26 German OPs, programmes and measures can be found, that address the local level in terms of employment, social cohesion and lifelong learning. For the previous period (2000-2006) mainly programmes which were based on the “Local Social Capital”-approach and local employment strategies, emerging from the TEP (“Territorial Employment Pacts”) initiative of […]
ESF Actions to promote Local Employment Initiatives: country review France
The tradition of a centralized employment policy in France did not favour a structured and consistent development of Local Initiatives in this field. The ESF intervention is “nationally driven”, reflecting this determining role of the State, despite a much regionalised delivery mechanism. Therefore, ESF support is concentrated in a single national Operational Programme (OP): Objective […]