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 […]
Programmes
ENRD: The Implementation of Leader Approach
Focus Group 1 of Leader Subcommittee, European Network for Rural Development (EN RD) 2010 The Implementation of Leader Approach Length of report: Extended Report (42 pages); Supplementary Report (37 pages) Abstract: The ENRD Leader subcommittee Focus Group “on the Implementation of the bottom-up approach” prepared two reports on “the Implementation of the Leader Approach” in […]
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 evaluation in Czech Republic and Slovakia
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. The evaluation deals with the effectiveness, efficiency and relevance of the intervention logic […]
Factsheet on CLLD (Community-led Local Development)
All guidelines http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/information/brochures/index_en.cfm#1 Community-led Local Development (CLLD) http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/informat/2014/community_en.pdf Integrated sustainable urban development http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/informat/2014/urban_en.pdf
LEADER good practices
A sophisticated searchable database of LEADER good practices has been created under LEADER Plus (2000-2006) and is still alive and kicking http://leaderplus.ec.europa.eu/cpdb/public/gpdb/GpdbSearchFS.aspx?language=en
CLLD
CLLD first appeared in EU speak in the common provisions regulation. It builds on LEADER type approaches that have also been pursued in the Fisheries programmes since 2007 and supported under the FARNET programme. Within the Structural Funds, the Community economic development approach was rolled out in UK Objective 1 and 2 programmes between 1994 […]
Challenges for Local Development in Italy
Fiscal consolidation and structural reform – Regional / local disparities – Fiscal decentralisation and fiscal consolidation measures – Regional / local development initiatives. Fiscal consolidation and structural reform According to the new economic governance in the European Union (EU), Italy prepared its 2011 Stability Programme (for the period 2011 – 2014) and its 2011 […]
LD in North America: Local development and social economy in Quebec Province (Canada)
As in Europe and other parts of the world, local development, community economic development, social economy and other related initiatives have grown in North America. This paper focuses on the specific case in Québec Province of Canada and the considerable experience gained from the CLDs (Centres local de développement): Introduction – Background; Canada, Québec and […]
LD in Developing Countries
This paper looks into LD outside the EU with a focus on ‘developing countries’. It discusses the scope and limitations of addressing LD in such a vast field and then considers specific LD experiences (issues, approaches and, to a lesser extent, results) in different regions and concludes with a discussion of transversal themes: Introduction – Diversity […]

