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CLLD in fisheries and coastal communities: Achievements and Lessons

As a follow up to the preliminary report on “What does CLLD bring to coastal and fisheries communities around Europe?” published in December 2024, FAMENET has published a full report “CLLD in fisheries and coastal communities. Achievements and Lessons” which includes quantitative results achieved in the 2014-2020 period as well as qualitative information based on the […]

Slovenia monitors and evaluates the LEADER/CLLD delivery 

This paper ‘Slovenia monitors and evaluates the LEADER/CLLD delivery’ by Dr Irma Potočnik Slavič offers an analysis of the processes that have had a key impact on rural development in Slovenia after independence in 1991. It is important for professionals dealing with rural development and, at the same time, contributes to the development of the […]

Resilient coastal communities: a guide for FLAGs

We are highlighting again a practical guide that has attracted considerable interest among participants in the LDnet network. The guide is on “resilient coastal communities” which was published at the final stage of FARNET and which provides systematic guidance across a wide range of topics: social, economic, environmental and more – see Table of Contents […]

LEADER: Where it came from and what’s still in it (2nd edition)

LEADER has a long history and is still going strong. Robert Lukesch gave a talk in the final conference of the transnational project ‘LEADER/CLLD: Our common future’ on 4-6 November 2024, in Cheleiros/Mafra, Portugal, on the topic of ‘LEADER: Where it came from and what’s still in it’. This was based on a treatise in […]

The road to the next multiannual financial framework

In a recent post we highlighted that the debate is starting about the next MFF of the EU and the theat it presents for local development in rural and urban areas. On 11 February 2025 the European Commission published a Communication “The road to the next multiannual financial framework” marking the first formal step in […]

Post-2027 EU funding for local development under threat

The debate has started about the next MFF of the EU. Although there are no formally proposals in the public domain, informal briefings have raised concerns about the possible implications of a new MFF archtecture for the local and regional level. These concerns stem mostly from two features highlighted in two recent news items: The […]

CoR: Programmes led by local action groups and communities must be reinforced and simplified

The Commission for Natural Resources (NAT) of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) discussed at its meeting on 27 November 2024 a draft opinion on “How post-27 LEADER and CLLD programming could contribute to better implementation of the long-term vision for the EU’s rural areas” (Rapporteur: Thibaut Guignar, Mayor of Plœuc-l’Hermitage). In this opinion […]

EU budget and place-based policies

The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) adopted an own initiative opinion in November 2024 on “EU budget and place-based policies: proposals for new design and delivery mechanisms in the MFF post-2027” (Rapporteur: Marie-Antoinette MAUPERTUIS, President of the Corsican Assembly). This opinion is part of a package of own intiative opinions aimining to define CoR’s […]

FAMENET report: What does CLLD bring to coastal and fisheries communities around Europe?

This report, published in December 2024, follows a FAMENET survey of FLAGs and brings together information provided by around 150 FLAGs, as well as official information reported to the European Commission by national authorities managing the European Fisheries and Maritime Fund in 2014-2020 (EMFF). The report, titled What does CLLD bring to coastal and fisheries […]

Moving forward with LDnet

LDnet is entering a new phase in its work.  We reconstituted ourselves in 2010 building on the success of the LEDA network which had been running for more than two decades.  Since then we have been the only non-profit association committed to spreading the word that local development is the real deal.  Local development is […]