This new ENRD Projects Brochure - ‘Migrant and Refugee Integration’ - explores how people in rural areas have used EAFRD support to respond to the challenges and opportunities presented by the recent influx of migrants and refugees into the European Union. A number of projects from different countries are presented under the themes of ‘Changing the narrative’, ‘Skills and the … [Read more...]
Resources
Agritorino
Agritorino is an initiative, launched in Turin in 2012, promoted by various local voluntary associations: Sermig, Cottolengo, Congregazione Salesiana, Padri Somaschi, Permicro Banca di microcredito e Piazza dei Mestieri. The project aims to combine support to family incomes, sustainable agriculture and vocational training, by entrusting young unemployed people to cultivate … [Read more...]
Brexit: a shift towards a CLLD approach?
In a recent post in capreform.eu on the topic of UK policy towards agricultural land after Brexit, Professor Ian Hodge of the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge argues in favour of ecosystem services policy with many features akin of a CLLD approach, as in the following quotation: "There would be greater and longer term support for locally based collective … [Read more...]
Cohesion policy support for local development
COHESION POLICY SUPPORT FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT: BEST PRACTICE AND FUTURE POLICY OPTIONS ADETEF Study Marjorie Jouen, Head of the project (ADETEF, Notre Europe) Katalin Kolosy, Head of project (AEIDL) Jean-Pierre Pellegrin, senior expert (AEIDL) Peter Ramsden, senior expert (AEIDL) Péter Szegvari, Senior expert (City Consult) Nadège Chambon, Junior expert (Notre … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Bibliography on monitoring and evaluation
Bartik, T. (2002). Evaluating the Impact of Local Economic Development Polices on Local Economic Outcomes: What has been done and what is doable? Upjohn Institute Staff Working Paper No.03-89. Beauregard, Robert A. (1999). The Local Employment Fulcrum: Evaluating Local Economic Performance. Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 1. February 1999. pp. 23-28. Sage … [Read more...]
Bibliography from ADETEF study
ACORD International SA, Evaluation intermédiaire du PIC EQUAL entre 2000 et 2002 Luxembourg (2003) Amin A, « Le soutien au local au Royaume-Uni : entre recul politique et engagement solidaire » in L’innovation sociale - émergence et effets sur la transformation des sociétés, Klein JL et Harrisson D, Presses de l’université du Québec (2007) Bachtler J, Future of the … [Read more...]
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 level. … [Read more...]
Participatory evaluation of local development
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 and … [Read more...]
OECD LEED Programme
Created in the 1980s to help tackle unemployment, the LEED (Local Economic and Employment Development) is operated separately from OECD's main activities funded by the Member States of OECD. LEED has regions and cities as its main members and operates at the sub national level. OECD LEED has identified themes, such as entrepreneurship, innovation and partnership, which have … [Read more...]
Bibliography from World Bank LED primer
LED Conceptual Framework Bingham, Richard D. and Robert Mier, Eds. (1993). Theories of Local Economic Development: Perspectives From Across the Disciplines. Sage Publications, CA. Blair, John P. (1996). Local Economic Development: Analysis and Practice. Sage Publications, Inc. Canzanelli, Giancarlo. (2001). Overview and Lessons Learnt on Local Economic Development, Human … [Read more...]
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 put together in a compendium results document that … [Read more...]