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 […]
Bibliography on local development
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Bibliography on endogenous development
endogenous development Endogenous development This theory or approach has been based on a critique of 50s and 60s regional development theories and policies which produced unsatisfactory and unbalanced results in relation to expectations and to financial resources allocated by national governments. These ‘traditional regional policies’ emphasized the key role of mobility of capital and labour […]
Bibliography from World Bank LED primer
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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
Community-led local development: making it a success
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. Community-led local development: making it a success In this common statement, a number of European civil society […]
CLLD challenges: the urban, the social and the dinosaurs…
Haris Martinos Introduction The debate on local development and the preparations for “CLLD” (Community-led Local Development) in the 2014-2020 period moved forward with two workshops that took place in the week of 7 October 2013 in Brussels. The first workshop(cache) was organised by DG REGIO to discuss the draft guidelines on CLLD, which are being […]
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 […]
John M. Bryden: Local Development
John M. Bryden 2010 Local Development, ch 23 in “The Human Economy, A Citizen’s Guide”, Edited by K. Hart. J.L. Laville and A.D. Cattani, Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 2010 Publication Type: book Length: pp 248-260 Abstract: The paper discusses the emergence of local development in two largely unrelated ways – opposition to growing state power […]
Local Development, LDnet and the Ebook: An Overview
The Local Development Ebook has many innovative aspects, ranging from its all-encompassing look at local development to its method of development and production: What we understand by “local development” and the “local development approach”? – The “European Model” – Working definition and scope of LD – LDnet and the aims of the e-book – The […]
LD in Ireland: From innovation to stagnation … but what next in times of crisis?
This paper reviews the experience of local development in Ireland. It describes the origins and evolution of local development and its “institutionalisation” and mainstreaming in public policy and describes and reviews recent changes. It identifies conclusions and lessons from experiences of local development, current issues and future challenges: State Support for Local Development in Ireland […]
LD in France: Local development policies in France; Origins and evolution over the last four decades
Local development policies and practices are now at the centre of concerns and initiatives of local development actors; both public and private, and with for-profit or not-for-profit aims. This present state of affairs is the result of several waves of local development policies, and major changes in the social, economic and institutional environment occurring over […]