DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2017 - 2022
Appendices / Appendix 2: Overarching Rural Development Policies 1. Area-based: taking place in a small, homogeneous socially cohesive territory.
The themes and sub themes that are supported through LEADER are as follows:
2. Bottom-up: local actors design the strategy and choose the actions.
1. Economic Development, Enterprise Development & Job Creation
3. Public-private partnership: LAGs are balanced groups involving public and private-sector actors, which can mobilise all available skills and resources. 4. Innovation: giving LAGs the flexibility to introduce new ideas and methods. 5. Integration: between economic, social, cultural and environmental actions, as distinct from a sectoral approach.
a. Rural tourism b. Enterprise development c. Rural towns d. Broadband 2. Social Inclusion a. Basic services targeted at hard to reach communities b. Rural youth 3. Rural Environment
6. Networking: allowing learning among people, organisations and institutions at local, regional, national and European levels.
a. Protection and sustainable use of water resources
7. Co-operation: among LEADER groups, for instance to share experiences, allow complementarity or to achieve critical mass.
c. Development of renewable energy
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b. Protection and improvement of local biodiversity
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