Cross-border Cooperation Between Local Action Groups from Poland and the Czech Republic: Three Case Studies

Furmankiewicz, Marek; Trnková, Gabriela

doi:10.36689/uhk/hed/2022-01-020

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“…In this source literature analysis, the authors deliberately omit the research of rural village funds and urban local grant funds existing in Poland, although in some studies they are presented as one of the forms of participatory budgeting [35,67,68]. There are different procedures for submitting and selecting community projects; therefore, in the authors' opinion, they should be considered as a different form of increasing social participation in satisfying local needs.…”

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What Are the Needs of City Dwellers in Terms of the Development of Public Spaces? A Case Study of Participatory Budgeting in Częstochowa, Poland

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Furmankiewicz

Kalisiak-Mędelska

2022

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Participatory Budgeting (PB) is considered a human-centered method of public resource management and investment planning, which strongly reflects the needs of the inhabitants of the municipality. The aim of this article is to assess the structure of the inhabitants’ needs expressed in the PB procedures in Częstochowa, Poland and their relation to the social and demographic characteristics of the city districts. The standard methods of quantitative and qualitative analysis were used (Pearson correlation coefficient and content analysis of the municipal documents), based on the data about: (1) the projects implemented in Częstochowa PB in the years 2015–2019; (2) the age structures and population density in the districts; and (3) qualitative data on district development characteristics. Based on the authors’ typology of projects, it was found that the most popular tasks were related to the comfort and safety of mobility and recreational facilities used for spending free time in public spaces. A relatively lower level of activity of the citizens was found when expressing their needs in central, densely populated districts with a high share of people aged over 65, and a relatively higher level of activity was found in the districts with a high proportion of people aged 0–18 and with lower population density. In the densely populated central districts, relatively high interest in the development of green areas was observed, while in the less populated developing peripheral districts, the preferred infrastructure was related to mobility. These correlations can be logically explained by the conditions related to the development processes of individual districts. The authors conclude that PB can be an important mechanism in determining local needs for the development of public spaces; however, it rewards the needs of the most active social groups.

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confidence: 99%

What Are the Needs of City Dwellers in Terms of the Development of Public Spaces? A Case Study of Participatory Budgeting in Częstochowa, Poland

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Furmankiewicz

Kalisiak-Mędelska

2022

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“…These products often represent unique local features resulting from long-term historical and cultural traditions, and are part of the region's offer directed at tourists (Furmankiewicz & Trnková, 2022;Jasiński & Rzytki, 2007). 324 LAGs have been operating in Poland between the years 2015-2023 (within the 2014-2020 UE Programming Period).…”

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Do Area-based Partnerships Favour the Development of Short Food Supply Chains? Analysis of Local Product Offers on the Websites of Local Action Groups in Two Regions of Poland

Furmankiewicz¹,

Raftowicz-Filipkiewicz²

2023

Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference Hradec Economic Days 2023

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Local Action Groups (LAGs) are cross-sectoral, area-based partnerships of local stakeholders working for social and economic development in functional regions. Their main task is to redistribute public aid funds as part of grant competitions for grassroots initiatives of local social organizations, farmers, entrepreneurs and local government institutions. LAGs can also play an important role in developing local food markets. The main aim of this research was to establish the extent to which LAGs promote local food products related to short food supply chains through their home websites. The authors have analyzed the websites of LAGs from two regions of Poland: Lower Silesia and Lesser Poland in an attempt to establish whether they contain permanently posted content related to offering and promoting local products (including traditional ones). Research has shown that almost half of all LAGs surveyed (47%) do not promote local products on their websites. However, examples of good practices indicate that they have the potential to carry out such tasks.

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Cross-border cooperation of Polish and Czech area-based partnerships supported by Rural Development Programmes: Genuinely international or solely national projects?

Furmankiewicz,

Trnková

2024

Moravian Geographical Reports

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The literature on cross-border cooperation in Europe is predominated by the analysis of the European Union (EU) INTERREG Programmes’ results, while other support funds are often neglected. To fill this research gap, the authors undertook the research on cross-border cooperation of the area-based partnerships (Local Action Groups – LAGs) from Poland and the Czech Republic, financed by the Rural Development Programmes (RDPs) 2014–2020. The main purpose of our paper is to identify the rationales for cooperation, strategies to find partners, the scope of activities and obstacles in implementing the joint projects. The qualitative research involved a content analysis of LAG documents and interviews with LAG managers. The actions in twelve identified cooperation projects were mainly related to local traditions, inventory and the promotion of local products and services, the development of tourism and environmental issues. The respondents have emphasised that these actions required separate financing by national RDPs following different administrative rules, even though when constituting the components of a single project. The bureaucratic restrictions resulted in a clear asymmetry of LAGs activities, manifested in a lower involvement of the Czech LAGs. As a result, many projects can be considered as highly unilateral, solely national rather than genuinely international, which has not been the intention of the LAG managers, however.

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Cross-border Cooperation Between Local Action Groups from Poland and the Czech Republic: Three Case Studies

Cited by 3 publications

References 27 publications

What Are the Needs of City Dwellers in Terms of the Development of Public Spaces? A Case Study of Participatory Budgeting in Częstochowa, Poland

What Are the Needs of City Dwellers in Terms of the Development of Public Spaces? A Case Study of Participatory Budgeting in Częstochowa, Poland

Do Area-based Partnerships Favour the Development of Short Food Supply Chains? Analysis of Local Product Offers on the Websites of Local Action Groups in Two Regions of Poland

Cross-border cooperation of Polish and Czech area-based partnerships supported by Rural Development Programmes: Genuinely international or solely national projects?

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