Explaining Local Action Groups Heterogeneity in a South Italy Region within Measure 311 Axis III Notice of LDP

Spada, Alessia; Fiore, Mariantonietta; Caruso, Donatello; Contò, Francesco

doi:10.1016/j.aaspro.2016.02.079

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“…In 2007-2013, LAGs were already trying to develop the most effective ways of implementing the Leader approach with the simplification of the rules as far as possible to allow for developing new solutions during the implementation of RDPs that could be used in the 2014-2020 programming period. Therefore, LAGs can represent, in the long term, an effective planning tool for local development (Spada et al, 2016).…”

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“…Because individuals have much more difficulty accessing globalised systems, it is necessary to support communities to enter as a local network in global systems (Dini, 2012). Leader has proved to be an innovative and successful bottom-up policy tool, thanks to involvement of Local Action Groups (LAG) in local development activities (Spada et al, 2016). A LAG can be considered as an inter-municipal platform that promotes cooperation in Europe (Vrabková and Šaradín, 2017) and creates alliances between diverse local functional interests (Furmankiewicz and Macken-Walsh, 2016).…”

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Design and implementation of the Local Development Strategy: a case study of Polish and Italian Local Action Groups in 2007-2013

Chmieliński¹,

Faccilongo²,

Fiore³

et al. 2018

Stud. Agr. Econ.

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We investigated the extent to which the Local Development Strategy (LDS) activities planned at the beginning of the European Union's Leader programme implementation period, and the associated budget allocation in response to the defined local needs, were confirmed at the end of the period. We used as examples the implementation of two LDSs, one by a Local Action Group (LAG) in Poland and one in Italy. We applied some simple indicators to assess how much the budget assumptions at the planning level were reflected in the successful implementation of projects, and conducted interviews with representatives of the two LAGs. We showed that the two LAGs were generally working effectively but that excessive institutionalisation could be the major constraint to the proper design of the LDS and thus the implementation of the Leader programme. For the Polish LAG, it was because of the transfer of the evaluating role outside of the LAG: assessment of applications was undertaken by the regional institution, the Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture. In the case of the Italian LAG, the reason was an excessive formalisation of the rules concerning project applications.

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Design and implementation of the Local Development Strategy: a case study of Polish and Italian Local Action Groups in 2007-2013

Chmieliński¹,

Faccilongo²,

Fiore³

et al. 2018

Stud. Agr. Econ.

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“…The researchers' interest in studying the LEADER program as a development tool is considerable, over time being written various scientific papers in which the main concern was the evaluation of the program's results at the level of the rural communities [25][26][27][28]. The studies carried out so far highlight the role of the LEADER program and its capacity to stimulate rural development.…”

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“…There are researchers who have adopted in their scientific papers quantitative [15,16,18,23] or qualitative [9,10,13,14] methods to evaluate the results of the LEADER initiative, although the frequency of studies on this topic is not as high as expected. In addition, in some European countries (such as Romania) the scientific research focused on isolated case studies conducted on a limited number of LAGs dominates [15,16,23,[28][29][30][31]. Thus, the conclusions of those studies cannot be of general application, therefore it is necessary to carry out more extensive studies in which the analysis of the LEADER program should be performed in an integrated manner on a national scale.…”

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“…According to Shucksmith et al [34], this selective behaviour seems to have been specific to the LEADER program at least until the end of the fourth funding period in Europe, as it has focused mainly on supporting the more active and developed communities in the detriment of the strongly disadvantaged groups. Most of these studies are analysing the results of the LEADER program at the level of some European countries such as Spain [10,[15][16][17][18]23,24,32,35], Germany [7,17], Italy [28,36], France [15,37,38], United Kingdom [30,32,34], or Denmark [13,39] that have benefited from this financial support since the first years of the implementation of the LEADER program, when experience in managing funds was low, which explains some of the mistakes in its implementation. However, with the end of the first LEADER funding periods, the main dysfunctions were identified.…”

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LEADER Program—An Inclusive or Selective Instrument for the Development of Rural Space in Romania?

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The LEADER program is one of the European Union’s financing instruments dedicated to the development of the rural communities. The instrument was introduced in the Romanian rural territory in 2007, a territory characterised by a high level of local and regional economic inequalities. The main goal of the present research is to question whether the development level specific to the rural communities have influenced their performance in managing the LEADER program. In order to answer this question, the characteristics of the initial level of development were analysed in relation to the spatial distribution of LEADER funds. The indicators taken into consideration were the number of projects, funds per capita, funds per Local Action Group (LAG), and the percentage of employees from the total population. In order to assess the relation between the initial level of development and the LAG’s performance, the method used was the Ordinary Least Squares regression, which calculates a set of statistical parameters that highlight the presence, form, sense, and intensity of the dependency relation. The results highlight no correlation between the level of development and the spatial distribution of the LEADER funds. Analysing the data, the paper reveals that the LEADER program is an inclusive rather than a selective instrument for the development of Romanian rural communities, despite other examples researched in Western countries. The results show that the LEADER program can have an influence in reducing the rural disparities, but its effects are of low importance.

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Establishing partnerships for rural development

Nagy¹,

Filip²

2022

RVM

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Over the last three decades partnership development among various groups has been increasingly encouraged as means to stimulate development in rural areas. Nevertheless, despite the support given to partnerships between organizations, critics question their effectiveness and the economic endeavours to stimulate local development are contested. Consequently, our study seeks to investigate what are the economic and organizational conditions that influence consideration when joining a local partnership but also the main constraints and individual motivation to develop cooperative behaviour. The analysis shows that while there is openness in creating or developing joint ventures, the availability of financial resources, lack of strategic planning, lack of communication and trust are factors that can have significant influence on the effectiveness of the partnership and consequently on its contribution to the local development.

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Explaining Local Action Groups Heterogeneity in a South Italy Region within Measure 311 Axis III Notice of LDP

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Design and implementation of the Local Development Strategy: a case study of Polish and Italian Local Action Groups in 2007-2013

Design and implementation of the Local Development Strategy: a case study of Polish and Italian Local Action Groups in 2007-2013

LEADER Program—An Inclusive or Selective Instrument for the Development of Rural Space in Romania?

Establishing partnerships for rural development

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