Urban and Rural Local Action Groups in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

Abstract

This article will analyse which areas rural and urban Local Action Groups (LAGs) in the Kuy-avian-Pomeranian Voivodeship function in. The thesis of this research is : LAGs are a bottom-up tool for local management. The first part presents the main assumptions of public management approaches and shows the LEADER approach and Community-Led Local Development as a form of bottom up approach in the process of public management on the local level. Then comparison analysis between rural and urban LAGs will take places. Similarities and differences were identified in the legal framework of their existence, the actors who create them, the possibility of receiving EU financial support and within the e fields of their activities. These were all analysed, along with financial activities implemented in the rural and urban LAGs in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship through 2014–2020.

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-sectoral territorial partnerships referred to as Local Action Groups (hereinafter: LAGs) support the socio-economic development and activity of inhabitants in functional rural and fishing regions (Biczkowski, 2020;Furmankiewicz et al, 2021a;Moseley, 2003;Phillipson & Symes, 2015), as well as in cities and urban districts (Panciszko, 2020;Servillo & De Bruijn, 2018). The idea has been developed in the European Union (EU) since the 1990s (Barke & Newton, 1994;Lacquement et al, 2020), while in Poland they began to be established after the state's accession to the EU in 2004, initially as part of the LEADER+ Pilot Programme (Furmankiewicz et al, 2015;Zajda, 2014).…”