Community-led local development Clause Samples
Community-led local development. 1. Where the Member State considers it appropriate pursuant to Article 22, the ERDF, the ESF+, the JTF and the EMFAF shall support community-led local development.
2. The Member State shall ensure that community-led local development is:
(a) focused on subregional areas;
(b) led by local action groups composed of representatives of public and private local socio- economic interests, in which no single interest group controls the decision-making;
(c) carried out through integrated strategies in accordance with Article 26;
(d) supportive of networking, accessibility, innovative features in the local context and, where appropriate, cooperation with other territorial actors.
3. Where support to strategies referred to in paragraph 2(c) is available from more than one Fund, the relevant managing authorities shall organise a joint call for selection of those strategies and establish a joint committee for all the Funds concerned to monitor the implementation of those strategies. The relevant managing authorities may choose one of the Funds concerned to support all preparatory, management and animation costs referred to in points (a) and (c) of Article 28(1) related to those strategies.
4. Where the implementation of such a strategy involves support from more than one Fund, the relevant managing authorities may choose one of the Funds concerned as the Lead Fund.
5. While respecting the scope and the eligibility rules of each fund involved in supporting the strategy, the rules of the Lead Fund shall apply to that strategy. The authorities of other funds shall rely on decisions and management verifications made by the competent Lead Fund authority.
6. The authorities of the Lead Fund shall provide the authorities of other Funds with information necessary to monitor and make payments in accordance with the rules set out in the Fund-specific Regulation.
Community-led local development. (Articles 32–35 CPR, Article 10 ETC, and the EAFRD, ESF, and ERDF Regulations) 213
Community-led local development. Community led local development (CLLD) will be implemented taking into consideration the diversity of regions at EU level and within the member states; thus local development strategies will be much more effective and efficient, if they were created at local level and implemented by local participants, supported by the respective administrations and based on clear and transparent procedures and dissemination of best practices. CLLD is implemented on a terrotorial principle, which hosts a small homogenous socially coherent territory, of common traditions, local identity, sense for belonging or common needs and expectations. The “bottom-up” approach will be implemented in such a manner that the local community can participate in formulating, selecting and approving the priorities and strategy for integrated development of the territory and community. The creation of capacity is a major part of the “bottom-up” approach and includes: increasing the knowledge, training, participation and mobilization of the local population in the analysis phase; participation of different stakeholders in the creation of the local development strategy; development of clear selection criteria at local level of suitable projects for the implementation of the strategy.. In the period 2007-2013 Bulgaria used for the first time EAFRD resources for implementing support schemes under LEADER222; as first in the period 2009 - 2011 a sub-measure 431-2 "Acquisition of skills and animation for potential local action groups' under Axis 4 of Rural Development Programme was completed. The interest registered in the application of sub-measure 431-2 "Acquisition of skills and animation for potential local action groups" was expressed in submitted 136 applications covering 181 municipalities and 78% of the municiaplities in the rural areas. 102 applications (covering 158 rural municipalities with a total area of 64,070 km2 and population of 2,265,998 people) of submitted 136 are approved, and applied potential local groups are contracted. 90 contracts are successfully implemented and completed that help raising the awareness of local people about the opportunities offered by the Leader Programme, enhancing the local administrative capacity to prepare and implement local development strategies through expansion and development of knowledge and skills for local development strategies formulation and implementation, as well as preparing the local experts to participate in the evaluation, selectio...