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OVERVIEW OF 2007-2012 LEADER METHOD IMPLEMENTATION

OVERVIEW OF 2007-2012 LEADER METHOD IMPLEMENTATION. The Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Lithuania RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT Chief specialist Ilona Sadovskaitė 2012-11-14 Trakai. LEADER stages. after 2013. 2007. LEADER. 2000. Tool/Measure. LEADER metod as. 1994.

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OVERVIEW OF 2007-2012 LEADER METHOD IMPLEMENTATION

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  1. OVERVIEW OF2007-2012 LEADER METHOD IMPLEMENTATION The Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Lithuania RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT Chief specialist Ilona Sadovskaitė 2012-11-14 Trakai

  2. LEADERstages after 2013 2007 LEADER 2000 Tool/Measure LEADER metodas 1994 LEADER+ 1991 Applying Improvement LEADER II Development LEADER I LEADER+type measure (2004-2006) Lithuania Beginning

  3. There are 51 LAGs in Lithuanias‘ LAG Network

  4. LAG territories in Lithuania (99% of Lithuanian rural area) - Territories of Pilot integrated strategies - Local development Strategies‘ implementation territories - Major cities

  5. Rural Development Programme for Lithuania for the period 2007–2012 Budget of Axis IV Commonbudget471,01m Lt. -Implementation of Local development Strategies -Support for running the LAGs, acquiring of skills and animating the inhabitants of LAGs territories -Inter-territorial and transnational cooperation

  6. Local development strategies “Implementation of local development strategies” Implementation of local projects (2320 units) Strategies‘ budget: 350,74m LT. Administrative Expenses Expenses of Local projects implementation

  7. Trainings and encouraging activity “Support for running the local action groups, acquiring of skills and animating the inhabitants of LAGs territories“

  8. Cooperation projects “Inter-territorial and transnational cooperation” Inter-territorial cooperation projects Projects of transnational cooperation 110 LAGs are cooperating from: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belgium, Sweeden, France, Italy, Austria, Germany 49 Lithuanian LAGs are cooperating

  9. Social enterprise + LEADER method? • LEADER method is encouraging partnership and good neighbours‘ relations; • LEADER projects start in communities; • Project ideas are based on... The possible ways to deal with social problems.

  10. LEADERafter 2013 Community-ledlocaldevelopment TheMinistryofAgriculture RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT Chiefspecialist Jolanta Vaičiūnienė

  11. EU 2014 – 2020 M. RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY GOALS( Article 4.) • Increasingagriculturalcompetitiveness; • Sustainablemanagementofnaturalresourcesandclimatepolicytargets; • Balancedterritorialruraldevelopment.

  12. LEADER PROGRAM (III Axis, I Chapter, 2 Paragraph) • LEADERstrategiesgoals– aimforoneorseveral BSD goalsimplementation, i.e. it isnotnecessary to designatestrategiesforimplementationofspecificmeasures. • Challenges: • Possibility to createandimplementstrategiesthat are fundedfromseveral EU funds. (ERDF, ESF, EFF, etc.) • Possibility to attractcities‘ communities to LAG activities. • Supportedactivities: • creatingstrategies(etc. Courses, studies, andothertypeoftrainingnecessary to setupthestrategie); • implementationosstrategies; • administratingstrategiesand publicitymeasures– up to 25% of support for strategy implementationlėšų(advance up to 50 %); • cooperation(Inter-territorialandtransnationalcooperation, contexts of innovation).

  13. EU 2014 – 2020 M. RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY IMPLEMENTATION. FINANCIAL PROVISIONS • EAFRD contribution shall not exceed 80 %eligible public expenditure in less developed regions; • Not less than 5 percent. Total rural development program provided EAFRD contribution of the LEADER program; • EAFRD financing costs can not be co-financed by the Structural Funds, the Cohesion Fund or any other Union financial contribution; • Acceptable costs represent only those costs that are incurred after the submission of the application to the competent authority, except for total costs.

  14. Multi-fund strategies...CHALLENGES, RESOURCES OPPORTUNITIES EU. Different funds, one partnership? EAFRDP, EFF, ESF, ERPF • SWOT ... • OPPORTUNITIES: integrate targets and priorities to local development strategy (1 territory, 1 strategy, several funds). • SIMPLIFICATION: how to avoid additional rules, pressure and bureaucracy? • “Bottom up”: how to sustain “bottom up”, “community iniciated local development”? • FLEXSIBILITY: ability to adapt to unstable social and economic environment, unpredictable tendencies; • SINERGY:ability to communicate in the territory, dissemination of good practice (etc. from LAG to FLAG); • TRUST: LAG authority, “strategies system”; • FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY: need to sustain freedom to act, but not without restrictions,use of potential while introducing innovations, etc. Local authorities National authorities Rural ihabitants

  15. LESSONS LEANED FROM PREVIOUS FUNDING PERIODS (ECA report) • Limited opportunities to use the LEADER community-led local development; • Poorqualitystrategies; • Unclear responsibilities of the parties; • The limited capacity of LAG to design and implement strategies; • Low participation and low private sector interest in the matter.

  16. CURRENT SITUATION ASSESSMENT • National position on future LEADER formation, publicity. • LAG and LAGFAs experiences, desires and opportunities; • Dialoguebetweenstakeholders; • LAG and LAGFAs survey (e-filling) • Responses are invited by 30 November.!

  17. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

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