scholarly journals The Bottom-Up Development Model as a GovernanceInstrument for the Rural Areas. The Cases of Four Local Action Groups (LAGs) in the United Kingdom and in Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9123
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Gargano
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Union Leader ◽  
Local Action ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Local Partnerships ◽  
Action Groups

The present research which originates from the author’s PhD dissertation awarded at the School of Politics of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 2019, explores the comparative evolution of rural development policies and Local Action Groups (LAGs) in the United Kingdom (Argyll and the Islands LAG—Scotland and Coast, Wolds, Wetlands and Waterways LAG—England) and in Italy (Delta 2000 LAG—Emilia-Romagna Region and Capo Santa Maria di Leuca LAG—Puglia Region) in a multi-level governance framework. LAGs and in particular their public–private local partnerships have become common practice in the governance of rural areas. This governance operates within the European Union LEADER approach as a tool designed to generate the development of rural areas at local level. In order to establish the implications of the LAG practices, the following main objectives for this research have been established: (1) to explore the utility of EU strategies for rural development; (2) to explain how LAGs structure, institutional arrangements and working are positioned in the layers of MLG framework; (3) to carry out a comparative evaluation of the LAGs working in the different nations and their subnational contexts. Some significant findings from the case studies are summarized in relation to these themes: the key characteristics and the outcomes associated with the LAG working mechanisms and what do we draw about the emergence, operation and performance of local partnerships. The core argument of the research is that the partnership approach has given the rural development actors a governance platform to help increase beneficial interactions and economic activity in each of these LAGs, but it is the bottom-up leadership of key local actors, seizing opportunities provided by the EU funding, which have been the most important factors for the LAG successes.

scholarly journals Translating the Bottom-Up Frame

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-65
Author(s):  
Oliver Müller ◽  
Ove Sutter ◽  
Sina Wohlgemuth
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
The Eu

The paper follows the different moments of translation when LEADER, the EU development programme for rural areas, is put into practice on the local level. Drawing on ethnographic data gathered during several field observations and semistructured interviews from two LEADER regions in Germany, we analyse how the interpretive repertoire of LEADER’s bottom-up approach is actualised, appropriated and negotiated by different actors when translated into local contexts of participative rural development. Drawing on Stuart Hall’s theoretical distinction of different positions of ‘decoding’, the article demonstrates how the ‘bottom-up frame’ is interpreted and adapted strategically from a ‘dominant-hegemonic’, ‘negotiated’ and ‘oppositional’ position.

scholarly journals Initiatives for promoting innovation among Local Action Groups in Romania

2016 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
Cristina Bianca Pocol ◽  
Zsuzsanna Kassai
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Local Action ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Rural Development Programme ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Innovation Knowledge ◽  
Action Groups

The LEADER programme introduced a completely new approach to rural development philosophy, methodology and practice in the EU Member States. One of the most important features of this approach is facilitating innovation, which can provide new responses to the persistent problems in rural areas. Innovation must be understood in a wider sense in this initiative. The paper focuses on the assessment of innovation knowledge and initiatives among LEADER Local Action Groups (LAGs) in Romania. The research was undertaken in June 2016. A number of 67 LAGs were interviewed by means of a face-to-face questionnaire. The research area covered seven development regions of Romania. The collected data was analysed using SPSS programme. The results of the study show that there is a need for more innovative projects developed by LAGs in the ongoing programme period 2014-2020, which differs from those funded by the National Rural Development Programme of the 2007-2013 period. Communities’ problems are to be addressed by the implementation of innovative measures and by using local resources.

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

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-69
Author(s):  
Barbara Panciszko
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Local Action ◽  
Comparison Analysis ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Action Groups

AbstractThis 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.

scholarly journals REGIONAL DIVERSIFICATION OF FUNDS UNDER THE 2007–2013 LEADER APPROACH TO RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN POLAND

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-96
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Wojewódzka-Wiewiórska
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Local Action ◽  
Important Development ◽  
Regional Diversification ◽  
Action Groups ◽  
Relevant Factors ◽  
Structure Of Expenditure

This study addresses the rural development of Polandand is a part of a research evaluating the use of financialresources which are available within the framework ofEU policy and may represent important development factors.The 2007–2013 Leader approach was presented as a financialinstrument that supports change in rural areas. The purposeof this paper was to specify the amount of funds spent in specificPolish regions under axis 4 (Leader) of the 2007–2013Rural Development Program. The study relied on data of theAgency for Restructuring and Modernization of Agriculture,provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Developmentas at December 31, 2015. Polish voivodeships werefound to differ in the amount and structure of expenditure underparticular Leader measures. The regions allocated mostof the funds to the renewal and development of rural areas,while the smallest amounts were spent on designing the labormarket. The amount of expenditure was mainly determinedby the area and population of the regions and by the numberof local action groups. Other relevant factors included the activityof different actors such as municipalities, associations,entrepreneurs, residents and their traditional cooperation patternsin rural areas.Keywords: 2007–2013

scholarly journals The role and impact of Local Action Groups in Rural Development of Kosovo. Nol Krasniqi

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nol Krasniqi
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Main Tool ◽  
Local Action ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Action Groups

This research aims to present and analyze Local Action Groups and their role in Kosovo. Improving national wealth and reducing migration, especially from rural areas, is one of the biggest challenges. The LEADER program is considered to be a very successful rural development initiative of the European Union. Hence, this study examined the role of Local Action Groups as a main tool in implementing the LEADER approach. Focus was placed on how they work in Kosovo, their structure and organization, projects implemented, operation and characteristics of LAGs in Kosovo in the context of seven features of LEADER. The research concentrates on four municipalities where LAGs were examined, and the role of international organizations in training them. Descriptive statistics methods were used for the analysis. The study found that the LEADER approach in Kosovo is implemented more in theory and less in practice. Since they have been created, Local Action Groups in Kosovo have remained at an early stage of development. They need support from policymakers and international organizations.

Dychotomiczny podział referendów dotyczących integracji europejskiej. Europejskie referenda bottom-up

2021 ◽  
Vol 3(164) ◽  
pp. 37-61
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Parol
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Acquis Communautaire ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Common Category ◽  
The United Kingdom

One of the permanent instruments shaping the acquis communautaire are national referendums, which, although they have a different legal basis in each country, due to their scope, are combined into a common category of referendums on European integration (European referendums). Followed shortly by revision referendums, membership referendums were the first to appear in the integration process. The said referendums are part of the process of the top-down law Europeanisation. They do not, however, exhaust the catalogue of referendums on European integration, which also includes bottom-up Europeanisation national referendums. Because in each case of referendums it is possible to clearly indicate the type of Europeanisation (top-down, bottom-up) which they implement – it seems that this process may become the basis for the internal diversification of European referendums. The aim of the article is to propose a dichotomous division into European top-down and bottom-up referendums, and to analyse the categories of European bottom-up referendums. Six referendums organised after the TL’s entry into force were analysed. These are referendums that took place in: Denmark, Greece, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Hungary.

scholarly journals Local action groups and the LEADER co-financing of rural development projects in Slovenia

2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (No. 8) ◽  
pp. 364-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Volk ◽  
Š. Bojnec
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Formal System ◽  
Local Action ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Informal System ◽  
Existing Data ◽  
Action Groups

The influence of a formal and informal system of the Local Action Group (LAG) board’s performance on the perception of its members is analysed in association with the suitability of the rural development projects for the LEADER funds co-financing. The unique in-depth survey data was obtained from the surveys with the 103 LAG board’s members using the written questionnaire designed for the inquiry and from the existing data analysis on projects which were co-financed by the LEADER funds in Slovenia in the years 2008 and 2009. The informal system of performance of the LAG board members was found to influence significantly its members’ perception on the suitability of projects to be co-financed by the LEADER axis. The opposite was established for the formal system, which had an insignificant influence on the board members’ perception on the suitability of projects.  

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