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Understanding LEADER's added value
A new set of guidelines from the EU CAP Network are available to help Local Action Groups and Managing Authorities assess the added value of LEADER.
LEADER impact report on balanced territorial development
A recently published European Commission evaluation exploring LEADER impacts on balanced territorial development shows LAGs created nearly 60 000 jobs and much more during the previous funding period.
How to assess the LEADER added value and demonstrate the benefits of its approach: guidelines to support Member States
These guidelines, available in all the EU languages, provide insights into the operationalisation of LEADER added value, and offer a non-binding evaluation framework to assess LEADER added value.
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Assessing the added value of LEADER
These guidelines provide insights into the operationalisation of LEADER added value and offer non-binding evaluation framework to assess LEADER added value, manifested through improved social capital, enhanced governance, and increased impacts and results of strategy implementation.
Assessing generational renewal in CAP Strategic Plans
The report summarises the main outcomes of the Good Practice Workshop ‘Assessing generational renewal in CAP Strategic Plans’, organised by the EU CAP Network with the support of the Evaluation Helpdesk for the CAP on 14-15 March 2024 in Zagreb.
Assessment of the progress in implementing the evaluation plans of RDPs 2014-2022. Chapter 2 of the AIRs submitted in 2023
About a third of the evaluations completed in 2022 and documented in the AIRs in 2023 focused on sustainable management of natural resources and initiatives for climate action.