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LEADER

LEADER is the EU’s participatory and bottom-up approach to involve rural people in community led local development through local strategies, local projects, and decision-making processes.

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26 Jun 2024

LEADER creates jobs in Poland from healthy convenience food

Local Action Group support for a Polish businesswoman has helped her to create new jobs by expanding her company’s supply of healthy convenience food that promotes better nutrition.

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26 Jun 2024

LEADER shows young people how they can develop rural Europe

Over 200 LEADER enthusiasts gathered in Finland to discuss ways to increase the power of young people in LEADER design and implementation, planting seeds for an international youth LEADER community.

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26 Jun 2024

LINC – Passing the flag!

LINC is a bottom-up led, self-starting and self-organised activity centred around LEADER. The 2024 edition took place in Romania, and the EU CAP Network was part of the programme.

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Guidelines and tools |

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.

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Member State Evaluation |

2021 annual evaluation report on LEADER

The annual evaluation report provides a summary of its results delivered in the Lombardia region from 2016 to 2020.

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Member State Evaluation |

Final evaluation report for the thematic assessment of the 2014-2020 Rural Development Programme in Hungary

The evaluation analyses whether the LEADER approach created added value and whether the objectives of the Local Development Strategies (LDSs) were achieved.

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