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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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13 Sep 2024

Encouraging community-led nature restoration with LEADER

LEADER can encourage community-led nature restoration,and this provides possibilities for economic opportunities in the Member States.

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13 Sep 2024

Olive experts in Italy and Malta share best practices

This LEADER newsletter article shows how Transnational Cooperation has supported knowledge sharing and peer learning across countries on better ways to reinforce olive resilience.

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13 Sep 2024

LEADER in Hungary covers 100% of the rural population

Hungarian LAGs cover 100% of the country's rural areas, and implementation of the LEADER programme started in 2023, resulting in 105 LAG Local Development Strategies being approved and launched.

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Latest publications

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Member State Evaluation |

2022 Annual Evaluation Report of the Marche RDP

The document, covering 2021, reports the results of the LEADER approach, more specifically on the support activities to Local Action Groups (LAG) on the self-assessment of Local Development Strategies and the evaluation of local integrated projects.

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Newsletters |

CAP Evaluation News – September 2024

Assessing the outcomes of the EIP-AGRI Operational Group projects

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Member State Evaluation |

Evaluation of LEADER in Wales

The evaluation aimed to assess the implementation of LEADER in Wales in the 2014-2020 programme period and how LEADER contributes to local development in rural areas.

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