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H 2 Cohesion policy support for local development: Best practice and future policy options.

Soutenir le développement local dans le cadre de ... la politique de cohésion: Bonnes pratiques et options politiques futures. (FR-French)

JOUEN Marjorie, KOLOSY Katalin, PELLEGRIN Jean-Pierre, RAMSDEN Peter, SZEGVARI Péter, CHAMBON Nadège

2010

93p.

During the 1980-90s, local development provided both responses to growing unemployment in distressed regions suffering from the collapse of manufacturing or traditional industries, and promises of a new future for areas that were lagging behind, both rural and urban. With the 2008-2009 crisis, several experts and policy makers contemplated the idea of reinvesting the local development approach that had been neglected in recent years. As the debate on the next programming period is about to be opened, it is time to bring fresh thinking on what should be done by the EU cohesion policy to support local development and how this can be achieved. The report draws upon a six-month team work and an incremental process which allows to formulating comprehensive recommendations for local development best practice and policy options for support to local development initiatives within the cohesion policy. Local development initiatives are sometimes defined as area-based integrated strategies mobilising a large number of local stakeholders using specific methods, such as partnership. This definition focusing on the inputs is correct but incomplete; it has also to take into account the explicit objectives pursued by the strategy (outputs) which are crucial for the local partners specifically in terms of socio-economic results and better living conditions. It has to include the developmental dimension of the strategy, with its long term objectives and the structural change that can be achieved (outcomes).

Final Report, Case study

EUROPEAN UNION POLICY & LEGISLATION - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, local development, EU cohesion policy

local development, EU cohesion policy

English, French

http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/archive/consultation/terco/cp_support_local_dev_en.pdf

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