Transcript LEADER iniciatīva plānošanas periodā no 2014.–2020. gadam

– COMMUNITY-LED LOCAL
DEVELOPMENT
Ministry of Agriculture of Latvia
14.03.2013.
VISION
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Active and consolidated local society able to
express itself in the development of local
territory
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Cultivated fields managed by sustainable and
efficient family farms
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Possibility to gain income in rural areas (to
work) and earn living for oneself and family

Enhancement of knowledge
Ministry of Agriculture of Latvia
LEADER APPROACH
Ministry of Agriculture of Latvia (MoA) and
other concerned organizations and
institutions
highly
evaluate
and
implement LEADER important principle,
which is the approach of "bottom-up"
when the initiative comes from local
people, engaging in their own territory in
identifying problems and solving.
Ministry of Agriculture of Latvia
COMMUNITY-LED LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
(CLLD)
In next programming period the
Ministry of Agriculture will
implement LEADER approach via
EAFRD and EMFF
Ministry of Agriculture of Latvia
PLANNED FINANCING
 It
is planned to allocate ~64 mio EUR or 5%
of EAFRD resources for implementation of
the LEADER measure
 For
sustainable development of fisheries
areas from EMFF planned public financing
~14 mio EUR (may vary according to the total
available funding from EMFF for Latvia )
Ministry of Agriculture of Latvia
PREPARATIONS FOR THE NEXT
PROGRAMMING PERIOD
MoA in collaboration with NRN and NFN organized 3 LAGs
seminars in year 2012.
 In year 2012 MoA set up the working group to develop the
condition of the LEDAER actions (MoA, LAG, NRN, Latvian Rural
Forum, the paying agency), and already two meetings took a
place.
 In March 2013 MoA in cooperation with NFN organised a
seminar with fisheries organisations and LAGs about
sustainable development of fisheries areas from EMFF.
 In March 2013 MoA organized the meeting for LAGs, NGOs,
municipalities, local union representatives, Fisheries industry,
administering authority, ministerial about LEADER approach
imlementation and about sustainable development of fisheries
areas for the next programming period in Latvia

Ministry of Agriculture of Latvia
CLLD – MULTI-FUND APPROACH
MoA in discussions with LAGs, NGOs, municipalities,
local authorities and other relevant organizations
and authorities agreed
One teritory – one strategy
and
EAFRD chosen as the lead fund
Ministry of Agriculture of Latvia
TERRITORY OF LAG
MoA welcomes the minimum population
increase in LAG teritory from 5’000 to 10’000.
In small LAG’s around 5’000 people:
 Is
not sufficient administrative support, in result of this
is non-guaranteed quality actions of LAG and strategy
implementation
 there are problems with the implementation of the
strategy - a low activity of project applicants in the
territory of a small number of NGOs and entrepreneurs
Ministry of Agriculture of Latvia
TERRITORIES OF THE LAGS ON THE MAP OF
LATVIA TODAY
8 LAGs with less than 10,000 inhabitants
in their teritory need to be defined
merge or add to other LAGs
Ministry of Agriculture of Latvia
TERRITORY OF LAG
The
territory of LEADER in 2014-2020 the whole Latvian territory with the
cities up to 15,000 people
(the percentage of population from towns with the
number of population 5000–15000 does not exceed
49% of the total population of the LAG territory)
Sustainable
development of fisheries
areas in 2014-2020 will be implemented
only in the territory of coastal
municipalities
Ministry of Agriculture of Latvia
LEADER SUB-MEASURE – EAFRD (I)
Initiative to strengthen the local economy
Planned activities:
 Micro-small entrepreneurship in rural areas;
 Social entrepreneurship;
 Cooperation;
 Short supply chain;
 Training (according to the above activities).
Ministry of Agriculture of Latvia
LEADER SUB-MEASURE – EAFRD (II)
Places capacity development initiatives
Planned activities:
 Quality Living Area Creation;
 Natural and cultural objects arrangment;
 Small infrastructure;
 Social environment improvement
Ministry of Agriculture of Latvia
LEADER SUB-MEASURE – EAFRD (III)
Inter-territorial and transnational cooperation
Planned activities:
 Inter-territorial cooperation between LAGs at the
national level;
 Transnational cooperation between LAGs at the
European Union Member States level and
territories, where organisations implementing
activities similar to the LEADER approach operate
Ministry of Agriculture of Latvia
LEADER SUB-MEASURE – EAFRD (IV)
Running the local action group, acquiring skills
and animating the territory
Planned activities:
 Running costs (operating
costs, personnel costs, training costs,
costs linked to public relations, financial costs as well as the costs linked
to monitoring and evaluation of the strategy)
 Animation (costs that occur in order to facilitate the exchange
between stakeholders, to inform about and promote the Local
Development Strategy and to support potential beneficiaries to develop
projects and prepare applications)
Ministry of Agriculture of Latvia
ACTIVITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF
FISHERIES AREAS

Adding value, creating jobs;
 Diversification,
lifelong learning;
 Enhancing
and capitalising on the
environmental assets, operations to mitigate
climate change;
 Social
well being and cultural heritage;
 Strengthening
the role of fisheries
communities;
 Cooperation
activities.
Ministry of Agriculture of Latvia
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!