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Europe’s Living Countryside (ELCo)
Environment &
Rural Development
“Future of Rural Development in Europe”
Krakow, Poland, 29.11-1.12 2005
Thomas Nielsen
WWF, European Policy Office, Brussels
All photos © WWF / Ola Jennersten
Outline
• Introduction
•Project Europe’s Living Countryside (ELCo)
•Manual on environmental integration in RDPs
•Other WWF work on RD
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About the ELCo Project
• Builds on previous projects - Europe’s Rural Futures (ERF)
and the Nature of Rural Development (NORD)
• 3 Partners (WWF, LUPG and SNM)
• Research in 7 countries (BG, ES, DE, HU, NL, PL, UK)
• Analysis of past and present Rural Development
programmes
 Recommendations on how environmental concerns can be
better integrated into the RDPs
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The Manual
• Practical advice to ensure national rural development
programmes contribute to genuinely sustainable development
across the EU.
Who is it for?
 People designing and implementing rural development
programmes in the MS.
 Those responsible for assessing and approving the programmes.
 NGOs and other agencies involved in rural development
programming.
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Tools in the ELCO manual
The seven steps approach
integrating the environment into rural development
programmes
Identifying & addressing environmental
priorities for rural development
Summary of the EAFRD measures and
their potential for the environment
Programming guidelines checklist
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Seven steps for integrating the environment
into RDPs
Setting Environmental Priorities
On-Going
Impact Review
Stakeholder
Consultation
&
Programme
Adjustment
Identifying Environmental Objectives &
Targets
Involving Stakeholders in Development
& Implementation
Using Measures to their Full
Environmental Potential - horizontal &
vertical integration
Budgeting for & Funding Rural
Development
Delivery Mechanisms & Leader
Monitoring & Evaluation
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Using RD measures for addressing environmental issues
• Objectives
should lead design of
measures, not vice versa.
•Target measures on the issues, areas
and farms that will deliver objectives.
•Integrated packages (with options),
not “menus” of separate measures.
•Involve end-users (e.g. farmers, rural
businesses) in detailed design of
measures.
Summary – realising the environmental
potential of EAFRD
•
Put the environment at the centre of programme
design, not as an add-on or window dressing.
•
Environment is not only axis 2! Achieving environmental
objectives should use all four Axes in an integrated way.
•
Develop objectives in detail and at different
geographical levels, and target measures accordingly.
•
Major environmental challenges need major resources,
not just for measures but also for their design,
administration and monitoring/evaluation.
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Other WWF work on RD
Other work on sustainable rural development, where
WWF is involved:
•“One Europe More Nature”
•Estonia, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands
•At national level in many Member States (inputs to RDPs,
monitoring committees etc)
•Financing N2000 handbook
• coming up in March 2006 (for DG Environment)
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Dziękuje
Thank you for your attention
[email protected]
www.panda.org/europe/agriculture
www.panda.org/epo
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