Transcript Community-Led Local Development in the European Structural and Investment Funds 2014-2020 Jean-Pierre Vercruysse European Commission - DG MARE.

Community-Led Local Development
in the
European Structural and Investment
Funds 2014-2020
Jean-Pierre Vercruysse
European Commission - DG MARE
Why Community-Led Local Development
(CLLD)?
• One-size fit all policies have shown their
limitations:
• Fail to address specific problems affecting local
areas
• Limited capacity to seize specific local
opportunities
• Growing evidence that many needs are better
addressed at local level
• Sector-specific policies have shown their
limitations in addressing local needs
• Fail to take into account the territorial impact of
the operations they support
Specific features (1)
• Sub-regional areas:
• Funds are concentrated on the areas that need
and can use these most.
• Solutions are adapted flexibly to meet the diverse
needs and opportunities of local territories - at the
right time and place.
• Partnerships:
• Co-responsibility and ownership, no interest group
whether public or private dominates.
• Partnership mobilises the knowledge, energy and
resources of local actors.
Specific features (2)
• Integrated strategies:
• Actions reinforce each other, building on the
strengths of the area
• Linkages improved horizontally with other local
actors and vertically with other levels in delivery
or supply chains
• Innovation in a local context:
• New ways of thinking and doing, new markets,
new products, services, ways of working and
social innovation.
• Networking and cooperation:
• Local areas and communities learn from each
other and find allies
CLLD in rural areas until 2013:
The Leader programme
• Four rounds of LEADER since 1991
• 1991: Small scale Community Initiative with 217
partnerships in 12 MS
• 2006-2013 period:
• 2.321 partnerships (ten times more) in 28 MS
• Budget: 5.500 million Euros EU + 3.072 million
Euros national public funding
each partnership has an average public budget of
around 3.8 million Euros for the whole period
• public funding expected to lever in significant
amount of private investment
Why CLLD in the
European Fisheries Fund 2006-2013 ?
• Decreasing employment in commercial fisheries
• Fishing sector undergoing major structural and
social changes, impacts on fishing communities
• Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy presents
new challenges but potentially new opportunities
• Fishing households, businesses and localities
must be seen as part of an integrated approach to
local territorial development
• Expansion of marine spatial planning and marine
protected areas
Community-led local development
in fisheries and coastal areas
• Smaller and only since 2006-2013 period
• 312 fisheries local action groups (FLAGs) in 21 EU
countries
• Budget: 870 million Euros public funding: each
group has a budget around 3 million
• Over 9000 projects
• Adding value to fisheries products, diversification,
environmental and social improvements, linkages
fishermen with other local actors
• Results: 8.000 jobs created, 12.000 maintained,
250 new businesses (estimated 2013)
2014-2020
CLLD in the ESI Funds
• A single methodology for CLLD applicable across
all Funds and regions
• EAFRD, EMFF, ERDF and ESF
• All territories can benefit from EU support
• Rural, coastal, urban, rural-urban, coastal-rural
• Support from EU Funds consistent and
coordinated
• Strategies financed by multiple funds and better
adapted to needs and areas (rural and urban)
• Incentives: 80-90 % co-financing rate
Cooperation between Funds
• A means to achieve results not an end in itself
• Obligatory with or without multi-funding
• Needs to take place at all levels (EU, national,
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regional, local)
Less coordination at one level means more at
another
Commission has set the framework but
mechanics are left for national/regional levels
If not done well – complexity can drown local
groups
Cooperation LAGs & FLAGs
• 2/3 of partnerships financed by Axis 4 cooperated
with LEADER LAGs (2007-13)
• LAG/FLAG = same organisation
• Other methods for coordinating strategies & project
selection
• use this experience for coordination of multi-fund
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interventions
many LAGs expected to receive both EAFRD &
EMFF funding (2014-20)
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Further information
1. An example: 27 Percebeiros
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZDWoZJsm5
I&list=UUMp51h55nNxYUUuxuGl6foQ
2. Web sites:
• Guidance documents: http://enrd.ec.europa.eu/enrdstatic/themes/clld/policy-and-guidance/en/policy-andguidance_en.html
• FARNET: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/cms/farnet/
• LEADER on ENRD: http://enrd.ec.europa.eu/enrdstatic/leader/en/leader_en.html