LAG Local Call for Proposals
On the basis of the European Union support, through SARD, each LAG announced their local Call for Proposals in March 2018, addressing local partners, including private persons, local business, civil society and public organizations, who were invited to submit applications.
The submitted proposals were evaluated from the perspective of: relevance in relation to the local development principles of the given LAG, expected results and impact of the project, feasibility, inclusiveness and sustainability. The goal of the LAG local Call for Proposals was to create the opportunity for local development actors to submit development projects and to decide on concrete local projects, which will be supported from the grant provided by SARD to each LAG.
The project proposals were evaluated by the LAG Selection Committees, elected by the LAG Councils, LAG by LAG. The LAG management offices acted as secretariat. The Selection Committee’s recommendations were approved by the relevant LAG Council and the SARD Programme Office. All selected proposals meet the eligibility and submission criteria as laid out in the relevant Call for Proposals.
In total, 162 applications were submitted to the eight LAGs and 78 have been approved by the eight LAG Councils and SARD Programme for implementation. Of these, 23 projects aim to develop local businesses, eight are related to tourism development, and 24 projects aim to make local services better, while protection of local cultural heritage is the goal of 18 projects and five are focused on environmental protection or rehabilitation of natural resources.
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Handbook on implementation of LEADER/CLLD – community-driven rural development initiatives, in the Republic of Moldova.
The European LEADER approach is based on seven specific principles, which must all be present simultaneously in order to apply the method correctly. It is these seven characteristics that define LEADER as a methodology and distinguish it from other funding programmes
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Everyone can do something to change his or her own life and this process will be more efficient and sustainable if potential change-makers in any given community are strengthened and empowered to be able to identify with the ‘culture of co’ – cooperation, co-creation, community leadership, caring for the commons and business collaboration. This approach is called community coaching. Through the SARD LEADER/CLLD community, coaching interventions have been employed to ignite the spirit of change in the targeted local communities and encourage them to be active in the implementation of current and future development programmes.
In November 2017, members of eight Local Action Groups (LAGs), created by local stakeholders with the assistance of SARD, signed the formal Partnership Agreements, which are the basis of their common work.
The SARD LEADER initiative supports the creation, functioning and management of the local stakeholder-created LAGs in the targeted regions and neighbouring districts. The programme helps with all necessary human resource development, technical assistance, legal aspects, co-financing and governance.
The SARD Programme aims to boost the collaboration between central and local authorities, as well as among the regional organizations from ATU Gagauzia and Taraclia district, so as to foster the social-economic development of the region and of the Republic of Moldova as a whole. The Programme will contribute to development of the agro-food sector, promotion of local entrepreneurship, creation of jobs, and increasing the incomes of the population living in ATU Gagauzia and Taraclia district.
This website was developed with the financial support of the European Union within the “Support for agriculture and rural development in ATU Gagauzia and Taraclia” (SARD) Programme, funded by the European Union and implemented by the UNDP. The content of this website does not necessarily reflect the official position of the European Union or of the United Nations Development Programme.
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