LAG as the driving force for rural development

 

To accord with the LEADER principles of integrated and participatory development, SARD LAGs have designed their strategic action plan, including economic, social, cultural and environmental actions. To prepare LAG strategy and create the partnership, 10-12 working meetings were organized at each LAG in 2017. Calculating with the commonly spent hours and the number of participants, each LAG working group has spent around thousand working hours with common work; discussing, learning, planning local development process. It happened voluntarily. During the planning process, 500 local actions, projects have been identified by the eight LAGs with about 6 MEUR planned budget for a 5-years period.  After signing the Partnership Agreements in November 2017, each LAG Council, which is the assembly of the members, approved the LAG participatory strategy documents.

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Towards Prosperous Rural Areas

Handbook on implementation of LEADER/CLLD – community-driven rural development initiatives, in the Republic of Moldova.

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LEADER/CLLD Principles

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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Community Coaching

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.

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LAG Partnership Agreement

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.

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Introduction LAG by LAG

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.