The EU LEADER initiative and endogenous rural development: The application of the programme in two rural areas of Andalusia, Southern Spain

Barke, Michael; Newton, Michael T.

doi:10.1016/s0743-0167(97)00027-2

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“…Our argument here is that the tendency of policy to ignore or by-pass potential animators within a community is at least partially responsible for such failure. This is not to say, however, that communities do not need help from outside -particularly, depleted communities, which are least able to develop themselves (Barke and Newton 1997). Somerville (2016), for example, argues that much of the literature on community development exaggerates the capacity for poorer communities to advance without significant outside assistance, and points out that successful initiatives tend to have very specific and practical objectives related to community enterprise, community learning and community health and social care.…”

Section: Animatorship In Depleted Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualising animation in rural communities: the Village SOS case

McElwee

Smith

Somerville

2017

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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This paper introduces and discusses the concept of animatorship in relation to rural enterprise and development. At its simplest level, animatorship is the art of animating others to achieve their objectives. We develop and apply this concept to understanding community development and community enterprise, with a specific emphasis on rural communities. We present a descriptive, conceptual study of a new concept i.e. animation in the context of entrepreneurship. The fieldwork for this paper took the form of structured face-to-face interviews with community development workers in November-January 2015/2016. These workers actively stimulate, motivate and inspire others and orchestrate situations and people to bring about change through others, not merely doing things for them. They build environments and relationships in which people grow, directing and focusing energies to develop and empower people's emotional and social lives and relationships through patient, open listening and group conversation.

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Section: Animatorship In Depleted Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualising animation in rural communities: the Village SOS case

McElwee

Smith

Somerville

2017

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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“…An innovative solution for this is provided by the LEADER programme called into life by the European Commission, the principal feature of which is an approach of so-called endogenous development based on internal resources and local communities in a bottom-up arrangement. According to Barke and Newton (1997), endogenous development is a process, which includes the mobilization of the local community. It requires an organizational structure which brings together different interests to achieve common goals, a locally agreed strategic planning process and an agreed allocation of resources with the specific purpose of developing local capacity in terms of skills and competencies.…”

Section: Theoretical Background -The Leader Methods In European Rural mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…So, the principle of subsidiarity means that decisions and implementation must be placed to the local level -in our case, to the level of LEADER areas -with the greatest insight and competence in completing the task. According to Barke and Newton (1997), the most important element of the implementation of the LEADER programme are LAGs, serving as a means for decentralized development. However, well-prepared professionals with appropriate capacities, and active local society ready to cooperate are required for the proper completion of tasks.…”

Section: Lag Operations and Prevalence Of The Principle Of Subsidiaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Opportunities and obstacles of areabased partnerships in rural Hungary – main features of the operations of leader local action groups based on a nationwide survey

Kis

Szekeresne

2011

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Summary statements, conclusions, recommendations: Based on the results of our questionnaire survey, our study presents the major operational features of LEADER LAGs established in Hungary in the second half of 2007. Our national survey indicated that most of the partnerships established do not have experience in the implementation of community-based rural development programmes and there are no traditions and practices for development cooperation, which may cause problems as the success of programme implementation highly depends on the preparedness of local society, on the cooperation of local people.The survey indicates that the development of areas covered by LAGs is hindered by so-called soft factors characterizing human resources (rural people and communities). Therefore human resources are not only factors of the rural economy but areas for development as well.Having examined the tasks of LAGs, it can be established that they deem it to be their principal task to grant support funds. In our opinion, performance of this task is obviously necessary but far from sufficient to fulfil their catalyst role expected in local developments. For this purpose, it is essential for action groups to play a proactive role in organizing and thereby increase the capacity of local communities, a prerequisite for implementing a LEADER programme.In accordance with the basic principle of subsidiarity, rural development should be implemented locally, managed by local communities, and decisions should be made at local levels in a decentralized manner. At the same time, the survey points out that LAGs operate under strong government influence and control, leading to the conclusion that the Hungarian practice of the LEADER programme is characterized by decentralization without subsidiarity.In the present structure, the activities of LAGs are predominantly financed from central resources. Administration is the primary goal of their financing, which restricts their effective and efficient operations, thereby the successful implementation of the LEADER programme. It is unquestionable that LAGs need to be centrally financed since their operation is fundamental for programme implementation, but this requires more than acting in their present role of distributing resources.In order for action groups to fulfil their real roles to boost local developments, they need to recognize their mission; and from the financing and regulatory side, they must be enabled to complete the tasks expected from them and their function.

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“…First, to protect the heritage and to promote tourism, local government issued a more strict regulation in 2007 that new residences are not allowed to be built without permission of the Meibei village, and those buildings already decorated in different styles are required to be redecorated consistently with the original tune. Second, local authorities planned and established a new expansion area with several sites outside the village, and encouraged the villagers to be relocated there since 2013, with the intention to further preserve the authenticity of the original village, yet unfortunately without much consideration of participation of local villagers as promoted by the EU LEADER programme [37]. Third, a tolled tour route connecting all the main attractions, as shown in Figure 5, was designed and operated.…”

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Identifying the Conditions for Rural Sustainability through Place-Based Culture: Applying the CIPM and CDPM Models into Meibei Ancient Village

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Abstract:Transitional rural China faces more serious challenges in its sustainable development. How to regain the vital momentum of those historically and culturally preeminent villages, among over 680,000 administrative villages in total, has become the pressing agenda for all the stakeholders, due to the fact that these villages have huge potential to be the leverage for successful rural transition and new urbanization in China. This paper therefore tries to diagnose and identify the current situation of those villages from a cultural perspective by taking the Meibei ancient village as the case. By applying the proposed Cultural Inverted Pyramid Model (CIPM) and Cultural Dual Pyramid Model (CDPM) with seven layers, i.e., root/vision, value, symbol, hero, ritual, lifestyle, and governance & management, Meibei's development mechanism has been systematically explored from a cultural perspective through the comparison between its past prosperity and present challenges. It is found that the great merit of Meibei's past prosperity lied in the organic integration of cultural elements in all the layers through the five development dimensions, i.e., economic, social, institutional, environmental and cultural dimensions. The empirical study proves that CIPM is a useful tool for diagnosing and identifying the current situation of the village, while CDPM is an effective instrument for planning and designing a culture-embedded and improved place for the future. Unless Meibei can recreate a new cultural ecosystem with resilience fitting to its existed heritage with cultural excellence and tourism promotion, the village cannot catch up with its past prosperity. Finally, this paper calls for more in-depth culture-oriented research to improve the CIPM and CDPM paradigm to allow for the realization of rural sustainability, particularly from the perspectives of policy options and academic concerns.

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The EU LEADER initiative and endogenous rural development: The application of the programme in two rural areas of Andalusia, Southern Spain

Cited by 67 publications

References 16 publications

Conceptualising animation in rural communities: the Village SOS case

Conceptualising animation in rural communities: the Village SOS case

Opportunities and obstacles of areabased partnerships in rural Hungary – main features of the operations of leader local action groups based on a nationwide survey

Identifying the Conditions for Rural Sustainability through Place-Based Culture: Applying the CIPM and CDPM Models into Meibei Ancient Village

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