LEADER supports integrated rural regional development. The programme is characterized by a participatory and bottom-up approach, public-private partnerships, multi-sectoral regional development strategies and innovation. An obligatory Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (CMEF) was set up...

Interventionen unter dem Europäischen Landwirtschaftsfonds für die Entwicklung des Ländlichen Raums 2007-2013, die „Netzwerken“ und „New modes of Governance“ in ihr instrumentelles Konzept einschließen, sind LEADER, zur Unterstützung integrierter Entwicklung ländlicher Regionen,...

Rural Networks have been implemented as an instrument to enhance EU rural development policies in the funding period 2007-2013. Gaps in European programme documents concerning the networks' purpose and their evaluation led to a survey of the National Network Units being conducted in 2010....