Stig Hansson

Gotland Sweden

Leader, plan

• Initiative comes from eg. regional authorities as an open invitation to everyone who wants to be a part of the process

• All who have announced interest start up the work to write a Local Action Plan

• All three sectors – non-profit-making, private and official – equally represented during the writing of LAP

Leader, area

• Dare thinking in new ways and cross boarders when the area is set

• The delegates of LAG must have a wide geographical and social range

• When you think in different ways you will create new solutions

LAG, purpose

When you stop guarding your own interests

and think of the area’s future you create

development:

• Sitting in LAG means to give support to others, not getting support for your own ideas

• It can be difficult to explain at home why you support the neighbour village and not your own

Experiences from LEADER-work on Gotland

Local engagement

Local engagement = sustainability

• Those who run the project are the same who have the benefits from it

• The idea can come from outside, but initiative and creation of the project is made on a local basis

• With a local project leader money and knowledge stays in the area – rather give support for administration

Learning and development

Pre-study

Learning and development

• Start small – ”wide doors and low thresholds”. Gives courage!

• Little money for pre-studies. Well-placed money!

• Do you need to make a project if you know the result in advance

”Stealing” good ideas

Öppna Ateljéer

”Stealing” good ideas

• ”Don’t invent the wheel again”

• Bring home ideas and adapt them to your local situation

• Document the projects so that others can learn from it

Failures

Failures

• Project-group and project-leader do not have the same goal

• The participants do not realize which input is expected from them

• What happens after the project is important – who continues?

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From Leader+ to the new RDP in Sweden

• From 12 to 65 Leader areas

• From 20% to 85% of rural population

The Swedish Rural Network

• All actors for rural development, on national level, can be members

• Network (service) Unit at the Managing Authority

• A special budget line for member activities

Swedish Rural Network

• Formal or informal

• Official Within Managing Authority or outsourced • Just for Leader or for the whole Development Program

Different kinds of national RD networks

 

Starts with simple information

– Newsletter – Program information – Network activities 

Building more interactive tools

– Project database– Partner search– Webb tools to support the LAGs

Use what you have instead oflonging for something else

stig.hansson@i.lrf.se