Animation - Rural Development - Lecture Slides, Slides of Human Development

Download Animation - Rural Development - Lecture Slides and more Slides Human Development in PDF only on Docsity! Animation for Rural development – a new profession? Rural development in the years ahead : the challenge to rural communities and to professional animators Docsity.com 25 years 1987 European Commission's report "The future of rural society“ … which marked the start of thinking about rural development as a distinct stream of European policy 1991 LEADER 1996 Cork Conference Now, a wide range of actors and instruments, centred on • national and regional rural development programmes, • sub-regional partnerships, LEADER groups etc. Currently, debate among Member States and in European Parliament about the next round of policy, focused (as before) on Pillar 2 of the CAP, with limited changes … within the context of EU 2020 – smart, sustainable and inclusive growth Docsity.com External forces Financial and economic crisis - Reducing average incomes, threatening employment, reducing funds of public bodies, forcing people and communities to be more self- reliant, prompting some from cities to retreat to the countryside Global rise in population, aspirations, call upon resources (land, water, food, minerals, oil) - so, resources brought from outside Europe more expensive - resources within Europe more valuable Rising concern re environmental impact, public health, animal welfare etc - Loss of biodiversity, use of fossil fuels, carbon emissions … but much political ambivalence Rising interest in inclusivity, subsidiarity, self-determination etc. Docsity.com The challenge of change These forces, trends and policies pose, for rural communities, a major and diversified challenge of change… • change arising from population movements • change -- possibly short-term -- caused by the financial and economic crisis • change in response to global pressure on resources • change in the role of governments and other sectors • changes in policy at European and national level. Most of these changes have origins external to the rural communities. They will happen to the rural communities rather than being initiated by them. But they may prompt, and necessitate, change focused upon the well-being of those communities. Docsity.com Sustained and sustainable change for Euracademy … rural development is a sustained and sustainable process of social, economic and environmental change focused on the well- being of local communities. Docsity.com Docsity.com Docsity.com Jj. POIRE cre “> WS de PONNES § CALVADOS F% PRODUCTEURS RECOLTANTS LEROSSE.Ph ROURCIER.C Docsity.com from LEADER to Community Led Local Development Common Strategic Framework at EU level for EAFRD and Regional, Cohesion, Social and Fisheries Funds In each member state, a national Partnership Contract covering support from all these Funds. Draft regulation describes community led local development So, we may see : Local Action Groups in all the rural sub-regions of Europe which need integrated local development … • Enabled to operate flexibly as local development agencies • Delivering all relevant measures within EAFRD, and using resources from other EU and national funds. • Not constrained by boundaries between urban and rural areas • Operating within approved local development strategies • Subject to effective monitoring and evaluation, but … • ?? largely freed from day-to-day intervention by MAs • Active in inter-regional + transnational exchanges, and in national and European rural networks. Docsity.com Leader after 2013 A compulsory element in national RDPs ? will this stimulate positive and widespread use of Leader approach ? Our hope : Local Action Groups in all the rural sub-regions of Europe which need integrated local development … • Enabled to operate flexibly as local development agencies • Delivering all relevant measures within EAFRD, and using resources from other EU and national funds. • Not constrained by formal boundaries between urban and rural areas • Operating with approved local development strategies • Subject to effective monitoring and evaluation, but … • Largely freed from day-to-day intervention by MAs • Active in inter-regional + transnational exchanges, and in national and European rural networks. Docsity.com Skills of the animator Those who wish to animate rural communities and rural action will need a variety of skills : • human empathy • leadership without personal domination • communication • understanding of "folk, work and place” • understanding of social and organisational structures • ability to "think globally, and act locally” Docsity.com