Guidance on community-led local development for local actors Structured Dialogue Brussels, 19 September

Aims of the guidance 2 To show how CLLD can be used in cities and to deal with social exclusion To help 2600 existings partnerships adapt to a very different external environment and the opportunities in the new Regulation To provide examples of how to make things simpler, faster and safer and how to coordinate between funds

Structure of guide 3 1.Why use CLLD? 2.How to launch CLLD? 3.Why and how to carry out CLLD in cities? 4.Why and how to carry out CLLD for social inclusion? 5.How to ensure CLLD meets the new challenges faced by citizens in different parts of of Europe? 6.How to coordinate with other funds and improve results? 7.How to make CLLD safer, faster and easier for everyone?

Why use CLLD? 4 1.It puts people facing a problem in the driving seat. No one partner controls (49% rule). Strengthened role for private and civil society (at least 50% votes) Ownership, knowledge, empowerment 2.Can respond to huge diversity accross EU 3.Has more flexibility to deal with differences and change Programme under one TO. Achieve results under others as long as consistent with aims of OP. No rigid demarcation between funds (with procedures to prevent double funding)

5 4.Builds linkages and snowball effects (integration) between public departments, other levels of government, public + private, problems + opportunities does not mean dealing with everything at once – can build outwards from a particular problem, group or sector – eg EMFF, ESF, ERDF 5.Is about achieving results that produce lasting change. Lateral thinking, seed funding, pilots, flagship projects…social innovation. 6.Is part of a European «family » partnerships - €8.6 b Provides guidance but not a corset. Similar movements in other parts of the world

6 7.Is financially attractive Long term funding – over several periods 25% for running costs and animation Advances for running costs Recommended minimum budgets Recommended up-front national match-funding Possibility of using one fund or several funds 10% extra EU co-funding if a separate axis

Creative examples of how CLLD can be used in cities and for social inclusion. 7 New fields for CLLD although building on experience previous Community Initiatives such as EQUAL and URBAN Opportunities to use CLLD to promote social innovations at local level (smarter services, new jobs) Well known examples in current period Berlin Neighbourhood budgeting Sustainable food Brussels, Amersfoort Gothenburg etc Local jobs and carbon reduction

How neighbourhood budgeting works in Berlin 8 Involving unusual suspects (migrant associations, women, young people) Organised through an informal neighbourhood council Using adapted participative budgeting technique delivered through 5 funds for different types of investment Strong ownership of results Financing both small scale revenue and capital projects – examples such as street furniture and against domestic violence project in Neukoln

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Sustainable food partner cities meeting in Amersfoort 10

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12 Linking CLLD with sectoral and territorial policies Sectoral policies Community led local development Integrated territorial approaches

Urban CLLD – new configurations 13

Potential of Social CLLD 14 Local employment initiatives have origins in previous programmes (Merseyside, Territorial pacts and in innovative actions) Strong potential of grass roots civil society organisations and social enterprises Local social innovations can transform services through radical redesigns (user focus) Potential for youth, active ageing, Roma, migrants New approaches in inclusive and social entrepreneurship

Some questions. 15 Please provide ideas, proposals, examples about: 1.What should be done to ensure that CLLD becomes a really useful tool for dealing with urban problems? tackling social exclusión? What specific problems do you think it could be addressing? 2.What can be done to make CLLD safer, simpler and faster for everyone? 3.What should be done to improve coordination between funds?