1. LEADER/CLLD in the CZECH REPUBLIC
24. November 2016 Tbilisi
Václav Pošmurný,
Chairman
NNLAG of the Czech Republic

2. Local Action Group (LAG)
Integrated, multisectoral partnership at the local level
Otevřená a transparentní struktura
Possible legal form: o.p.s., z.s. a z.ú.
At the decision-making level, the private partners and associations must make up at least 50 % of the local partnership.
A coherent rural region
Area of 10 – inhabitants (EU )
Territories of LAGs shall not overlap,
Municipalities themselves decide on LAG area they want to belong to!
Standardization of LAGs
LAGs shall meet standards given and predefined by the Ministry,
LAG‘s bodies and processes shall be open and transparent,
a LAG cannot implement its Strategy without certification from Ministry
Public sector
private sector
Non-profit sector
Municipalities and their associations
Public-benefit organisations
Schools
Public bodies, state institutions
For-profit organisations (ltd, corp)
Entepreneurs
Farmers
Associations – societies,
Charitable society, public benefit society,
Church – parish,
Active individualls,
Volunteers..
LAG
Public sector
Privat sector
NGO sector

3. Community-led Local Development(CLLD)
A new approach building on the principles of LEADER method widening possibilities for financing = MULTI-FUND financing.
The CLLD instrument is being implemented in the CR within the programming.
CLLD brings local actors together and allows actions to be tailor-made to social, environemntal and economic challenges.
CLLD can be time-demandig, however, not money-eating, and it is many opportunities offering (to influence and develop new ideas and ways for quality of lives improvement and their implementation into practice).
key features
place-based approach
Bottom-up elaboration and implementation of strategies
Area-based local development strategies
Networking and cooperation (local public-private partnerships)
Transparency, usefulness,
Cooperation, Innovation,
Integrated and multisectoral actions.

4. LEADER in the CR- Practice examples
Successes
Animation
LAGs as administers of ca projects (out of which implemented).
Growing capacity of LAGs to:
provide assistance and consultancy with project applications,
maintain interaction between different local actors,
strenghten long-term participation of local people.
Local actors‘ competences, knowledge and awareness raising
Increasing familiarity of locals with project applications and with the practical operation of the whole system – projects applicants capable of submitting proposals on their own;
Setbacks
Open-mindedness and transparency of LAGs
Capacity building of LAGs
Monitoring and evaluation – duplication (LAG vs Paying Agency)
a LAG rather as an advisory body, a paying agency is paramount (The State Agricultural Intervention Fund)

5. Allocations in the 2014-2020 programming
OPERATIONAL PROGRAMMES
mio EUR
mio CZK
IROP - Intagrated Regional OP
304
8 360
IROP (animation and SCLLD implementation) 85
2 337,5
OP Environment 18
495
OP Employment
67,3
1 850,75
RDP – Rural Development Programme
146
4 015
RDP – Cooperation Projects 7
192,5
TOTAL
627,3
17 250,75

8. The total CLLD allocation in selected EU countries
EAFRD = European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
EMFF = European Maritime and Fisheries Fund
ERDF = Eruopean Regional Development Fund
ESF = European Social Fund
Source: Analysis of ELARD, June 2016

9. The total number of LAGS in selected EU countries, Fisheries, Rural, Urban LAGs
Source: Analysis of ELARD, June 2016

10. The total number of LAGS in selected EU countries, Fisheries, Rural, Urban LAGs
LEADER EVOLUTION
The total number of LAGS in selected EU countries, Fisheries, Rural, Urban LAGs

11. Thank you for your attention!
THE CZECH NATIONAL NETWORK OF LAGs
Václav Pošmurný Chairman tel