STRATEGIES FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN BULGARIA WITHIN THE LEADER APPROACH
Zornitsa Stoyanova
University of National and World Economy, Sofia 1700, Studentski grad, Bulgaria
zori_stojanowa@yahoo.de
The LEADER approach has been integrated within the EU policy for rural areas since 2007. Each program for the rural development must have component Leader for leading development strategies. The purpose of the paper is to evalu¬ate the preparation of strategies for the rural development and on this base to make generalized conclusions about the problems that have Local active groups (LAGs) in preparing their strategies and proposals related to the implementa¬tion of the projects included in local development strategies. The first part of the paper presents the LEADER ap¬proach and the budget of the measure 4.1 "Implementation of local development strategies" from the Rural Development Pro¬gram 2007‑2013. In the second part of the paper the preparation of local develop¬ment strategies is evaluated on the base of survey. On this basis have been made generalized conclusions about the problems that have LAGs by preparing strategies for rural development and proposals related to the implementation of projects included in them have been given.
Keywords: local active group; strategy; rural development
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