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May 19, 2020European Planning Studies

Area-based approaches are losing the essence of local targeting: LEADER/CLLD in the Czech Republic

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OKOndřej KonečnýZŠZdeněk ŠilhanMCMarkéta Chaloupková

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Overview

Policy evaluation reveals hidden top-down control in Community-Led Local Development, indicating weakened local targeting and governance.

Key Points

  • To evaluate whether Community-Led Local Development maintains genuine local targeting and strengthens local governance or becomes constrained by centralized administrative control.
  • Analyzed national implementation procedures for the Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) method during the 2014–2020 programming cycle.
  • Evaluated the strategic and operational components of 43 CLLD Local Action Group (LAG) strategies.
  • Conducted in-depth interviews with 23 LAG managers.
  • Centrally available project offerings only partially addressed the specific local needs documented by LAGs.
  • Local strategies were predominantly shaped by pragmatic adaptations to centrally predefined thematic categories rather than authentic bottom-up priorities, imposing a hidden top-down structure that limits local governance.

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Konečný et al. (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a87b2bb91c33485a1fe7257https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2020.1764913
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