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Europe’s Living Countryside (ELCo)
All photos © WWF / Ola Jennersten
Environment & Rural Development
“Future of Rural Development in Europe”Krakow, Poland, 29.11-1.12 2005
Thomas Nielsen
WWF, European Policy Office, Brussels
All photos © WWF / Ola Jennersten
Outline
• Introduction
•Project Europe’s Living Countryside (ELCo)
•Manual on environmental integration in RDPs
•Other WWF work on RD
All photos © WWF / Ola Jennersten
About the ELCo Project
• Builds on previous projects - Europe’s Rural Futures (ERF) and the Nature of Rural Development (NORD)
• 3 Partners (WWF, LUPG and SNM)
• Research in 7 countries (BG, ES, DE, HU, NL, PL, UK)
• Analysis of past and present Rural Development programmes
Recommendations on how environmental concerns can be better integrated into the RDPs
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The Manual
• Practical advice to ensure national rural development programmes contribute to genuinely sustainable development across the EU.
Who is it for? People designing and implementing rural development programmes in the MS. Those responsible for assessing and approving the programmes. NGOs and other agencies involved in rural development programming.
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Tools in the ELCO manual
The seven steps approach
integrating the environment into rural development programmes
Identifying & addressing environmental priorities for rural development
Summary of the EAFRD measures and their potential for the environment
Programming guidelines checklist
Setting Environmental Priorities
Identifying Environmental Objectives & Targets
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Involving Stakeholders in Development & Implementation
Using Measures to their Full Environmental Potential - horizontal &
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Budgeting for & Funding Rural Development
Delivery Mechanisms & Leader
Monitoring & Evaluation
Seven steps for integrating the environment into RDPs
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Using RD measures for addressing environmental issues
• Objectives should lead design of measures, not vice versa.
•Target measures on the issues, areas and farms that will deliver objectives.
•Integrated packages (with options), not “menus” of separate measures.
•Involve end-users (e.g. farmers, rural businesses) in detailed design of measures.
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Summary – realising the environmental potential of EAFRD
• Put the environment at the centre of programme design, not as an add-on or window dressing.
• Environment is not only axis 2! Achieving environmental objectives should use all four Axes in an integrated way.
• Develop objectives in detail and at different geographical levels, and target measures accordingly.
• Major environmental challenges need major resources, not just for measures but also for their design, administration and monitoring/evaluation.
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Other work on sustainable rural development, where WWF is involved:
•“One Europe More Nature”•Estonia, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands
•At national level in many Member States (inputs to RDPs, monitoring committees etc)
•Financing N2000 handbook• coming up in March 2006 (for DG Environment)
Other WWF work on RD
All photos © WWF / Ola Jennersten
Dziękuje
Thank you for your attention
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