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What is Community-Led Local Development?

How CLLD lets communities decide their own development priorities, using EU funds.

From the bottom up

Most EU funding flows from the top down: a ministry or managing authority sets the priorities, and local groups apply for whatever happens to fit. Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) reverses that flow. It is an EU mechanism that lets a Local Action Group (LAG), a partnership in which at least 50% of the decision-making power must come from outside the…

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