EU Rural Review | Number 20 (2015)

Getting Rural Development Programmes Going

Summary:

More than half a billion people live in the European Union. Every one of these EU citizens can benefit from rural development policy outcomes that produce better quality food, as well as a vibrant and healthy countryside where people can live, work and visit. Member States’ Rural Development Programmes (RDPs) act as a valuable source of assistance to facilitate such outcomes.

Contents:

• Getting Rural Development Programmes going
• Improving Implementation of rural development policy
• Keeping RDPs focused on their agreed outcomes
• Simplifying RDP implementation: why and how
• Boosting financial performance by reducing errors
• Financial instruments: making funding go further
• Launching Operational Groups
• Further advice and information inventory

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