The key actors of all local LEADER/Community-Led Local Development initiatives are the so-called Local Action Groups (LAGs) formed by local partners.

The SARD LEADER Initiative supports the creation, functioning and management of local stakeholder-created LAGs in the targeted regions and neighbouring districts. The programme helps with all necessary human resource development, technical assistance, legal aspects, co-financing and governance.

On a national level, SARD LEADER contributes to the process whereby the Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment (MARDE) is setting up the national LEADER Programme for Rural Development in Moldova. SARD LEADER is also a model for national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) piloting LEADER/CLLD all around the country.

 

Towards Prospering Rural Areas

The SARD LEADER/CLLD Initiative

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The Support to Agriculture and Rural Development (SARD) Programme is a three-year initiative of the European Union implemented by UNDP in the Republic of Moldova. The main programme components, implemented in a synergic and comprehensive way, aim to enhance community empowerment, develop local entrepreneurship and SMEs, encourage investment into small-scale infrastructure refurbishments and promote inter-municipal cooperation. Implementation of LEADER (a French acronym meaning Links Between Actions for the Development of the Rural Economy) and the Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) approach is an innovative, cross-cutting measure of the programme.

LEADER is an EU initiative, a method and programme instrument to support locally-driven rural development interventions to reinvent rural areas and create local jobs. The first LEADER programme started in EU Member Countries in 1991. Since 2013, the LEADER method has been expanded to apply to coastal and urban, as well as rural, areas under the title ‘Community-Led Local Development’ (CLLD), and it has also been extended geographically. It has been implemented in EU pre-accession and neighbouring countries with the aid of EU and other donor-financed programmes.

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The SARD Programme aims to boost the collaboration between central and local authorities, as well as among the regional organizations from ATU Gagauzia and Taraclia district, so as to foster the social-economic development of the region and of the Republic of Moldova as a whole. The Programme will contribute to development of the agro-food sector, promotion of local entrepreneurship, creation of jobs, and increasing the incomes of the population living in ATU Gagauzia and Taraclia district.

 

This website was developed with the financial support of the European Union within the “Support for agriculture and rural development in ATU Gagauzia and Taraclia” (SARD) Programme, funded by the European Union and implemented by the UNDP. The content of this website does not necessarily reflect the official position of the European Union or of the United Nations Development Programme.

 

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Towards Prospering Rural Areas

The SARD LEADER/CLLD Initiative

​

The Support to Agriculture and Rural Development (SARD) Programme is a three-year initiative of the European Union implemented by UNDP in the Republic of Moldova. The main programme components, implemented in a synergic and comprehensive way, aim to enhance community empowerment, develop local entrepreneurship and SMEs, encourage investment into small-scale infrastructure refurbishments and promote inter-municipal cooperation. Implementation of LEADER (a French acronym meaning Links Between Actions for the Development of the Rural Economy) and the Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) approach is an innovative, cross-cutting measure of the programme.

 

LEADER is an EU initiative, a method and programme instrument to support locally-driven rural development interventions to reinvent rural areas and create local jobs. The first LEADER programme started in EU Member Countries in 1991. Since 2013, the LEADER method has been expanded to apply to coastal and urban, as well as rural, areas under the title ‘Community-Led Local Development’ (CLLD), and it has also been extended geographically. It has been implemented in EU pre-accession and neighbouring countries with the aid of EU and other donor-financed programmes.

The key actors of all local LEADER/Community-Led Local Development initiatives are the so-called Local Action Groups (LAGs) formed by local partners.

The SARD LEADER Initiative supports the creation, functioning and management of local stakeholder-created LAGs in the targeted regions and neighbouring districts. The programme helps with all necessary human resource development, technical assistance, legal aspects, co-financing and governance.

On a national level, SARD LEADER contributes to the process whereby the Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment (MARDE) is setting up the national LEADER Programme for Rural Development in Moldova. SARD LEADER is also a model for national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) piloting LEADER/CLLD all around the country.

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