Statistical coordinates of the LEADER Program implementation process in Romania

• Author: Polgar (Deszke) K.D., Duguleana L.
• Pages: 425-434

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov

Series V: Economic Sciences • Vol. 8 (57) No. 2 - 2015

Statistical coordinates of the LEADER Program

implementation process in Romania

Klára - Dalma POLGÁR (DESZKE)1, Liliana DUGULEAN2

Abstract: The LEADER program, the fourth priority direction for financing through

European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development – EAFRD, consists in implementing

local development strategies for improving administrative governance in rural areas. This

paper presents the management of rural development by the National Network for Rural

Development and the status of implementation of the LEADER program in Romania, until

December 2014. The funded projects of rural development meet the requirements of local

communities identified by the operational structures of type LAG - Local Action Group,

through appropriate measures, specific to each county.

Key-words: rural development, LEADER program, country profile, administrative regions

1. Introduction

The LEADER Program (Liason Entre Actions pour le Development de l’Economie

Rurale), the fourth key priority for funding by European Agricultural Fund for Rural

Development - EAFRD, consists in implementing the local development strategies

for improving governance level of rural administrative areas.

Development of rural areas through Axis 4 - LEADER will be scheduled and

coordinated by local actors who will be the decision makers, but they will also bear

responsibility for developments in territorial zones delineated to proceed. Projects

financed by the LEADER approach involve integrated actions, consistent, leading to

diversification and rural economic development for the benefit of communities.

Implementation of European Union funded projects includes coherent

development strategies, but the planning and organization would improve the results

that Romania might get in the future in this area. The rural areas, representing 87.1%

of the whole territory of Romania (2012), are inhabited by 45% of the population

[1].

1 Doctoral student, Transilvania University of Braşov, polgarklaradalma@yahoo.com

2 Transilvania University of Braşov, Economic Sciences and Business Administration, ldugul@unitbv.ro