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* Co-operation: among LEADER groups, for instance to share experiences, allow complementarity or to achieve critical mass
==History and
* LEADER I (1991–93) supported 217 LAGS with EU funding of €0.442 billion from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund ([[EAGGF]])<ref>European Commission, ''The Leader approach — A basic guide'', Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2006, {{ISBN|92-79-02044-7}}</ref>
* LEADER II (1994–99) supported 906 LAGs with EU funding of €1.755 billion
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In the programming period (2014-2020), the LEADER method was extended to cover not only rural but also coastal (FARNET) and urban areas under the general designation '''community-led local development''' ('''CLLD'''), financed from all the [[European Structural and Investment Funds]] except the [[Cohesion Fund]].
Writing in the Regional Studies Association blog, Haris Martinos of [LDNet https://ldnet.eu/] points out that the idea of local development arose spontaneously in the 1980s before attracting the interest of EU policy-makers and being operationalised within the LEADER programme in 1991. However policy interest declined in the 2000s. After 2010 interest resurged and the ‘CLLD’ label was introduced for the 2014-2021 EU programming period. However there are fears that CLLD has lost its strategic purpose and become reduced to a bureaucracy for spending relatively small sums of public money. <ref>https://www.regionalstudies.org/news/community-led-local-development-challenges-and-opportunities/</ref>
The European Network for Rural Development lists 3,134 local action Groups.<ref>https://enrd.ec.europa.eu/leader-clld/lag-database_en</ref>
==References==
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