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ESI funding dedicated to CLLD in different EU countries

Feb 22, 2021 | News

(22 February 2021) – What share of ESI funding did EU Member States dedicate to community-led local development (CLLD) in 2014-20 and how does this differ by Fund? LDnet has made a comparison between countries.

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CLLD continues to be dominated by the EAFRD, which contributes three quarters of the overall CLLD funding.

This dominance is mainly due to the obligatory minimum LEADER allocation of 5%. Although the majority of countries does not go significantly beyond 5% of EAFRD, some opted to go well beyond these requirements.

The highest shares of CLLD (LEADER) can be found in Germany (14.1%) and Spain (10.4%), which dedicate more than twice the required amount.

Also others, such as Estonia (8.7%), Greece (8.5%) or Denmark (7.8%), decided to allocate comparably high shares of their EAFRD envelopes to LEADER.

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