Guidelines on Local Development Under Community Responsibility for Local Actors

The Community-Based Local Development Guide (DLRC) was developed for the period 2014- 2020 for direct information of the participants in local action groups, offering practical tools and recommendations for implementing DLRC initiatives in a variety of contexts. DRLC allows local strategies to focus on challenges such as social inclusion discrimination against gypsy groups and other disadvantaged groups, or climate change. The power of local actors are important in local development and the strategies that place local development under the responsibility of the community can provide solutions in an increasingly diverse and complex context. At the same time, one of the foundations of the European model is diversity, the challenge being to identify ways to preserve it and transform it into an advantage, not a burden. DLRC in urban areas offers enormous possibilities to address certain specific challenges in cities and to highlight the untapped potential of people, economic entities and civil society to make their mark on local development. This article focuses on existing partnerships in rural and fisheries areas, in order to help them using the new regulations to meet some of the challenges emerging. The article also contains sections relevant for new partnerships in cities and those aimed at social inclusion.