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Finnish Rural Policy and

Rural Policy Committee YTR

Content of the presentation

1. Broad and narrow rural policy

2. Development of rural policy in Finland

3. Network, tasks and forms of work of the Rural

Policy Committee

Development of rural policy 2/

3. 1988 −1994: Implementation phase
   • Campaign on rural areas of the Council of Europe  launch of the present rural policy construction
   • Rural Development Project 1988− 1991
   • Advisory Committee on Rural Policy 1992− 1994
   • 1st Rural Policy Programme (1991) and 1st Government Report on Rural Policy (1993)
4. 1995 − : Europeanisation
   • Rural development programmes of the EU, local action groups
   • Rural Policy Committees 1995−
   • Rural Policy Programmes
   • Rural Policy Committee recognised in the legislation in 2000
   • Broad and narrow rural policy defined (3rd Rural Policy Programme 2001−2004)

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What is the Rural Policy Committee?

• Cooperation body appointed by the Government and methodology based on networking, involving hundreds of people from different ministries and other organisations - 31 members and alternates of the Committee from 27 organisations, 5th term 2008− 2013 - Secretary General and Secretariat (about 60 members) - Members of theme and working groups and their regional groups - Implementers of national rural research and development projects
• In addition, the Finnish rural policy network comprises thousands of actors from the administration, research and education organisations and the private and third sectors from villages up to the international level.

Tasks of the Rural Policy Committee 1/

• Promoting diversified, multi-level and regionally oriented

rural policy nationally and internationally

• Implementation of broad rural policy in cooperation

founded on partnerships among administrative sectors

• Preparation and implementation of rural policy

programmes

• Theme-specific development work
• Reinforcing rural research and expertise
• Promoting rural proofing (rural impact assessment)

Tasks of the Rural Policy Committee 2/

• Reinforcing structures and methods of rural development work at all levels
• Reinforcing civic action aimed to develop the countryside
• Promoting rural enterprise, employment and equality
• Participation in developing the Regional Cohesion and Competitiveness Programme (KOKO), improving rural-urban interaction
• Preparing opinions and statements on rural policy
• Political influence
• Initiation and promotion of discussion on rural policy

Forms of work 2. Theme and working groups

• A total of 14−17 groups on different themes
• Themes include housing, food, tourism, enterprise, local

action groups, well-being, culture, sparsely populated rural

areas, civic action, natural products, special issues in

Swedish-speaking countryside

• In most cases appointed for a term of 1−3 years, many

groups have several consecutive terms with new tasks and

composition

• Forms of work vary: development programmes and their

implementation, statements, seminars, political influence,

publications

Forms of work 3. National rural research and development projects

• Rural Policy Committee is an important financer of national rural research and development
• About 2.5 million euros/year
• 50 −70 projects funded/year, including
  • Co-financing of doctoral theses (max. 35 000 euros)
  • Establishment of nine Rural Professor's posts and their co-financing
  • Principal financer of the activity of most theme groups
• All research and development projects that are implemented are also evaluated and the evaluations are published in YTR’s publication series

Forms of work 5. International cooperation

• Producing value added through interaction
  • Disseminating information on good practices
  • Utilisation of information and expertise from other countries in Finnish rural policy
• Objective
  • Improving the visibility of rural issues and effectiveness of rural policy in national and international contexts
  • Internationalisation of rural areas
  • Establishment of rural policy as an independent policy sector in different countries

Forms of work 6. Communication

• About 10 publications/year in YTR's own

publication series

• Ruralpolicy.fi website
• Newsletter Liiteri (in Finnish and Swedish)
• Survey of the rural areas (every three years)
• Seminars, fairs
• Newspaper articles, supplements to newspapers

and magazines, radio and TV programmes and

documentaries

• Publications, news, statements and press releases

of theme and working groups