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„ LEADER” Programme

and the „Rural Parliament”

in Hungary

Country in the Middle of Europe

• 10 millions people / 93 000 km
• 38% rural inhabitants
• 3200 municipalities/1500 tiny villages
• 67% agricultural land, including forests
• 170 micro-regional rural initiatives (10-

000 inhabitants

Bottom up Initiatives for Rural

Development

• Local development initiatives from the late

1980s

• Micro-regional “local action groups” since

• Reinforced by National Rural Development

Policies from 1998

• 10 LEADER type pilots since 2001

Rural Parliament in Hungary

• Network of the non-governmental rural

development initiatives; Established in

• 490 local and national level NGO-s, 100

non-governmental development agencies

• 400 membership organization and local

action groups

• Connection with 1500 villages and small

towns (50% of the municipalities)

Objective 2: Localizing sustainable

development

• Protect the local nature, economy and cultural heritage
• Promote methodology and practice of the synergic way of local development
• Develop local democracy and citizen participation
• Improve the situation of disadvantaged social groups such as women, youth and ethnic groups e.g. Roma
• Disseminate best practices of the rural development and social mobilization

Objective 3: Hearing the Rural Voice

• Preparing declarations to the government on local policy making actualities; voted by plenary meetings (SAPARD process in H and CEE level); follow up
• Recommendations; voted by plenary or regional meetings (initiative of the LEADER type pilot program and establishing of the Rural Policy Council)
• Media conferences
• “Keyhole practice”: non-regulated partnership with the government

The main achievements

1 - Capacity building and networking

2 - Information and training

3 - Representing common weal of the rural

communities

4 - Governmental – civil partnership on decision making

(“to be a bridge”)

5 - International cooperation

6 - National and international lobby on rural policy

Capacity building by events

• National (2 times/year) and regional gatherings ( time/2 years) to exchange “best practices” of the rural development and to represent common weal of the rural communities
• Fairs of local value-added products (e.g., handicraft, organic food, etc.)
• Festival of locally-made films; how to document the village-life
• Working group meetings of specific interest groups

Training/

• How to make rural development in Roma

communities (2000-2001)

• Role of the local media in rural development

• Explanation, methodology and practice of

localizing sustainable development (2001)

Training/

• How to make local sustainable rural

development in order to strengthen local

partnerships and develop strategy in

disadvantaged micro-regions (1999- )

• Traveling trainings for inernational partners

on practice of rural development in

Hungary (2000-

• Capacity building and training for creating

local conditions of LEADER implementation

Rural Parliament as Facilitator

Facilitator of the discussion on

• SAPARD Plan (1999)
• National Development Plan (2002-)
• National Rural Development Plan (2003-)

International cooperation

• Partnership: Swedish, Estonian and Slovakian Rural

Parliaments and many other similar international networks

• Membership in Forum Synergies (European Network

of Sustainable Local Initiatives) and EPHA (European Public Health Association)

• One of the founder of the PREPARE Program (1999)

and PREPARE Network Group (Pre-Accession Partnership for Rural Europe)

Bottlenecks for rural development

• Lack of trust and partnership on all levels
• Lack of democracy in practice – attitude and

process, policy and systems

• Lack of specific financial resources for

development of social capital, local

mobilization and social economic

development

• Lack of synergic policies

Common needs

• Regulated partnerships between public and

civil actors of rural development

• LEADER methodology as mainstream in rural

policy

• Rural Voice on Eu level as civil actor for

partnership