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Brussels. 12-13 April 2011.
Paul Soto. FARNET
The future of local development in fisheries areas.
State of play of Axis 4
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Contents
What is Axis 4? Key features.
State of Play of Axis 4.
How is Axis 4 being implemented? What kinds of strategies, areas and partnerships?
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What is Axis 4
“The EFF may provide assistance, complementary to theother Community Instruments for the sustainabledevelopment and improvement of the quality of life of fisheries areas”
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Key characteristics of axis 4
Local territories
Population size?
Importance of fishing?
Smaller than NUTS 3
Low population density OR
Small fisheries communities OR
Fisheries decline
Coherent
Sufficient critical mass to support strategy
Partnershipsof local stakeholders
Balance?
50% rule?
Public and private partners from relevant socio-
economic sectors
Where possible based on existing experienced orgs
With adequate administrative and financial capacity
With representatives of fisheries sector
Integratedstrategies
Thematic focus orentry point?
Integrated not just a mere collection of operations or
juxtaposition of sectoral measures.
Based on bottom up approach.
Operations chosed by local group.
Consistent with socioeconomic needs of fisheries
areas
Complementary to other interventions
Sustainable
Success
depends
on
getting
these
factors
right
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What Axis 4 can do – a flexible menu
a) Strengthening the competitivenes of fisheries areas
b) Restructuring and redirecting economic activities, particularly ecotourism
c) Diversifying activities through the promotion of multiple employment for fishers
d) Adding value to fisheries products
e) Supporting small fisheries and tourism related infrastructure
f) Protecting the environment of fisheries communities, regenerating and developing coastal hamlets and villages
g) Restablishing the potential of in the fisheries sector after natural or industrial disasters
h) Promoting interregional and transnational cooperation
i) Acquiring skills and facilitating the implementation of the local strategy
j) Contributing to the running costs of the groups
In red - restricted to fisheries sector
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State of play – distribution of the budget.
Country EFF Axis 4 Budget
Poland 234.909.624
Romania 75.000.000
Spain 49.336.048
Greece 33.300.000
Germany 19.438.000
Estonia 19.281.513
Portugal 17.403.406
Latvia 17.172.786
Italy 16.973.714
Denmark 12.461.279
Bulgaria 12.001.456
UK 11.598.450
Sweden 8.199.720
Lithuania 6.693.770
France 5.699.644
Netherlands 4.987.125
Finland 3.606.000
Belgium 2.900.000
Slovenia 2.164.029
Ireland 1.500.603
Cyprus 1.000.000
Total 555.627.167
21 countries
13% EFF
€814M public investmment
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CountryAverage budget per FLAG
(total public) /M€
Planned number
of FLAGs
FLAGs with selected
strategy
Poland 8 40 26
Greece 5 13 8
Bulgaria 4 6 3
Portugal 3.4 7 7
Estonia 3.2 8 8
Spain 3 25 22
Denmark 2.3 17 17
Cyprus 2 1 1
Netherlands 1.7 6 6
Sweden 1.5 14 14
Latvia 1 24 24
Germany 1 23 22
France 1 11 11
Finland 1 8 8
Romania 6 15 0
Belgium 5.8 1 0
Slovenia 3 1 0
Italy 2.6 20 0
Ireland 1.2 6 0
Lithuania 1.1 10 0
UK 0.88 15 0
Total 3.2 271 177
State of Play: April 2011
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How is Axis 4 being implemented – strategies which start with fishing and spread out…
1. What is the potential for increasing value added in
fisheries?
2. Is there a need for promoting
diversification into other sectors?
3. What is the potential for linkages between fisheries andother pillars of sustainable development –environment, culture, society?
4. What potential for increasing the
voice of fishermen in the governance
of local development?
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Two main influences
Importance of employment in fishing – from 50 to 5000
Budget.
• Small, complementary pilot initatives: < 1 meuro
• Large, freestanding initiatives: 3-17 meuro
More fishing employment – smaller budget – greater focuson fishing itself.
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Two main types of strategy
Fisheries focussed strategies
• Larger concentrations of fishing – larger budgets
• Smaller concentrations of fishing – smaller budgets
Broader diversification strategies in fisheries areas.
• Broader coastal and maritime development – larger budgets
• The development of inland fisheries areas – larger budgets
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What is a local fishing area?
Different types of development
• Remote, low density areas suffering population loss
• Areas undergoing restructuring – losing fishing and otheremployment.
• Growing coastal areas – pressure on land, environment and fishing
Different geographical distribution of fishing employment –along the coast and inland…..
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Boundaries
Boundaries often designed to bring together differentfishing interests – along a coast, estuary, river, isolatedfishing villages….leading to:
Big range of sizes from 10,000 to 700,000. Usually largerthan LEADER.
Many different configurations with other programmes and functional areas.
FARNET Template presentation
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Partnerships which reflect areas and strategies
Composition of partnerships
• Representatives of the fishing sector – from 30-90%
• Representatives of the public sector – from 4-50%
• Representatives of other private sector bodies and NGOs – from 0-33%
Different forms of partnership.
• Legal entities and informal partnerships (selection committees)
• Role of accountable bodies
• Where real decision making power really lies + speed.
• Internal and external forms of coordination
Workshops to bring out how different forms of FLAG organisation work in different contexts. How to strengthen
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