Review of rural development policy instruments
In January 2007, Janet Dwyer, James Kirwan, Mike Clark, Carol Kambites and Nick Lewis began work on an ambitious project for the European Commission to review the use of rural development policy instruments across all the Member States. CCRI is leading a team of six European partner institutes in this work, which is expected to be completed by May 2008.
The project concerns compiling and analyzing planning and expenditure data from all 2000-06 and 2007- 13 programmes, as well as evaluating RD targeting, cost effectiveness and efficiency in scheme design and delivery. The study will conclude by making recommendations to the Commission about how the EU legislative framework for the policy should be improved beyond 2013. In a related development, funding has now been secured for a three-year programme of research on European Rural Development policy from the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Research Programme.
This ‘RuDi’ project will begin in early 2008 and involve nine project partners, including the core team from the previous study, described above. The partnership is led by the IfLS research institute in Frankfurt, Germany, with CCRI (led by Janet Dwyer) as one of the main contributing teams.
