ENRD Seminar on ‘Stakeholder Involvement’

• Agenda
• Participants' Examples 
• Full report of ENRD ‘Stakeholder Involvement’ Seminar

• Presentation on ‘Stakeholder Involvement & purpose of the Seminar’, Paul Soto, Team Leader of the ENRD Contact Point
• Introduction to the morning workshops, Edina Ocsko, ENRD Contact Point

Improving stakeholder involvement at local planning and project levels

The main purpose of the morning workshops was to present and discuss stakeholder involvement practices and examples at the local planning and project levels in three main thematic areas.

Workshop 1: Involving farmers and other stakeholders in projects aimed at a more competitive agriculture

• Introduction to Workshop 1
• Learning from peers: The monitor farms experience, Peter Cook (UK)
• Engaging young farmers, Jannes Maes (Belgium, CEJA)
• Ecological Collection and Distribution Centre for Vegetables - Cooperation of stakeholders within the food supply chain, Ales Zidar (SI)
• Main lessons/findings from Workshop 1

Workshop 2: Involving stakeholders in projects and local strategies aimed at the 
sustainable management of natural resources

• Introduction to Workshop 2
• Involving and accompanying farmers in the restoration of blanket bogs in Wales, Arfon Williams (UK)
• Improving local communities' capacity to deliver environmental outcomes: the Eco-museum project in Monti Sibillini National Park, Ennio Merlini (IT)
• A collective approach to farmland conservation: The Dutch example, Remco Schreuder (NL)
• Main lessons/findings from Workshop 2

Workshop 3: Involving stakeholders in integrated local strategies aimed at a more balanced territorial development

• Introduction to Workshop 3
• Rural Youth involvement in the Swedish Village Action Movement, Josefine Heed (SE)
• Informal network of animators in remote areas, Anastasios Perimenis (GR)
• ‘U-Theory’ for strengthening rural-urban linkages, Marga de Jong (NL)
• Regional Deals, Marieke Kok (NL)
• Main lessons/findings from Workshop 3

Improving stakeholder involvement in policy and implementation

The main purpose of the afternoon workshops was to identify available networking tools and methods for improving stakeholders involvement in rural development policy formulation and implementation.

Introduction to the afternoon workshops

• Many ways for stakeholders to get involved in policy formulation and implementation, Elena Saraceno (IT)
• Introduction to the afternoon workshops, Edina Ocsko, ENRD CP

Workshop 4: The experience of rural stakeholders in shaping rural development policy and implementation

• Introduction to Workshop 4
• Bringing hard-to-reach stakeholders into rural development policy implementation, Simonas Barzda (LT)
• The experience of NGOs and other organisations in shaping rural development policy implementation, Trees Robijns (Birdlife)
• Experience from Estonian Rural Parliament, Anneli Kana (EE)
• Main lessons/findings from Workshop 4

Workshops 5: Networking as a tool for shaping rural development policy and implementation

• Introduction to Workshop 5
• Members involvement in Swedish NRN activities, Sofia Lindblad (SE)
• Interactive evaluation of RDP delivery with target groups, Henk Kieft (NL)
• Thematic working groups within the framework of the Austrian Monitoring Committee, Martin Leitner (AT)
• Main lessons/findings from Workshop 5

Workshops 6: Networking as a tool for shaping rural development policy and implementation

• Introduction to Workshop 6
• Stakeholder Tour 2014 by the Flemish Rural Network, Ariane Van Den Steen (BE)
• Virtual Think Tank - Telephone conferences as a tool for dialogue on rural development policy, Nils Lagerroth (SE)
• Main lessons/findings from Workshop 6