Support for the effective design and implementation of LAG local development strategies.

The local actors, including women’s associations, will be the motor in designing and implementing the local development strategies.

Provision of support for skills acquisition and animation with a view to preparing and implementing a local development strategy.

It will be the local players, including women's associations, that will serve as the engine for designing and implementing local development strategies.

Each LAG develops a Local Development Strategy and funds projects in its locality to deliver this.

The policy also provides support to the Leader rural development methodology, under which Local Action Groups design and carry out local development strategies for their area.

This allows women's organisations to get involved in decision-making at the local level and ensure that their specific concerns and suggestions are taken into account in local development strategies.

This will provide an opportunity to exchange information, ideas and experiences on how local development strategies, such as those which have developed in Ireland, give an effective response to the problems of unemployment and social exclusion.