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Organising local partnerships
Chapter 2
Principles, rules and foundations
of a successful partnership
2.2 Building one's partnership
The LEADER Community Initiative has played a key role in strengthening or setting up
joint working authorities. Two situations are possible depending on the degree of
preparation of the local groups:
- either there already existed before LEADER a discussion and maturing process, with
the result that the Initiative is an opportunity to give concrete expression to the ideas
and assumptions elaborated, and to formalise a local partnership. From the start, a
partnership for coordinating development takes shape and in a way, LEADER plays the role
of revealing the potential;
- or this process did not exist and LEADER leads to the creation of a partnership.
In this case, it will most often be a management partnership, which may or may not
evolve towards a partnership for coordinating development. If it does not evolve, it
will disappear along with LEADER; at best, it will become a pool of knowledge and skills.
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