Odiana, as a member of Associação Terras do Baixo Guadiana, assumed, on December 23, the leadership of the entity. the goal until 2018 is the continuation of the LEADER approach.
During the next two years, Francisco Amaral, as president of Odiana, will preside over the Terras do Baixo Guadiana Association, managing entity of the DLBC-Rural program in Baixo Guadiana, which continues the LEADER approach.
The management of this financial instrument entails additional responsibilities, namely at the level of partnership coordination: 63 entities (35 private and 28 public) and the Management Body (7 entities).
The CLLD approved for Baixo Guadiana, last August, focuses on communities and economic, social and institutional agents involved in the processes of rural development and competitiveness of the rural economy (LEADER approach – Rural CLLD integrated in PDR 2020) .
The goal is to promote a response to high levels of unemployment, through local economic dynamism, encouragement of social innovation and the search for new responses to poverty and social exclusion.
A Terras do Baixo Guadiana Association was created in October 2001 to provide coherence and take advantage of the opportunities of the LEADER + community initiative program, boosting the business fabric, through technical support, planning applications and respective management.
Terras do Baixo Guadiana is made up of the Odiana Association, the Alcance Association, in Alcoutim, and the Mértola Heritage Defense Association, with the entity's presidency rotating.
It is based in the town of Alcoutim and seeks to respond to investment possibilities and proposals that may benefit the region.
Between 2002 and 2014, there are more than 200 completed projects and around a hundred new jobs created, managing public aid that reached almost 9 million euros (for a total investment of around 15 million).
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