Translation of "ESCAP Regional Development Strategy for the 1980's " (English → French) :

5. Calls on Member states and regional and local authorities to play an important role in the development strategies of mountain regions, islands and sparsely populated areas because a vertical approach with the implication and contribution of all levels of government, observing the principle of subsidiarity, is required to put these regions in the right path of sustainable development taking into consideration other important sectors in the region; stresses that the potential within these regions, often with vast natural resources, ...[+++]can contribute positively in achieving the goals, especially in the field of energy policy and RD, as set out in the EU2020 strategy;

Rural areas are characterised by a very large diversity of situations, ranging from remote rural areas suffering from depopulation and decline to peri-urban areas under increasing pressure from urban centres and outermost regions subject to particular, permanent constraints stemming from the fact that they are small, are remote from the European mainland and are widely dispersed. This calls for differentiated rural development strategies. ...[+++]

3. Strategy papers shall, in principle, be based on a dialogue with the partner country or region which involves civil society and regional and local authorities, so as to ensure that the country or region concerned takes sufficient ownership of the process and to encourage support for national development strategies, particularly those for reducing poverty.

The NDP will be based partly on earlier planning documents, such as the Development Strategy of the Republic of Croatia, the National Strategy for Regional Development, sector strategies and regional development programmes.

Following the conclusion of the seminar, the Rural Parliament arranged for the Commission representative to attend meetings with mayors of villages in the Velka Fatra area followed by a tour of the micro region of Rimava which included a meeting in one village which had recently been included in a micro-regional development strategy based on participatory methods involving the local community in drawing up a detailed socio-economic analysis and the formulation of a development strategy ...[+++] [19].

Whereas the first years of implementation of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1628/94 (3), establishing the PHARE cross-border programme in conjunction with Interreg, have already produced a number of positive results, notably through establishing a dialogue and cooperation between European Union border regions and adjacent regions in countries in central and eastern Europe, contributing to economic development in the border regions of these countries and to greater convergence with the level of development on the European Union side, and offering the opportunity to these regions to familiarise themselves with Interreg practices and procedures, including the ...[+++]design of regional development strategies for border regions;