IMPACT OF ADVISORY AND CONSULTANCY WORK OVER THE PROJECT-BASED DEVELOPMENT CHOICES OF A RURAL TERRITORY

摘要

The paper targets the observations over the impact of consultancy and advisory work performed at the scale of a ruralmicro-region in terms of present choices for the future development by implementation of different possible projects,mostly with public co-financing. The choice of area and previous activities leads to one Local Action Group active inthe previous programming period with specific knowledge and accumulated experience. The preparation for the currentprogramming period creates the opportunity to analyse the directions and the volumes of the future intentions ofprojects in a sort of project pipelining during the information and animation meetings in the future Local Action Group.The observations collected by a structured questionnaire are further analysed to extract the facts and findings relatedto different types of actions, investment levels and co-financing readiness. The findings are further compared to therespondents' profile, the earlier achievements and the current reality and realism in order to understand the impact ofthe specific inputs from consultancy during the animation sessions. The consultancy and the content delivery of theadvisory sessions are comparable for the purpose of this analysis as both preparation phases for the two programmingperiods were covered by the same consultant. The findings lead to solid grounds for the conclusions linking the contentand the consultancy interventions to the realistic options of the local actors closely correlated to the vocation of therural micro-region and the logic of earlier interventions by projects.