Local Development Pilot Projects (LDPP) - Wine villages of Limassol, Cyprus
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The Wine Villages of Limassol, was a Cyprus Academy of Public Administration project partly implemented by Future Worlds Center Structured Democratic Dialogue Facilitators.
The project implementation followed a cascading model of stakeholder identification and engagement.
About the project
The project responds to the increasing focus of the European Union on development actions with integrated delivery on the ground based on the active involvement of citizens, public participation becomes an important subject of investigation. Despite attempts to encourage the involvement of citizens in spatial planning, numerous problems still exist. Effective participation measures (participatory democracy) must therefore come into play, or even representative democracy mechanisms (local democracy) as a way to contribute to Europe’s Cohesion Policy. Territorial cohesion, place-based approach, and community-led local development are consecutively interlinked notions used in spatial planning, where public participation becomes their cornerstone. Within this context, the Wine villages of Limassol project demonstrated an effective way of public participation that allowed the expression of citizens’ knowledge and preferences and articulates their vision along with the steps to be taken to achieve it (following the bottom-up community-led method).
The project was funded by the Council of Europe and more specifically, by its LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PILOT PROJECTS (LDPP) fund
List of SDDPs
- Wine Villages of Limassol SDDP - Obstacles
- Wine Villages of Limassol SDDP - Society and Culture
- Wine Villages of Limassol SDDP - Architecture and Settlements
- Wine Villages of Limassol SDDP - Economy and Entrepreneurship
- Wine Villages of Limassol SDDP - Infrastructure and Services
- Wine Villages of Limassol SDDP - Agriculture, Environment and Landscape
- Wine Villages of Limassol SDDP - Education and Information
- Wine Villages of Limassol SDDP - Governance and Administration
- Wine Villages of Limassol SDDP - Holistic Vision
