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Interim Evaluation of the German CAP Strategic Plan: Rural development, Added Value of LEADER and Gender Equality
Project
Project code: TI-LV-23-LV-2025-2939
Contract period: 01.07.2025
- 30.06.2028
Purpose of research: Networks and research co-ordination
Keywords: rural areas, long-term policy concepts, policy for rural areas
Germany is implementing the Common Agricultural Policy 2023–2027 with its first National Strategic Plan. Together with our project partners, we are conducting an interim evaluation regarding rural development, added value of LEADER and gender equality. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the EU’s main funding instrument for agriculture and rural areas. Germany’s CAP Strategic Plan 2023–2027 amounts to approximately €34 billion (inclunding national co-financing). The funded measures are intended to contribute to achieving the CAP’s ten objectives. More than €3 billion are allocated to rural development measures that focus on infrastructure, public services and regional self-organisation in rural areas. We are evaluating their results and impacts. Nearly half of this rural development funding is allocated to LEADER, a bottom-up approach that supports rural actors in harnessing the specific potential of their region and thus contributing to its development. In addition to assessing the contributions of LEADER to rural development, we are also evaluating its added value compared to other measures. Gender equality is a core principle of the European Union. According to the CAP Strategic Plan Regulation, gender equality should be an integral part of the planning, implementation and evaluation of measures under the CAP. We are responsible for the gender equality synthesis report for the interim evaluation of the German plan. In addition to answering specific questions, the evaluation also aims to generate insights that will inform the preparation of the next funding period.
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Subjects
- Agricultural Policy
