Creation of labourer associations and versatile employments in the rural region of Albion (Créations de groupements d’employers et d’emplois pluriactifs sur le territoire rural d’Albion)

Best Practice

Topics

• New forms of decision-making
• Governance capacity, Policies and instruments

Short description

Development of local worker's association and versatile employments in a gradually abandoned region with high unemployment rate

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Project executive

"Projet 04"

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Participants

labourer (trade and industry), the intermediate group (Projet 04), the potential customers and local, regional and national administration

Objectives

Institutionalizing a worker's association and versatile employments in order to resist the problems of regional economic crisis or economic transition in a peripheral region and to coordinate between market needs and local labour market

Activities

Building up the association "projet 04" (formerly "Association Lichens") as an interface between workers (trade and industry) and the potential customers; developing versatile employments

Process

Linking the knowledge and the objectives of the workers themselves (trade and industry), the intermediate group (Projet 04), the potential customers and local, regional and national administration (e.g. for subsidies)

Results

Association "projet 04" (formerly "Association Lichens") as an interface between workers (trade and industry) and the potential customers; two workers groups operational: one group including 15 workers to support local stock farmers and forest operation; and a second group to execute different types of work in the field of forestry and agriculture. Other groups adapted to the needs of women are planned.

Evaluation

No information available

Difficulties

No information available

Financial backer

Financial support of local and regional authorities; federal subsidies for certain projects

Source of information

Competition

Participant at the 2005 Future in the Alps competition

Publication

Barret, Philippe, Beuret, Jean-Eudes, Billette de Villemeur, Cécile, Douillet, Robert, Guihéneuf, Pierre-Yves, Dziedzicki, Jean-Marc & Salzer, Jacques (2003): Guide pratique du dialogue territorial. Concertation et médiation pour l'environnement et le développement local. Collection Pratiques. Paris: Fondation de France. PP 70-71

Project executive as above

Contact person as above

Comments

Impact on nature and environment

Contribution to the maintenance of forestally and agriculturally cultivated areas and measure against the abandonment of these cultural landscapes

Economic value added

1) Incomes for the involved workers; 2) use of the existing labour potential 3) increased tax income and less expenses for social welfare

Socio-cultural value added

Better social integration and higher self-confidence of involved labourers;

Innovative content

Institutionalizing a worker's association to resist the problems of regional economic crisis or economic transition in a peripheral region and to coordinate between market needs and local labour market

Good governance

transparent process of defining needs, working out and implementing the future structures for connecting market needs and local labour offer

PR impact

No information available

Multiplier effect / networking

No information available

Transferability

Well transferable as a general model of organising the link between labour and market needs in periperal regions