Replacement for the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) Post-EU Exit in Scotland: consultation report

Appendix A: Glossary and Abbreviations

Table A1: Glossary and Abbreviations

CLLD

Community Led Local Development

CLLD empowers people of all ages to work individually or collectively to make positive changes in their lives, and in their communities, through learning, personal development and active citizenship.

CLLD work in Scotland is guided by the Strategic Guidance for Community Planning Partnerships: Community learning and development (2012) document and underpinned in legislation through The Requirements for Community Learning and Development (Scotland) Regulations 2013. The focus of CLLD in Scotland is: improved life chances for people of all ages, through learning, personal development and active citizenship; and stronger, more resilient, supportive, influential and inclusive communities.

CPP

Community Planning Partnership

Community planning is about how public bodies work together, and with local communities, to design and deliver better services that make a real difference to people's lives. It drives public service reform by bringing together local public services with the communities they serve, and provides a focus for partnership working that targets specific local circumstances. Partners work together to improve local services and to ensure that they meet the needs of local people, especially those who need the services most. There are 32 CPPs in Scotland, one for each council area.

ERDF

European Regional Development Fund

The ERDF is one of five European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF), and promotes balanced development in the different regions of the EU. It aims to strengthen economic and social cohesion in the EU by correcting imbalances between its regions.

ESIF

European Structural and Investment Funds

Over half of EU funding is channelled through five ESIF. They are jointly managed by the European Commission and the EU countries. The purpose of all these funds is to invest in job creation and a sustainable and healthy European economy and environment. The ESIF mainly focus on five areas: research and innovation; digital technologies; supporting the low-carbon economy; sustainable management of natural resources; and small businesses.

The five funds are ERDF (see above); European Social Fund (ESF) - supports employment-related projects throughout Europe and invests in Europe's human capital - its workers, its young people and all those seeking a job;

Cohesion Fund (CF) - funds transport and environment projects in countries where the gross national income (GNI) per inhabitant is less than 90% of the EU average; European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) - focuses on resolving the particular challenges facing EU's rural areas; and European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) - helps fishermen to adopt sustainable fishing practices and coastal communities to diversify their economies, improving quality of life along European coasts.

Note: The Scottish Government consultation focussed on the policy space covered by ERDF and ESF only.

EMFF

European Maritime and Fisheries Fund

A ESIF that helps fishermen to adopt sustainable fishing practices and coastal communities to diversify their economies, improving quality of life along European coasts.

ESF

European Social Fund

A ESIF that supports employment-related projects throughout Europe and invests in Europe's human capital - its workers, its young people and all those seeking a job.

EU

European Union

The EU is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe.

LAG

Local Action Group

LEADER funding (see below) is awarded by LAGs who take decisions on projects which are community driven and have a wide community benefit. These LAGs are a partnership made up of representatives from: the local council;

local enterprise company; business people; other public agencies; voluntary action groups; and community groups.

LAGs are actively involved in shaping LEADER implementation in Scotland. LAG Chairs are represented on the SRDP (see below) Programme Monitoring Committee which monitors the implementation of the current SRDP and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Stakeholders group which is feeding into negotiations on the shape of the next rural development programme. The 2014-20 programme has 21 LAGs which cover around 95% of rural Scotland with quality local rural development strategies.

LEADER

A EU initiative - a bottom-up, partnership-based approach to rural development. LEADER provides opportunities for individuals, businesses and communities to come together and support rural development and provide long lasting benefits to the local area. This includes support for non-agricultural small businesses including farm diversification. LEADER supports multi-sectoral community-based development. It helps individuals, communities and businesses to come together to design and implement Local Development Strategies.

GDP

Gross Domestic Product

GDP is the total monetary or market value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country's borders in a specific time period. As a broad measure of overall domestic production, it functions as a comprehensive scorecard of the country's economic health.

GVA

Gross Value Added

GVA is a key indicator of the state of the whole economy and gives a picture of the state of economic activity from the supply side perspective. GVA measures the contribution to the economy of each individual producer, industry or sector in Scotland and is used in the estimation of GDP. GVA is the difference between the value of goods and services produced and the cost of raw materials and other inputs, which are used up in production.

NUTS

Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics

In the NUTS codes of the United Kingdom (UK), there are three levels. For the sub-division of Scotland - see Appendix B for more details.

NPF

National Performance Framework

Introduced in 2007 and refreshed in 2011 and 2016, the NPF sets out the Purpose, the National Outcomes, and a vision for Scotland. The NPF is a single framework to which all public services in Scotland are aligned.

PB

Participatory Budgeting

PB is a form of citizen participation in which citizens are involved in the process of deciding how public money is spent. Local people are often given a role in the scrutiny and monitoring of the process following the allocation of budgets.

SIMD

Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation

The Scottish Government's official tool to identify areas of multiple deprivation in Scotland. It identifies small area concentrations of multiple deprivation across all of Scotland in a consistent way. It allows effective targeting of policies and funding where the aim is to wholly or partly tackle or take account of area concentrations of multiple deprivation. SIMD ranks small areas (called data zones) from most deprived (ranked 1) to least deprived (ranked 6,976). People using SIMD will often focus on the data zones below a certain rank, for example, the 5%, 10%, 15% or 20% most deprived data zones in Scotland. SIMD provides a wealth of information to help improve the understanding about the outcomes and circumstances of people living in the most deprived areas in Scotland.

SRDP

Scottish Rural Development Programme

The SRDP 2014 - 2020 delivers Pillar 2 of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The purpose of the SRDP 2014 to 2020 is to help achieve sustainable economic growth. The main priorities are: enhancing the rural economy, supporting agricultural and forestry businesses, protecting and improving the natural environment, addressing the impact of climate change and supporting rural communities. Pillar 2 takes the form of rural development programmes and is co-financed by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development. It includes a number of different schemes, including LEADER.

UKSPF

UK Shared Prosperity Fund

Now the UK has left the EU, it will no longer receive structural funding. This funding was used for boosting several aspects of economic development, including support for businesses, employment and agriculture, and is administered by the different nations of the UK (including Scotland). In order to replace this funding, the UK Government has pledged to set up a UK Shared Prosperity Fund to "reduce inequalities between communities".