GITs and Rural Development in Extremadura

For more than 25 years, the so-called "LEADER Method" has been implemented in the European rural environment, with the aim of activating the economic development of the most disadvantaged rural areas and reducing their differences with respect to urban areas, based on the exploitation of endogenous resources and under the impulse and participation of the local population through projects co-financed by the Structural Funds and national administrations. Thus, in order to disseminate the effects of not so traditional development strategies in the way of managing public funds, as well as to demonstrate the possible influence, in the distribution of aid, of the economic, demographic and physical contexts existing in the benefactor rural territories, this book presents the construction of a geoportal created to publicize the results obtained with the "LEADER Method" in the Extremadura region. It will be possible to see how this type of technology makes possible a more rigorous evaluation of the territorial effects of the rural development policy by the local population and its agents and managers.