Community-led local development (CLLD) is a bottom-up approach to policy development that encourages local people to form a Local Action Group (LAG) – a partnership that designs and implements an integrated development strategy for their area.

A full list of delegates for the ESF+ EaSI Technical Working Group (TWG), last updated February 2022

The case studies in this report show how the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD)  is protecting and caring for Europe’s citizens and helping to lift them out of poverty, using a combination of material support and access to services.

The aim of this document is to support European Social Fund (ESF) authorities in assessing the legality, regularity and eligibility of Simplified Cost Options (SCOs) before implementation.

This manual aims to support European Social Fund (ESF) authorities and stakeholders in designing and implementing Simplified Cost Options (SCOs).

This checklist aims to guide those managing or implementing the European Social Fund and European Social Fund Plus, including managing authorities, intermediate bodies, relevant ministries, and organisations working on housing, in planning and implementing Housing First actions with homeless peop

Building on a peer-to-peer training (Feb. 2021), this guide will help the ESF community to develop/improve solutions for young people who are disengaged, not actively looking for work and/or training, or experience challenges, such as poverty, social exclusion, disability and discrimination.

The toolkit draws on exchanges during a peer-to-peer training on programming actions to combat poverty and social exclusion of children, held in January 2021, in the context of the emerging European Social Fund Plus (ESF+)

This brochure presents 27 examples of social innovation initiatives across the European Union, one from each Member State.