Scottish Rural Communities Policy Review: Reviewing approaches and tools for evaluating rural community development interventions

List of acronyms

ABCD Scottish Community Development Centre’s Achieving Better Community Development framework

CAP Common Agricultural Programme

CLLD Community Led Local Development

ESRI Ireland’s Economic and Social Research Institute

EU European Union

IVAR Institute for Voluntary Action Research

LAG Local Action Group

LEADER Liaison Entre Actions de Développement de l’Économie Rurale (French - can be translated as ‘Links between actions for the development of the rural economy’)

LEAP Learning, Evaluation and Planning

OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

RESAS Rural and Environmental Science and Analytic Services

SEFARI Scottish Environment, Food and Agriculture Research Institutes

SROI Social Return on Investment

SRUC Scotland’s Rural College

SVE Social Value Engine

ToC Theory of Change

UK United Kingdom

UNDP United Nations Development Programme