(…) 2. Member States shall promote the development of local and sub-regional approaches, in particular via community-led local development by delegating decision-making and implementation to a local partnership of public, private and civil society actors. Community-led local development shall be implemented in the context of a strategic approach to ensure that the ‘bottom-up’ definition of local needs takes account of priorities set at a higher level. Member States shall therefore define the approach to community-led local development across the CSF Funds and shall indicate in the Partnership Contracts the main challenges to be tackled in this way, the main objectives and priorities for community-led local development, the types of territories to be covered, which specific role will be attributed to local action groups in the delivery of strategies and the role envisaged for the different CSF Funds in implementing local development strategies in different types of territories such as rural, urban and coastal areas and the corresponding co-ordination mechanisms.

(…) 2. Community-led local development shall be implemented in the context of a strategic approach to ensure that the ‘bottom-up’ definition of local needs takes account of priorities set at a higher level. Member States shall promote the development of local and sub-regional approaches, in particular via community-led local development by delegating decision-making and implementation to a local partnership of public, private and civil society actors. Community-led local development shall be implemented in the context of a strategic approach to ensure that the ‘bottom-up’ definition of local needs takes account of priorities set at a higher level. Member States shall therefore define the approach to community-led local development across the CSF Funds and shall indicate in the Partnership Contracts the main challenges to be tackled in this way, the main objectives and priorities for community-led local development, the types of territories to be covered, which specific role will be attributed to local action groups in the delivery of strategies and the role envisaged for the different CSF Funds in implementing local development strategies in different types of territories such as rural, urban and coastal areas and the corresponding co-ordination mechanisms. 3. An Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) is an instrument which provides for integrated delivery arrangements for investments under more than one priority axis of one or more operational programmes. Funding from several priority axes and programmes can be bundled into an integrated investment strategy for a certain territory or functional area. This can take the form of an integrated strategy for urban development, but also for inter-municipal cooperation in rural territories. It allows the managing authorities to delegate the implementation of parts of different priority axes to a local authority to ensure that investments are undertaken in a complementary manner. Within an ITI certain components can be implemented through community-led local development, combining the two approaches. 4. An Integrated Operation (IO) is a project, contract, action or group of projects that receives support from one or more CSF Funds and from other Union instruments. This is subject to the condition that an expenditure item is not funded twice under the CSF Funds or other Union instrument. 5. A Joint Action Plan (JAP) is an operation implemented through a result based approach in order to achieve specific objectives jointly agreed between the Member State and the Commission. It may be part of one or several operational programmes and thus may constitute a useful instrument to foster better integration of the different CSF Funds towards a common objective. 6. A Joint Operational Programme (JOP) is an operational programme combining support from several CSF Funds 7. Member States shall promote the development of community-led local development, integrated territorial investments, integrated operations, joint action plans and joint operational programmes by indicating in the Partnership Contracts the main challenges to be tackled in this way, the main objectives and priorities for these instruments, the types of territories to be covered, which specific role will be attributed to local action groups in the delivery of local development strategies and the role envisaged for the different CSF Funds in implementing integrated strategies in different types of territories such as rural, urban and coastal areas, and the corresponding coordination mechanisms.