Over the past 15 years, partnerships have emerged as a commonplace feature of rural regeneration strategies, yet little is known about how rural regeneration partnerships work in practice - about their successes or about the obstacles to effective partnership working.
This report presents the findings of a two-year research project which analysed 154 rural partnerships operating in mid-Wales and Shrophsire. It examines the processes involved in building and maintaining regeneration partnerships in rural areas and seeks to establish why some partnerships effectively build capacity while others do not.
Partnership working in rural regeneration is essential reading for those working in rural regeneration partnerships, policy makers and local and national government, as well as anyone with an interest in regeneration strategies and practice.
