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Good Practice in Rural Development
No.8
Innovative Methods of Service Delivery in Rural Scotland:A Good Practice Guide
Glossary
AEC - Ayrshire Electronic Community.
AGORA - Angus Glens Online Resource Action.
CADISPA - Conservation And Development In Sparsely Populated Areas. A Pan-European project run through the Department of Community Education at Strathclyde University.
Capacity building - can mean building up the capability of community and voluntary groups in order to reach their goals or increasing the skills of individuals through training, for example.
CONDUIT Programme - an Intermediate Labour Market project supporting the development of Information and Community Technology within East Ayrshire.
CRM - Customer Relations management.
CVS - Councils for Voluntary Service.
ERDF - European Regional Development Fund. Available from the European Union to correct economic and social imbalances between regions.
ERDF RECHAR Programme - designed to assist the reconversion of regions heavily dependent of a declining coal-mining industry.
ESF - European Social Fund. Available from the European Union for activities aimed at developing employability and human resources.
FAME - Firth and Mossbank Enterprise.
HOST -Highlands of Scotland Tourist Board.
ICT - Information & Computer Technology.
LEC - Local Enterprise Company.
LVDA - Local Volunteer Development Agency.
NREC - National Rural Enterprise Centre.
PAN - People's Access Network.
RCF - Rural Challenge Fund.
SALE - Skye and Lochalsh Enterprise.
Social exclusion - income-related and geographic disadvantages are shown as having a detrimental impact on an individual or household's ability to integrate with their immediate society and therefore do not enjoy the benefits of the developments in wider society.
Social injustice - Unequal access, choice and opportunities for people due to discrimination and prejudice. This can happen for various reasons such as race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age.
SVQ - Scottish Vocational Qualification.
VAL - Voluntary Action Lewis
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