You can score a 'High' if, as a result of your circumstances or choice of Options, you can demonstrate greater contribution to the selected regional priority through collaboration with other RDC Rural Priorities scheme applicants.
An applicant can score a 'High' against collaboration if
- the other collaborators have committed a proposal which has either; already been approved or is due to be assessed at the same RPAC Round and collaborators' proposals are compatible and genuinely add value to the applicant's proposals.
- Collaborative Proposals need not be restricted to a single RPAC region but it must be clear how the collaborative elements demonstrate greater contribution to the selected regional priority.
- A Proposal submitted by a Common Grazings, which includes investment or management on a Common Grazing, will be eligible to score a high for collaboration where there is more than one shareholder and the majority of crofters have agreed to the application.
For example:
- Management of bordering land units or units within close proximity but not necessarily physically adjoining each other that are components of an eco-system or habitat network or species range, e.g. control of a rhododendron cluster across all ownerships within the cluster locality in order to reduce the risk of re-invasion; joint action amongst riparian owners to reduce diffuse pollution along a river or co-ordinated management across a whole deer range.
- Linked or integrated assets across more than one land holding, e.g. path network, view points within a tourist trail.
- Components of a renewable energy supply chain or food supply chain where the individual parts, whilst geographically separated, are dependent on each other's co-operation to make the supply chain work.