Beyond these types of partnerships, Poland has a wide range of NGOs and foundations that support rural development through their activities and that produce analytical studies on the conditions of rural development. The approach has been so successful in rural areas that it was subsequently expanded to three additional EU funds under community-led local development (CLLD) (these are the ESF, the EMFF and the ERDF).29 In rural areas, local action groups (LAGs) have been established at the initiative of local governments, entrepreneurs and civil associations within a certain territory or community in order to implement objectives related to the EU LEADER programme. In the coming years, Poland should further focus on enhancing the vertical and horizontal consolidation of producer groups and of their associations.