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Local Action Groups are important for participating of the citizens, entrepreneurs and municipalities in the process of support for regional development. In the long term, they have proved that people living in Czech rural areas have never been indifferent to both the tradition and the future. That is why the local action groups are sometimes called “local action groups as a way of rural development”. The paper focuses on a closer look at the period of the past (2007-2013) in the region of South Bohemia. The author focused on the extent of support from South Bohemian LAGs from public funds through the Leader program to the development of rural municipalities. An evaluation of the functioning of the LAGs was carried out taking into account the period 2007-2013 and the prediction of the new programming period of 2014-2020. The research used several methods, including content analysis of important documents (especially different community-based strategies) followed by an analysis of the distribution of implemented projects within the scope of the LAG. In addition, a questionnaire survey was carried out. All the chief executives of LAGs in the region of South Bohemia were asked. The last method used interviews with experts and representatives of the South Bohemian Region and all sample LAGs.