O spójności w planowaniu strategicznym dla rozwoju obszarów wiejskich

Strategic planning is a systematic process of envisioning a desired future, and translating this vision into broadly defined goals or objectives and a sequence of steps to achieve them [Smallwood 2014]. Strategic planning is crucial in aligning efforts and identifying critical resources in achieving development objectives. Since several decades it has been used successfully in private as well as in public sector while implementing development policies. A large number and variety of performed strategies require to keep consistency among them. In this paper some selected documents strategic for rural economic development of Poland were examined and assessed from the point of view of consistency. A consistency is one of crucial characteristics shaping possibilities and ways of coordination and completeness of implementation of varied strategies. A particular emphasis was put on entrepreneurship, i.e. position, approaches, diagnosis and forecast of business development in national strategic documents as well as planned actions and measures for entrepreneurship. Despite the variety of current national strategies as well as significant differences in approaching the issue one may state that in the context of rural economic development the strategic documents provide the rule of consistency to a large extent.