In giving a socio-economic uplift to the areas involved, the programme's indirect aims are to reduce or check rural exodus, perhaps even increasing the areas' capacity to absorb young people returning to rural areas, to reduce unemployment and, at an institutional level, to strengthen Regional Development Corporations.
Les objectifs indirects, par la dynamisation socio-economique des zones geographiques concernees, visent la reduction ou le ralentissement de l'exode rural, voire un certain accroissement des capacites d'absorption de mineurs ex-ruraux de nouveau rendus disponibles, la reduction du chomage et, sur le plan institutionnel, le renforcement des Corporations Regionales de Developpement.