Regional & Urban Policy Cohesion Policy 2014-2020: Integrated territorial approaches Christian...

Regional & Urban Policy

Cohesion Policy 2014-2020:

Integrated territorial approaches

Christian SvanfeldtEuropean CommissionDirectorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy‘Inclusive growth, Urban and territorial development’

Bucharest 11 October 2013


We need to invest in our cities……but not just question of levels of investment

• We need adopt an integrated territorial approach

• within new governance frameworks

• with new ways of working across sectoral boundaries

• with a wider set of partners, including citizens

• focusing on long-term shared objectives

A qualitative shift to exploit the full potential of our cities

http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/studies/pdf/citiesoftomorrow/citiesoftomorrow_final.pdf


Urban dimensionof future

cohesion policy


Reinforced urban dimension 2014 - 2020

• Need for investments in urban areas Specific urban investment priorities

• Need for metropolitan governance Integrated Territorial Investments

• Need for integrated interventions at neighbourhood and local level

Urban integrated development Community-led local development

• Need for innovative approaches Innovative urban actions

• Need for exchange of experience and cooperation Urban development network + URBACT III


Investment priorities targeted at urban areasarticle 5 of the ERDF regulation

• 4(e) promoting low-carbon strategies for all types of territories, in particular for urban areas, including the promotion of sustainable multi-modal urban mobility and mitigation relevant adaptation measures;

• 6(e) action to improve the urban environment, revitalisation of cities, […] regeneration and decontamination of brownfield sites (including conversion areas), reduction of air pollution and promotion of noise-reduction measures;

• 9(b) support for physical, economic and social regeneration of deprived communities in urban and rural areas.


Concentration on Europe 2020 prioritiesThematicdimension:

Territorialdimension:

Cities and towns

Urban neighbourhoods

Functional urban areas, metropolitan regions

Integrated strategies and actions

Other functional economic or geographic areas

Rural areas

Instruments

ITI

CLLD

Smart growth

• Research & Innovation

• ICT• SME

Sustainable growth

• Low-carbon• Resource-efficiency• Risk-prevention• Transport

Inclusive growth

• Employment• Social inclusion• Education

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Reinforced integrated urban dimension

• Earmarking for integrated sustainable urban development• At least 5% of the ERDF dedicated to integrated actions for

sustainable urban development

• delegated to urban authorities

• to tackle economic, environmental, climate, demographic and social challenges……

• affecting urban areas […], including cities, peri-urban areas and deprived urban neighbourhoods

• taking into account the need to promote urban-rural linkages• Innovative actions in sustainable urban development

• Support new ways of working, focusing on tomorrow's challenges

• 330 M€ in MFF• Urban development network

• To promote exchange of experience ensure the quality of the implementation of sustainable urban development


Sustainable urban developmentarticle 7 of the ERDF regulation

• 1. support through strategies setting out integrated actions

• 1a. undertaken through Integrated Territorial Investments or through a specific operational programme, or a specific [multi-thematic] priority axis [CPR Article 87(1)(c)].

• 2. principles for the selection of urban areas and an indicative allocation for national level in Partnership Agreement

• 2a. Delegation to “Urban Authorities; shall be responsible for tasks relating at least to the selection of operations


Intervention logic:

1)What are the needs, challenges and potential of the urban areas?

2)What change is desired? What are the specific urban development objectives?

3)Which thematic objectives that can help to achieve the change?

4)How can the thematic investments be delivered in an integrated way?

..need to invest in our cities…

...integrated territorial approach…new governance frameworks…across sectoral boundaries…wider set of partners…long-term shared objectives

Integrated long-term strategies Functional urban areas Place- and people-based Participative approaches


Territorial tools1.Integrated Territorial Investments (ITI)2.Community-Led Local Development (CLLD)


ITI & CLLD - inside the strategic framework

Partnership Agreement• Overall priorities, territorial challenges & approaches

CF• Idem

ERDF• Fund

specific investment priorities related to Europe 2020 thematic objectives

ESF• Idem

EMFF• Idem

ITI

EAFRD• Idem

CLLD


Integrated Territorial Investments

(ITI)


Integrated Territorial Investment(ex. art. 99 of the Common Provisions for ERDF & ESF)

• Implementation tool for area-based strategies requiring integrated investments under more than one priority axis or operational programme

• Focused on urban areas or other functional territories

• Can be implemented by a Managing Authority, a local administration (e.g. city) or other entity

• Operational Programme should identify planned ITIs and set out indicative financial allocations


Basic features

• A voluntary tool for Member States• Must be based on an integrated territorial

strategy • Can cover any sub-national territory as well as

multiple categories of regions• Can cross national borders• Can include any form of support (including Financial

Instruments, FIs)• Can include elements implemented through

community-led local development (CLLD)


ITI –interventions

Intervention logic

Interventions under ITI should contribute to the objectives of the corresponding investment priorities and to the objectives of the territorial strategy

Scope

What for? instead of What?

Determined by the territorial strategy and the investment priorities of the priority axes contributing to ITI


ITI – what are the advantages?

ITI secures various funding streams at its inception – allow a greater degree of certainty and predictability for implementation

Selection of operations: not nesessarily competitive (calls for proposals), can be negotiated programming

Potential synergies (using different funds in a timely, strategic way) may lead to better aggregate outcome

Delegation of management has the potential to empower the sub-regional actors by insuring their involvement from the beginning of the programme

Increased ownership of strategy and actions


Strategic programming requirements

• Approach should ensure a coordinated use of the ESI Funds

• Partnership Agreement sets out the approach to integrated territorial development including the general approach to the use of ITIs

(types of) areas where ITIs will be used, the ESI funds to be implemented through ITIs, basic implementation and coordination arrangements between ESI Funds

• Operational programmes sets out where and how ITIs will be used

the indicative (overall) financial allocation to ITIs from each priority axis, the arrangements for coordination between MAs concerned + elements related to integrated actions for sustainable urban development


Delegation of tasks, control & audit

• Delegation of implementation tasks is not mandatory (except for integrated actions for sustainable urban development under ERDF Art 7)

• Delegation of MA and CA tasks=delegation of tasks to an intermediate body

• All general rules and principles as regards the delegation of management tasks apply

• The arrangements for delegation, management and control require careful consideration and coordination – simpler if the extent of delegation from all MAs is the same, if control and audit are coordinated


Monitoring and reporting

• ITI is an implementation tool, not an objective in itself• ITI must contribute to the achievement of the thematic

objectives, investment priorities and specific objectives set out in the contributing programmes

• Financial and indicator data is traced back to contributing priority axes

• Specific indicators can be used at management level to assess the implementation of individual ITIs


Possible implementation arrangementsfor multi-OP ITI

• MS designate an IB for management and implementation of an ITI

• Define investment priorities of priority axes of the OPs contributing to the ITI

• Agreed compliance and eligibility rules adopted by each MC of participating OPs

• Joint Monitoring Sub-Committee with relevant OPs

• Common monitoring and evaluation, progress report

• Financial management: monitoring system for the programmes provides for the identification of operations of a priority axis


(Urban) Territory

Intermediatebody

RegionalERDF-OP

National/sectoralERDF-OP

ESF-OP

ITI: possible implementation arrangement

+ Complementary funding from EAFRD

and/or EMFFStrategy


ITI in ETC

• Relevant to cross-border and trans-national programmes

• ETC general rules and principles apply

• Cross –border impact must be preserved

• Delegation of implementation tasks – only to joint bodies (EGTC or other joint legal body established under the laws of one of the participating countries)

• ITI creates the possibility to combine actions financed from different strands of ETC and mainstream programmes


Community-Led Local Development (CLLD)


Community-Led Local Developmentarticle 28§1 of Common Provisions

a) focused on specific sub-regional territories;

b) community-led, by local action groups composed of representatives of public and private local socio-economic interests, no majority partner

c) Carried out through integrated and multi-sectoral area-based local development strategies;

d) considering local needs and potential, include networking and (where relevant) cooperation.

ERDF article 5 investment priority 9 (d): investments undertaken in the context of Community-led local development strategies


Community-led local developmentunder future cohesion policy

Optional for ERDF and ESF Member States should indicate in their Partnership

Agreement and Operational Programmes whether and where community CLLD will be implemented (can concern entire territory)

Incentives: CLLD actions financed under one thematic

objective - (ERDF, ESF & EAFRD: promoting social inclusion and combating poverty) – but allows funding strategies and projects with wider scope

An entire priority axis dedicated to CLLD benefits from 10% higher co-financing rate


Support to CLLD from the CSF Fundsarticle 31 of Common Provisions

costs of preparatory support; implementation of operations under the local

development strategy; preparation and implementation of cooperation

activities of the local action group; running costs and animation of the local development

strategy up to the limit of 25 % of the total public expenditure incurred within the local development strategy.


Why CLLD in all CSF Funds?

• Integrated territorial approach allowing more coherence and synergies between the CSF Funds

• URBAN Community Initiatives have proven relevance in urban areas

• Allows interventions in peri-urban

• Supports urban-rural partnerships

• No more white spots on the map

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CLLD in the strategic programming

Partnership Agreementimplementation arrangements of CLLD:

(types of) territories, focus, funding, Fund coordination

ESF national/regional

programme(s)

ERDF national/regional

programme(s)

EAFRD national/regional

programme(s)

EMFF national

programme(s)Coordinated call

and selection procedure between

Funds

ERDF LAGsMulti-fund LAGs

EARDF LAGs

ESF LAGs EMFF LAGs


Partnership Agreement

Programming multiple ESI Funds CLLD strategy

ESF national/regional

programme(s)

ERDF national/regional

programme(s)

EAFRD national/regional

programme(s)EMFF nationalprogramme(s)

Joint Selection committee

Multiple ESI Funds Local Development Strategy

Indicative allocation for CLLD


CLLD strategies – selection(article 29 of Common Provisions)

• Selected for EU funding under the responsibility of the relevant managing authorities

• Approval decision should set out: the allocations of each CSF Fund the roles of the authorities responsible for the

implementation of the relevant programmes for the implementation tasks relating to the strategy

NOTE: First round of selection to be completed within two years of

the approval of the Partnership Agreement Member States may select additional CLLD strategies after

that date but no later than by 31 December 2017


Local Action Group

ERDF fundingESF

funding

EAFRD funding EMFF

funding

LOCAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

EAFRD project

EMFF projectFinancing of running costs,

animation, networkingpossible by "lead Fund"

ERDFproject

ESF project

Multiple ESI Funds CLLD strategy - optional

(local) NGOs, civil societyLocal entrepreneursLocal governments


Strategic choices to be madein Partnership Agreement

Challenges to tackle & objectives of CLLD Territories to target Which funds to use Interaction and coordination between funds

• Mono vs. multiple ESI funded strategies• Lead fund

Preparatory support

=> Need to be reflected in Operational Programmes


Mono vs. multi-fund; areas to target Simplicity vs. scope and resources Distinct rural, urban, fisheries areas vs. mixed

territories (e.g., peri-urban areas, etc) Demarcation vs. integration (e.g., urban-rural

partnerships)

Community engagement vs. critical mass


Tools to simplify implementation of "multi-funded" local development strategies

• - Lead Fund option for multi-funded LDS A “Lead Fund” can be designated at the level of each LDS to

cover the running costs, animation and networking activities

• - Use of a "joint" intermediate body as "a one stop shop"

• - LAGs as intermediate bodies


Critical issues

Use of CLLD in urban areas• CLLD optional for ERDF & ESF - reluctance of MS to invest due to

small scale of operations and potentially high error rates

• lack of capacity to set up LAGs where CLLD could make a real difference (e.g., deprived neighbourhoods)

Deadline for selection and approval of CLLD strategies• need to accommodate for continuity of existing groups, time

required to set up new groups and time needed for implementation of strategies;


CLLD in cities: URBACT experiences

• Small areas within cities, e.g., deprived urban neighbourhoods and historic centres etc. URBACT examples: REG GOV, SURE, CTUR, REDIS, LINKS, REPAIR, HERO

• Smaller cities and their surrounding rural areas URBACT examples: Esimec, Creative Clusters…..

• Target group approaches URBACT examples: My Generation, Romanet, Active Age…

• Thematic approaches URBACT examples: Active Travel, EVUE, CASH, SUITE, HERO

Conditions: strong involvement of community of users, focussed but integrated strategy, appropriate (functional) areas - larger if justified .Possibility of dealing with urban-rural links for the theme or target group.

Source: Paul Soto URBACT


CLLD in cities:Berlin Neighbourhood Management programme

• Transformation of deprived city areas

• Offering local people the opportunity to take decisions about their own neighbourhoods through Neighbourhood Councils

• Help people to build partnerships and revitalise their urban environment

• Enabling Berlin to become a ‘socially integrative city’

• Co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund

• REGIO STARS 2013 winner of CityStar category

http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/videos/video-details.cfm?vid=1282&LAN=SV#embedcode

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Relation betweenITI and CLLD


ITI CLLD

Urban development strategy or other territorial strategy or pact

Bottom-up integrated area-based strategy

Flexible – but generally top-down, public sector-led

Bottom-up, community-led (public, private, civil society)

Target areas or the principles by which strategies will be selected should be set out in Partnership Agreement

MS define selection criteria and target areas, selection of CLLD strategies through competitive procedure by responsible MA(s)

Any size as long as focused on a coherent functional geography

Sub-regional (10.000–150.000 inh.- except duly justified cases)

Single fund (ERDF, ESF or CF) or several funds (ERDF, ESF and/or CF complemented by EAFRD and/or EMFF)

Single fund or several funds (ERDF, ESF, EAFRD and/or EMFF)

Implementation by designated intermediate body or MA

Strategy & implementation by local action group

Optional Optional (except for EAFRD)


Relation between ITI and CLLD

Territorial strategy implemented through ITI can have CLLD as one component (e.g., urban strategy ITI with specific neighbourhood targeting through CLLD)

BUT consistency have to be ensured between ITI and CLLD strategies

AND CLLD should go through selection procedure required in Art 29(3)–(5) of CPR and described in the PA and OPs


Future regional policyhttp://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/index_en.cfmhttp://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/information/brochures/index_en.cfm#1http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/what/future/proposals_2014_2020_en.cfm

Examples of Local Development approaches funded by • ESFhttp://ec.europa.eu/esf/main.jsp?catId=358&langId=en&videosId=2501&vl=en&furtherVideos=yeshttp://ec.europa.eu/esf/main.jsp?catId=352&langId=en&videosId=2507&vl=en&furtherVideos=yes

• ERDFhttp://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/videos/video-details.cfm?vid=561&LAN=ENhttp://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/videos/video-details.cfm?vid=405&LAN=ENhttp://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/videos/video-details.cfm?vid=823&LAN=EN

• EFFhttp://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/videoplayer.cfm?ref=I071373&sitelang=en

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