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Italian Territorial Approach to Regional Policy:
integrating policies starting from territories
Sabrina Lucatelli
European Seminar on “Sustainable Urban Rural
Partnerships” Metz, 16th November 2012
Sabrina Lucatelli - Department for Development and Cohesion Policies
20 Regions 103 Provinces (under re-organisation in ordinary regions, from 86 to 51) 8,092 Municipalities
A fourth level of government, Metropolitan Cities, also mentioned in the Italian Constitution and by lows
Regions traditionally enjoy wide administrative powers. They are the only sub-central authorities with legislative power.
15 Regions have “ordinary” statutory framework while 5 Regions have a “special statute”, which gives them wider legislative and administrative powers.
Associations of Municipalities
A very complex Administrative A very complex Administrative Structure: “regions” and local Structure: “regions” and local authorities….authorities….
Many Italian policies do act through districts and basins
with a functional areas philosophy
•Provision of Health services through Health Districts;•Social Policies and «Piani d’Azione» - Action Plans•Hydrographical districts and water basins for water management•Parks for natural areas management•Rural Districts in several Regions
Regional Policy acts though Regional and National programs but it also uses functional areas though
Multi-Regional Programs and Territorial Integrated Projects
Sabrina Lucatelli - Department for Development and Cohesion Policies
• Urban dimension and “Integrated Territorial Projects” (ITPs) in Italian Regional policy
• Integration between Regional and Rural Development policy
• 2014-2020 period: The policentric model and how to improve small cities networking
Sabrina Lucatelli - Department for Development and Cohesion Policies
2007-2013 Urban dimension of Italian Regional Policy
• A priority on «Competitiveness and attractiveness of cities and urban systems»;
• Pushing regions to implement Integrated Urban Projects for CitiesCities and Urban networksUrban networks;
• To foster competitiveness; facilitate business development; social inclusion and allow the best possible accessibility though material and immaterial connections;
• Leaving flexibility to Regions to adapt urban policy to their models and existing Plans
• Possibility to consider rural-urban linkages and Possibility to consider rural-urban linkages and inter-municipal cooperation to facilitate inter-municipal cooperation to facilitate services provisionservices provision
Sabrina Lucatelli - Department for Development and Cohesion Policies
What happened?• Quite slow implementation in both Center-North and
South programs;• A slowing down of the integrated approachintegrated approach, to
allow an acceleration of the expenditure;• Some exceptions in regions such as Liguria,
Tuscany; Umbria; Abruzzi and Campania;• A too complex multi-level governance structure that
complicated «strategy formulation» and investments selections;
• Mainly “big infrastructure” investments• Urban Networks Projects proved to be even Urban Networks Projects proved to be even
more difficultmore difficult• Tensions between Regions and Cities …
Sabrina Lucatelli - Department for Development and Cohesion Policies
"a set of consistent and closely connected inter-sectoral actions focused on achieving a common territorial development objective that justifies a unified approach to implementation” (CSF 2000 – 2006)
definition of the propeller idea, project strategy and objectivesproject integration as a peculiarity of the whole activity co-financed by the Structural Funds (also multi-funds)the territory as the beneficiary of actions and context for the development of latent potentials: could be Urban, Rural, Urban-Rural giving responsibility for project drafting and implementation to local authorities, elected mayors
IPs definition
IPs basic principles
Integrated Territorial Projects (IP)
Sabrina Lucatelli - Department for Development and Cohesion Policies
Sabrina Lucatelli - Department for Development and Cohesion Policies
Detailed projects of different nature
CORE OBJECTIVE(Strategic idea: provides coherence, integration)
Example: To increase cultural tourism
Historic preservationEnvironment
(restoring buildings, cleaning
polluted sites)
Infrastructure(Roads,
telecommunications Tourist Info points)
Productive sector (Support
to local manufacturers
of typical products)
Human Resources (training in
skills needed in the tourism
sector)
Unified Project Management (one municipal govt. chosen to lead
project)
Measurable Expected Outcomes:Increased N. of visitors, Employment, reduced out-
migration
ITP as a Programming ToolA specific operational mode
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REGIONAL PROGRAM
measure
measure
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measure
measure
measure
measure
PROJECTSINTEGRATEDTERRITORIAL
PROJECT
ITPs introduce an alternative project-selection rationale: INTEGRATION
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A: competitive, bottom up
B: negotiated, top down
Municipalities associate. Prepare and submit detailed
project proposal
Regions established bidding criteria for municipalities and published a call for projects
Municipalities associate; prepare project following Regional geographical,
financial, and sometimes sectorial decisions
Regions divide all territory, group municipalities, allocate
funds ex-ante
Regions appraise and approve projects according to project quality and other criteria
Regions appraise and approve projects once they reach a minimum quality standard
Two types of identification and selection procedures
Number, size and distribution of interventions
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Industry
Urban Development
Tourism
Environment
Rural development
Transport
Research and Innovation
General Territorial Development
Area not covered by ITPS
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Coordination between National Strategic Framework for regional policy and rural development policy
Ensuring properly governance coordination systems when managing programmes: regional level;
Ensuring coordination at Central level (better if formalised!);
Using different funds within integrated territorial projects; Using Evaluation as a Tool of Coordination
What is happening at regional level?
2007-2013: Coordination Mechanisms
between regional policy and rural development policy
Lessons Learned
• Jeopardised situation at regional level;• Mono-funds made coordination very difficult to happen!• Many “formal” coordination systems, but little
substantial coordination;• Integration is happening at territorial level: ITP;
Action Local Groups …• Very little EAFRD participation to Integrated territorial
Projects;• Necessity to overcome the pure demarcation approach
and to monitor effective integration
Sabrina Lucatelli - Department for Development and Cohesion Policies
The Commission proposal for 2014-2020: which opportunity for Urban-Rural
Partnership• Experiences of Urban-Rural “indirect” partnerships
are happening in Italy through ITP and Local Action Groups (Leader);
• But these instruments proved to be difficult in terms of “expenditure capacity” and effective integration;
• New opportunities could be foreseen with the new emphasis given to the Urban dimension of next programming period;
• The Italian polycentric character will be considered in the design of next regional policy national strategy
• Italian lagging areas will receive a special attention, also through the improvement of small and medium sized cities coordination capacity to provide basic services to citizens
Sabrina Lucatelli - Department for Development and Cohesion Policies
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