policy impact in the grow regions south east england

POLICY IMPACT IN THE GROW REGIONS

SOUTH EAST ENGLAND

Regional Economic Strategy

for South East England 2006 – 2016: The European Dimension

Eileen Armstrong, Assistant Director, Strategy, SEEDA

Building the Regional Economic Strategy

• 16 engagement events – 2000 attended

• Consultation document – 320 responses

• Draft RES – 180 responses

• Strategic Environmental Assessment / Sustainability Appraisal

The Challenges

• The global challenge– Invest in success

• Smart growth– Invest in potential

• Sustainable prosperity– Invest in quality of life

Framework

Vision– By 2016 the South East will be a world class region

achieving sustainable prosperity

Values– Building on excellence for global competitiveness– Investing in potential to maximise performance– Safeguarding quality of life as competitive advantage

Objectives– Global competitiveness– Smart growth– Sustainable prosperity

Measuring Success

Three Headline Targets

– Achieve an average annual increase in GVA per capita of at least 3%

– Increase productivity per worked by an average 2.4% annually, from £39,000 in 2005 to at least £50,000 by 2016 (constant prices)

– Reduce the rate of increase in the region’s ecological footprint (from 6.3 global hectares per capita in 2003, currently increasing at 1.1% per annum), stabilise it and seek to reduce it by 2016

The Actions

• 75 actions for the region

• 30 ‘new’ actions

• Lead responsibilities identified

• SEEDA to lead on 25 actions

• 8 transformational actions

Transformational Actions

• 100% Next Generation Broadband• Science and Innovation Campuses• Regional Infrastructure Fund• Raising Economic Activity Rates • Skills Escalator• Global Leadership in Environmental Technologies• Education - Led Regeneration• Making the Most of 2012

Connecting the Actions

Cross cutting themes • Europe• Information and Communications

Technologies• Culture, Sport and Creative Industries• Equalities and Diversity• Rural Areas

The RES Map

The draft EU Regional Competitiveness Programme 2007-2013

Principles of the Programme

• Pan-regional not spatially targeted, linking instances of good practice between weak and strong areas

• Linked to RES (and CSG; NSRF)• Sustainability is the key theme: sustainable production and consumption;

sustainable communities• Innovation runs through programme as a “golden thread”• Weighting system to apply after projects reach quality threshold to help

achieve specific objectives, eg soft landing for current Objective 2 areas; build-up maximum impact in Assisted Areas; promote intra-regional linkages; promote innovative actions

• Competitiveness & sustainability applies to all sectors including public/ ngo• Avoid proliferation of projects (small programme: €21m over 7 years)• Avoid proliferation of business support projects (in line with national drive)


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STRATEGY

London, November 30th 2006

Mr. Andrés Sánchez HernándezGeneral Secretary of Sustainability for the

Regional Environmental Government of Andalusia

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INDEX

1.- Background

2.- Geographic limits

4.-Concept, premises and scope of development

5.-Characteristics of the document and operative criteria

6.- Methodology

7.- Contents of the Strategy

8.- Actual accomplishments

9.- Future accomplishments

ANDALUSIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

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SUMMIT OF RÍO 92

EUROPEAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY (GOTEMBURG)

REGIONAL AGENDA 21 (2000)

BACKGROUND

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GEOGRAPHIC LIMITS

Nº of inhabitants = 7.935.074

Surface = 87.591 KM2

Nº of municipalities = 771

Coastline = 836 km

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CONCEPTThe Andalusian Sustainable Development Strategy establishes the basis which allows for a linked growth between economy and the environment in our Region for the next decades

SCOPE OF DEVELOPMENT Environmental scope

Social scope

Economic scope

PREMISES / STARTING PRINCIPLES Recognising sustainable development as a right and duty of all citizens

Incorporating the environment as a component of sectorial and public administration decisions

Progressive elimination of the production and consuming systems which put at risk the conservation of natural resources


MALOPOLSKA, POLAND

Windsor, 30 November 2006

GROW INTER-REGIONAL CONFERENCE:

Challenges of achieving sustainability in High Growth Regions

The Marshal Office of the Małopolska RegionPoland

Aneta Widak


Challenges of achieving sustainability in High Growth Regions

ContentsContents::

1. Overview of Małopolska Region

2. The Małopolska Region Development Strategy for 2007-13

3. Małopolska Regional Operational Programme 2007-13

4. Competitiveness and Cohesion

5. Strategic projects

6. GROW post-conference publication


Małopolska Region in focus

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• 22 poviats/counties

• 182 gminas/comunes

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• 3.2 million inhabitants150 km

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• 26 higher education

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• 160 000 students

• 10 000 academic

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Jagiellonian Universitythe oldest Polish university,established in 1364

Małopolska Region in focusRegion of Education


• Krakow Philharmonic

• 20 theatres

• 80 art galleries

• 100 museums

• 8 sites registered on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List (out of 16 in Poland)

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• 9 mill. visitors

• Over 1 mill. foreign tourists

• Over 257 hotels

• 75 thousand beds

• Over 1,000 restaurants and clubs only in Krakow

Małopolska Region in focusRegion of Tourism


„MAŁOPOLSKA 2015”

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THREE FIELDS OF ACTIVITY

THE MAŁOPOLSKA REGION THE MAŁOPOLSKA REGION

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGYDEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

FOR 2007-2013FOR 2007-2013



MałopolskaMałopolska’s c’s challengeshallenges::1. Competence-related challenges– how to become a partner and a true participant in

the international race of skills and competence?

2. Technological challenges – how to catch up with the most developed and technologically advanced regions?

3. Social advancement related challenges – how to ensure relative equality and high quality of public services and standards of living addressing the aspirations of inhabitants?

4. Environmental challenges – how to ensure sustainability of the natural environment and the high quality of the spatial environment in the face of strong development pressure and economic aspirations?

5. Symbolical challenges – how to build a modern image of the region, convincing for the developed world, and at the same time to retain and cherish one's own unique identity?

6. Political challenges – how to ensure the high quality and autonomy of regional development policy which would permit the implementation of the strategy adopted, how to best involve the social partners and civil society?



Key principles of the Key principles of the SStrategytrategy

I. The principle of partnership

II. The principle of strategic management of regional development

III. The principle of the autonomy of Małopolska's regional development Strategy compatible with national social and economic development policy as well as with the EU cohesion policy –

IV. The principle of socially, spatially and environmentally sustainable development


Małopolska Regional Operational Programme 2007-2013 /MROP/

(DRAFT, August 2006)

Breakdown by priority

EU’s public funds ERDF

1. Conditions for the development of knowledge-based society 13,77% 158,00

2. Economy of regional opportunity15,48% 177,70

3. Tourism and culture industry7,49% 86,00

4. Technical infrastructure for regional development 27,79% 319,00

5. Krakow metropolitan area12,29% 141,00

6. Intraregional cohesion12,11% 139,00

7. Environment protection infrastructure 7,67% 88,00

8. Interregional cooperation0,87% 10,00

9. Technical support2,53% 29,00

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Priorities


Malopolska Regional Policy

Motto of Malopolska regional development policy:

„As much competitiveness as possible. As little convergence as necessary.”

Mr. Janusz Sepiol, Marshal of Malopolska Region


Małopolska Regional Policy:competitiveness vs cohesion - balance

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Questions about development

Will we have enough time to support competitiveness focusing our resources and time on pro-cohesion activities ?

Does Małopolska and other Polish regions have time to follow traditional path of development (first infrastructure, and then innovations)?

Is it possible to choose a „short-cut” on the way of achieving competitiveness, skipping cohesion phase?

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Project: Tradition and modernity


Project: Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków


GROW Post-conference publication

Cohesion Policy and Regions

New Perspective

2007-13

Edited by

Jacek Woźniak

Kraków 2006

Regional Framework Operations GROW and SMART (CI INTERREG)


www.malopolska.pl

Aneta WidakThe Marshal Office of the Malopolska RegionDepartment of Regional and Spatial Policy

ul. Basztowa 22, 31-156 KrakówE-mail: [email protected]

Thank you for your attention


Małopolska Invites

www.malopolskie.pl


NOORD-BRABANT, THE NETHERLANDS

Sustainability from margin to mainstreamTowards a sustainable Brabant

Martin Bakker

Policy advisor

30/11/06

Sense of urgency

Innovation Opportunity

Security Responsibility

What has Brabant done so far

Brabant Manifesto (1997)

Brabant Elan Programme (1998)

Strategic Agenda (1998)

Telos Institute; Measuring Sustainability

New approaches (the process)

Strategic layer

– Recommending committee

– Debates

Practical layer

– Programme and projects

Citizens

New approaches (the content)

Direction, cohesion and result

– Shifting focus from margin to the mainstream

– Partnerships between established parties

– Concrete projects with measurable results

Eco-efficiency“cleaner, clever and competitive”

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Examples

Regional government can play an essential role

Bringing parties together

Promoting a bottom up approach

In line with the objectives of parties involved

Struggling with the scaling up of projects


EMILIA-ROMAGNA, ITALY

The sustainability concept of the Emilia-Romagna Region

Competitiveness, environment protection and social inclusion in

Emilia Romagna

Windsor, November 30, 2006

Stefano MaraniSenior advisor for Spatial Economy

& Regional Development Programmes

Some Emilia-Romagna development descriptors

From being one of the poorest italian regions (beginning of XXth century), E-R achieved a per capita income higher than italian/european average; the best service network for persons and families; the highest % of students, attracting young people from all Italy; the location of a number of well developed/advanced industrial districts in different sectors (from machinery to biomedicals).

Urban sprawl, a development “collateral damage”..

1976-2001: aprox. + 100% inurbanised land, esp. in Municipalities from 5.000 to 20.000 inhab.

A governance for sustainability

the development of towns and regions is more and more dependent from globalization of economic and social relationships; spatial issues of development can be better faced through cooperation between different administrative/government levels (governance); spatial approach overcomes sectoral approach of development policies, through cooperation between institutions and sectors operating on the same territory.

Economic Economic SystemSystem

Socio-cultural SystemSocio-cultural System

Environmental SystemEnvironmental System

The Regional Territorial Plan

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EfficiencyQuality

Identity

Sustainability concepts, goals for territorial

competitivenessQuality: building contexts rich in opportunities, well-preserved landscapes, social and environmental resources sustainable use

Efficiency: compact settlements to reduce sprawl, social services cost minimization, cost reduction for technological/environmental infrastructures

Identity of local communities: belonging sense to the “real town” beyond administrative boundaries, to cultural and work relationships of the community, the region, the global economic and cultural networks

Core strategic issuesUrban centers networking: settlements common planning to manage “real town”, cost/benefit equitable; networking of utilities infrastructures and of high level services, re-qualification of the central Emilia and the coast, recovery of the Apennines and Po river lowlands from its marginal position;

Ecological networks re-construction: “to besiege” urban spaces with “ecosystemic infrastructure”, renewable energy promotion, water and materials sustainable use, environmental quality and safety;

Knowledge economy promotion: against competitiveness loss, promoting change from material to non-material economy, based on research and innovation, broadband for local systems’ public and private actors, logistics (vs. transportation infrastructure), continuing education, culture;

A new welfare: health and advanced services for citizens, targeting in particular non-self sufficient elderly people, immigrants skills qualification; multicultural integration.

From a governance perspective, this means..

presently, no institutional level can manage by itself development and social cohesion issues: integration in economic, social and environmental planning strategies is a must;

institutional partnership need to be promoted and enforced in a contractual way, with clear commitments among partners (participation and cooperation);

development actions need a proper territorial scale (subsidiarity);

evaluation (ex-ante, in itinere, ex-post) must become the “communication language” of institutional partnership.

The Special Area Programs

SAP are integrated investiment plans, pubblic and public/private;

proposed by a local system to solve problems/catch opportunities;

limited time and budget;

subsidiarity principle-based;

useful to implement local multi-actor strategies, multi-fund investment, networking for local resources development;

aimed at creating administrative, social and entrepreneurial environement to attract investments.

The Priority axis 2 of the Ob. 2 SPD

Priority axis 2 deals with territorial dev.;

aimed at “distance reduction” from the most advanced regional areas;

subdivided into 3 territorial measures (Po river lowlands, Appenines and Central plain (phasing out);

different context and objectives;based on negotaited programming among institution, social and economic actors;

“Program Conferences”, to decide project to be realized and define Local Dev. Plans;

two 3-years program periods

Rural Dev. Plan - Priority III – integrated dev. actions

Mountain area• Rural roads/afforestation

• Water network improvement• Support to farmers for land conservation

•Rural villages recovery• Renewable energy

• Hydrogeological risk prevention

Po river plain•Modernisation of rural infrastructures

• Landscape conservation•Rural/naturalistic tourism promotion

•Ecological network reconstruction•Integrated territorial marketing projects for

traditional productions

Negotiated rural development plans at

province level

Plans and programs sustainability is assessed by..

Eco-industrial development projects, shared among Local Authorities, for greening local industrial estates;

Accountability to citizens on social and environmental of choices, through Agenda XXI processes presently and/or EMS of Local Authorities;

Strategic Impact Assessment of european and regional/local plans and programs:

– SEA to SPD and Rural dev. Plan;

– ValSAT (TIA-sound) to territorial/spatial planning tools (e.g. urban dev., environmental management plans, ect.)

thank you for your attention!

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