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Day 2: Local Dimension, Urbact Local
Group (ULG)
URBACT core principles of participation and integration-
URBACT Local Group
A look into the future on IAP production
Exercises on stakeholder mapping
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Integrated approach to solving complex urban issues
Participative approach: involving all local stakeholders
Transnational exchange & Learning: building networks of cities
URBACT method
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What do we mean by a participatory
approach?
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Participatory approach in action in
ULGs
Required set up a Local Group = co-produce Integrated
Action Plan (IAP)
Stakeholder identification, engagement, management
Co- production (in Phase 2) through a planning cycle, from
problem identification, evidence, idea generation, actions –
long term sustainability
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In Phase 1
City Visits for the Baseline Study
Start setting up Local Groups, identify Coordinators
First ideas on focus of Action Plan
Baseline identify learning needs for ULG participation
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What do we mean by an integrated
approach for future IAP?
Policy/ Sector
Horizontal
Vertical
Territorial
Hard and soft investments (ERDF + ESF)
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Policy / Sector
Integrate economic, social and
environmental challenges on
cultural heritage for tourism devel.
and social integration (State of the
Art: interlinked)
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Horizontal
Develop partnerships at
local level
Bring together all of the
main actors around a
Kairós challenges
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Vertical
Align policies, interventions and funding
upwards
Vertical chain of governance
(Local/Reg/National)
Ensure coherence and build scale
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Territorial
Ensure cooperation takes place
between adjacent municipalities
in functional urban areas
Minimise side effects, silos and
displacement of problems
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Hard and soft
investments
Integrate physical investments with
investments in human resources
(ALMM+VET) in urban regeneration
Structural funds: ERDF + ESF
Avoid overlapping; over estimations
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No-one is saying it’s easy!
‘The complexity of the city’s
problems obliges policy-
makers to tackle different
urban problems
simultaneously and in a co-
ordinated way’
Jan Vranken,
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Experiences from Partners are
welcomed
Partners´ selection
Coordinator
ToR
A group can go wrong?
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Who is involved in ULGs:
stakeholders with interest in policy
challenge
Departments local administration
Elected bodies for different policy areas
Beneficiaries (young people, women, elderly, migrants, end-users, citizens)
NGOs, social enterprises, etc: especially those represent interests in
thematic issues
Different levels of government in the policy area (neighbourhood,
metropolitan area, region),
The private sector, business community, employers, public service
providers (Social Services, VET, ALMM, Public Enterprises),
Managing Authorities of Operational Programmes (whether ERDF or ESF)
as members or as observers
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Vast number of players in the tourism industry with
different goals and interests.
Bringing “interested parties” together is important
to realize there will be those who will gain income
and other benefits directly from the initiative, and
those who are affected by the initiative, but will not
gain financially.
However, to ensure an equitable process, it is
important to include both of these groups
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McKercher, B., du Cros, H. Cultural Tourism:The Partnership Between Tourism and Cultural
Heritage Management. (2002).
Theme Common Considerations Cultural Heritage
Considerations
Tourism Considerations
Stakeholder
Identification
and
Consultation
Identify all relevant stake-
holders as early as possible in
the process.
Invite their participation
throughout the process.
Listen to stakeholders’ concerns
and incorporate feedback into
day-to-day management once
the asset has been fully
developed as an attraction.
Listen to stakeholders’
concerns and incorporate
feedback into product
development, marketing,
and business strategies.
Be aware there are dominant
stakeholders with controlling
interests in the asset.
Understand their different
involvement, expectations
and capabilities.
Understand the perspective
of the tourism sector and
associated stakeholders.
Understand the perspective
of the cultural/heritage
manager and conservation
sector, as well as associated
stakeholders.
Note any history of conflict or
collaboration.
Types of
Stakeholders
Educational and research institutions,
conservation and heritage non-
govern- ment organizations (NGOs),
government agencies, museums,
indigenous groups, ethnic minorities,
religious groups, others.
Local, national and provincial
governments, tourism
organizations, tour operators,
local guides.
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Heritage-Tourism´s partners:
Municipality
Representatives from National/Regional
Local residents
Tourists organizations
Heritage agencies
Arts councils/Foundations
Heritage or Tourism businesses
Travel Agencies
Tour guides
Other industry groups (crafts, hostelry; etc.)
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ULG Coordinators
TASKS:
Organise ULG meetings
Oversee production of the Integrated Action Plan
Report on ULG activities at network level
Organise ULG's contribution to transnational activities
Take part in transnational network meetings &
capacity-building seminars
Report back to ULSG members
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ToR: Each network defines its own
terms of reference. It identify:
main categories of stakeholders to be involved in the ULG
average number of meetings (realistic!)
way ULG members will take part in transnational activities,
way ULSG will share the learning from transnational activity at
local level
core members who will benefit from capacity-building schemes
ToR agreed at beginning of Phase II
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EXERCISE: Stakeholder analysis
• Identify by 2 cities (in pairs) future ULG
members
• run evaluation importance – influence
• Show example of actions for IAP and SWOT
analysis for future ULG
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Source: Collaborative Framework for Food Systems Transformation
(UN Environment, 2019)
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EXERCISE 1
30 minutes
2 cities in pairs:
Cesena-Ukmerge;
Bragança-Belene;
Sibenik-Heraklion;
Catania-Mula
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Choose a Reporter: 3 minutes per
city pairs x plenary report
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Where partnerships can go wrong
Partnerships during good times. Times are harder = difficult agree on priorities +
activate confrontation. But if such conflict is managed, recognized and dealt with –
can prove positive
Partner ‘domination’: objectives are too defined by the interest of the leading
agent(s) – i.e. municipality or a “dominant” association – at the cost of other
interests
Partnership begins with high enthusiasm + difficult to maintain = partnership fades
(2 years ULG(
Hidden agenda or the partnership was created just to ‘keep up appearances’
Participants might have divided loyalties/duties (e.g. actors may be accountable to
the national level in relation to targets
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ULG
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Ideas for IAP and SWOT
analysis
Thank you/Gracias
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Any question?
Editor's Notes
Why URBACT focuses on participation?
Leads to better outcomes- win- wins, mitigating different interests, building ownership of both problems and solutions.
Linked to ‘right to the city’ – all voices heard in the development and animation of the city, in decision making.
Democratic imperative
local democracy is guaranteed through informal representation, participatory processes and public consultation. A fair and inclusive city is one that constantly asks itself questions about who is empowered to contribute to decision-making. Who has a seat at the table and is that enough ? Which voices are not being heard ? How can representation and knowledge gaps be filled?
Participatory approach to urban development. City administrations involved in URBACT networks set up URBACT Local Groups, composed of representatives of social, economic, environmental sectors (city staff, NGOs, SMEs, universities, citizens, and other stakeholders). Their objective is to find solutions to the needs and local challenges for which the city has joined a network. In addition to the city staff, these stakeholders also benefit from networking activities described above.
The major challenges identified by the Cities of Tomorrow report (European Commission 2011) include demographic change, climate change, growing inequality and socio spatial polarisation; globalisation and the weakening link between economic growth, employment and social progress, the lack of affordable housing. These problems can only be addressed by joined up solutions delivered through an integrated approach.
There are many forms of integration and because of its ubiquity in European discourse on urban and territorial development the word is in danger of losing its force. Here are five common uses of the term which are not mutually exclusive
The need to integrate economic, social and environmental challenges in order to join up solutions and minimise the effects of negative externalities
The need to develop partnerships at local level to bring together all of the main actors around a specific challenge in a joined up way
The need to align policies, interventions and funding upwards through the vertical chain of governance to ensure coherence and build scale.
The administrative boundaries that operate for each level within the vertical chain (e.g. regions, counties, municipalities, districts) rarely conform to the socio economic reality of spaces
The need to ensure that in metropolitan areas and city regions that cooperation takes place between adjacent municipalities in functional urban areas to ensure that negative externalities are not passed on across space and to minimise edge effects (where a target area spans more than one municipality) and displacement (whereby problems are solved in one area but pop up elsewhere)
The need to integrate hard (physical) investments with soft measures in urban regeneration. This is often expressed in terms of integrating the funds from Europe and in particular ERDF and ESF as a way of integrating physical investments with investment in human resources.
The actions within area-based interventions are often divided into ‘hard’ and soft’ measures. ’Hard’ interventions might involve physical restructuring programmes (e.g. demolition, new infrastructure and housing developments) or less hard measures, such as refurbishment of the housing stock, the public realm, provision of new facilities (especially social or cultural facilities and parks) and investment in public transport. ‘Soft’ interventions include strengthening networks and interactions between people in the area (for example through work integration and training programmes in specific areas, street work, local festivals where the community can gather), and support for individuals to access the labour market through training, work experience and job placement.
Overall, ‘hard’ interventions have the advantage of being more visible and easier to carry out (though with high cost and high levels of social fracture), while ‘softer’ interventions have a more complex, long-term and process-oriented character but may be cheaper and more effective in the long term.
The more complex the problem the more likely that it can only be addressed by horizontal, vertical and territorial integration while also ensuring that the content of responses is appropriate and balances physical investments with soft measures. Recognising the problem in all its complexity and then attempting to bring together all the relevant actors is a first step in almost any integrated approach.
It can easily happen that strategies and action plans are integrated but the implementation and delivery is not
Decision makers may find the participative processes complex and slow and this can often lead to resistance.
To overcome all these difficulties local governments and their officials require new capacities, new interdisciplinary skills and new ways of working with other organisations and a more participative approach to working with citizens.
How Local Action Plans be funded? Transnational exchange and learning. Major benefit of URBACT network = opportunity to identify potential resources
for funding and investment during the action planning process working in close cooperation with Managing Authorities responsible for European Structural Funds.
Increase a city's potential to secure funding: ULG encouraged to invite Managing Authorities to participate in local and transnational activities. This
helps to align the real needs and priorities of cities to potential sources of funding. Meetings lead to a better understanding of the challenges for the agencies
Taken from a presentation made by Lucy Pyne, of the LEED programme, at JobTown June 18th 2013 Transnational Workshop, in Avilés Spain http://urbact.eu/en/projects/active-inclusion/jobtown/our-outputs/