NECPlatform

Romania

RO National Recovery & Resilience Plan

Levels Involved: National, Local

The Ministry of Development, Public Works and Administration organised, at the national level, consultations to determine priorities, needs, planned projects and selection criteria for allowing financing support through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. The consultations included national authorities, municipalities, associations of local authorities, experts, private sector representatives, scientists, academia, media, and civil society.Multi-level governance is envisaged for the implementation and monitoring of the Recovery and Resilience Plan. The coordination is ensured by the Inter-ministerial Committee for the Coordination of the Plan, responsible for examining progress in the implementation of the Plan, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Investment and European Projects (MIEP). MIEP is appointed as the national coordinator for the preparation, negotiation and approval of the Plan, assisted by the Ministry of Public Finances. Throughout the implementation appropriate coordination between the Recovery and Resilience Plan and the programs co-financed by the Cohesion and Regional funds as well as other funds, such as the Innovation Fund and Modernisation Fund under the EU Emissions Trading System will be ensured.

More information: https://mfe.gov.ro/pnrr/

Regional Operational Programme 2014-2020 and 2021-2027

Level involved: National, Regional (development agencies), Local

The elaboration of the Regional Development Plan for the Centre Region (RDP) was coordinated by the Centre Regional Development Agency. As a legal condition, the process required the establishment and implementation of regional consultative structures.

The governance of the Centre Regional Development Plan is ensured by the Regional Development Agency, which is the strategic de

Belgium

The Flemish Pact

Levels involved: National, Regional, Local

Flanders’ regional government in collaboration with Flemish municipalities established the Flemish Climate Pact in 2019 (in force in 2020) to ensure effective links with the regions regarding local needs on four key pillars: nature-based solutions, energy mitigation policies, mobility and water management. In order to join the initiative, municipalities are invited to sign the Covenant of Mayors – Europe and commit to 16 pre-defined target points, on top of pledging to a small list of other actions (e.g. developing a heat map, banning taxes on windmills, etc.).

Nearly 300 municipalities are participating so far (more than 95% of the total) choosing between 3 possible levels of engagement: the standard one – aligned with 2030 targets before the fit-for-55 package; the more ambitious one, aligned with the fit-for-55 package; or the most ambitious one, aligned with the fit-for-55 package and including social measures to alleviate energy poverty. One very important component of the Flemish Climate Pact is the change of narrative, using a multiple benefit approach and not only focusing on the fight to climate change, in order not to polarise or politicise the model.

Moreover, common objectives are made easy so that everybody can understand and are proportionate to the size of the municipalities e.g. objective to plant 1 tree per inhabitant. Monitoring is also a collective action and is publicly visible on the initiative’s platform. Reports are automatically generated bi-monthly by the platform. These serve as a basis to compare performance against identified objectives, also during meetings dedicated to such discussions among involved actors. Dialogues with the National Belgian Government occur every two years to assess progress and implementation. These dialogues encourage both interactions between public authorities and other actors (including ordinary citizens) to provide input and identify concrete contributions to achieve local/regional goals, highlighting co-creation and citizens’ involvement.

More information: https://lokaalbestuur.vlaanderen.be/lekp

Croatia

Croatian National Adaptation Strategy

Levels involved: National, Local

The Croatian Ministry of Sustainable Development and Economy is in charge for the development of the national climate change adaptation strategy (NAS). Since Croatia is a centralised country, the national level has the role to create the right framework to allow changes on the ground, which can be a challenge. In order to align the ambition of the NAS and the potentials at the local level, a national hub was put into place to gather the feedback, inputs and opinions of all key stakeholders.

The lead of the process is the Croatian Ministry of Sustainable Development and Economy and it involves a range of other stakeholders such as academics, scientists, civil servants, representatives of the media and various experts as well as the general public. The stakeholders provided the feedback either in their own name or in the name of the institution they represented. The Ministry drafted the NAS and published it in its draft form allowing for anyone interested in it to provide comments, feedback and criticisms. The process resulted in the collection of valuable feedback and inputs from key stakeholders which was the basis to draft a strategy more aligned with the actual needs and potentials from the local level and all relevant sectors. The developed platform is still online and operational.

More information: https://prilagodba-klimi.hr/hrvatska/

Use of PENTAHELIX approach for SECAP

Levels involved: Regional, Local

The approach was originally developed to support the drafting of SECAPs, in order to having it developed by external consultants (private or public entities or regional agencies) with very little interaction with the local authority, often resulting in generic documents not fully aligned with the needs on the local level.

The idea behind PentaHelix was to include the 5 key pillars of society (public, private, academic and NGO sectors as well as citizens) in the process of developing the plan from the start. All stakeholders are normally happy to participate and contribute, although getting ensuring their willingness to contribute long term can at times be challenging. Initially, the process has been tested on the development of two SECAPs (in Croatia) and was later replicated to other member states.

The method is now also used for the development of other local and regional level strategic documents. In practice, the initiative works thanks to a task force established around the specific topic of discussion. The task force is the central entity providing feedback and cooperating with the developer of the plan. The communication is implemented virtually and through physical meetings. Virtual communication revolves around the sharing of documents and the collection of immediate reactions and feedback. The physical meetings are organised every 3-4 months and are set up as a roundtable discussion on the relevant topic. The topics were adapted to the specific documents, stakeholders and progress of the overall process. The approach is used to generate concrete strategic documents but is intended to also follow up on implementation and monitoring.

More information: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/784994/results

Denmark

DK2020

Levels involved: National, Local

The idea behind DK2020 was first to adapt the Climate Action Planning Framework developed by the C40 cities network to the Danish context, with smaller cities and municipalities, from 20,000 to 500,000 inhabitants. This framework aims at achieving net CO2 neutrality by 2050. In Denmark, municipalities are the main entity in charge when it comes to energy and climate measures implementation; they are entitled to define climate actions as mandatory on their own territory upon democratic decision.DK2020 succeeded in bringing together 96 municipalities out of 98 in Denmark in a two-step process:

1. Adapt and apply the C40 methodology in 20 pilot municipalities
2. Disseminating the developed model in the other interested municipalities.

Concito coordinates the effort at national level, however action takes place locally, recruiting experts and academics at local level, working with the municipality and providing them with guidance. Another key success factor is the development of peer-to-peer training and advising between municipal staffs, as well as mayors from like-sized cities convincing each other to take action. DK2020 marks the first time this ambitious international standard is adapted and applied for use in smaller cities and municipalities.

More information: https://concito.dk/en/projekter/dk2020-klimaplaner-hele-danmark

France

National Council for the Ecological Transition

Levels involved: National, Regional, Local

The National Council for Ecological Transition was set up in 2013, following a comprehensive stakeholder debate with local and regional actors. The National Council acts as a permanent stakeholder committee to support the development of consistent national, regional and local climate and energy strategies.

The CTNE, which consists of stakeholders from the State, members of Parliament, municipalities, companies, trade unions and environmental NGOs, provides recommendations on national sustainable devlopment strategy, assists in preparing, monitoring and evaluating the objectives of national sustainability strategies, contributes to the drafting of position paper for international negotiations on environmental policies, and expresses its opinion on any issue relating to Sustainable Development on its own initiative. The National Council for Ecological Transition meets every two months and primarily conveys the views of local, regional and non-governmental stakeholders on national policy, informing the Ministries that will then implement national Sustainable Development policy.

More information: https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/cnte

Italy

River’s Contracts

Levels involved: Regional, Local

A River Contract (RC, generally referred to as the River Contract, but also of lake, coast or groundwater, wetland…) is a voluntary, technical, and financial agreement between the public and private partners concerned for global management, concerted and sustainable on the scale of a coherent hydrographic unit. The first RCs were born in France in the 1980s, and then spread to Belgium and many other European and non-European countries. They are signed by all the partners concerned and willing to improve the management of the river territories, Ministries, District Basin Authorities, Regions, Municipalities, Universities, Associations, but also individual local communities, professionals, entrepreneurs and citizens. They collaborate within the Board in a horizontal manner, without the need for protocols or formal commitments, bringing in just over a decade RCs to become one of the most interesting opportunities in the participatory management of Italian river basins.

What makes River Contracts popular locally is the perspective of acquiring a greater “awareness of place” through citizen participation; enhanced awareness and responsibility lead inhabitants and producers to care for the territory as “common good”. This helps to concretely revitalise the relations between citizenship and local institutions, helping to activate more effective models of self-sustainable local development. In this sense they can become bottom-up implementers of various integrated environmental strategies, such as the National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change. To date, 200 RCs are active, of which 64 are already underwritten and under construction.

More information: https://www.contrattidifiume.it/it/

National Adaptation Strategy

Level involved: National, Regional, Local

Defining the Italian National Adaptation Strategy has, provided for the activation of an Institutional Board composed of representatives of ministries and other public institutions relevant to the different levels of governance, such as universities and researchers, Committee of the Regions, the National Association of Communes and the Union of Italian Provinces. This Institutional Board was supported by a Technical Board, composed of around one hundred experts from organisations such as the CMCC – Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, the ISPRA – Institute for Environmental and Environmental Research, the CNR – National Research Centre, the European Joint Research Centre, Regional Agencies for Environmental Protection, and some universities. The contribution of these two Board ensured that the vision developed in the Strategy was fully shared by the political decision-makers.

More information: https://www.mase.gov.it/notizie/strategia-nazionale-di-adattamento-ai-cambiamenti-climatici-0

The Netherlands

Climate planning – DELTA programme

Levels involved: National, Regional, Local

The DELTA programme started in 1953, when dramatic sea floods in the Netherlands destroyed much of the north shores. A commission was installed to prevent such natural disasters in the future. Its work resulted in a world-known dam system preventing floods in the north shore, and in one governance structure bringing together the national government, water boards, provinces and municipalities and allowing them to work together in an innovative way, with inputs from knowledge institutions, social organisations, businesses and citizens.

The DELTA programme has three main areas of work: flood risk management, freshwater supply and spatial adaptation. The programme is structured into decisions (6 years periods), which are themselves translated into plans, that are concrete measures for implementation.

DELTA is not a top-down approach, but a cooperation between different administrative levels and other relevant stakeholders. The programme has its own DELTA commissioner and is structured in 40 work regions in the Netherlands. These actors can identify vulnerabilities to weather extremes, act as pilots for stress tests, and set out ambitions and policies to take necessary measures. They also work together with other supra-regions. The 40 work regions are mostly based on a structure based on water basins and rivers. Work regions are groups of a few municipalities who sit together to deal with challenges by meeting regularly. If challenges are similar in different work regions, then two or more work regions can decide to work together in order to exchange knowledge. There is also interconnection between work regions through the waterboards.

More information: https://www.government.nl/topics/delta-programme

Natural Gas Phase Out Strategy

Levels involved: National, Local

Phasing out gas in the Netherlands is necessary to meet Paris Agreement’s goals. Over 90% of Dutch residential and commercial buildings currently use gas or fossil fuel oil for heating and cooking. Therefore, gas and electricity grid operators play a key role in the transition, as their gas grids lose their purpose, and their electricity grids need to accommodate higher load due to electrifying part of the heat supply (e.g. with heat pumps) and to the integration of renewable power production capacity. This Strategy is based on two principles: affordability and feasibility. For the former, the strategy does not focus on the higher 10% of the population who can easily afford switching to a decarbonised heat source (district heating, heat pumps, biomass and biogas in rural areas), but rather on the lower 20%, in an integrated, neighbourhood-after-neighbourhood approach, as opposed to an individualistic approach.

In particular, the strategy highlights the importance of fitting the existing social construction (people, social context, built environment, financial structure), which is hardly feasible at any scale other than the district/neighbourhood level. The Strategy also established a maximum price on district heating indexed on gas prices, so that it can never cost more than gas heating.

Although the initiative is national, each neighbourhood is different, hence there is not one single pre-determined modus operandi to implement the strategy; each local entity has its own ad-hoc structure. It is acknowledged that this implementation method is more time-consuming compared to higher-level, streamlined processes, however the Strategy considers that it is the most efficient way to implement sustainable, citizen-backed change.

More information: https://ce.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/CE_Delft_210381_The_natural_gas_phase-out_in_the_Netherlands_DEF.pdf

Romania

RO National Recovery & Resilience Plan

Levels Involved: National, Local

The Ministry of Development, Public Works and Administration organised, at the national level, consultations to determine priorities, needs, planned projects and selection criteria for allowing financing support through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. The consultations included national authorities, municipalities, associations of local authorities, experts, private sector representatives, scientists, academia, media, and civil society.Multi-level governance is envisaged for the implementation and monitoring of the Recovery and Resilience Plan. The coordination is ensured by the Inter-ministerial Committee for the Coordination of the Plan, responsible for examining progress in the implementation of the Plan, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Investment and European Projects (MIEP). MIEP is appointed as the national coordinator for the preparation, negotiation and approval of the Plan, assisted by the Ministry of Public Finances. Throughout the implementation appropriate coordination between the Recovery and Resilience Plan and the programs co-financed by the Cohesion and Regional funds as well as other funds, such as the Innovation Fund and Modernisation Fund under the EU Emissions Trading System will be ensured.

More information: https://mfe.gov.ro/pnrr/

Regional Operational Programme 2014-2020 and 2021-2027

Level involved: National, Regional (development agencies), Local

The elaboration of the Regional Development Plan for the Centre Region (RDP) was coordinated by the Centre Regional Development Agency. As a legal condition, the process required the establishment and implementation of regional consultative structures.

The governance of the Centre Regional Development Plan is ensured by the Regional Development Agency, which is the strategic de

Many good examples of multilevel governance already exist across the globe. Understanding how multilevel governance is articulated in different national and regional contexts is important to feed the Climate & Energy Dialogue Platforms of the NECPlatform project. To this end, we have assembled a collection of practices (to be built on throughout the project), that can inspire and help develop the Climate and Energy Dialogues in NECPlatform countries and beyond.

Europe

Belgium

The Flemish Pact

Levels involved: National, Regional, Local

Flanders’ regional government in collaboration with Flemish municipalities established the Flemish Climate Pact in 2019 (in force in 2020) to ensure effective links with the regions regarding local needs on four key pillars: nature-based solutions, energy mitigation policies, mobility and water management. In order to join the initiative, municipalities are invited to sign the Covenant of Mayors – Europe and commit to 16 pre-defined target points, on top of pledging to a small list of other actions (e.g. developing a heat map, banning taxes on windmills, etc.).

Nearly 300 municipalities are participating so far (more than 95% of the total) choosing between 3 possible levels of engagement: the standard one – aligned with 2030 targets before the fit-for-55 package; the more ambitious one, aligned with the fit-for-55 package; or the most ambitious one, aligned with the fit-for-55 package and including social measures to alleviate energy poverty. One very important component of the Flemish Climate Pact is the change of narrative, using a multiple benefit approach and not only focusing on the fight to climate change, in order not to polarise or politicise the model.

Moreover, common objectives are made easy so that everybody can understand and are proportionate to the size of the municipalities e.g. objective to plant 1 tree per inhabitant. Monitoring is also a collective action and is publicly visible on the initiative’s platform. Reports are automatically generated bi-monthly by the platform. These serve as a basis to compare performance against identified objectives, also during meetings dedicated to such discussions among involved actors. Dialogues with the National Belgian Government occur every two years to assess progress and implementation. These dialogues encourage both interactions between public authorities and other actors (including ordinary citizens) to provide input and identify concrete contributions to achieve local/regional goals, highlighting co-creation and citizens’ involvement.

More information: https://lokaalbestuur.vlaanderen.be/lekp

Croatia

Croatian National Adaptation Strategy

Levels involved: National, Local

The Croatian Ministry of Sustainable Development and Economy is in charge for the development of the national climate change adaptation strategy (NAS). Since Croatia is a centralised country, the national level has the role to create the right framework to allow changes on the ground, which can be a challenge. In order to align the ambition of the NAS and the potentials at the local level, a national hub was put into place to gather the feedback, inputs and opinions of all key stakeholders.

The lead of the process is the Croatian Ministry of Sustainable Development and Economy and it involves a range of other stakeholders such as academics, scientists, civil servants, representatives of the media and various experts as well as the general public. The stakeholders provided the feedback either in their own name or in the name of the institution they represented. The Ministry drafted the NAS and published it in its draft form allowing for anyone interested in it to provide comments, feedback and criticisms. The process resulted in the collection of valuable feedback and inputs from key stakeholders which was the basis to draft a strategy more aligned with the actual needs and potentials from the local level and all relevant sectors. The developed platform is still online and operational.

More information: https://prilagodba-klimi.hr/hrvatska/

Use of PENTAHELIX approach for SECAP

Levels involved: Regional, Local

The approach was originally developed to support the drafting of SECAPs, in order to having it developed by external consultants (private or public entities or regional agencies) with very little interaction with the local authority, often resulting in generic documents not fully aligned with the needs on the local level.

The idea behind PentaHelix was to include the 5 key pillars of society (public, private, academic and NGO sectors as well as citizens) in the process of developing the plan from the start. All stakeholders are normally happy to participate and contribute, although getting ensuring their willingness to contribute long term can at times be challenging. Initially, the process has been tested on the development of two SECAPs (in Croatia) and was later replicated to other member states.

The method is now also used for the development of other local and regional level strategic documents. In practice, the initiative works thanks to a task force established around the specific topic of discussion. The task force is the central entity providing feedback and cooperating with the developer of the plan. The communication is implemented virtually and through physical meetings. Virtual communication revolves around the sharing of documents and the collection of immediate reactions and feedback. The physical meetings are organised every 3-4 months and are set up as a roundtable discussion on the relevant topic. The topics were adapted to the specific documents, stakeholders and progress of the overall process. The approach is used to generate concrete strategic documents but is intended to also follow up on implementation and monitoring.

More information: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/784994/results

Denmark

DK2020

Levels involved: National, Local

The idea behind DK2020 was first to adapt the Climate Action Planning Framework developed by the C40 cities network to the Danish context, with smaller cities and municipalities, from 20,000 to 500,000 inhabitants. This framework aims at achieving net CO2 neutrality by 2050. In Denmark, municipalities are the main entity in charge when it comes to energy and climate measures implementation; they are entitled to define climate actions as mandatory on their own territory upon democratic decision.DK2020 succeeded in bringing together 96 municipalities out of 98 in Denmark in a two-step process:

1. Adapt and apply the C40 methodology in 20 pilot municipalities
2. Disseminating the developed model in the other interested municipalities.

Concito coordinates the effort at national level, however action takes place locally, recruiting experts and academics at local level, working with the municipality and providing them with guidance. Another key success factor is the development of peer-to-peer training and advising between municipal staffs, as well as mayors from like-sized cities convincing each other to take action. DK2020 marks the first time this ambitious international standard is adapted and applied for use in smaller cities and municipalities.

More information: https://concito.dk/en/projekter/dk2020-klimaplaner-hele-danmark

France

National Council for the Ecological Transition

Levels involved: National, Regional, Local

The National Council for Ecological Transition was set up in 2013, following a comprehensive stakeholder debate with local and regional actors. The National Council acts as a permanent stakeholder committee to support the development of consistent national, regional and local climate and energy strategies.

The CTNE, which consists of stakeholders from the State, members of Parliament, municipalities, companies, trade unions and environmental NGOs, provides recommendations on national sustainable devlopment strategy, assists in preparing, monitoring and evaluating the objectives of national sustainability strategies, contributes to the drafting of position paper for international negotiations on environmental policies, and expresses its opinion on any issue relating to Sustainable Development on its own initiative. The National Council for Ecological Transition meets every two months and primarily conveys the views of local, regional and non-governmental stakeholders on national policy, informing the Ministries that will then implement national Sustainable Development policy.

More information: https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/cnte

Italy

River’s Contracts

Levels involved: Regional, Local

A River Contract (RC, generally referred to as the River Contract, but also of lake, coast or groundwater, wetland…) is a voluntary, technical, and financial agreement between the public and private partners concerned for global management, concerted and sustainable on the scale of a coherent hydrographic unit. The first RCs were born in France in the 1980s, and then spread to Belgium and many other European and non-European countries. They are signed by all the partners concerned and willing to improve the management of the river territories, Ministries, District Basin Authorities, Regions, Municipalities, Universities, Associations, but also individual local communities, professionals, entrepreneurs and citizens. They collaborate within the Board in a horizontal manner, without the need for protocols or formal commitments, bringing in just over a decade RCs to become one of the most interesting opportunities in the participatory management of Italian river basins.

What makes River Contracts popular locally is the perspective of acquiring a greater “awareness of place” through citizen participation; enhanced awareness and responsibility lead inhabitants and producers to care for the territory as “common good”. This helps to concretely revitalise the relations between citizenship and local institutions, helping to activate more effective models of self-sustainable local development. In this sense they can become bottom-up implementers of various integrated environmental strategies, such as the National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change. To date, 200 RCs are active, of which 64 are already underwritten and under construction.

More information: https://www.contrattidifiume.it/it/

National Adaptation Strategy

Level involved: National, Regional, Local

Defining the Italian National Adaptation Strategy has, provided for the activation of an Institutional Board composed of representatives of ministries and other public institutions relevant to the different levels of governance, such as universities and researchers, Committee of the Regions, the National Association of Communes and the Union of Italian Provinces. This Institutional Board was supported by a Technical Board, composed of around one hundred experts from organisations such as the CMCC – Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, the ISPRA – Institute for Environmental and Environmental Research, the CNR – National Research Centre, the European Joint Research Centre, Regional Agencies for Environmental Protection, and some universities. The contribution of these two Board ensured that the vision developed in the Strategy was fully shared by the political decision-makers.

More information: https://www.mase.gov.it/notizie/strategia-nazionale-di-adattamento-ai-cambiamenti-climatici-0

The Netherlands

Climate planning – DELTA programme

Levels involved: National, Regional, Local

The DELTA programme started in 1953, when dramatic sea floods in the Netherlands destroyed much of the north shores. A commission was installed to prevent such natural disasters in the future. Its work resulted in a world-known dam system preventing floods in the north shore, and in one governance structure bringing together the national government, water boards, provinces and municipalities and allowing them to work together in an innovative way, with inputs from knowledge institutions, social organisations, businesses and citizens.

The DELTA programme has three main areas of work: flood risk management, freshwater supply and spatial adaptation. The programme is structured into decisions (6 years periods), which are themselves translated into plans, that are concrete measures for implementation.

DELTA is not a top-down approach, but a cooperation between different administrative levels and other relevant stakeholders. The programme has its own DELTA commissioner and is structured in 40 work regions in the Netherlands. These actors can identify vulnerabilities to weather extremes, act as pilots for stress tests, and set out ambitions and policies to take necessary measures. They also work together with other supra-regions. The 40 work regions are mostly based on a structure based on water basins and rivers. Work regions are groups of a few municipalities who sit together to deal with challenges by meeting regularly. If challenges are similar in different work regions, then two or more work regions can decide to work together in order to exchange knowledge. There is also interconnection between work regions through the waterboards.

More information: https://www.government.nl/topics/delta-programme

Natural Gas Phase Out Strategy

Levels involved: National, Local

Phasing out gas in the Netherlands is necessary to meet Paris Agreement’s goals. Over 90% of Dutch residential and commercial buildings currently use gas or fossil fuel oil for heating and cooking. Therefore, gas and electricity grid operators play a key role in the transition, as their gas grids lose their purpose, and their electricity grids need to accommodate higher load due to electrifying part of the heat supply (e.g. with heat pumps) and to the integration of renewable power production capacity. This Strategy is based on two principles: affordability and feasibility. For the former, the strategy does not focus on the higher 10% of the population who can easily afford switching to a decarbonised heat source (district heating, heat pumps, biomass and biogas in rural areas), but rather on the lower 20%, in an integrated, neighbourhood-after-neighbourhood approach, as opposed to an individualistic approach.

In particular, the strategy highlights the importance of fitting the existing social construction (people, social context, built environment, financial structure), which is hardly feasible at any scale other than the district/neighbourhood level. The Strategy also established a maximum price on district heating indexed on gas prices, so that it can never cost more than gas heating.

Although the initiative is national, each neighbourhood is different, hence there is not one single pre-determined modus operandi to implement the strategy; each local entity has its own ad-hoc structure. It is acknowledged that this implementation method is more time-consuming compared to higher-level, streamlined processes, however the Strategy considers that it is the most efficient way to implement sustainable, citizen-backed change.

More information: https://ce.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/CE_Delft_210381_The_natural_gas_phase-out_in_the_Netherlands_DEF.pdf

Romania

RO National Recovery & Resilience Plan

Levels Involved: National, Local

The Ministry of Development, Public Works and Administration organised, at the national level, consultations to determine priorities, needs, planned projects and selection criteria for allowing financing support through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. The consultations included national authorities, municipalities, associations of local authorities, experts, private sector representatives, scientists, academia, media, and civil society.Multi-level governance is envisaged for the implementation and monitoring of the Recovery and Resilience Plan. The coordination is ensured by the Inter-ministerial Committee for the Coordination of the Plan, responsible for examining progress in the implementation of the Plan, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Investment and European Projects (MIEP). MIEP is appointed as the national coordinator for the preparation, negotiation and approval of the Plan, assisted by the Ministry of Public Finances. Throughout the implementation appropriate coordination between the Recovery and Resilience Plan and the programs co-financed by the Cohesion and Regional funds as well as other funds, such as the Innovation Fund and Modernisation Fund under the EU Emissions Trading System will be ensured.

More information: https://mfe.gov.ro/pnrr/

Regional Operational Programme 2014-2020 and 2021-2027

Level involved: National, Regional (development agencies), Local

The elaboration of the Regional Development Plan for the Centre Region (RDP) was coordinated by the Centre Regional Development Agency. As a legal condition, the process required the establishment and implementation of regional consultative structures.

The governance of the Centre Regional Development Plan is ensured by the Regional Development Agency, which is the strategic de