Integr ated Territorial Investment (ITI)

1. IntegratedTerritorialInvestment (ITI) Zsolt SZOKOLAI CC Inclusive growth, urban and territorial development European Commission DG Regional and Urban Policy

2. Urban (and area-based) development • Integrated • with a global and comprehensive vision of the city • taking into account the need to improve the economic performance, the eco-efficiency and social cohesion of the city • assuring citizens’ quality of life and welfare in all the existing communities and neighbourhoods of the city • Participative • involvement in urban development through citizen participation • URBAN ex-post: successful projects are the participative ones • Inclusive • Reduce social polarisation by paying special attention to deprived neighbourhoods within the context of the city as a whole • ‘Integrated’ also refers to ‘inclusive’: inclusive shared project of coexistence, to combat social exclusion and spatial segregation

3. Reinforced urban dimension of the Cohesion policy • "Cities should be in the heart of the debate" – Cannot achieve our goals without cities • Increase role of cities in the delivery of our policy objectives • Involve in programming and implementation • Proposing tools for sustainable territorialdevelopment • Need for addressing territorial challenges • We offer flexible tool to facilitate integrated approach • Thematic objectives – linked to Europe 2020 • Priority axes: correspond to one or more investment priorities of a thematic objective

4. Integrated sustainable urban development strategies • Setting out integrated actions to tackle • Economic • Environmental • Climate • Social • Demographic challenges (EP position) • Article 7 ERDF

5. Implementation tools for integrated actions for SUD strategies • Multifund OP (priorityaxesfundedbydifferentfunds) • New territorial tools to implement integrated strategies • ITI, CLLD, Multi-objective priority axes • URBACT: capacity building to improve performance on CP implementation • Urban Development Platform: dialogue on the use of new territorial instruments • Urban Innovative Actions: try new ideas

6. Urban and territorial dimension of the future CP Minimum 5% of ERDFfor integrated urban development withUrban authoritiesresponsibleforimplementation Cross-border and inter- regional cooperation ITI Community-led local development Multi-objectivepriorityaxis Thematic objectives,(Urban) investment priorities OP URBACT Urban development platform Urban innovative actions (0,2% of ERDFat EU level)

7. Sustainable urban development – 5% is just the minimum • At least 5% of ERDF underInvestmentforjobs and growthgoalfor SUD with Urban authoritiesresponsibleforimplementation (at leastselection of operations) • May be implemented • through an operational programme • throughmulti-objectivepriorityaxes • through ITI • 5% is linked to the involvement of cities, not to the use of one particular implementation tool • No direct relations between the content of ITI and the urban-specific priorities

8. Urban and inclusive investment priorities of ERDF • 4(c) supporting energy efficiency and renewable energy use in public infrastructures and in the housing sector; • 7(c) promoting sustainable urban mobility • 8(b) local development initiatives and aid for structures providing neighbourhood services to create new jobs • 9(b) support for physical and economic regeneration of deprived urban and rural communities; • 11 enhancing institutional capacity and an efficient public administration

9. ITI – how does it work? • ITI is an implementation tool of an urban development strategy or other territorial strategy or pact, which requires integrated approach – Ex-Article 99(1) CPR • Bundle funding from different priority axes and programmes (ERDF, ESF, CF), may be complemented with financial support from EAFRD and EMFF • For a functional area at the appropriate territorial scale • More than one priority axis of one or more OPs • MA may designate one or more intermediate bodies to carry out the management and implementation of an ITI

10. 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

11. ITI – interventions • Intervention logic – Matrix of territorial and thematic objectives • 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 • Forms of support • Can be grant, FI. CLLD can part of it

12. ITI is to implement (tipically parts of a) territorialstrategy with • Vision • Describe the elements of the intended territorial change • Strategy • Based on the development needs of the territory • Logical link betweenplannedoperation and intendedchange • Identify corresponding thematic priorities for each operation • Coherent and cohesive with the synergies between planned actions considered and presented • Result indicator related to main territorial objective of strategy • Implementation arrangements, including possible delegation • If appropriate, assessment of capacity for implementation

13. ITI –coherence with programmes • Territorial strategy should be coherent • With the integrated approach to territorial development of the PA • With the territorial approach of the programme (or programmes) Critical size: Appropriate investment priorities (based on development needs of the territory) andproportionate financial allocation Ensuring an appropriate governance arrangement

14. When to use ITI? • There is an integrated territorial strategy • Territorial strategy can have thematic focus (e.g. Urban mobility plan) • Complex sectoral policy: design the priority axis accordingly • OP divided on sub-regional level: in principle possible. Functional territory? • Implementation requires integrated investments from more than one priority axes (or operational programmes) • Can ensure that number of priorities and resources allocated to an ITI are proportionate and reflect to the need of the territory • Do not define contributing priority axes uniformly on national or regional level • Management arrangements allows simple implementation structure • Preferably single management organisation (IB) responsible for implementation

15. Sustainable urban development and ITI Example: Member State A Regional ERDF-ESF OP National/sectoral ERDF OP ESF OP Intermediary body I T I CF OP

16. Possible implementation arrangements for multi-OP ITI • MS designate an IB for management and implementation of an ITI • Define investment priorities of priority axes of 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 systemforthe programmes providesfortheidentification of operationsof a priorityaxis • COM role in assessment of performance: progress report?

17. Programming – Why should cities follow the process? • Partnership Agreement sets out • Analysis of disparities, development needs, growth potentials with reference to thematic objectives and territorial challenges – Article 14(1)(a)(i) CPR • Integrated approach to territorial development – Article 14(2)(a) CPR • Arrangement to ensure an integrated approach to the use of CSF Funds for the territorial development, in particular the implementation arrangements for ITI, CLLD – Article 14(a)(ii) CPR

18. Programming – OP to describe Art 87(3) • Integrated approach to territorial development, having regard the PA, showing how the integrated approach contributes to the accomplishment of the programme objectives, specifying: • the principles for identifying the cities where integrated actions for SUD will be implemented • indicative annual allocation of ERDF support • including the resources delegated to cities for management under Art 7(2) ERDF [OP, ITI, multi-objective priority axes] • indicative allocation of ESF support • Approach to the use of ITI outside urban, and their indicative financial allocation from each priority axis • Implementation arrangements

19. ITI in ETC • Art 10 ETC: the intermediate body to carry out the management andimplementation of an ITI shall be an EGTC or other legal body established under thelaws of one of the participating countries • ITI creates the possibility to combine actions financed from different strands of ETC and mainstream programmes • Relevant to cross-border and trans-national programmes

20. Relation between ITI and CLLD • Territorial strategy to be implemented through ITI can have CLLD as one component of the strategy • If within an ITI, consistency to be ensured (eg. urban strategy ITI + specific urban neighbourhood targeting through CLLD partnership approach) • Having a CLLD within ITI is not granted: CLLD should always go through the selection procedure as required in Art 29(3)–(5) CPR and described in the PA and OPs

22. Useful links • Fact sheet on ITI: • http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/what/future/proposals_2014_2020_en.cfm • Guide to Ex-ante evaluation • http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docoffic/2014/working/ex_ante_en.pdf • SAWP documents and presidency compromise texts

23. Thank you very much for your time and your attention! Zsolt.SZOKOLAI@ec.europa.eu +32 229 65 288