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” The Scandinavian Welfare Model – Four Countries – Four Regional models”,

” The Scandinavian Welfare Model – Four Countries – Four Regional models”, Conference in Hamar, Norway, 9.5.2007 The Regional Self-government Experiment in Kainuu Region Juhani Kärkkäinen, Development Director The Joint authority of Kainuu Region (FI). IVALO. 625 km. KAINUU.

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” The Scandinavian Welfare Model – Four Countries – Four Regional models”,

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  1. ” The Scandinavian Welfare Model – Four Countries – Four Regional models”, Conference in Hamar, Norway, 9.5.2007 The Regional Self-government Experiment in Kainuu Region Juhani Kärkkäinen, Development Director The Joint authority of Kainuu Region (FI)

  2. IVALO 625 km KAINUU Suomussalmi Puolanka OULU KAJAANI Hyrynsalmi 181 km Vaala Ristijärvi Paltamo Kuhmo Vuolijoki Kajaani Sotkamo HELSINKI 568 km Kainuu in Finland

  3. Kainuu in proportion to the whole of Finland Forest area 2003 8,6 Total area - 2007 7,3 Roads 2006 6,1 Rural Population 2000 3,1 Summer cottages 2005 2,9 Primary production 2004 2,7 Unemployed 2006 2,5 Populat. over 64 years 2006 - 1,9 Population 2006 1,6 Number of farms 2005 1,6 Pop. with educat qulificat. 2005 1,6 Employed workforce 2004 1,4 Services 2004 1,3 Secondary production 2004 1,2 Housing Production 2005 0,8 0 2 4 6 8 10 - Percentage of the whole country Source: Statistics FInland Joint Authority of Kainuu Region

  4. Kainuu municipalities

  5. Renewing Kainuu Kainuu Regional Plan 2025

  6. STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPMENT – REGIONAL PLAN 2025 VISION 2025 ”Kainuu offers a high quality of living through skills, enterprise and cooperation”

  7. STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPMENT – REGIONAL PLAN 2025 JOINT DEVELOPMENT MISSION ”Improving the appeal and competitiveness of Kainuu as a place in which to live, a location for business and a tourism destination”

  8. Regional plan 2025 • Focusing for development • Five industry clusters have been chosen for special development in the future: • ICT, electronics and metal • Tourism, leisure time and culture • Forestry and wood processing • Food stuff production • Welfare

  9. Regional plan 2025 Innovation and excellence • Three cores as focus in developing innovations: Information and Communication Technology • Measuring • Embedded applications • Wireless instrumentation • Software products • Renewing industry with IT applications Tourism, leisure time and culture • Sport technology applications • International products in nature-, culture-, sport- and event tourism • Renewing travel industry with IT applications Welfare • New ways to produce services in public and private sector • New IT applications in social and healthcare • Functional food

  10. THE REGIONAL SELF-GOVERNMENT EXPERIMENT IN KAINUU REGION

  11. The Act on the Regional Self-government Experiment in Kainuu * passed by the Finnish Parliament in February 2003, * took force January 1,2005, lasts to the end of 2012

  12. The purpose of the experiment(by the law ) To obtain experiences on the strengthening of regional self-government on • development of the region • organizing the basic services • citizen participation • municipal administration • activities of the governmental district bodies • relations between the governmental and regional administration

  13. REASONS FOR INITIATING THE EXPERIMENT Kainuu (and other similar regions in Finland) are facing major development challenges: • structural trends in industries • declining population with rapidly aging demographic structure • low rate of employment • lack of entrepreneurship, and • weakening municipal economies • to overcome and reverse the negative trends Kainuu was seen as a suitable testing ground for new types of administrative and financing structures

  14. THE AIMS OF THE EXPERIMENT • to ensure health care, social services and educational services for all inhabitants of the region • to bring the guidance of regional State administration of business subsidies into one regional democratic organization • to better focus regional development activities • to initiate larger, more effective projects • to create new enterprises and jobs

  15. Three main elements of the experiment 1. Regional democracy 2. Increased responsibility to the region for its own development – delegation of governmental decision making 3. Provision of basic services on regional level

  16. Regional democracy (1/1) • For the first time on the Finnish • mainland, • a democratically elected • regional council • was granted administrative powers • that has traditionally been the • domain of central government or • governmental district bodies

  17. Regional democracy (2/1) REGIONAL COUNCIL * the highest decision making body on the regional level *elected for a four-year term by the citizens

  18. Regional democracy (3/1) Election of councillors • 39 councillors were elected by secret and direct ballot, in accordance with the principles of proportional representation • The first regional election was arranged at the same time with the municipal election in October 2004

  19. Delegation of decision making (1/2) In the Finnish national budget for 2005 * most of the national funding for the regional development of Kainuu has been grouped into a single subsection

  20. Delegation of decision making (2/2) • Regional council decides on • the allocation of resources • allotted to the region in the • national budget

  21. Provision of basic services (1/3) Why to provide services regionally ? Providing services regionally aims to ensure equal services to all citizens. The previous, distributed model of service production (by individual municipalities) would have been resulted (in all likelihood) within a short time, in concentrating the activities in the regional centre, Kajaani.

  22. Responsibility for welfare policy transferred from the municipalities to the region (2/3)Thus, the region is responsible for • health care and social services (with the exception of children`s day care) • vocational and upper secondary education and professional adult education Financing of the services remains with the basic municipaties.

  23. ORGANISATION OF KAINUU REGIONAL AUTHORITY REGIONAL COUNCIL AUDITING COMMITTEE REGIONAL BOARD MANAGEMENT GROUP PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMITTEE FOR COMMITTEE FOR REGIONAL PLANNING AND PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT UPPER SECONDARY AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND HEALTH FINANCE ADMINISTRATION TECHNICAL AND CATERING SERVICES

  24. From the viewpoint of Kainuu the experiment is permanent • There is no return to the old system in 2012 • It is important • to create and adopt new and better practises to meet the challenges we face • to achieve new jobs and enterprises.

  25. The Region of Kainuu • has proved to be an interesting pilot region that – we believe – is of interest also to European partners • is interested in changing experiences • is open to good advice • is also looking for cooperation, benchmarking and common projects.

  26. The operational values of the Joint authority of Kainuu • Fairness • Productivity • Trust in future • Customer orientation • Individual responsibility • Transparency and mutual confidence

  27. Programme for Citizen Participation(approved by the Regional Council, 2006) • Special focus • Children and youngsters • Elderly • Handicapped • Unemployed • Multicultural • Citizen and 3rd sector associations

  28. Programme for Citizen Participation • Means, examples • Education, advice, special materials for the schools • Youth councils • Information (incl. on-line services) • Interactive cooperation forums • Feed-back channels

  29. For further information Juhani Kärkkäinen Development Director +358 44 7100858 juhani.karkkainen@kainuu.fi www.kainuu.fi

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