Some reflections from the policy point of view
- Results of the evaluation on urban development
Workshop on Evaluation
25 April 2013, Budapest
Content
1. 2007-2013 – Manual on Urban Renewal,
Integrated Urban Development Strategy
(IUDS)
2. Policy framework, new legislations
3. 2014-2020 – Revision of Integrated
Settlement (Urban) Development Strategy,
preparation of Integrated Territorial
Investments (ITI)
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Manual on Urban Renewal
• Where it began: Proposal of the EU, requirement for
social urban regeneration interventions within the ROPs
2007-2013
• Methodological support for cities, a guide for applying
successfully for the calls in October 2007
• Supplement the detailed guides for applications (ROP)
• Valuable information in a unified framework, valid
nationwide
• Originally necessary only for cities of county rank and
for larger cities with complex structure in case they
apply for the Structural Funds
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Manual on Urban Renewal
Manual includes:
1.integrated urban development strategy
(chapters: analysis, strategy and implementation
tools;
2. action area plan;
3. guidelines to for setting up an urban
development company (agency)
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Integrated Urban Development Strategy (IUDS)
• Objective: integrated approach
• Medium term (7-8 years), strategic document, oriented to
implementation
• Necessary to be revised in every 2-3 years
• Discussed and approved by a resolution of the elected General
Assembly of the municipalities for ensuring legitimacy
• Reluctancy at the beginning, but finally two third of the
Hungarian cities prepared it!
- Manual on Urban Renewal was revised in 2009
- Modification of the Law on the Built Environment in 2009
→ the preparation of IUDS became a legal requirement for
every city
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Policy framework, new legislations
Includes:
• Modification of the Act on Local Governments in
2011
• National Development Concept and National
Concept for Territorial Development 2014-2030 –
their revision are under preparation
• New government regulation, 314/2012 (XI.8) on
settlement development concept, integrated
settlement development strategy and means of
spatial planning defines in detail the content of such
documents and the process of their preparation
based on partnership
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Sustainable urban development 2014-2020
Revision of IUDSs, preparation of ITIs
• Revision of IUDSs is necessary taking into account
development trends, the EU 2020 strategy and the
new logical framework of cohesion policy
• COM proposal: ITI - great expectations in Hungary
For cities of county rank:
• National level provides assistance: call for proposal
for ensuring financing, methodological guidelines,
individual mentoring
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Revision of IUDSs, preparation of urban ITIs
• ROP 2007-2013 urban development priority supports
the planning process and is complemented with TA
allocation for mentoring
• Cities of county rank can apply, 40 million HUF for a
city (130 thousand €), planning should be extended
to functional urban areas (1181/2013 Gvt. decree)
• Overall objective is to renew the IUDS in the light of
cohesion policy and prepare, if the strategy justifies,
ITIs in harmony with the thematic objectives and
investment priorities
• Draft methodological guidelines are ready
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Some reflections
ITI based on revised IUDS can:
• Harmonize national and local level development
objectives
• Negotiate better projects with sectoral ministries
• Provide synergies between the urban core and the
surroundig settlements
• Ensure calculable financing
• Decrease administrative burden
• Build on local human and institutional implementing
capacities
• Result sustainable and integrated projects
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Thank you for your attention!
Dr. Andrea Iván
Department of Spatial Planning and Urban Development
Ministry of Interior
E-mail: andrea.ivan@bm.gov.hu
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