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Slide1
The
Operational Programmes in Portugal: state of play
Fátima Veiga
Porto
22nd
September
Slide2Europe is facing the worst financial, economic, social and political crisis since the 30s.
Portugal faces an economic and social crisis that is fundamental to respond to with responsibility / justice and equity
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Slide3AROPE: 27.5% (2014
po)Risk of poverty rate: 19.5%Child poverty rate: 25.6%The elderly poverty rate: 15.1%Material deprivation rate: 25.5%Unemployment rate: 11.9% in
june
2015
Youth unemployment rate: 34.8% in 2014
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Some
numbers
: 2013 (EU –SILC) Eurostat
Slide4Challenging moment
Negotiations on partnership agreement Started in 2013Approved by European Commission – 2014 July
Slide5European Structural Investment Funds
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Less developed regions (Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita <75% EU average)
North, Center,
Alentejo
and Azores
Regions in transition (GDP per capita between 75% and 90%) Algarve
Most developed-regions (GDP per capita> 90%) and Lisbon and Madeira
Three
Categories
of
Regions
:
Slide7Funds of the Cohesion Policy:
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)European Social Fund (ESF)Cohesion fund (CF) European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF)
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Funds
Covered
by
the
Partnership
Agreement
:
Slide8Thematic programmes:
Competitiveness and e Internationalization (co-financed by ERDF, ESF and Cohesion Fund) Social Inclusion and Employment (Co-financed by ESF) Human Capital (Co-financed by ESF)Sustainable Development and Efficient Use of Natural Resources (Co-financed by Cohesion Fund)5 Mainland Regional Programmes: Norte Centro Lisboa Alentejo Algarve
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Operational
Programmes
:
Slide92 for outermost regions:
Azores Madeira (co-financed by ERDF and ESF)3 Programmes of rural development :One in the mainland Two in the outermost regions One Programme for the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund
One Operational Programme on technical assistance (co-financed by ERDF)
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Operational
Programmes
:
Slide10For the period 2014- 2020 Portugal has been allocated 21.46 billion in total Cohesion Policy funding (ERDF, ESF, Cohesion Fund).
The share of ESF in the allocation of Structural Funds amounts to 41.19% or 7.5 billion of euros above the required minimum of 38.5% - amount that will help redress the social impact for the economic crisis and support a job-rich recovery.Approximately 1.6 billion of euros or 21.61% of ESF resources are allocated to social inclusion and combating poverty and any discrimination, above the minimum required in the Regulations.
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Budget:
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Portugal 2020 – How much is Portugal being allocated by
Programme
and by Fund?
Slide12Budget for Portugal 2020,
by thematic objective
Slide13Portugal 2020 – last developments
The Balcão 2020 is the accessing point to the Operational Programmes financed by ESIF (European Structural Investment Funds) to all entities wishing to apply for funds.Proposals will be then analysed and selected by the managing authorities of the correspondent OP or by entities with competence for this purpose, in accordance with the eligibility and selection criteria.First applications: started in the beginning of 2015
Slide14The architecture of the programs
is defined, but there are still many adjustments to make in terms of their procedure.In some cases applications have already opened, but the electronic forms are not available.
For the social area there is not yet
projects running. Some of them have been submitted but there are no decision.
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Portugal 2020
: Our concerns
Slide15In the social area the measures that exists are defined in a project logic, but the social problems can not be solved during the period of 18 months or two years of a funded project. We must have learned from the past!
Most of the measures in the social area are not innovative; most of them are the same of the previous period of Structural Funds.In some areas like equal opportunities and non discrimination the measures present in the OP social inclusion and employment are a copy of the national plans/strategies that already exist (i.e National
Roma
Integration
Strategy
).
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Portugal 2020:
Our
concerns
Slide16Social Inclusion - “An
explanation on the contribution of the ESF to the achievement of Europe 2020 targets is still missing, even though the PA says that this information will be detailed in the OP. The health strategy needs to be more specific on how to improve access to the health and social services by people in disadvantaged situations, since this is a key aspect to promoting social inclusion. The PA should include information on how the ESI Funds will be used to support this strategy.
Action
lines to fight poverty and social exclusion for the programming period
2014- 2020
must be better specified
. “
Observations on the Partnership Agreement with
Portugal, EC, May 2014
For us the European Commission concerns remain the same, even after
the approval of the PA.
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Portugal 2020:
Our
Concerns
Slide17“An
explanation on the contribution of the ESF to the achievement of Europe 2020 targets is still missing, even though the PA says that this information will be detailed in the OP. The health strategy needs to be more specific on how to improve access to the health and social services by people in disadvantaged situations, since this is a key aspect to promoting social inclusion. The PA should include information on how the ESI Funds will be used to support this strategy.
Action
lines to fight poverty and social exclusion for the programming period
2014- 2020
must be better specified
. “
Observations on the Partnership Agreement with
Portugal,
EC,May 2014
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Portugal 2020:
Our
Concerns
Slide18Priority given to qualification, education and training. Still the idea that poverty and social exclusion are solved in this way. But we don´t see a clear strategy to increase employability. There are a lot of measures to increase qualification, but not a proper strategy to employability!
Focus on results, which will mean cuts and penalties in case of non-compliance.
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Portugal 2020:
our
concerns
Slide19The obligation
to work on the basis of the results, especially in areas such as poverty and social exclusion can undermine the design of applications. Institutions working with the most disadvantaged groups and away from the labor market (long-term unemployed), and with lower qualifications, will have greater difficulty in designing a project especially at the stage where it requires the definition of results to be achieved with the project in the field of employability…
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Portugal 2020:
our
concerns
Slide20(…) This supremacy of the results could lead in the medium term, by distorting the mission of many organizations tend to select their beneficiaries, to ensure the conditions and prerequisites that enable the achievement of results. Thus, the final mission of social economy organizations, which is to reach those most in need and facilitate their empowerment and social integration, may be relegated to the background by choosing the "most able" in an attempt to also ensure the sustainability of the organizations themselves .
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Portugal 2020:
our
concerns
Slide21Concerning the partnership principle...
“Even if there are significant efforts in the partnership field, there could be some additional elements in the process, especially making sure that the most important stakeholders, and particularly NGOs, are reached and thus giving them more attention and a better opportunity to be listened to.It should be noted that the main added value of the partnership in the preparation of the PA are indicated in an extremely summarized manner, e.g. instances where the strategic choices have been significantly influenced by partners, or the main results of the consultation
with partners, including significant concerns, comments
an recommendations
raised by multiple partners. The list of consulted partners should
be
added
.”
Observations on the Partnership Agreement with Portugal, EC, May 2014
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Portugal 2020: some
remarks
Slide22Concerning the partnership principle...
These remarks made by European Commission in document of may 2014 still persist, even after the Partnership Agreement had been approved and the OP´s are implemented.We still have many doubts and uncertainties….We consider that NGO´s were not sufficient involved in the preparation of the Partnership agreement and we don´t how they will be in the implementation phase.
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Portugal 2020: some
remarks
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