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Integrated action plans:
Länder stipulations
The following summary is based on generally accessible written statements issued by the Länder.
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg largely follows the criteria described in the administrative agreement (tender invitation of 1999 and a currently valid bulletin of 21 May 2001 from the Ministry of Economics on the urban renewal and development programmes planned for 2002; cf. also the wording of the administrative agreement, quoted in the article by Becker/Böhme/Meyer in this issue, page 2, first column). Other than that, no detailed references exist.
Bavaria
The supreme building authority in the Bavarian Interior Ministry has more precisely defined several organizational and content aspects above and beyond the statements made on integrated action plans in the administrative agreement (Oberste Baubehörde im Bayerischen Staatsministerium des Innern, Arbeitsblatt zur Städtebauförderung in Bayern:Soziale Stadt, Munich, July 2000, p. 25 ff.). “An important facet of integrated action plans is involving local players – residents, businesses, property owners, institutions – in framing plan design and encouraging them to demonstrate their own initiative. (...) integrated action plans must feature organizational rules at municipal and neighbourhood level (establishment of neighbourhood management)” and “shall ensure that stakeholders, local players and neighbourhood management participants collaborate extensively.” The paper also states that “modifications and new goals shall be regularly introduced over the total course of the, usually long-term, renewal process.” “Drafting of integrated action plans by municipal commissioners is eligible for funding”.
Berlin
As part of the Land programme Socially Oriented District Development and Establishment of Integrated District Processes – Neighbourhood Management – in Areas with Special Development Needs, 15 Berlin districts were selected early in 1999 as pilot neighbourhood management areas for sustainable improvement and stabilization over a period of three years. The second neighbourhood management interim report (Abgeordnetenhaus von Berlin, parliamentary paper 14/1045, Soziale Stadtentwicklung in Berlin: Erfahrungen mit dem Quartiersmanagement, p. 6, Berlin 2001) underlines the significance of integrated action plans in Berlin. “The basis (for decisions of control committees in neighbourhood management districts) is the integrated action plan tailored to the respective neighbourhood management district and approved by all relevant stakeholders.” Further strategic specifications for integrated action plans are “continually negotiated and approved in municipal-district task forces, in Land organizations and in meetings between municipal and borough government bodies.”
Brandenburg
The proposed supporting guidelines for Brandenburg’s action programmes targeting urban districts with special development needs contain statements on integrated action plans (Ministerium für Stadtentwicklung, Wohnen und Verkehr, Entwurf einer Förderrichtlinie zur Handlungsinitiative des Landes Brandenburg für städtische Gebiete mit besonderem Entwicklungsbedarf„Zukunft im Stadtteil – ZiS 2000“, 21 December 2000). The Land considers integrated action plans for the district an important basis for implementation of action programmes. “The integrated action plan draft shall show how and whether working procedures, decision-making processes and responsibility patterns are integrated as required, both horizontally and vertically.” Residents and all public and private players should work together, starting in the design phase, to conceive activities and measures. Plans should include concrete estimates of spending, including all related costs, and clearly state how measures are to be financed. “The design of integrated action plans is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (EFRD)”. Sometimes it also provides monies for revising and expanding. “The design phase for integrated action plans should usually last no longer than six months. Activities and measures should be implemented over the course of four to six years.” Applying indicators to activities helps assess performance of individual measures in the various districts during the entire process and afterwards.
Bremen
The Socially Integrated City programme is closely linked to the action initiative Bremen has been running since 1998. Seven bodies are responsible for implementing the Wohnen in Nachbarschaften (Living in Neighbourhoods or WiN) (Senator für Bau und Umwelt/Senator für Frauen, Gesundheit, Jugend und Soziales, Handlungsprogramm „Wohnen in Nachbarschafte (WiN) – Stadtteile für die Zukunft entwickeln“, August 1999). Stipulations for integrated action plans do not yet play a significant role in the Land’s action initiative. Bremen adheres to the statements in the federal-Land administrative agreement on the Socially Integrated City programme.
Hamburg
In August 2000 the city’s development authority published guidelines on neighbourhood social development concepts (Leitfaden zur Darstellung von Quartiersentwicklungskonzepten im Rahmen der Sozialen Stadtteilentwicklung) as an aid for borough offices and neighbourhood developers designing integrated plans. They include an introductory text explaining the situation and problems of the area and the development aims of the individually specified fields of activity, and giving details on costs, funding and the forecast project duration. Fields include “citizen cooperation and district life”, “work, training and employment”, “local economy and supplies”, “transport and mobility”, “housing”, “living environment and open spaces” and “social infrastructure”. A tabular summary of measures, projects and needs provides an overview of each project’s scope, contents, participants, costs and financing and priorities. “The project design shall include details on the projected duration of the publicly sponsored process and on what strategies and measures are to be employed to ensure that the district is empowered to maintain and continue the processes and structures after the official project has ended (self-reliant development).” Designing, supervising and extending neighbourhood development plans is the central task of district management (Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Stadtentwicklungsbehörde, Das Hamburger Programm zur Sozialen Stadtteilentwicklung – Bericht zur Programmsteuerung und –organisation, August 1999). The guide repeatedly emphasizes that action plans should incorporate scope for extension.
Hesse
Hesse ’s HEGISS initiative organizes experience sharing throughout the Land. It includes detailed stipulations for integrated action plans (Hessisches Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Verkehr und Landesentwicklung, Hessische Gemeinschaftsinitiative „Soziale Stadt“, September 2000). The initiative stresses that plans should formulate a primary objective “to be augmented with a concrete district development programme and implemented via different projects”. It also identifies five components of a plan of this kind: “activating residents and improving equality of opportunity”, “strengthening the local economy”, “improving social conditions and cultural life”; “stabilizing urban development” and “improving living conditions”. A municipality must devise an “integrated urban district development programme” in order to receive support. The design process of this is also eligible for funding. The initiative states that involvement of important protagonists from the public, private and nonprofit sectors is a prerequisite for success. In order to design “integrated district development programmes” municipalities must “provide the necessary organizational structures to enable affected departments to cooperate closely among themselves and with local players and the population, and establish coordination committees for rapid, collaborative action (district management)”. Hesse ’s scheme also envisages extending its district development programmes.
Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
Integrated action plans in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania are based on the administrative agreement (Ministerium für Arbeit und Bau Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and a manual: Arbeitshilfe „Stadtteile mit besonderem Entwicklungsbedarf – die soziale Stadt“). Further demands on the organization and content of integrated action plans are contained in the current ministry guidelines on integrated district development concepts. The design of district-related action plans for Socially Integrated City programme areas is eligible for funding. The plans should form a part of the “integrated urban development concepts” for the city as a whole, which are now supported by the federal-Land Stadtumbau programme (city remodelling).
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony also orients its integrated action plan design on the administrative agreement. The urban development fields defined in the administrative agreement are augmented by “women’s projects” (cabinet draft: Städtebauförderung „Stadtteile mit besonderem Entwicklungsbedarf – die soziale Stadt“, 1999). Lower Saxony states that the problems of urban districts with special development needs should be tackled by an integrative concept amounting to a holistic improvement strategy in a comprehensive package of targeted social and environmental infrastructure policies.
North Rhine-Westphalia
The federal-Land programme Socially Integrated City is closely related to the North Rhine-Westphalia action initiative Districts With Special Renewal Needs, launched in 1993 (Ministerium für Arbeit, Soziales und Stadtentwicklung, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Stadtteile mit besonderem Erneuerungsbedarf – Ressortübergreifendes Handlungsprogramm der Landesregierung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf 1998). The action initiative contains the following statements on integrated action plans: “Acceptance into an interdepartmental programme is contingent on the integrated action plan (...)” The Land does not impose binding regulations on municipalities devising integrated action plans “since previous experiences of integrated district renewal have made it clear that the established approach is dependent on various local conditions, district size, participants, administrative structures, political majorities and the specific situation of the district.” However, the following structures have proved to be effective and are thus also recommended to municipalities: “At municipal level at least the design phase of an integrated action plan requires an interdepartmental task force, which should naturally also convene to extend the programme.” It also makes urgent calls for an “administrative leader as chief contact, coordinator and mediator within local government. The establishment of a district office has also proved useful. This functions as a port of call and advice centre and carries out tasks relating to publicity, citizen participation and particularly activation measures.”
The initiative identifies 13 fields of activity as the main focuses of social district development. Social fields include integration/community life, schools and sport, health and fitness. In general the Land advises municipalities to devise plans themselves, making them as interdepartmental as possible and involving all relevant players, since additional studies are eligible for funding. The Land also gives municipalities practical guidance on the design of integrated action plans, eliminating the need for written regulations.
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate’s integrated action plan design is patterned on the administrative agreement. It has no additional statements or stipulations.
Saarland
In Saarland the federal-Land programme Socially Integrated City is incorporated in the Environment Ministry programme ‚Stadt-Vision-Saar‘ – Integriertes Stadtentwicklungsprogramm für städtische Problemgebiete im Saarland . Stadt-Vision-Saar financial support is conditional on a district integrated development plan. “All affected Land-level departments must reach a consensus on district development plans before they are accepted into the programme.” In February 2001 the Environment Ministry devised a Stadt-Vision-Saar checklist to assess applications for funding and integrated action plans. It contains the following optional criteria: Inventory and structural analysis, analysis of strengths, weaknesses and aims, project planning, citizen participation in designing and implementing plans, project coordination and district management, and concomitant evaluation and performance monitoring.
Saxony
Saxon Interior Ministry guidelines of March 2000 describe in detail how integrated action plans are to be designed. They state that “superordinate development strategies and individual development aims must be presented for the districts within the context of the whole city, or of the entire region, if required”. The design should specify development strategy focuses in the following fields of activity: civic involvement/district life”, “local business, labour and employment”, “neighbourhood centres”, “social, cultural, educational, sport and leisure infrastructures”, “housing” and “living environment and ecology”. Measures and projects should be devised for each field. The following points explain the integral components of the plans. “Measures to ensure the efficient and proper implementation of district development projects and schemes. An internal programme and project management body (district administration) and, if required, an additional external body (private persons or companies) shall organize these measures. Measures include various players and all affected government departments. District residents should be involved from the initial design phase. Appropriate tools and procedures must be developed for implementing plans. They must ensure participation of citizens, private players and investors and business and social partners. City government should set up organizational structures to improve communication between different departments. A further requirement is a financial summary of all urban development measures and projects and an overview of the annual tranche for all financial sources.” City and town councils make final decisions on action plans. The guidelines foresee a later extension phase for implemented plans.
Saxony Anhalt
Saxony Anhalt’s URBAN 21 initiative provides the framework for district social development in the Land. Its combination of various support programmes, including Socially Integrated City, is meant to guarantee measure funding. According to the Housing, Urban Planning and Transport Ministry’s Landesinitiative Urban 21, Richtlinie zur Stadtentwicklung in Sachsen-Anhalt of September 1999, all Socially Integrated City districts in Saxony Anhalt are also URBAN 21 areas. Acceptance on the special assistance scheme depends on the existence of an appropriate integrated district development plan for the applying district. The initiative sponsors preparation, implementation and subsequent assessment and monitoring of district development plans. When designing development plans and setting priorities for the implementation of individual plans, the preferred structures are those which guarantee participation of municipal offices, companies (including housing associations) and other local players. “The Land government attaches great importance to citizen participation in measures and in detail shaping and to effective district management of urban plan implementation.” In addition, statements should be made as to the form and scope of citizen participation, publicity work and business and social partner involvement.
Schleswig-Holstein
Like several other Länder, Schleswig-Holstein’s requirements for the design of integrated action plans mirror the terms of the administrative agreement. “The Ministry for Women, Youth, Housing and Urban Planning shall vote on action plans and their extension. They justify urban planning funding and shape pooling with other funds and programmes” (Minsterium für Frauen, Jugend, Wohnungs- und Städtebau, Programmkonzeption Soziale Stadt Schleswig-Holstein, July 1999). The Land foresees extension of action plans.
Thuringia
Thuringia has adopted the administrative agreement as the foundation of its own stipulations for integrated action plans (Richtlinien zur Förderung städtebaulicher Sanierungs- und Entwicklungsmaßnahmen, Städtebauförderungsrichtlinien – ThStBauFR). Thuringia does not have any additional regulations for integrated action plans.
Cathy Cramer,
Maren Regener (intern)
Difu
Source: Soziale Stadt - info 7, Der Newsletter zum Bund-Länder-Programm Soziale Stadt, German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu), Berlin, 2002
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