RFSC in practice. A toolkit for the integrated approach

RFSC - The toolkit for the
INTEGRATED APPROACH
Koos van Dijken, Pamela Mühlmann
Lucjan Goczol, Richard Mühlmann

The RFSC Conference 2013 - Towards a European Model of a Sustainable City, 9 October 2013, Brussels

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A toolkit for cities
• an interactive web-tool
• facilitating the dialogue about sustainable
and integrated urban development
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within cities
between cities
with local stakeholders
across sectors
at different political levels (local, regional, national,
European)
– within different levels of governance
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Benefits: better communication & results
• about sustainable and integrated strategies and projects
• amongst and between different groups
• fostering integrated thinking and actions
• illustrate and explain decision-making processes
• compare the impact and results for different alternatives
• improve coordination and give reasons for the choices taken
• assessing progress over time
• building capacity in urban management
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Three main sections of RFSC

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3 main tools
Checklist to develop a sustainable urban
development strategy
Check whether a strategy or project is
developed in an integrated manner
Build a monitoring system to evaluate a
strategy or project

Choose the tool that best fit your needs

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The “core” of the 3 tools
25 questions on sustainable urban development
• covering the European objectives and principles
• grouped by the 4 pillars of sustainability
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economy
social affairs
environment
governance

• each question specified with sub-questions to go into
details and to stimulate further debate
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The RFSC City Regensburg, Germany


Regensburg
• Located in the German Federal State of Bavaria and
capital of the Bavarian region “Upper Palatinate”
• Approximately 153,000 inhabitants
• High tech economy and UNESCO World Heritage site


Obermuenster Quarter
• Part of the Old Town
• 6.2 hectare in size; more than 1,000 inhabitants
• Redevelopment area since 2011
• Flagship project of the Local Action Plan, URBACT project “HerO“


Checking the Obermuenster Quarter
with the Integrated Approach Tool


The RFSC City Bytom, Poland


Bytom – what and where?
• Southern part of Poland
• Silesian Region
• 69,44 square km
• 174 724 citizens
• Founded in 1254
• 15 km from the region capitol
Katowice
• 25 km from the Katowice Airport


The Development Strategy of Bytom 2009-2020
ASSUMPTIONS (2008)
• The Development Strategy of Bytom is a fundamental form of addressing challenges of the
present-day civilization and problems that local communities have to face.
• From one hand as a vision of the development of the city of Bytom, this strategy is agreed
upon together with local partners, from other hand the development strategy is a blueprint
for establishing the rudiments of programming of future investments on the local level.
• The document was approved by City Council in May 2009.
• The core of strategy are the five priorities (which means the area where the intervention
must be undertake) within the vision of development
DOCUMENT REVIEW – COCNLUSIONS (2011-2012)
• City of Bytom must concentrate on two main priorities areas which are rebuilding the
economic base and improvement of cities public spaces
• Involving more partners in the process of implementation is required
• Improving of monitoring and evaluation system is required

The Bytom Development Strategy has used the
Integrated Approach Tool in the testing phase…


…and will be enriched by the
Monitor your Progress Tool.


RFSC GOVERNANCE KEY RECOMENDED INDICATORS

Value 2009

Value 2012

Action required

Latest approval or revision date of a master plan with an
integrated vision for the city as a whole

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2009

Review

Percentage of local budget dedicated to Deprived
Neighbourhoods Areas compared to global local budget

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Calculation

Case by
case

Regulary

Keeping

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Implementation of
the monitoring and
evaluation system

To what extent does your city promote the cooperation and /or
coordination with other municipalities and/or other levels of
government?
To what extent do you evaluate the progress of your
policies/strategies/projects and do you adapt them according to
your findings?

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NOTES
 To use any monitoring system you need have access to the data
 Thanks that you are able to describe your current situation (diagnose)
 If you establish sets of aims – you need to precise value at the beginning (where are you now) and at
the end of implementation
 RFSC Monitoring tool can be helpful at the beginning to describe yours current situation and can be an
inspiration to define your own indicators, related to the four integrated development pillars
More information: http://urbact.eu/fileadmin/Projects/LCFacil/outputs_media/Final_Brochure_online.pdf

Dialogue

Evaluation

Networking

Integration


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