Transcript Poland today. The Diagnosis Low level of GDP per capita in

Building the project base –
working in partnership
Michał Olszewski
Deputy Director
CSF Managing Authority
Ministry of Regional Development
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Poland today. Short overview
• 312 t sq km
• 38,5 m inhabitants –population is declining due to
negative natural growth rate and emigration
• Member of the EU bordering with Russia, Ukraine and
Belarus
• Unitary country with 3 tiers of elected regional and local
authorities
• At regional level – elected and governmental
representatives
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Poland today. The Diagnosis
• Low level of GDP per capita in comparison with EU
average
– Poland average 52% of EU 25 GDP per capita in PPS (2005)
– All 16 NUTS II regions below 75% threshold, 4 of them at the bottom of
the European list
• Growing disparities – important but....
– Mazowieckie (Warsaw region) one of the fastest growing regions in
Europe (but no longer the fastest!) with a speed of 10 pp between 19972003 (72,8% in 2003),
– Rural regions in danger of falling down - no convergence at all in 3
regions: Opolskie, Lubelskie, Podkarpackie,
– Eastern part of Poland is further lagging behind: 33,2%-35,7% and no
convergence at all!
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Administrative system
Structures of regional policy – key players
• Government –
– Ministry of Regional Development –
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Development of strategy for cohesion policy,
Co-ordination of implementation of cohesion policy
Evaluation of cohesion policy
Direct management of all sectoral programs co-funded by the EU
Supervision over regional programs
From 2007 in power to plan the state budget in area of development
spendings
• Spatial long-term strategy development (from former Governmental
Centre for Strategic Studies) and forming a new system of
coordination between spatial and regional policy
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Structures of regional policy – key players
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• Government –
– Other line ministries
• Development of sectoral strategies
• Implementation of priorities (not separate programs!) within development
programs managed by the Ministry of Regional Development
• Implementation of programs not fully incorporated to the system of regional
policy
• Ministry of Economy – Lisbon strategy development and coordination
– Ministry of Finance
• Overall supervision over public finance system
• Paying authority for 2004-2006 but not certification body for 2007-2013
• National Audit body
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Structures of regional policy – key players
(cont.)
• Regions–
– Marshal Offices –
• Development of strategy for regional policy,
• Implementation of their own programs and program
coofunded by the state (contracts) and UE (currently one big
program from 2007 on 16 Regional Operational Programs)
• Coordination between different programs and strategies at
regional programs
• Evaluation
– Voivodeship (governmental) offices
• Supervision overregional and local authorities,
• Paying and control function (from 2007 only control function)
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Structures of regional policy – key players
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• Other players - beneficiaries
– Big cities
• Importance is growing thanks to money
– Social and economic partners –
• Weak so far but their importance is growing
– Different territorial lobbies
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Agriculture and rural areas lobby
Old traditional industry lobby (Coal)
Eastern Areas
Transport
Sustainable development and ecology
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Polish projects
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Focus on investments
Agriculture and
fisheries
7%
Grants for
enterprises
4%
Others
4%
Roads & railways
38%
HRD
8%
Social infrastructure
5%
Information society
7%
Environement
infrastructure
27%
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Main beneficiary – public sector
przedsiębiorstwa
8%
placówki ochrony zdrowia
1%
rolnicy i rybacy
5%
inne
2%
placówki oświatowe,
jednostki naukowobadawcze
2%
administracja rządowa,
państwowe agencje i
jednostki budżetowe
32%
NGOs
3%
jednostka samorządu
terytorialnego
47%
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Concentration of projects on big cities
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EU contribution per capita in zł
Average per capita for Poland - 1277 zł
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Capacity of the municipalities
Municipality
Projects
Inhabitants (in th.
- 2004)
Warszawa
20
1 700
Wrocław
19
633
Biskupiec
16
10
Bodzanów
16
8
Łódź
15
765
Toruń
13
208
Szczecin
13
411
Koszalin
12
105
Elbląg
12
127
Poznań
12
567
Morąg
12
14
Gdynia
11
252
Słupsk
11
99
Zamość
11
66
Strzegowo
11
8
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How to stimulate project
pipeline?
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Partnership possibilities
• Municipalities Associations
– Local infrastructure
• Municipality – NGO
– ESF projects
– accessibility to external financing to enterprise
• Municipality – Enterprise
– PPP
• R&D Unit – Enterprise
– R&D Projects
• Municipality – R&D Sector
– Technological park,
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Polish best practices
• Project pipeline – under Phare project
– Training
– Manuals
– Advisors
• Technical assistance
– Advisors
– Training
• Model projects
– Manual
• Training
• Pre-assessment
• Partnership conferences
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