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Who is Who in the project
Project Manager
Management Team
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Ms Fabiana Farro, Municipality of Prato, Office of International Projects and Co-operation
Ms Livia Marinetto, Executive Manager
Ms Anna Vecchi, as Administrative Officer
Ms Lorena Vidas, as Project Assistant and Web Site Manager
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The Project Leader is supported in its work by a Steering Committee composed of the members representing the whole partner areas (Italy, Eastern Europe, Maghreb Countries and other Arab Mediterranean Countries) that decides the practical organisation of the activities, under the co-ordination and the supervision of the Project Manager;
Moreover, a Scientific Committee composed of technical external experts, ensures that homogeneous working standards and quality of accomplishments are met. It establishes and promotes working frameworks and terms of references to better carry out the activities on the partnering contexts. The representatives of the Scientific Committee are the following:
- Local-Global Srl & Partners (Florence, Italy)
- NGO UCODEP (Arezzo, Italy)
- Scuola di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna di Pisa / The Sant' Anna School of Advanced Studies, Laboratorio IN-SAT (University of Pisa, Italy)
- University of Florence, Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Department of Animal Biology and Genetics "Leo Pardi".
Some shots of the Partner representatives at the Kick-Off Meeting held in Prato on 02-04 April 2007 during the plenary sessions, and the working groups with the Scientific Committee of the Project:
The Project at a GlanceStarting Date: 20th November 2006 - End Date: 20th November 2009
The PAMLED Project aims at strengthening the capability of 3 Mediterranean and 5 European Municipalities (including South East Europe) in managing local development as well as in implementing innovative initiatives of economic promotion and environmental care in two fields of action: i. Planning and management and ii. City marketing.
The internal staff of the 8 Municipalities involved will implement a selection of pilot actions both on sustainable development and management, and on city marketing. These initiatives will be characterised by pro-active interventions in many fields of action that could envisage: tourist attraction and enhancement of local assets and products, image building, support and growth of specific economic categories, environmental actions, etc. This final result will be achieved by carrying out many activities both within the Municipalities and among them.
A particular effort of the network has been placed to involve the civil society, while a permanent feedback is being encouraged to gather citizens and relevant stakeholders’ point of view. Importance has been placed to the promotion of a bottom-up approach in the local choices with emphasis on citizens’ participation and the use of local partnership and consensus to implement specific policies.
The PAMLED has been designed to be implemented in FOUR PHASES:
The first 6-month PHASE (1) focuses on field analyses within the communities involved. This phase foresees the implementation of participatory approaches (civil society capacity building, community consultation, focus groups, etc.) to better involve citizens on partnering contexts problems, as well as to raise local authorities’ awareness of local needs in order to better re-adjust priorities and strategies for the following phases of the project.
The strengthening of capabilities finds its main source and engine in the ‘collective learning’ achieved through the project partnerships and exchange of practical experiences among the local Authorities.
During the second 12-month PHASE (2) the Partners, through the pivotal role of two Working Groups that shall be constituted along two fields of interest
(1. Local Planning and Management and 2. City marketing), get involved in a process that
i. Works within the same Municipality structure to achieve its results (through an institutional analyses to asses legal framework and evaluate the degree of local empowerment, as well as the effective development role that can be allocated at the Municipality level);
ii. Promotes the exchange of experiences and the setting-up of a policy benchmarking system based on an experimental-learning approach and;
iii. Encourages the Partners to involve the final beneficiaries of the selected policies to better asses the real impact and achievements reached with the implementation of those interventions. As, too often, local problems have been randomly tackled.
The final result of this phase is the identification and drafting of pilot interventions at the local level. Interaction among Partners during working groups’ activities and shared interest on a specific field of action will allow the constitution of city-to-city networks that will support practical training and technical assistance during the pilot projects implementation.
During the third 14-month PHASE (3), at least 8 pilot projects will be implemented in the Mediterranean Partner Countries. Each Local Authority will select one junior professional officer that will be trained by the internal staff of another Municipality that has gained expertise on the specific field addressed by the pilot action. Technical assistance will be delivered during the whole pilot actions cycle mainly by the other partner cities belonging to the same city-to-city partnership, as well as by the external experts members of the Scientific Committee that will support the interaction of the network partners.
Finally, evaluation and dissemination (Phase 4), respectively, allow, over the long run, a correct implementation of actions and a rise of the desired multiplier effects. A specific activity envisages the research of new Municipalities to be involved in the city-to-city networks that will be created within this proposal.
The expected results of the PAMLED can be summarized as follows:
i. enlarge mutual knowledge of socio-economic problems affecting their own contexts, share and debate, based on an experimental and collective-learning approach, different ways of dealing with them;
ii. foster their reciprocal relationships by setting up explicit and ad hoc methods of co-operation, based on city-to-city partnerships, in specific topics regarding local economic development;
iii. raise their awareness of citizens point of view about specific services delivered and methods pointing out to cope with specific problems;
iv. better mark out local needs and priorities and, counting on on-site and on-line tailored-technical assistance, single out the pilot projects in the sub-topics identified throughout the PAMLED;
v. implement a selection of experimental pilot projects based on targeted technical assistance and practical training to be undertaken in another Municipality that has already gained expertise on one of the specific sub-topics of action.
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