Transcript Functionalities for Finnish cities General introduction

Reference Framework for
Sustainable Cities (RFSC)
Some useful functionalities for
Finnish cities
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The Reference Framework for Sustainable Cities
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What is the RFSC?
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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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The content of the tool
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Three main sections of RFSC
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Profile and Network
Exchange experiences and learn from other cities:
 describe your city with some simple characteristics
 add documents, photos, use existing documents
 tell what is useful for other cities to stimulate exchange and learning
 search engine to find other cities to start sharing and learning with
 directory of cities and institutions to contact
 catalogue of showcases to learn from
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Three evaluation 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 suits your needs!
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Tool 1: Develop strategy or project
Helps to develop a sustainable and integrated urban
development strategy with a checklist
… in line with:
− the city’s own priorities
− European objectives and
principles
− general and detailed
objectives
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Tool 2: Check the integrated approach
Check with a qualitative evaluation tool the integrated
approach of an urban strategy or project
 by checklist of questions
 based on a vision of a European
sustainable city
 stimulate discussions
 positive or negative impacts?
 conflicts or synergies in objectives?
 visualise the results
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Tool 3: Build a monitor system
Helps to monitor the progress over time
– 33 recommended key indicators
(e.g. EU 2020)
– some targeted values
– a broad collection of other useful
indicators in library
– detailed explanation of all
indicators in library
– possibility to add own indicators
– a spreadsheet to build own
monitoring systems
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The “core” of the 3 evaluation tools
25 objectives on sustainable urban development
• covering European objectives and principles
• inspired by practices in some 200 European cities
• grouped by the 4 pillars of sustainability
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economy
social affairs
environment
governance
• each objective specified with sub-objectives to go into
details and to stimulate further debate
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What are the benefits of the RFSC?
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Better communication
• about sustainable and integrated strategies and projects
• amongst and between different groups
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technical departments in the city administration
elected representatives
planners, practitioners and experts
citizens and stakeholders
at different political and multi governance levels (local, regional,
national, European)
• through illustrating and explaining decision-making processes
– compare the impact and results for different alternatives
– improve coordination
– give reasons for the choices taken
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Better results
• making urban strategies and projects more sustainable
• fostering integrated thinking and actions
– raising awareness about potential synergies
– warning about possible gaps and conflicts
– creating cost-savings in the long run
• assessing progress over time
– identifying the potential need for adjustments
• building capacity in urban management
– learning step-by-step with a strong focus on the process
– finding useful examples and show cases from other cities
– exchanging with peer-cities and learning from each other
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Background of RFSC
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Background and political context
Decisions of EU Ministers for urban development
• Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities (2007)
– Promote the integrated approach
– Pay special attention to deprived neighbourhoods
• Marseille Statement (2008)
– Create a tool for cities to implement the Leipzig Charter
– France initiated the “Reference Framework”
• Toledo Declaration (2010)
– Prototype of the RFSC
– Test the RFSC with a larger group of cities (66)
• Poznan (2011)
– Improve and then diffuse among European cities
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A joint European initiative
• Cities and local authorities networks (CEMR, Eurocities, ICLEI)
• Member States of the EU
• European Commission (DG Regional and Urban Policy)
• Multi-level working structure
– Urban Development Group (political monitoring committee)
– Member States and Institutions group (MSI group)
– National Support Groups
– Management Team (joint leadership: France, DG REGIO, trio presidencies)
• Expertise and support
– CSTB (technical expert, webmaster)
– National Support Groups
– Platform31, ICLEI and CEMR (RFSC secretariat, information, training)
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A common European platform
No evaluation or judgement of cities
 but critical self-assessment of cities and conscious decisionmaking
No standardisation of urban development
 but creating a space for debate
 adaptable to the national context and the local situation
No measuring or ranking of cities
 but comparing different approaches and results
No obligation for cities, no precondition for funding
 but cities contributing to common European objectives
No fees for cities, no financial support
 but e-learning, exchanging and capacity building
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How to start using the RFSC?
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Access to RFSC and
RFSC-secretariat
rfsc.eu
Contact secretariat
[email protected]
As visitor
• easy to explore the RFSC
• all tools and user guides available
• no sharing and networking
• no safeguard of work
• sharing, networking and learning
As RFSC city
• all your strategies and projects later
available for further developing/checking
• all kind of support of RFSC-secretariat
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