Increasing territorial development planning capacities of planning regions and local governments of Latvia and elaboration of development planning documents

Title	Increasing territorial development planning capacities of planning regions and local governments of Latvia and elaboration of development planning documents
Project number	4.3-24/NFI/INP-002
Programme	Norwegian Financial Instrument 2009-2014 (NFI) program "Capacity strengthening and institutional cooperation between Latvian and Norwegian state institutions, local and regional authorities"

Lead partner

1. Ministry of Smart Administration and Regional Development (Latvia)

Project partners

1. Kurzeme Planning Region (Latvia)
2. Vidzeme Planning Region (Latvia)
3. Riga Planning Region (Latvia)
4. Zemgale Planning Region (Latvia)
5. Latgale Planning Region (Latvia)
6. Urban Institute (Latvia)
7. Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development of Norway (Norway)
8. Oppland Regional County (Norway)
9. Østfold Regional County (Norway)
10. Aust-Agder Regional County (Norway)

Project objectives

Project objective is to increase territorial development planning capacities of planning regions and local governments of Latvia and to elaborate development planning documents.

Activities

1. Strengthening the capacity of planning regions for elaboration of regional development planning documents;
2. Improvement of territorial development planning capacities of local governments;
3. Establishment of linkage between the development planning and budget planning at the local level;
4. Elaboration of national long-term thematic plan for the coastal area of the Baltic Sea.

Budget

Total budget: 1 195 972 EUR

VPR budget: 66 121 EUR

Implementation period

08.11.2013.-30.04.2016.

Contacts

Ieva Kalniņa
Tel: +371 64116006
E-pasts: ieva.kalnina@vidzeme.lv