Local Development and Resilience

• At least €31,245,000 shall be made available for the programme area “Disaster prevention and preparedness”. From this allocation, approximately €27,445,000 shall be made available to develop civil protection infrastructure, to be further defined in the Concept Note. Approximately €3,800,000 shall be made available for a pre-defined project for resilience preparedness activities and collaboration between state, municipalities and civil society towards crisis response coordination, with the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Latvia as Project Promoter, in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia and State Fire and Rescue Service and partners from the Donor States.
• At least €8,000,000 shall be made available for the programme area “Local development, good governance and inclusion”. From this allocation approximately €5,000,000 shall be made available for capacity building on emergency preparedness and response for municipalities, NGOs and citizens, including through a pre-defined project with the Latvian Association of Local and Regional Governments as Project Promoter in cooperation with the Ministry of Smart Administration and Regional Development of the Republic of Latvia, the Latvian Association of Large Cities and the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities. Approximately €3,000,000 shall be made available for a pre-defined project addressing information integrity, civic engagement, resilience and crisis preparedness with the Latvian National Library, in collaboration with regional libraries and relevant Donor project partner(s).
• The maximum level of funding for investment in infrastructure and equipment (hard measures) shall be set in the Programme Agreement.
• The Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Latvia, the Ministry of Welfare of the Republic of Latvia, the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Latvia and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia shall be involved in the design and implementation of the programme as relevant.
• The Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection shall act as Lead Donor Programme Partner for the programme. The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities shall act as Donor Programme Partner for the programme area "Local development, good governance and inclusion”.
• The programme shall contribute to enhanced societal resilience in Latvia. As part of this, the programme shall address challenges experienced as a result of the invasion of Ukraine.
• The programme shall give particular attention to facilitating development in the Latgale region.
• The programme shall include measures to strengthen the resilience of the region bordering Russia and Belarus in response to challenges arising from the invasion of Ukraine. This shall be supported with the amount of approximately €500,000 from the programme, and be further developed during the Concept Note development phase.

No projects have been signed under this programme. That is a real state rather than a gap in the data: bilateral funds and newly agreed programmes both sit here.