SLAP 2.0 Information System First Online National Database of Infrastructure Projects Miodrag Gluscevic Head of the Department for Communal Issues, Urban Planning and Environment Regional Workshop Climate Change Fundamentals and Local Action September 19-22, 2011 Bratislava, Slovakia

– Brief history – Why SLAP? – Focus of SLAP – Institutional cooperation – Key Functions of SLAP 2.0 – Challenges 2 Overview

3 Logo and Acronym System for Local Authority investment Pipeline SLAP in Serbian language means cascade and here the symbol for a continuous stream of project toward higher maturity for investment

4 Brief history SLAP was developed in the scope MIASP (EU funded Programme) Handed over to SCTM in December 2007 With the support of MISP Programme SLAP was upgraded to v 2.0 a web based platform Current development is supported by EU funded programmes MISP 2 and Exchange 3

Need to accelerate development of public municipal infrastructure (vibrant and competitive Serbia, EU accession) Need to document and prioritize projects at the local, regional and national level (scarce national financial resources, access to EU and donors grants & loans) Need to coordinate resources allocation at the governmental level (balancing economic, environmental and social investment) 5 Why SLAP?

Public municipal investment exclusively Investment in the three key pillars of sustainable development Bottom up approach with demand driven projects coming from municipal interest Value adding to central government to speed- up and optimize allocation of financial resources 6 Focus of SLAP

Quality: Accurate project data supplied by interested municipalities and validated by experts Flexibility: Web enabled data entry and multiple “user- adapted” scoring, evaluating and reporting Transparency: Objective scoring based on published quantitative scoring protocols 7 Core Values

Moving towards sector based approach Relevance: projects that contribute to implementation of strategies Managing supply and demand (EU accession process) Institutional aspect 8 New phase of SLAP IS development

Three Kinds of Public Municipal Infrastructure Economic Environmental Social 9 Type of infrastructure

Offering services of general economic interest crucial to economic growth Business Incubators Tourism Clusters Industrial zones and Technological Parks Free zones Logistical centers Business support centers Others 10 Economic Infrastructure

Necessary for efficient environmental municipal services and to ensure long term environmental sustainability Water supply Wastewater Municipal solid waste Water (storm water & flood control) Contaminated Remediation Energy (district heating, energy efficiency & renewable energy) Others 11 Environmental Infrastructure

Necessary for the fair equitable redistribution of the fruits of economic success among all segments of the community especially the more vulnerable like the older, disabled, diseased or less able Social housing Health care Sport Culture, and heritage protection Preschool education Elementary schools Vocational schools Residential care facilities (elderly, disabled, etc.) 12 Social Infrastructure

SLAP Working Group was established in order to improve: Alignment of SLAP IS with national and EU requirements, Cooperation in area of local infrastructure funding, Capacities of LSG units. – Access to streamlined databases of scored municipal project pipelines available for financing – Access to intelligence about evolving projects and their maturity toward for implementation – Access to customized reports about projects and projects pipelines 13 Cooperation with LMs and Value for Central Government Agencies

146 SLAP Coordinators appointed Focus on regional centers & RDAs Cooperation with the PUCs Using SLAP IS as a tool for internal coordination and cooperation Strategic planning and capital budgeting Access to expertise for infrastructure project development and finance mobilization Access to funding for project preparation and investment Access to expertise for project formulation and prioritisation 14 Cooperation with LSG Units and Value for the Municipalities

Project Data Entry: Web enabled project data entry by a municipal project owner (or its representative) Projects Scoring: Methodology, set of criteria, indicators and routines applied to rank projects Projects Evaluation: Methodology, set of criteria, indicators and routines applied to evaluate project pipeline(s) Projects Reports: User defined project profile report format for project validation, presentation, ranking and evaluation by various stakeholders 15 Key Functions of SLAP 2.0

Web-enabled: Data entry through web-link out of project owner office Project Profile Version: Report representing a project development status at a given point of time Project Profile Certification: Printed project profile version signed and stamped by project owner Projects Profile Validation: Official acceptance of a certified project profile version as precondition for ranking for support by decision makers 16 Project Data Entry

17 SLAP log-in page

Level 1: Scoring for Eligibility into Sectoral Project Pipeline Level 2: Scoring for Project Preparation Support (finance for feasibility study) Level 3: Scoring for Project Financing for Implementation (finance for construction) 18 Three Levels of Project Scoring

Project Profile for Validation: Report that comprises i) standard project data form and ii) a scoring summary Project Profile for Reporting: “User defined” project reports created by the SLAP manager for users; (formats to include EU project fiche, logframe, project data sheets required by various funding agencies and ministries, etc.) to document, share and exchange project profiles 19 Project Reports

Project pipeline

Projects Scoring Reports: Project reports presenting the scores of different projects to decision makers and stakeholders. Project Pipeline(s) Evaluation Reports: Project pipeline evaluation report presenting the status of groups of projects from the perspective of a sectoral project pipeline. 21 Other Reports

SLAP IS as a sustainable and continues system for presenting municipal priorities Identifying and planning inter-municipal and regional projects Role of regional institutions 22 Challenges

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