📋 Tender Overview
Reference: LIFE22-IPC-BG-LIFE-SIP-CLIMA-SUMP/101104610
Acronym: LIFE22-IPC-BG-LIFE-SIP CLIMA-SUMP
Start Date: 01/01/2024
End Date: 30/06/2030
Total Eligible Budget: 16,171,490 €
EU Contribution: 9,629,968 €
BACKGROUND
The SIP aims at supporting local authorities to create administrative, organizational, technical and financial conditions for the full implementation of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs), contributing to the transformation into a climate-neutral and resilient society. Sofia Municipality is the coordinating beneficiary, and the other beneficiaries are the municipalities of Burgas, Veliko Tarnovo, Montana, Ruse and Stara Zagora (responsible for the SUMPs implementation) and the NGOs National Association of Municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria and Club Economika 2000". The SIP covers the territory of the beneficiary municipalities with a population of about 2 million inhabitants or nearly 30% of the country's population. The full implementation of the six SUMPs is limited by the lack of adequate capacity in the municipalities and insufficient available financial resources for the execution of the measures. Hence, the SIP offers an integrated approach that considers the existing challenges, gaps and barriers in their entirety and works to ensure long-term sustainability of project results and actions. The planned work programme covers actions in several directions catalysing the full implementation of the SUMPs: 1) implementation of priority measures for municipalities from the SUMPs; 2) creation of mechanisms for building and strengthening long-term capacity in the municipalities for: - mobilising financial resources for the implementation of the SUMPs complementary actions; - coordination and monitoring of the implementation of SUMPs measures, incl. by building and applying a model for calculating greenhouse gas emissions and carbon offsets; - development of the documentary basis in the municipalities for the implementation of the policies for the transition into a climate-neutral and resilient society - updating of the SUMPs, roadmaps for the transition, etc.; - involving and working with stakeholders at local, regional and national level.
