2007-2013 Programmes : Delivery Arrangements
Alternative Programme delivery arrangements have been introduced for certain Priorities.
Grant awards under the Lowlands and Uplands Programmes are made on the basis of competitive rounds within each of the Priorities. However, the Scottish Government has introduced alternative delivery arrangements within certain areas of the Programmes.
Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs)
The Programmes are assisting CPPs in implementing integrated social inclusion and regeneration action plans at a local level and target the funds at the most deprived communities within their areas. The funding will come from allocations under two Priorities:
The successful CPPs have aligned their applications to support a number of projects set out in their Community Plan objectives and Regeneration Outcome Agreements (ROAs), outlining how the additional activity that European Structural Funds brings will enhance delivery of their objectives.
For those organisations already taking part in CPP applications, opportunities for funding of future projects remains available under the two Priorities of the Challenge Fund. However, the same activity supported by the CPP bids cannot appear within a separate future application. CPPs can also apply for Challenge Funding for complementary activities under other priorities in the Programmes.
In 2008 the CPP allocations in the first round of the LUPS Programmes 2007-2013 were agreed. Intitial awards were made for two years in January 2010 First Minister Alex Salmond confirmed the new allocations. The combined awards are as follows:
| CPP | ERDF Priority 3 | ESF Priority 1 |
| Clackmannanshire | £110,074 |
£2,195,601 |
| Dundee | £694,289 | £5,923,716 |
| East Ayrshire |
£435,577 | £4,243,840 |
| Edinburgh |
£1,203,994 | £2,952,177 |
| Fife | £1,655,442 | £5,217,829 |
| Glasgow | £1,110,439 | £10,073,043 |
| Inverclyde | £329,848 |
£1,584,471 |
| North Ayrshire |
£844,241 | £1,476,573 |
| North Lanarkshire |
£3,946,506 | £6,443,412 |
| Renfrewshire | £854,587 | £3,099,699 |
| South Lanarkshire |
£1,446,886 | £4,901,430 |
| West Dunbartonshire |
£226,583 | £2,582,297 |
| West Lothian |
£603,168 | £1,711,848 |
| TOTAL | £13,461,634 | £52,405,936 |
Strategic Delivery Body (SDB)
Scottish Enterprise will be commissioned as an SDB to deliver a number of key strategic projects under ERDF Priority 1 that will make major contributions to the goals of the Programmes. Structural Funds will support activity that is both clearly additional to the existing activities of the SDB and for which they are the only delivery agent.
Scottish Enterprise will set out their planned activity through three-year outcome agreements that will include annually-revised plans with financial and performance targets. Projects will be reviewed and monitored regularly.
The SDB will receive funding from only part of the priority - the remainder will be available for competitive bidding. Details of the SDB bids will be finalised in 2009.
South of Scotland Global Grant Body (GGB)
In late 2008 the Scottish Government commissioned Dumfries & Galloway Council to operate a Global Grant Body under ERDF Priority 4 for three years. Only projects in the South of Scotland meeting the criteria for Priority 4 will be able to bid into this global grant pot. South of Scotland projects will consequently not have access to the competitive funding available under the rest of Priority 4.
All funding applications under this arrangement are administered through a separate body, the South of Scotland European Partnership
