Regional Development Plan approved in Sardinia: what will the government of President Alessandra Todde provide

La The Regional Council of Sardinia has approved the Regional Development Plan (PRS) 2024-2029, a strategic document that defines objectives and lines of action for the future of the island. With ten priority areas, including health, work, environment and transport, the PRS aims to relaunch the economy and improve the quality of life of citizens through concrete interventions, certain resources and annual updates for a dynamic and measurable approach.

The Regional Council has approved the Regional Development Plan (PRS) 2024-2029, the multi-year programming document which contains the strategies and project lines through which the Region intends to achieve the objectives for economic, social and environmental development set out in the government program of President Alessandra Todde.

«An important planning document that translates the programmatic declarations into measurable actions that guide and inspire the work of the Council and the legislature, making the priorities of this administration transparent», says President Todde.

«At the method level – continues – sand one is chosen that is oriented towards measuring objectives. The Prs, for the first time, contains the indication of objectives that inspire the policies to be implemented, measure the results and consequently the funding assigned and to be assigned. The entire Prs, in fact, is a dynamic tool that is updated every year».

The values ​​of the indicators were calculated based on the existing financial endowment and the Project Lines identified. Therefore, they are not representative of the more general values, influenced by factors external to the sphere of action of the Region System. The same indicators will be monitored and re-modulated during the annual update through the Regional Economic and Financial Document (Defr).

«We have turned the way of thinking upside down – says the president -. First we identified the objectives, then we sat down to study and understand how to concretely achieve them. An epochal change compared to the past, when the Prs was considered an "ancillary" measure. Programming was not done anyway. Today we are saying what we will do by indicating certain resources, without making propaganda».

As President Todde explained, the PRS is divided into ten strategic areas:

• Health and well-being;
• Social policies;
• Good work;
• Knowledge and culture;
• Government of the territory;
• Environment and landscape;
• Transport and technology networks;
• Energy transition;
• Sustainable economic and social development;
• New Sardinia system.

Within each of these, the details are reported all the objectives that the Region intends to achieve between now and 2029. For the sake of brevity, the president highlighted some of them in each area, considered among the most impactful on the socio-economic future of the Sardinian population.

Health and wellbeing

• Strengthen the action of general practitioners by modifying their administrative and outpatient tasks.
• Cutting waiting lists.
• Children's Hospital: offering an excellent service for young Sardinian patients, who today are often forced to undertake arduous journeys to receive treatment in hospitals on the continent that could be provided in Sardinia.
• Reform of the CUP.
• Attention healthcare workers.
• Synergy between territorial and hospital care.
• Strengthen access to care and prevention.

Social policies

• 300 million allocated for the extraordinary maintenance plan of Area buildings, the regional company that deals with the housing emergency for people in difficult economic conditions.
• 102 million (of which 48 already allocated and 54 to be allocated) are dedicated to financing the Social Inclusion Income (Reis).
• Basic and school psychologist;
• Prevention of violence against women and care for victims.

The good work

• Retraining of the unemployed (especially those in areas of irreversible industrial crisis).
• Bonus to support decent work, with rewards provided for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that offer protected, adequately paid and long-lasting work.
• Encourage the return of brains (Sardinian and non-Sardinian).

Knowledge and culture

• 409 million for the right to study, earmarked for policies in favor of the disabled, scholarships and the reduction of the cost of rent, books and transportation.
• 188,5 million to support the cinema, theatre, music and culture sectors.
• Framework Law on Education

Government of the territory

• Update of the Regional Landscape Plan (Ppr).
• 408 million for sustainable urban development and urban regeneration projects.
• 337 million for the internal areas of the Island, for interventions to be carried out with the municipalities and mountain communities.

Environment and landscape

• 1 billion and 700 million for the efficiency of water resources (422 million allocated and 1 billion and 200 million to be allocated);
• 346 million for interventions to mitigate hydrogeological risk.
• 88,6 million for the conservation and protection of coastal ecosystems.
• 25 million for the construction of the new forestry school in Nuoro.
• 5 million for the construction of the Civil Protection citadel.

Transport and technology networks

• 582 million for the new territorial continuity (people and goods);
• Social aid for air transport and new air routes.
• Nuoro-Abbasanta railway.
• 598,5 million for road safety and maintenance.

Energy transition

• Creation of the Regional Energy Agency.
• 678 million for renewable energy incentives + 112 million for the creation of energy communities.
• 64 million energy efficiency of public and private buildings.

Sustainable economic and social development

• 120 million for investment attraction and competitiveness.
• 280 million for agricultural, food, forestry and livestock production.
• 460 million for industrial development (industrial areas, incentives, startups)
• 310 million for the marine economy (fishing, environment, ports, tourism)
• 720 million for internationalization, promotion, enhancement of the image of Sardinia.
• 221 million for crafts (incentives, reconstitution of ISOLA entity, new website on crafts).

New Sardinia system

The new Sardinia system is based on two pillars, which will be the new foundations of Autonomy:

• Reform construction site.
• A new political activism towards the State.

The Reforms Workshop aims to proceed with the revision of the Statute and the Statutory Law, the approval of a new electoral law and a new regional organization through the revision of Regional Laws 1/77 and 31/98. Furthermore, it is planned to establish a single programming direction for the management and use of funds from different sources, such as European funds (for development and investments), the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), funds for national cohesion and the internal resources of the Region itself.

This implies a broad involvement and close coordination between all the departments and regional offices, exactly as has happened up to now and has marked a break with the past: "let's think about Law 20“, the president recalls, “which has seen offices and departments collaborate in a short time, united in a single objective".