Case Studies   The Danish Neighbourhood Regeneration Programme. Kvarterløft in Copenhagen

Organisation

The main work in the Kvarterløft is done at local level and relates to specific local problems. Therefore also the actual organisation differs from project to project. In the three Copenhagen cases a project secretariat in the district forms the basic unit of the project, working at local level and communicating with the necessary stakeholders and bodies.

As the Municipality of Copenhagen hosts more than one Kvarterløft project, the municipal Kvarterløft secretariat co-ordinates the Copenhagen projects, communicates with the national level and co-ordinates cross-sector within the municipal administration.

The work and organisation on municipal and local level is developed further in chapters 2 and 3.

The national level provides a national secretariat, placed in the Ministry of Refugee, Immigration and Integration Affairs, which co-ordinates the whole programme.

The national secretariat has five main tasks:

• To provide services for the projects, such as helping with fund raising and providing a framework for networking and sharing of experience and information between projects.
• To control that projects develop as planned in the co-operation agreements with the municipalities
• To co-ordinate the national policies influencing the Kvarterløft projects
• To gather and disseminate experiences from the projects, both nationally and internationally
• Last, not least: to provide services for the Minister of Refugee, Immigration and Integration.

The last dot includes background papers, input to speeches and – most important maybe – to suggest new initiatives or policies based on the experiences from Kvarterløft, thus fulfilling the general aim of the Kvarterløft initiative.

1.1.2 What kinds of neighbourhoods are included in Kvarterløft?    1.2 The legal framework