Case Studies   The Danish Neighbourhood Regeneration Programme. Kvarterløft in Copenhagen

Ensuring lasting impact – anchoring.

The regeneration programme in Kongens Enghave was set up as part of the local administration – and therefore the strategy for ensuring lasting impact was very much tied up with this. The idea was that the programme should focus on securing the results of the programme within the administration. This was based on the experience from previous national programmes, which had not had lasting impact because they were detached from the daily running of the local neighbourhood. The local secretariat had the role of generating the ideas with the residents and other stakeholder groups and then trying to involve the local administration in the running of the programme.

This proved more difficult than originally planned, as the local administration was simply not ready for this kind of work. There were a lot of problems with setting up a new administration, with economic and cultural complications. This made it difficult for the secretariat to achieve the results they had originally intended.

But the idea of making this close connection is still a good one. In the cases where it worked it has integrated the work of the regeneration programme in the administration, and has helped to create changes and developing new relationships between stakeholders that can continue also after the end of the programme.

3.4.3 The need for local monitoring and evaluation    3.5.1 The process of arriving to a good strategy to ensure a sustainable development