impulse Flemish sif

IMPULS_VLAAMS_SIF City Development/Space Summary: The Social Impuls Fund (SIF) was an initiative of the Flemish Community with the aim of supporting the municipalities in their policy for a more livable municipality. A number of principles were central to this: Involving local actors in planning and implementation; The elaboration of a multi-annual (policy) plan, which clearly indicates the coherence of the policy and the relationship between the regular policy and the impulse policy with SIF resources. The Flemish Community made the disbursement of the funds conditional on the achievement of certain results. The Antwerp Sif Policy Plan, which also included the VFIK projects to be continued (Flemish Fund for the Integration of Arms of Chance), was approved by the Council for Social Welfare on 18 October and 15 November 1996 and by the Municipal Council on 18 November 1996. This plan was a multi-annual plan drawn up for a period of three years (in concrete 1997-1999). A new policy plan was drawn up for the period 2000-2002, which continued existing initiatives and gave new projects a chance. Although there was no real impulse area, most efforts remained concentrated in the same neighbourhoods as in the previous SIF period. Purpose: Visualisation and demarcation of the SIF_areas for the city of Antwerp. Production: The SIF areas were defined on the basis of a score of the corresponding sectors in four domains, namely quality of life, environmental quality, well-being and poverty of opportunity. In this context, the SIF offered local administrations the opportunity to work towards the global improvement of urban society by means of a policy to benefit the entire population of the city (improving well-being) and the entire urban territory (improving the quality of life and the environment of the city) on the other hand, the policy had to benefit specific target groups (combating poverty) and specific areas (improvement of the quality of life and the environment of disadvantaged urban areas). With this, a clear trend break was realised compared to the earlier impulse policy initiated by the Flemish Government. This focused exclusively on specific target groups (VFIK) or disadvantaged districts (Revaluation Areas, Social Renewal). &Creation Date: 2001-11-15T00:00:00  Update frequency: not planned & Management: Heidi Vandenbroecke &Contact: [email protected]