AREAS OF INTERVENTION

What projects does ROP finance?

The ROP funds projects aiming among other to:

Improve the quality of life and the “appearance” of towns and strengthen their role in the region
Improve the access to and within a region, by developing its infrastructure such as county roads and ring-roads;
Modernize social services: schools, clinics, emergency situations units etc;
Increase business investments, by providing support to micro-enterprises, to the improvement of utility networks and business infrastructure;
Modernization and rehabilitation of existing tourism facilities.

Who can apply for the ROP funds?

The potential applicants for the ROP funds could be:

Public administration authorities (Town Halls, Local Councils, County Councils);
Public institutions, such as social welfare and health institutions, academic institutions, emergency intervention services etc;
NGOs;
Private companies, especially SME’s and microenterprises.

Expected results of ROP

This subsection presents some of the expected results of ROP by 2015. These indicators are not just a wish-list. They could really happen – provided that public authorities, NGOs, businesses and citizens all get involved in making it happen.

The strategic objective of the ROP is targeted towards:

The creation of 15,000 new jobs by the end of 2015.
Stopping the increase of interregional disparities in terms of GDP per inhabitant

Some of the specific indicative results by 2015:

Over 800 km of county roads – rehabilitated/built/modernized;
Over 200 km of ring-road – rehabilitated/built/modernized;
50 health centres – rehabilitated/modernized;
510 mobile units for emergency situations – equipped;
3,000 jobs as a result of supporting micro-enterprises;
4,000 jobs in supported business structures;
500 ha of industrial sites – rehabilitated;
50 patrimonial sites – rehabilitated;
50 investment projects in developing the tourism potential of nature sites;
400 schools rehabilitated or modernized.