Recovery and resilience

Publish date 04-05-2021

by Gianfranco Cattai

Next Generation Italia was approved by the Council of Ministers.
Two hundred and more billions of community between transfers and loans. A real Marshall Plan. This time it should not be a problem of resources because the funds are there but must be allocated to specific projects that achieve precise and measurable results and accepted by Europe and the Member States. A real plan containing well-defined projects in terms of description, assessment of financial needs, consistent with each other and in harmony with the objectives of the fund itself. There are three attentions that we want to bring to those responsible for the plan.

The first: greater involvement of the Third Sector is hoped for. Not so much as a beneficiary of funds, but as a transformer cabin for the high design voltage that is in the air. A Third Sector that increasingly has a directing function, together with decentralized administrations, in the creation of services for people and therefore in the new welfare. The civil economy, that of the commons, is perhaps one of the most powerful devices for generating change.

The second attention: the importance of projects in the territories. The success of the Next Generation Eu in Italy is conditioned by the material and even more immaterial resources that we will invest in identifying in the field, in a permanent and quality dialogue with national managers, public, private and civil society evaluators capable of selecting and to grow what matters for the common good in the long run regardless of short-term opportunistic consensus. And that is how much and how we will spend to regenerate the public administration in the suburbs and build bridges with the social economy.
To build a resilient, sustainable and generative restart from this vision arises the objective of giving priority to projects capable of creating economic value, jobs, fighting inequalities and promoting social cohesion, reducing environmental and pandemic risks and creating conditions for a life full of meaning and made up of quality relationships.

For the third attention we refer to the example on the environment. This is mission two of the plan concerning the "Green Revolution and ecological transition" which envisages an investment of 68.9 billion equal to 31% of the overall 222.9 billion.
The concern comes from what Pope Francis writes in Laudato Sì in chapter 139: “There are not two separate crises, one environmental and another social, but one single and complex socio-environmental crisis. The guidelines for the solution require an integral approach to combat poverty, to restore dignity to the excluded and at the same time to take care of nature ». Recovery is a great opportunity that should not be wasted.

Gianfranco Cattai
NP February 2021

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