NRP Portugal

MeasureDescriptionCurrentstatus: inpreparation/ in progressExpected results until2010NotesPromotion of GenderEqualityIV National Plan for Equality: Citizenship and Gender (2007-2010); III National Plan against DomesticViolence (2007-2010); I National Plan against Human Trafficking (2007-2010)Within the scope of the POPH, making available a group of interventions that envisage the development of agovernance system that considers the scope of gender equality, the promotion of gender equality andintegrated prevention for victims of discrimination, done so via supporting the organisational change of henceincluded organisations, training, information disclosure activities and also by providing support to femalebusiness ventures.In progressTarget 2010:- NO. of people covered by projectspromoted by NGOs / non-profit makinginstitutions = 5443- NO. of persons involved in businessplans for equality = 907- NO. of companies formed by women= 1059- NO. of NGOs supported with projectspromoting gender equality = 83- NO. of persons who have concludedgender violence training activities =636PROMOTE AN INTELLIGENT COUNTRYCity PoliciesUrban Networks forCompetitiveness andInnovationThus aimed at supporting the affirmation of cities, where those of us who utilise knowledge networks,innovation and competitiveness at national or international levels, promote the strengthening of the cities’higher economic functions via the attainment of threshold and synergetic networks for the qualification oftechnological infrastructures and the development of innovative and competitive activity attraction factors,stimulating cooperation between Portuguese cities and scientific and higher-level education institutions, forthe shared valued estimation of shared resources, potential and knowledge, thereby valuing the differentiatingfactors, promoting the insertion of cities into international networks and affirming overall internationalimages, further optimising the potential of infrastructure and equipment from a network level perspective.In progressAffirmation of interurban cooperationpractices. Development (up until 2015)of around 40 city network StrategicPrograms. These Urban Networks willbe able to adopt a territorial or athematic character, with the interurbanStrategic Cooperation Programs havingan overall duration of 4 years, whichare, within the sequence of the openingof public tenders, part of the urbancommunity and other urban activitiesinitiative.In October 2008, the firstpublic tenders for UrbanNetwork StrategicPrograms forCompetitiveness andInnovation were therebyclosed.49