In which municipalities will the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) encounter major difficulties?

In Naples and Bari, the number of public administration (PA) employees is half compared to that of Florence and Bologna. In Palermo and Catania, university-educated employees fall short of the national average by 50%.This is according to a recent study conducted by Professor Gianfranco Viesti and commissioned by the CON IL SUD Foundation on the challenges Italian municipalities face in implementing the reforms and investments adopted with the NRRP. The municipalities of Naples, Brindisi, Taranto, Reggio Calabria, Messina, Catania, and Trapani are in critical condition concerning the projected investments. Among the top 10 municipalities best equipped to implement the plan, not one is from Southern Italy, with Trieste and Trento occupying the top two positions.Borgomeo: “The study dispels some common misconceptions about the quantityquantityquality of public administration in the South and confirms, unfortunately, the critical issues about the quality. Action can and must be taken quickly, starting with a real public-private and social collaboration for “public” action in the highest and noblest sense of the term. The Foundation is willing to provide best networking practices and experiences successfully initiated in recent years in the South.”“In which Italian municipalities will the implementation of NRRP encounter major difficulties?”Effective implementation of the NRRP is crucial and requires immediate and robust support either through new hires or the use of external technical support in the municipalities of Naples, Brindisi, Taranto, Reggio Calabria, Catania, Messina, and Trapani, while closely monitoring any potential difficulties in Bari, Palermo, and Salerno. It is an absolute emergency which must be addressed with the utmost urgency.CON IL SUD Foundation These are some of the conclusions in the report titled Gianfranco Viesti. The report was commissioned by the Aldo Moroand was written by , professor of applied economics at the University of Bari, Aldo Moro. staffing levels of Italian municipalities have reduced by 27% between 2007 and 2020, with the dynamics significantly worse in the SouthThe misapplication or poor application of municipal funding regulationsstudypublic investments in municipalities in the South take longer implementation times examines the overall dynamics of Italy’s municipal administration over the past 15 years, particularly considering some reviews from the Bank of Italy. From the study, it emerges that the shortage of qualified personnel than in the rest of the country, partly due to the . The data also shows that 103 medium-to-large municipalities, i.e. those with a population over 60,000, which could be attributed to a relative the number of employees per capita in the administrations of Naples and Bari is around half that of Florence and Bologna and that the workforce in the municipality of Naples has decreased by more than 50%—certainly a red flag for NRRP.However, analysis of large constituencies may conceal various issues in specific contexts. Hence, the study provides new scrutiny based on data from the State General Accounting Office for each of Italy’s in Palermo and Catania, the percentage of employees with university degrees is less than half the national average. For each municipality, the data is presented on the ratio of municipal employees to the population size as of 2019 and the ratio variation from 2008. For instance, it reveals that only 3 out of 100 municipal employees in Catania are under the age of 50.the percentage of municipal employees with managerial qualifications is particularly low not only in Catania but also in Syracuse and Lamezia TermeThe analysis further shows several possible indicators of “staff quality.” This was done through subgroup breakdown by education, age, and profession. It discloses, for example, that ; that “degree of difficulty” municipal administrations encounter in fulfilling their responsibilities due to a shortage of quantitative and qualitative staff; and that these difficulties are considerably high in some administrations in the South of Italy.Naples and Catania, two of Italy’s biggest cities, find themselves in a highly critical situation.This initial information is compiled in a concise index to identify the . The index confirms that, with a few exceptions (Carpi and Imola in Emilia Romagna, Guidonia, Aprilia, and Latina in Lazio), 10 municipalities best equipped. In particular, in Campania (Giugliano, Torre del Greco, Castellammare di Stabia, Naples, Caserta, Casoria), Calabria (Catanzaro, Lamezia, Reggio Calabria, Cosenza), Sicily (Catania, Gela, Messina, Trapani, Caltanissetta), Puglia (Foggia, Andria, Taranto, Barletta, Brindisi) and in Matera. Trieste, Trento, L’Aquila These municipalities face significant challenges in delivering services to the local citizens and building infrastructures because of severe administrative staffing shortages due to a lack of skilled personnel or significant staff reductions.Reggio Emilia, Padua, Ravenna, Bolzano, Ferrara, Bologna, and Varese.On the other hand, the 77 medium-to-large municipalities in terms of staffing, service delivery, and implementation of public investments, starting from “the best,” are ranked in the following order, cases where the structural difficulties of the administrations correspond to the extensive implementation responsibilities. (considered a singular case due to the earthquake), Naples, Brindisi, Taranto, Reggio Calabria, Messina, Catania, and Trapani, the administrations are in critical condition and with extensive implementation responsibilities, for investments amounting to more than 2.5 billion, in these municipalities alone.Lastly, for the “The study dispels some common misconceptions about the ‘quantity’ of public administration (PA) in the South and confirms, unfortunately, the critical issues about the ‘quality,’ stresses Carlo Borgomeo, president of the CON IL SUD FoundationCarlo Borgomeo, president of the CON IL SUD Foundationthat serve as provincial capitals, the study connects the index to an indicator of intensity (measured in euros per inhabitant) of the investments planned by the NRRP. The purpose is to identify In which municipalities will the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) encounter major difficulties?