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STABLE AGGREGATIONS
OF MUNICIPALITIES
TO REDUCE ADMINISTRATIVE
FRAGMENTATION
Walter Castelnovo
Department of Science of the Culture,
Politics and Information - University of Insubria (Italy)
walter.castelnovo@uninsubria.it
Lombardy:
N° of
N° N° of municipalities
% municipalities in %
inhabitants in Italy
Lombardy
0-5000 5836 72,04 1153 74,58
More that
65000
86 1,06 11 0,71
Merger of municipalities
Intermunicipal cooperation
“Intermunicipal cooperation may be defined as an arrangement between
two or more government organizations for accomplishing common goals,
providing a service, or solving a mutual problem”
SISCoTEL (2001-2005)
121 projects funded
1146 of the 1546 municipalities of Lombardy involved
76 Shared Services Centres activated until 2008
Five steps
The call for interst could be based on very smooth requirements; hence,
the number of municipalities that answer the call can be quite large. This
set represents the pool of the potential partners for the cooperation.
Examples
human the kind and the level of the competencies available
organizational description and the evaluation of previous cooperation experiences
description of all the contracts for service provision in force
description of how the services are managed and delivered
Resources
Interoperability attributes
Sharing of the enterprise model (EM)
Sharing of language and ontology
Organizational Standardization of the processes
Common management styles
Sharing of the resources
Dissemination
Operational Homogeneity of working tools used by the partners
Sharing of the training activities
Availability of tools for inter-organizational communication
Availability of tools for the monitoring of the cooperation
Technological Sharing of infrastructures for connectivity
Homogeneity of the partners’ IT application portfolio
Sharing of data among the partners
Sharing of the security policies
Twofold evaluation
a. Evaluation of the attributes with respect to the level the key
stakeholders believe would be necessary to adequately support the
cooperation