Local Resilience and Civil Protection Strategy
Identify your community's vulnerabilities, set the priority measures and prepare the investments needed to protect the population and keep public services running.
Together with the local authority and the specialists involved, the Romanian Smart City Association (ARSC) prepares a diagnosis of existing risks and capacities, an action plan and a portfolio of prioritised projects. The analysis builds on the beneficiary's existing documents and initiatives.
For: town halls of communes
Three outcomes
A. Local diagnosis. The community's risks, vulnerabilities and capacities, based on existing documents and data, with the missing information identified.
B. Action plan. Prioritised measures, with responsibilities, a timeline and monitoring indicators.
C. Investment portfolio. Project sheets with justification, objective, indicative budget, maturity and the preparation stages that follow.
From scattered documents to an investment decision
Risk data sits in documents produced in different years, by different services, for different purposes. The analysis brings them together into a single picture, from which the priorities and investments emerge.
Documents produced separately
The Risk Analysis and Coverage Plan (Planul de analiză și acoperire a riscurilor, PAAR), the emergency plans, the urban planning documentation and the asset registers each cover one piece. They have never been read together.
Priorities not set
The risks are known. Which measure comes first, who carries it out, by when and with what resources is set out in the plan.
Essential services without a continuity plan
Water, energy, schools, social assistance, communications: what happens if they are interrupted, and how long the community can function without them.
Investments still to be prepared
An investment intention only goes into an application file once it has a written justification, an indicative budget and defined preparation stages.
A diagnosis, an action plan and an investment portfolio
The deliverables follow the same structure, whatever the size of the administrative-territorial unit (UAT).
Analysis of existing documents and data
An inventory of what already exists within the administration, identifying the information missing for a well-founded decision.
Diagnosis of local risks, vulnerabilities and capacities
The risks relevant to the territory, the community's weak points and the resources the administration actually has at its disposal.
Analysis of the continuity of essential services
The services that must function in any situation, their dependencies and the measures that keep them running.
Action plan with priorities, responsibilities, timeline and indicators
What is done, in what order, who is responsible, by when and how progress is measured.
Project sheets
For each proposed investment: justification, objective, indicative budget, maturity and the preparation stages that follow.
Analysis of possible funding sources and the applicable conditions
Which instruments may be considered for each project and which conditions must be met, as published at the date of the analysis.
Proposals for informing and preparing the population
Messages, channels and actions through which the administration can prepare residents for the situations identified in the diagnosis.
Monitoring tools and support for the review and approval process
Formats for tracking the plan and the materials needed to go through the beneficiary's internal procedures.
Status of the document. A document prepared for review and approval, in line with the procedures applicable to the beneficiary. The Strategy builds on and complements existing documentation, without replacing the Risk Analysis and Coverage Plan (PAAR) or other mandatory documents.
Five stages, with validation at every step
Defining the scope and collecting documents
What the analysis covers, which documents and data exist, who is responsible for communication.
Diagnosis and consultations
Analysis of the documents, discussions with the administration's services and with the specialists involved.
Prioritising measures and projects
Ranking the measures and investments against criteria agreed with the beneficiary.
Drafting, comments and revision
Drafting the document, the administration's comments and revision based on them.
Handover, training and support for approval
Handing over the materials, training the people involved and support for the review and approval process.
The timeline is set in the proposal, depending on complexity, available data and the contracted activities. Institutional approval procedures follow a separate timeline.
Four things without which the analysis stays theoretical
The quality of the diagnosis depends on access to the real information held by the administration.
A coordinating person
A single point of contact in the administration, who gathers the information and passes on comments.
The available documents and data
What already exists, in whatever form it exists, including incomplete documents.
Agreed access to staff and sites
Discussions with the services involved and visits arranged together, within the agreed limits.
Comments and interim validations
The administration's response at each stage, so that the final document is its own.
Preparedness is now part of European and national policy
The documents below set the framework for the analysis. You can read them directly at the source.
Preparedness Union Strategy ↗
Presented by the European Commission in March 2025. It contains 30 key actions and an action plan, with an approach that involves every level of government, including the local level.
commission.europa.euNiinistö report “Safer Together” ↗
October 2024. Report by the European Commission's special adviser on civilian and military preparedness, with an explicit role for local authorities.
commission.europa.euRegulation (EU) 2025/1914 ↗
Amended the regulations on the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the Cohesion Fund and the Just Transition Fund, so that 2021-2027 programmes can be redirected, among other things, towards defence and strategic priorities.
eur-lex.europa.euHG 791/2024 ↗
The National Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction 2024-2035, published in Monitorul Oficial (Romania's Official Gazette) no. 662 of 11 July 2024. It requires local authorities to implement the measures within their remit.
legislatie.just.ro (in Romanian)Three directions that appear in almost every diagnosis
The directions are confirmed or ruled out in the analysis, depending on the territory. The eligibility of each project is checked separately, against the conditions of the funding instrument.
Civil protection shelters →
Inventory, condition and prioritisation of shelter spaces, within the framework set by Law 481/2004 on civil protection and Government Decision (HG) 862/2016. Expert assessment, design and permitting are contracted separately, from the competent specialists.
Law 481/2004 · HG 862/2016Dual-use infrastructure →
Roads, bridges, underpasses and public spaces that serve the community every day and can also be used in crisis situations. Dual use does not in itself confer eligibility: what counts are the conditions of each instrument.
Checked for each callCoordination and continuity →
A coordination space, backup communications and backup power for essential services, sized to the needs identified in the diagnosis.
Sized to the diagnosisAnswers to the most common questions
For details, see the Strategy page and the Resources page, or write to us from the Contact page.
An analysis and planning document: the diagnosis of local risks, vulnerabilities and capacities, the analysis of the continuity of essential services, the action plan with priorities and indicators, the project sheets and the analysis of possible funding sources. It is handed over ready for review and approval, in line with the procedures applicable to the beneficiary.
Town halls of communes, towns and municipalities, Bucharest's sectors, county councils and intercommunity development associations, where their statutes allow this purpose. The document is not required by law; it serves administrations that want to put their risks and investments in order.
No. The Strategy builds on and complements existing documentation, including the Risk Analysis and Coverage Plan. It does not replace mandatory documents and does not take over the responsibilities of the emergency services.
The timeline is set in the proposal, depending on complexity, available data and the contracted activities. Institutional approval procedures follow a separate timeline.
No. The Strategy helps prepare the project portfolio. Eligibility and funding are verified for each project, against the conditions of the call. Project sheets do not replace feasibility studies, DALI (technical documentation for intervention works), expert assessments, technical designs, permits or funding applications.
The Romanian Smart City Association develops and coordinates projects and services for modernising public administration and developing smart communities. In this project, ARSC coordinates the analysis and planning, working with the administration and the specialists involved.
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