NRP funds for the Third Sector: what lies ahead

From the Europlanning Guide, a little help for the Third Sector to access NRP funds.

The space for the Third Sector

The National Recovery and Resilience Plan collects a unique amount of funds, to be exact 222 billion euros considering also the Complementary Plan: a figure higher than that of all other European funds and programs, concentrated in a shorter period of execution (commitment of funds by 2023). These characteristics make the NRP a “treasure” dedicated primarily to large strategic infrastructure projects, whose speed of execution leaves little time for the steps necessary for “micro” planning by small Third Sector organizations, as is the case, for example, for Structural Fund calls.

However, there is an important space for the Third Sector in the execution of the NRP, as a beneficiary of the measures and reforms that will be implemented and as a direct recipient of funds for the execution of specific interventions. Let’s find out together which one.

The sources of departure

The unique nature of the NRP and the Resilience Device, as well as its execution entrusted (by necessity) to different actors at the central and local levels, make the gathering of information on what funding lines are concretely available and what opportunities are available for certain categories of actors not straightforward. There is a calls for proposals search tool on the Italia Domani website, where it is also possible to select open opportunities for certain categories of beneficiaries, including third sector organizations . There is equally a list more comprehensive set of interventions , in which, however, some details are lost, for example, related to access to funding, calls and related categories of eligible beneficiaries.

We have tried to overcome this obstacle by combining three tools into a single prospectus, which can provide a clearer picture of the opportunities opening up in 2022 for the Third Sector under the NRP. The sources are:

• The analysis carried out by the “Yard on the Third Sector” , a portal of support and tools specifically dedicated to the nonprofit world, created and supported by CSVnet (to which we give space within our Guide) and the National Forum of the Third Sector;
• Italia Domani’s database dedicated to interventions ;
• Italia Domani’s page dedicated to the ministries’ reports on the realized and planned activity on the NRP at the end of 2021 .

The interventions of the 2022 NRP for the Third Sector.

The tool is very simple and refers to the NRP interventions planned for 2022 for-or with the participation of-nonprofit and Third Sector organizations.

For each quarter, the planned interventions for each mission and component can be viewed, with a description of the expected situation at the end of the quarter.

The “mission,” “component,” and “intervention” columns are linked to the Italia Domani database, while the “responsible ministry” column is linked to the NRP planning document submitted by each ministry late last year.

You can use table headers to sort the data based on any of the above dimensions.

Since the table does not exhaust the list of ministries responsible for the implementation of the NRP, we list below those that are missing, with corresponding links to the planning document (you can still access from here the complete list).

Economic Development University and research Pol. agricultural, food and forestry Justice Public Administration Foreign affairs and coop. international Civil Defense Regional and autonomous affairs Disability

In cases where there is a call for proposals and not an intervention that directly or indirectly benefits the Third Sector, the calls for proposals can be found on the Italia Domani website or of the relevant ministries.

A tool to prepare

This tool should provide some visibility into what to expect over the course of the year under the NRP for nonprofit and Third Sector organizations. We hope it will be a useful source of information and new opportunities.