The Porto Metropolitan Area (AMP) will promote, together with its 17 municipalities, an integrated intervention in disadvantaged communities that concentrate several social and economic vulnerabilities, following the Action Plan for Disadvantaged Communities of the Porto Metropolitan Area.

The Action Plan for Disadvantaged Communities of the Porto Metropolitan Area, designed under the Recovery and Resilience Plan, will comprise six interventions of a territorial nature and supra-municipal scope, which aim to promote social and economic development, and a metropolitan line focused on innovation, capacity building, participation and community involvement.

Fighting poverty and social exclusion in the Porto Metropolitan Area implies considering these phenomena in their complexity and in the multiplicity of facets and incidences they assume. In this sense, the approach adopted for the design and construction of the Plan was based on the recognition of the nature, scale and incidence of the main problems affecting the most vulnerable social groups in this metropolitan territory, to identify and characterise the ‘Disadvantaged Communities’.

The concise diagnosis and the territorial analysis carried out in this way allowed the geographical conformation of the six territorial interventions that reflect and frame the profiles of social vulnerabilities and that are shared by contiguous supra-municipal territoriesThe approach translates into the development of an action plan with a multidimensional and multisectoral character, which meets the diverse territorial expression of the social problems present in the Porto Metropolitan Area and which, therefore, enables the differentiated structuring and implementation of the interventions.

The AMP, its 17 municipalities and the Recover Portugal Mission Structure, among others, will be responsible for the implementation of the interventions, their monitoring, control, audit and assessment, among other obligations to regulate and enforce the investments.

With an allocation of EUR 121.5 million, the plan will be implemented between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2025 in the 17 municipalities of the Porto Metropolitan Area.

The money will be invested in intangible interventions (culture and creativity; education; citizenship and community empowerment; employment and local economy; health; and social dynamization, for example) and tangible interventions (recovery of public space).

Territorial Action Plans are expected to be submitted during March 2022.

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