The "Communities in Action, Integrated Metropolitan Operations" initiative is one of the largest investments made in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, at the level of disadvantaged communities, and is being implemented through six inter-municipal interventions, made up of 31 local operations.(Project file)
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- AML participou na sessão de encerramento da Operação Integrada Local Poceirão – Marateca
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- AML participated in the closing event of the Communities in Action program in Montijo
- AML presented the book "Stories of Hope" about disadvantaged communities in the region
- Mafra shows the impact of the Communities in Action metropolitan program in the parish of Milharado
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Meeting of the metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto
Estoril | 29 de abril 2026
Social Responses of the Recovery and Resilience Plan
The Metropolitan Plan for Integrated Operations in Disadvantaged Communities in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area is being implemented under component C3 - Social Responses of the Recovery and Resilience Plan, the national instrument of the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism approved by the European Commission.
The investment in Integrated Operations in Disadvantaged Communities in the Metropolitan Areas of Lisbon and Porto (RE-C03.i06) aims to tackle the multiple factors of exclusion that reinforce each other and severely affect some territories and communities that are under-represented, disadvantaged and at risk of social exclusion.
Priorities
With this plan it is hoped not only to mitigate the effects of recent social crises, but also to make these communities more resilient:
- promoting employment, training and qualifications;
- fighting school failure and dropout;
- empowering excluded communities and strengthening networks and partnerships;
- promoting full and complete citizenship;
- stimulating innovation and entrepreneurship;
- qualifying and regenerating the urban environment and public spaces;
- facilitating access to culture and creativity;
- promoting active and healthy ageing and improving access to health care
- fighting stigmatization and discrimination.
Drawn up as part of the Recovery and Resilience Plan, it is being implemented through six inter-municipal interventions, made up of 31 local operations.
Each of these operations focuses on a parish and is developed in partnership with the municipality, local organizations and central government services, implementing Action Plans discussed with and for the community.
These partnerships make it possible to create synergies and stimulate learning between all the entities involved in the fight against poverty and social exclusion, making local communities the protagonists of change.
How it is being implemented
This innovative plan is being implemented according to an integrated, multi-level and multi-actor governance model, which includes: the metropolitan level, in global coordination; the sub-regional level, in cooperation between municipalities; and the local level, in its operationalization by communities.
ARACHNE
As part of the PRR Investment - Integrated Operations in Disadvantaged Communities in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, AML has signed up to the ARACHNE tool as a risk mitigation tool for situations involving conflict of interest, fraud, corruption and double financing.
The ARACHNE tool is the risk scoring instrument that the European Commission has developed in close collaboration with some of the Member States.
ARACNHE establishes an exhaustive database of projects implemented under the European Structural Funds and communicated by the various Managing Authorities, enriched with data from information in the public domain, in order to identify, based on a set of risk indicators, projects, beneficiaries, contracts and contractors likely to entail risks of fraud, conflicts of interest or irregularities.
More information about ARACHNE here.
