Best Practices
1. Name of the practice
Storks Program
2. City
Soure
3. Years in operation
Since 2016
4. Objectives
This municipal project aims to support families, boost and intensify a set of incentives to settle and attract people to the Municipality, encourage births, as well as support the local economy, since co-payments can only be made in commercial establishments based in in the territorial district.
5. Description - overwiew
This birth incentive measure is implemented through the attribution of a subsidy whose value depends on the parents’ income, in the event of the birth of a baby in the Municipality of Soure.
For more informations: https://www.cm-soure.pt/noticias.php?area=18&page=2
6. Field of application
Tariffs and economic support (public tariffs and benefits)
7. Target
Birth Incentive
8. Budget
Tariffs and economic support (public tariffs and benefits)
9 Evaluation - impact - outcomes
This project has been receiving applications and has proved to be a fruitful means of encouraging an increase in birth rates and supporting families
