Flood Resilience and Adaptation Program (PRAFI) - Resilient Development Component

• Formulaire de renseignements PRAFI – volet Aménagements résilients
• Rapport final PRAFI (à venir)
• Liste des bâtiments
• Modèle - Résolution du conseil municipal

Who is eligible?

• Quebec local municipalities, central agglomeration municipalities, and regional county municipalities (MRC)
• Quebec metropolitan communities
• Quebec intermunicipal boards
• Groupings of these Quebec organizations

Eligible expenses

• Direct costs, incidental fees, and other costs directly linked to the works described in the protocol of agreement or funding convention.

Ineligible Costs and Activities

• Projects whose main purpose is not reducing flood risk or vulnerability, including restoration of a wetland for species preservation.
• Activities funded or under review by the Programme de restauration et de création de milieux humides et hydriques, the Programme OASIS, or the Cadre pour la prévention des sinistres.
• Projects concerning dams that do not mainly prevent flooding.
• Projects dealing with coastal submersion or erosion, projects intended to facilitate construction of undeveloped sectors, and projects with a significant negative impact on threatened or vulnerable wildlife species.
• Projects limited to knowledge acquisition, research, unproven pilot technology, sanitary or storm sewer collection and transport works except sustainable stormwater works, projects presented to settle a litigated dispute, or essentially routine and recurring maintenance.

• Protection of people.
• Protection of property.
• Watershed-scale project impact and coexistence with water.
• Relevance of the proposed solution and environmental impact.
• Capacity to carry out the project.

• Access the PGAMR online service and complete the online application form.
• Attach all information and documents required to analyze the project.
• For an urgent project submitted outside a call for projects, email changements.climatiques@mamh.gouv.qc.ca to contact the PRAFI team.
• If a document is larger than 30 Mo, email changements.climatiques@mamh.gouv.qc.ca because it cannot be uploaded through PGAMR.
• If your territory is not covered by a project office, contact bureaux.projets@mamh.gouv.qc.ca.

• The Ministry analyzes submitted projects for admissibility.
• Some applications may need to be strengthened so the selection committee can assess them.
• Eligible projects are sent to the project office associated with the territory for analysis and an opinion.
• After prescreening, the applicant receives either a prescreening letter or a closure letter; urgent projects submitted outside a call for projects that are not judged urgent receive a refusal letter.
• The retained projects go to the interministerial advisory committee and then to the selection committee, which makes recommendations to the Minister; the Ministry may limit the number of selected requests to respect the budget envelope.

• The guide does not prevail over the normative framework, and if there is a discrepancy between the guide and the funding agreement, the funding agreement prevails.