10 YEARS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION

10 YEARS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION:

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, CIVIL SOCIETY AND

PARTICIPATION

Author Hale Akay

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This publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Union and the Republic of Turkey. The views expressed in this publication belong to the author and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union, the Ministry for European Union and the Turkey-Europe Foundation.

CONTENTSFOREWORD, 5

1. INTRODUCTION, 7

European Union’s Financial Assistance to Turkey, 9

Methodology, 11

2. PRE-ACCESSION PROCESS AND CIVIL SOCIETY, 16

2.1. Participation and Civil Society, 16

2.2. What do we mean by participation?, 18

2.3. The Role of Civil Society in Turkey in Pre-Accession Process, 22

3. RESEARCH FINDINGS, 29

3.1. Results of the Survey, Focus Group Meetings and Interview, 30

3.2. An Analysis of EU’s Financial Assistance (2005-2014), 41

3.3. Conclusions and Recommendations, 63

4. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE PROJECTS OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR (2005-2013), 71

4.1. 2005 National Program and Projects, 74


4.3. 2007 National Programs and Projects, 103

4.4. 2008 National Programs and Projects, 116






4.10. 2014 Yılı Ulusal Programı ve Projeleri, 174?????????????

5. GRANT PROGRAMS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE PROJECTS OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS, 187

5.1.Grant Programs Implemented Under The Titli “Civil Society”, 189

5.2. Other Grant Programs, 250

REFERENCES, 281

APPENDIX, 285

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FOREWORDTurkey was one of the countries that believed in the success of the European Economic Community (EEC), which, when founded in 1957, created doubts in many as an initiative with no similar precedent in history. Turkey’s application to EEC for associate membership was filed as early as in 1959. The basis of this application was the common belief that Europe would thereafter take its place on world stage as a community of peace, founded on the principles of democracy and the rule of law. The progress the European Union has achieved since then patiently and by establishing a culture of reconciliation proves the soundness of this choice. The commitment to building a new Europe form bottom up by ensuring popular consent and support, instead of adopting a top down approach, has undoubtedly contributed to this success. The concept of “People’s Europe” now reflects a well-acknowledged fact.

Organised civil society, which is a sine qua non of democracy, has a critical role in that regard. Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) are crucial elements of this role.

The Turkey-Europe Foundation (TAV) is a CSO convinced that EU-Turkey relations should result eventually in full membership and was founded in order to carry out activities toward that end. The principal approach of TAV, stated in its by-laws is as follows: “For our country, integration with the European Union will open us important horizons for attaining the contemporary, fair, democratic and social environment that our people deserve. This is a serious opportunity for our people… The Turkey–Europe Foundation believes that every possible effort should be made to harmonise Turkey’s standards with those of the European Union, and as a Civil Society Organisation aims to contribute to the efforts of all other related organisations and institutions in this direction. Members of the Turkey–Europe Foundation will be resolute and persistent monitors of Turkey’s relations with the EU both at the candidate and full membership phases, all of which are within the framework of her efforts for 150 years to reach contemporary civilisation.”

As TAV, up until today, we have operated towards that vision. However, it is impossible to say that the state of the EU-Turkey relations today, which has a history

of more than 50 years and which has stalled in the so-called process of pre-accession for more than 10 years, is commensurate either with this imposed vision, nor with the principles of fairness and pacta sunt servanda1. While EU continues to enlarge, Turkey is left in a position of watching those coming from behind and becoming full members. Nevertheless, being aware that our principles have become even more important today and that those principles need to be put into practice, as TAV, we are determined to step up our efforts. Moreover, we also believe that as pressure groups, CSOs, in cooperation with the public sector, should increasingly continue their efforts for reaching that target. We also expect EU to open the way for that determination. EU needs Turkey, as much as Turkey needs EU. The state of international affairs today also affirms the importance of that argument. A demotivated Turkey is to no one’s benefit.

We hope that this report is going to be evaluated within that context.

ULUÇ ÖZÜLKER RETIRED AMBASSADOR - TAV VICE PRESIDENT

1 Latin for “agreements must be kept”.

2. KATILIM ÖNCESİ SÜREÇ VE SİVİL TOPLUM

2. KATILIM ÖNCESİ SÜREÇ VE SİVİL TOPLUM1. INTRODUCTION

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1. INTRODUCTIONFor candidate countries, the European Union’s (EU) pre-accession process implies a profound transformation towards the establishment and strengthening of democratic institutions and practices. This process is expected to create profound changes in candidate countries’ societies, government institutions, and the way those two interact with each other. Particularly in the case of Turkey, where the fulfillment of the EU’s Political Criteria has been one of the core and crucial issues of for membership, providing impetus for participatory democracy by re-defining, altering, and bolstering the ties between the public sector and civil society so as to institute a more balanced relationship between the citizens and the state has been one of the main priorities of pre-accession strategies and related financial assistance. Since the start of the accession negotiations as of 3 October 2005, the EU has particularly aimed improving the capacities of civil society organisations (CSOs) as the general institutional bodies of citizen participation and promoting the establishment of mechanisms for dialogue and cooperation between CSOs and the public sector.

Turkey-Europe Foundation’s (TAV) “Active Civil Society Participation in EU Accession Talks” project, which was launched in Fall 2014, with the financial support of the European Union under Civil Society III Programme, was designed and has been implemented with the intention to contribute to this transformation. Taking into account the numerous studies and reports which usually point out that the progress achieved in strengthening dialogue and cooperation between CSOs and the public sector is far from satisfactory, TAV decided to develop a project that ties the EU pre-accession process and participatory practices in a concrete way. The project is based on a simple premise: If the pre-accession process in Turkey is to create a change towards good governance and democratic participation at the local and national levels, than pre-accession process as a whole should be managed in a manner that fullfils the EU’s political criteria. In other words, the process should be transparent, all actors involved should be accountable, and dialogue and cooperation between civil society and the public sector as well as EU level actors should be a principle for all stages of policy making, from agenda setting to implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.

The resulting project, which led to the preparation of this report, had two objectives:

• to create a new impetus for Turkey’s EU accession process through reinvigorating civic involvement and increasing civil society’s interest in the accession process and promoting participatory democratic culture.

• to contribute to the ongoing efforts for achieving effective participation of CSOs in public decision making by establishing sustainable mechanisms of dialogue and cooperation between CSOs and public authorities/institutions, and promoting democratic values through strengthening transparency and accountability of public policies.

An important priority of the project was to move beyond activities that discuss and promote the ideal of participatory democracy and civil society-public sector dialogue and cooperation, and, rather than that, to create mechanisms for structured dialogue between CSOs and public sector representatives on practical grounds, based on concrete outputs. Given that the EU financial assistance plays a crucial role for both civil society capacity development and pre-accession strategies, TAV decided that analysing financial assistance from the perspective of civil society participation could be one of the tools that can be used structured dialogue. As a result, the project initially included the preparation of a report evaluating the 10 years of Turkey’s pre-accession process, which would include all types of the EU’s financial assistance used by different actors as well as the resulting projects and programmes, and which would discuss the impact and effectiveness of this financial assistance on civil society-public sector dialogue and cooperation.

EUROPEAN UNION’S FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO TURKEYThe financial cooperation between Turkey and the EU had been administered under financial protocols from the signing of Ankara Agreement in 1963 to the establishment of Customs Union in 1996. Between 1964 and 1981, three Financial Protocols and one Additional Protocol had been

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signed in order to support the socio-economic development of Turkey. After the establishment of the Customs Union, under Council Resolution 1/95 on Turkey-EU relations, Turkey became entitled to benefit from resources in the EU budget, as well as credit and grant opportunities available for Mediterranean countries (MEDA). Until 1999, financial assistance to Turkey mostly aimed to supporting structural reforms.

After Turkey was declared a candidate country in 1999 Helsinki Summit, the relations between Turkey and the EU entered a new phase, which meant a change for both the amount and the content of the financial assistance provided. Due to this new status, Turkey became eligible to make use of opportunities available to all candidate countries and the grant programs Turkey could benefit from were gathered under a single framework.

During the first phase of the EU’s pre-accession financial assistance to Turkey covering years between 2002 and 2006, the priority was to achieve progress in Turkey’s compliance to the EU’s Copenhagen Criteria2 and the EU Aquis. The EU financial Assistance in that period was directed towards projects that were in line with the priorities set in the Accession Partnership Document and Turkey’s National Program. While, initially financial assistance to Turkey was administered by EU institutions, the EU also demanded the establishment of a “Decentralised Implementation System” (DIS). DIS implies the transfer of administrative responsibility of the EU’s financial assistance from EU institutions to candidate countries’ agencies; however the planning and programming process of the financial assistance and the types of tenders and contracts remains the same. DIS in Turkey, which is composed of the National Fund, the National Aid Coordinator and its Secretariat, Central Finance and Contracts Unit (CFCU), the Programme

2 These criteria (known as the Copenhagen criteria) were set by the Copenhagen European Council in 1993 and strengthened by the Madrid European Council in 1995 include: 1) Stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for and protection of minorities; 2) A functioning market economy and the ability to cope with competitive pressure and market forces within the EU; 3) Ability to take on the obligations of membership, including the capacity to effectively implement the rules, standards and policies that make up the body of EU law (the ‘acquis’), and adherence to the aims of political, economic and monetary union.

Authorising Officer, Senior Programme Officers in line ministries, and the Financial Cooperation Committee became fully operational in 2003.

TABLE 1.1: EU FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO TURKEY - 2002-2006 (MILLION EUR)

Budget

2002 126

2003 144

2004 250

2005 300

2006 500

TOTAL 1.320

Two additional important changes also took place during the same period. On 16 December 2004, EU leaders agreed to open accession negotiations with Turkey as of 3 October 2005. The progress report prepared by the European Commission in 2004 predicted that accession negotiations with Turkey would create a profound affect on the EU budget. On the other hand, the EU altered the financial assistance framework for candidate countries as of 2006 and consolidated the financial programs available to those countries (PHARE, ISPA, SADARD, Pre-accession Financial Assistance to Turkey, and CARDS) into a single instrument named the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA). IPA for Turkey was composed of five components: I. Transition Assistance and Institution Building; II. Cross-border Co-operation; III. Regional Development (transportation, environment, regional and economic development); IV. Human Resources Development; V. Rural Development (IPARD). During the first implementation phase of IPA between 2007 and 2013, the main strategy of IPA programming was determined by Multi-Annual Indicative Planning Documents (MIPD) prepared for each candidate country and the Ministry for EU published annual Implementation Reports (During IPA II, annual reports will be published at sectoral level).

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The preparation for Turkey’s first MIPD covering 2007-2009 began in 2005 and the document was developed in coordination with different stakeholders. 95 CSOs also participated in consultations organised for that purpose and 19 of them submitted their written recommendations. The first stage of the IPA I covered the years between 2007 and 2011 and 3 different MIPDs were prepared during that period. All 3 MIPDs note that CSOs were consulted during the preparation of each, however does not give any information about the participating organisations. In 2011 the EU Commission announced another change intending to strengthen the link between the priorities set in progress reports and the programming of financial assistance. The sectoral approach adopted as a result of this change aims at both increasing candidate countries’ ownership of pre-accession process and enhancing the effectiveness of the IPA assistance. The new approach intends to direct financial assistance towards specific target sectors and in the case of Turkey those sectors consist of “Justice, Home Affairs, and Fundamental Rights”, “Development of Private Sector”, “Environment and Climate Change”, “Social Development”, “Rural and Agricultural Development”, “Transportation”, and “Energy”. This new approach also implied changes in the preparation process of MIPDs. The General Secretariat of the European Union, which acted as the National IPA Coordinator (became Ministry for EU Affairs in 2011) established working groups for the development of sectoral strategies and organised a seminar3 in 2010 in order to

3 This seminar’s participant list is not available.

TABLE 1.2: FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO TURKEY DURING IPA I - 2007-2013 (MILLION EUR)

Components 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 TOPLAM

"I. Transition Assistance and Institution Building 256,7 256,1 239,6 217,8 231,3 227,5 238,5 1.667,5

II. Cross-border Cooperation 2,1 2,9 3,0 3,1 5,1 2,2 2,2 20,6

III. Regional Development 167,5 173,8 182,7 238,1 293,4 356,1 366,9 1.778,4

IV. Human Resources Development 50,2 52,9 55,6 63,4 77,6 83,2 91,2 474,1

V. Rural Development 20,7 53,0 85,5 131,3 172,5 187,4 204,2 854,6

TOTAL 497,2 538,7 566,4 653,7 779,9 856,3 903,0 4.795,2

present the new approach to all potential actors that would benefit from financial assistance, including CSOs. Moreover, after the draft MIPD for IPA II was prepared, those stakeholders were consulted and changes were made in the final document according to the feedbacks received. One of those changes is a stronger emphasis on horizontal priorities such as gender equality and support to civil society.

By the adoption of the IPA Regulation in 2014, the IPA II period covering the years between 2014 and 2020 was officially inaugrated. The distribution of financial assistance according to national sectoral strategies instead of individual projects is one of the most important features of the IPA II. As a consequence, the administration of financial assistance will become more decentralised during that period. Secondly, with the IPA II, the impact of financial assistance will be systematically monitored against benchmarks set beforehand and included in the MIPD. Thirdly, the IPA II attaches more importance to the role of civil society both as regards to its role in projects to be carried out by the public sector and as a direct beneficiary of EU’s financial assistance.

IPA II Indicative Strategy Paper for Turkey (2014-2020) states that financial assistance during that period will focus on five policy areas: (a) support for political reforms, (b) support for economic, social and territorial development, (c) strengthening the ability of the beneficiary country to fulfill the (future) obligations stemming from membership in the EU by supporting progressive alignment with the Union

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TABLE 1.3: INDICATIVE ALLOCATIONS TO TURKEY FOR IPA II PERIOD - 2014-2020 (MILLION EUR)

Policy areas 2014 2017 2016 2017 2018-2020 2014-2020 Total

a. Reforms in Preparation for Union Membership 355,1 196,6 240,3 137,2 652,2 1.581,4

Democracy and Governance 540,2 416,3 956,5

Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights 388,9 236,0 624,9

b. Socio-Economic and Regional Development 155,8 265,8 247,0 261,4 595,3 1.525,3

Environment and Climate Action 297,1 347,5 644,6

Transport 386,0 56,8 442,8

Energy 59,0 34,4 93,5

Competitiveness and Innovation 187,8 156,6 344,4

c. Employment, Social Policies, Education, Promotion of Gender Equality and Human Resources Development

37,4 62,9 65,9 68,9 199,9 435,0

Education, Employment and Social Policies 235,1 199,9 435,0

d. Agriculture and Rural Development 72,0 100,9 77,0 158,1 504,2 912,2

Agriculture and Rural Development 408,0 504,2 912,2

TOTAL 620,4 626,4 630,8 636,4 1.940,0 4.454,0

acquis, (d) strengthening regional integration and territorial cooperation. The Strategy Document for the IPA II is also prepared by using consultative mechanisms with CSOs led by the Delegation of the European Union to Turkey.

METHODOLOGYThis report examines the EU’s financial assistance to Turkey during 10 years of the pre-accession process since the beginning of the accession negotiations. It has been prepared through an extensive desk-top research and covers the three different phases of financial assistance summarised above. The report catalogues and to a certain extent analyses the programs and projects carried out by both the public sector institutions and CSOs during that period. All documents related to the EU’s financial assistance, such as multi-annual and annual strategies, national programs, sectoral fiches and projects fiches, as well as evaluation reports were gathered and scanned as a part of the desk-top research. The EU web-sites on PHARE

and Instrument for Pre- accession Assistance (IPA), as well as the Ministry for EU’s (MEUA) publications and the CFCU database have been the main sources of data. The report is based on information gathered through open sources; this method is chosen intentionally in order to determine the problems related to access to information. The main problem regarding the data collection is the insufficiency of information on the implementation phases of both public sector and civil society projects. Though quite dispersed, information on planned public sector projects and their project budgets can be accessed easily and through open sources. However, the same does not hold when one tries to understand how successfully those projects were implemented and how they were individually evaluated after implementation. Evaluation reports prepared for the European Commission or by several EU institutions mostly evaluates the managerial performance, but does not provide an impact analysis of those projects. The research phase also included a survey conducted among CSOs, two focus

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group meetings organised in Ankara and Istanbul with the representatives of CSOs, and interviews with a selected sample of public sector representatives. The results of the survey, focus group meetings, and interviews are also presented in the report.

Regarding the public sector, the report focuses on projects implemented under the responsibility of various ministries and planned under National Programs. On the other hand, in selecting grant programs open to civil society and projects implemented under those grant programs, it was necessary to define what is meant by civil society organisations so as to distinguish grants open to and projects implemented by different types of organisations. Civil society is in fact a vague and a highly disputed concept, while civil society institutions broadly define all organised structures within the civil society. However, the types of organisations falling under that broad category can have significant differences in terms of the extent of their membership bases, their representative capacity, their relations with state institutions, their activities and administrational organisation, and their legal status. In the case of Turkey, the term “civil society organisation” covers various types of organisations, such as professional organisations, labor and trade unions, large and small scale organisations, initiatives and platforms with no legal status, as well as associations and foundations. On the other hand, as regards to participatory democracy, the term civil society organisation is usually used to define rights or service based organisations which have different levels of professionalisation and capacities. Taking into account that only organisations which have a legal status can benefit from the EU financial assistance, this report limits the definition of civil society organisations to associations and foundations with legal personality, yet some exceptions are made for specific cases. Though this definition based on legal status is frequently used in various studies, the results of the report clearly shows that it also brings important problems. Nevertheless, the information on financial assistance and the related projects implemented by civil society are gathered and listed in this report according to that definition.

The report includes public sector projects implemented in accordance with the National Programs in 2005 and 2006, in addition to those implemented under the Component I of the IPA I during 2007 and 2013 (see Table 1.3). Programs that

have a more general nature or implemented annually (like the Jean Monnet Program) are excluded. CSOs can apply to grant programs opened under National Programs under the heading of civil society, while they can also benefit from specific grant programs included in the individual projects of several ministries. The report contains the results of all grant programs4 implemented in the last 10 years and whose grant awardees have been disclosed. CSOs can also apply to grant programs run by the EU institutions, yet those types of grants are not included in this report. In relevant chapters of the report, more detailed information is available on the types of public projects and grant programs covered in this study.

We also believe that one important point regarding the presentation of the collected data should be noted. Accession to the EU in fact a very technical and complex process. Any material related to EU policies and policy process is inevitably full of acronyms and reflects an EU-specific jargon, which makes it difficult to follow for a non-specialised reader. In order to overcome that problem, the collected data is tried to be presented in the most simple and reader-friendly way possible.

The report brings together a huge amount of information gathered from open sources. Besides analysing the EU’s financial assistance to Turkey, one of the challenges of the report has been to aggregate that dispersed information and present it to the reader in a coherent way. This introduction and subsequent second and third chapters include the conceptual framework of the report and the results of the data analysis. The fourth and fifth chapters present the collected data on public sector and CSO projects, which establishes the basis of this data analysis and which we hope could be helpful for those working specifically on civil society and the EU accession.

The second chapter attempts to discuss how CSOs should be included in the pre-accession process and how it takes place in practice, while also presenting the complaints and demands of CSOs reflected in various reports and

4 There is always a time lag between the allocations announced for a given project or programme and their implementation. Therefore, grant programs opened in 2005 and 2006 include projects whose allocations were announced before 2005 in previous National Programs. Since the implementation of the IPA II programs has begun recently, the report does not include any grant program opened under IPA II.

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documents. The third chapter includes the data analysis of the research, including the survey conducted among CSOs, focus groups meetings with CSOs and interviews with public sector officials, as well as an examination of public sector and civil society projects from the perspective of participatory practices. This chapter concludes with a problem analysis based on the results of the research. The fourth chapter brings together basic information on all projects planned and implemented/or being implemented between 2005 and 2013 under Annual Programs, while also providing more detailed information about a set of projects selected by using a specific criteria. The last chapter catalogues all projects the CSOs that were awarded through grant programs.

Within the scope of TAV’s project, this report is expected to be an effective and facilitative tool for establishing efficient and effective dialogue between the civil society and the public sector actors. However, beyond that, we also hope that the report will serve as a reference study for those working on subjects like Turkey-EU relations, public policy making, and civil society and will serve as a first step towards more comprehensive studies in that field.

2. PRE-ACCESSION PROCESS AND CIVIL SOCIETY

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2. PRE-ACCESSION PROCESS AND CIVIL SOCIETY

2.1. PARTICIPATION AND CIVIL SOCIETYThe concept of civil society entered into the EU agenda indirectly by the Maastricht Treaty. Principle of subsidiarity adopted by the Maastricht Treaty as a rule for Community decision making opened the way for participatory mechanisms in different levels of decision making processes; however, it did not stipulate any specific rule for the participation of civil society. As a result of criticisms towards the Union on the basis of the “democratic deficit” between the EU institutions and the citizens and the efforts towards establishing a political union, incorporating participatory mechanisms to the EU decision making and the concept of civil society began to be handled more seriously in the beginning of 2000s. At Lisbon Summit organised in 2000, the EU Council decided to implement a new inter-governmental governance model called Open Method of Coordination and the EU Commission published a White Book on Governance in 2001. The Open Method of Coordination allows the participation of civil society in several areas in the actual governance mechanisms. Moreover, the Citizen’s Initiative, which gives the EU citizens the chance to ask the European Commission to propose legislation in areas that fall within its competence was also adopted by the Lisbon Treaty and became operational in 2012.

On the other hand, civil society has begun to assume a more important role for both the new relations established with the Central and Eastern European states following the collapse of the Communist Bloc and for the EU’s new enlarged neighbourhood policy. Civil society was defined as a transformational power for the transition periods of the Central and Eastern European countries and has become a crucial actor for the EU’s pre-accession policies. EU’s Neighbourhood Policy also aims to develop dialogue and cooperation between the civil societies of the EU countries and countries that come under the scope of Neighbourhood Policy.

• EU Guidelines on Civil Society Participation

For the period 2014-2020, EU DG Enlargement5 published a guideline for EU support in enlargement countries, which stresses that “the involvement of civil society in the pre- accession process can contribute to deepening citizens’ understanding of the reforms a country needs to complete in order to qualify for EU membership. This can help ensure EU accession is not just a government exercise and stimulate a balanced public debate, which is crucial to achieving a well-informed decision on EU membership at the end of the pre- accession process”. According to the Guideline, the involvement of civil society in the pre- accession process in enlargement countries will be further promoted during the IPA II term and will include the formulation, implementation and monitoring of sector strategies for EU financial assistance. This strategy sets 6 objectives regarding civil society, and the third objective covers civil society-public sector dialogue and cooperation which is expected to be based on willingness, trust, mutual acknowledgement around common interests. The expected result of this objective is the increased recognition of CSOs’ role in improving good governance through CSOs’ inclusion in decision making process.

Another important document that should be cited on civil society participation is the “Guiding Principles of EC Support of the Development of Civil Society in Turkey 2011-2015”, which notes that a dynamic civil society can contribute to the accession process so that it can become more than a technical process between the candidate country’s and the EU’s institutions. According to the Document, the accession process “should be driven by citizens, and making the institutional, political and economic changes that are part of the accession process more understood and sustainable”. The Guideline also identifies several priorities that will shape the EU’s strategy for active citizen

5 DG Enlargement, 2013.

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participation. “Objective 1: Improvement of the environment for active citizenship” includes a specific objective related to civil society’s participation to pre-accession process and under “Administrative practices promoting effective civic participation in local, regional and national-level policy processes and in the programming under the Instrument for Pre- Accession Assistance (IPA)” identifies possible EU actions that can be implemented for that purpose:

• Support public authorities and organised citizens in strengthening their technical knowledge on good practices in civic participation, including for public bodies involved in IPA implementation,

• Encourage Turkey in the creation of a comprehensive framework including dialogue mechanisms for civic participation,

• Support relevant public authorities in practicing effective civic consultation including consulting right-based CSOs,

• Support trust building and the advocacy efforts of organised citizens for improving civic participation,

• Support information activities for organised citizens on programming processes and EC policies on civic participation,

• Encourage Turkey to widen and deepen civic involvement in the overall IPA programming process and in individual projects supported under IPA,

• Encourage Turkey to establish a permanent working group to accompany IPA programming with the participation of representatives from organised citizens and relevant public institutions.

• Moreover, the document also lists possible indicators that can be used to evaluate the progress achieved under that objective:

• A comprehensive civic participation framework is in place,

• Increase in the number of local, regional and national civic participation mechanisms,

• Improvement in the performance of local, regional and national civic participation mechanisms,

• Increase in the number of projects with civic participation during design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation stages of the IPA programming cycle

• Improvement in the quality of civic participation in the IPA programming cycle,

• Increase in the participation of organised citizens to debating platforms on acquis related issues”

These two main guidance documents, as well as the stress made on civil society participation in Indicative Strategy Papers and other programming documents for Turkey indicate a necessity for the establishment of clearly defined participation mechanisms for the pre-accession process, based on a deliberately set framework -preferably a legal document- and a civil society strategy that prioritise participation, along with financial assistance to civil society and other forms of capacity building support. However, in Turkey, in practice, the situation is quite different. There is no legal framework, guiding principles, codes of conduct, or a strategy paper on how CSOs can participate the pre-accession process by taking part at different levels of decision making and policy implementation. Though there are various documents on financial assistance that present detailed information on grant opportunities open to CSOs and procedures for applying those grants, there is not even a single document which provides information on how the decision making process for pre-accession policies work, through which mechanisms CSOs can participate those mechanisms, and the roles assigned to them for contributing to the pre-accession process decision making. In practice, this works generally through internet based announcements inviting CSOs to participative informative/consultative meetings.

However, that does not mean that CSOs are totally excluded from decision-making mechanisms related to the pre-accession process. Different tools and methods aiming to increase civil society’s participation are being used by different public institutions, particularly by the Ministry for EU. However those tools and methods are usually successful in achieving a quantitative increase in civil society participation, while creating a limited impact on the quality of participation. In some cases, public institutions use those tools and methods to consult CSOs, which they already have well-established relations with. There are several institutional consultation mechanisms (eg. Human Rights Boards) used in several policy areas and there are public bodies which are more open to interacting with CSOs or feel the need for such an interaction. Yet, in the absence of clear procedures and evidence-based evaluations, it is difficult to assess the outcome of the mechanisms and institutional efforts already in place.


FIGURE 2.1: LADDER OF PARTICIPATION

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Citizen Control

Citizen Power

No-participation

Consultation

Delegated Power

Informing

Partnership

Therapy

Placation

Manipulation

Tokenism

2.2. WHAT DO WE MEAN BY PARTICIPATION?There are numerous studies on effective participation of CSOs in public decision making and guidelines prepared by various international institutions in order to define the mechanisms and rules for effective participation. Most of those studies offer different categorisations for participation and nearly all of those categorisations are inspired by the ladder of participation originally proposed by Arnstein in 1969 (Figure 2.1).

participation. Partnership indicates a re-distribution of power between citizens and policy makers, for example, through the establishment of joint committees that assign citizens or organisations planning and decision-making responsibilities. Delegated power requires that citizens or organisations representing citizens also have the power to hold public sector accountable. Citizen control, on the other hand, means a total delegation of power and a total transformation in the decision-making hierarchy.

Though the ladder of Arnstein has also been criticised from various perspectives, it nevertheless is still used as the main reference in numerous studies. The literature on citizens’ (or CSOs) participation generally focuses on the levels of tokenism and citizen power and particularly on how to transform the actors and the mechanisms so as to move from the rungs of tokenism to at least the first rung of citizen power, i.e. partnership. In today’s world all governments and public bodies more or less feel themselves obliged to establish mechanisms needed for participatory democracy; however, in most cases those efforts are limited to informing, consultation, and placation. Informing and consultation are not sufficient for effective participation as most of the time they lack adequate feed-back mechanisms. As long as there are no rules on how feedback from consultations is going to be used and the public institutions are not required to be accountable in that regard, those two methods are largely ineffective. Placation defines a situation in which citizens or organisations representing citizens have a part in decision-making bodies like working committees, however, do not have real power to affect the outcome of this decision making process. Placation is often described as a method used for creating an illusion of participation and is in fact the most dangerous form of tokenism since it leads to a disappointment among society regarding the effectiveness of participatory mechanisms. When citizens or citizen organisations begin to think that their participation in those decision-making bodies is being used for political manipulation and is ineffective in influencing the final decisions, they usually tend to give up participating to those mechanisms and lose their confidence in democratic institutions.

One of the main sources on participation which can be used as a guide for public institutions and CSOs is OECD’s “Handbook on Information, Consultation, and Public Participation in Policy Making”6. Rather than cook-book recipes for

6 Gramberger, 2001.

In this well-known typology of citizen participation, the lower rungs (1) Manipulation and (2) Therapy aim to “educate” or “cure” citizens, or in other words create consent, without any intention to create mechanisms for genuine participation. Rungs (3) Informing, (4) Consultation, and (5) Placation imply a progress towards tokenism, meaning that there are mechanisms allowing citizens to be heard and participate, however those mechanisms work under an asymmetric distribution of power. In fact, efficient participation mechanisms require a transformation in power structures, leading to change in the ability to provide and produce information, as well as enhancing the skills and capacities of civil society actors. Only the higher rungs (6) Partnership, (7) Delegated Power, and (8) Citizen Control can create effective and efficient citizen


participation, this Handbook provides a framework of issues that should be considered and decisions that should be made in designing and implementing participatory mechanisms under different contexts. The handbook focuses on three main methods that can be used for strengthening the relations between the public sector and civil society:

• Information: Government disseminates information on policy-making on its own initiative or citizens access to information upon their demand. According to the handbook, in both cases, information flows essentially in one direction and therefore it does not create a real interaction.

• Consultation: Government or public institutions ask for and receive citizens’ feedback on policy-making. Consultation creates a limited two-way relationship between government/public institutions and citizens since it is the public sector that decides whom to consult and on what issues to consult.

• Active Participation: Active participation allows citizens to make active and original contribution to policy-making and is a two-way relationship between government/public institutions and citizens based on the principle of partnership. Though governments/public institutions still have the responsibility of making the final decision, working groups and comprehensive dialogue processes can open the way for effectively engaging citizens in policy making.

“Code of Good Practice for Civil Participation in the Decision Making”7 drafted by international non-governmental organisations during a Conference organised by the Council of Europe (CoE) in 2009 can also serve as a guide for understanding how mechanisms for civil society involvement can turn into real tools for participation. This code of conduct notes that the relationship between the two parties rests on four principles:

Participation: CSOs collect and channel views of the citizens and the information they produce is recognised and used as a valuable input for political decision-making.

Trust: Even though different parties have different roles to play, the relationship between them is based on trust, which requires transparency, respect, and mutual reliability.

7 Council of Europe, 2009.

Accountability and Transparency: Both public authorities and CSOs should be accountable to public at all stages of their activities.

Independence: CSOs are recognised as free and independent bodies, who have the right to express and advocate positions different than public authorities.

The code of conduct also identifies the necessary conditions to create an enabling environment for civic participation: the rule of law; adherence to fundamental democratic principles; political will; favourable legislation; clear and precise procedures; long-term support and resources for a sustainable civil society; and shared spaces for dialogue and cooperation. The Matrix of Civic Participation (Table 2.1) illustrates which mechanisms can be used at different stages of policy-making for different levels of participation and can be used as an assessment tool in evaluating the effectiveness of participatory mechanisms. In essence, active citizen participation requires a move from agenda setting and decision making towards decision, implementation, monitoring, and reformulation stages of political decision making, and a simultaneous upward move from mechanisms of information and consultation to dialogue and partnership.

The Matrix defines different levels of civic participation as:

Information: Access to information is the basis for all subsequent steps regarding the involvement of NGOs in the political decision-making process. This is a relatively low level of participation which usually consists of a one-way provision of information from the public authorities and no interaction or involvement with NGOs is required or expected.

Information is relevant for all steps in the decision-making process.

Consultation: This is a form of initiative where the public authorities ask NGOs for their opinion on a specific policy topic or development. Consultation usually includes the authorities informing NGOs of current policy developments and asking for comments, views and feed-backs. The initiative and themes originate with the public authorities, not with the NGOs. Consultation is relevant for all steps of the decision-making process, especially for drafting, monitoring and reformulation.

Dialogue: A broad dialogue is a two-way communication


built on mutual interests and potentially shared objectives to ensure a regular exchange of views. It ranges from open public hearings to specialised meetings between NGOs and public authorities. The discussion remains wide ranging and is not explicitly linked to a current policy development process. A collaborative dialogue is built on mutual interests for a specific policy development and usually leads to a joint recommendation, strategy or legislation. Collaborative dialogue is more empowered than the broad dialogue as it consists of joint, often frequent and regular, meetings to develop core policy strategies and often leads to agreed outcomes. Dialogue is highly valued at all steps in the political decision-making cycle, but is crucial for agenda setting, drafting and reformulation.

Partnership: A partnership implies shared responsibilities in each step of the political decision-making process from agenda setting, drafting, decision and implementation of policy initiatives. It is the highest form of participation. Partnership may take place at all steps of the political decision-making process and is particularly relevant at the agenda setting or implementation steps.

Matrix of Civic Participation can serve as a guide for designing new participatory mechanisms or evaluating the existing ones. In this report it is taken as the main reference document for evaluating the participatory mechanisms used in different EU funded projects of the public sector. In the simplest way, participation can be effective only if the level of participation is increased in every stage of decision making and the use of participatory mechanisms mostly limited to existing in agenda setting and implementation stages are extended to cover the whole process. Using the Matrix of Civic Participation, we can draw an ideal picture of citizen participation in EU pre-accession process for a given country. First of all, the citizen participation should exist at all stages of pre-accession process, including the formulation of macro-level strategies, decisions on funding allocations, selection and prioritisation of public projects, and the implementation of those projects. Given the existing institutional setting related to the management of the EU pre-accession processes and the current sectoral approach, this requires permanent and obligatory -meaning that CSOs’ participation is not left to the discretion of public institutions- inclusion of CSOs in working groups, sectoral committees, and other types of joint decision making mechanisms. Moreover, it requires the formulation

and implementation of clear codes of conduct for CSOs’ participation in those mechanisms and powers that allow CSOs to affect the decisions of those bodies. In other words, representation of CSOs should not be limited to creating platforms for them to express their recommendations and concerns, but should involve joint decision making mechanisms. Any sectoral strategy drafted through such mechanisms and strengthened through more general forms information, consultation, and dialogue would serve the aim of creating and improving the ownership of the pre-accession policies, strategies, and actions by the society. In addition to such mechanisms, this institutional type of participation should also include the development of a monitoring system that can evaluate the quality and quantity of CSOs’ participation and the degree of CSOs’ impact on final decisions and implementation management. In this framework, financial assistance provided to CSOs should not constitute the core of CSOs involvement in the pre-accession process, but should be regarded as a part of it. All types of financial assistance provided during the pre-accession process should be programmed and implemented by using participatory mechanisms of the highest degree. Regarding the distribution of financial assistance, CSOs should not only be informed and consulted, but should be given powers to effectively monitor the implementation of public sector projects and hold public actors accountable. At the level of individual projects/ actions/measures formulated and implemented by public institutions, inclusion of CSOs effectively to different stages of project cycle should be a priority and this can be achieved through joint decision making methods to be used for project/action/measurement design, active involvement of CSOs in project activities, components particularly developed for enforcing CSO-public sector partnership for individual actions, and through roles assigned to CSOs in public sector projects management and monitoring.


TABLE 2.1: MATRIX OF CIVIC PARTICIPATION

Levels of Participation

Agenda Setting Drafting Decision Implementation Monitoring Reformulation

Partnership Working group or committee

Co-drafting

Joint decision making

Co-decision making

Strategic partnerships

Working groups or committee


Dialogue

Hearings and public forums

Citizens’ forums and future councils

Key government contact

Hearings and Q&A panels

Expert seminars

Multi, stakehold or committees and advisory bodies

Open plenary or committee sessions

Capacity-building seminars

Training seminars


Seminars and deliberative forums

Consultation

Petitioning

Consultation online or other techniques

Hearings and Q&A panels

Expert seminars

Multi, stakehold or committees and advisory bodies

Open plenary or committee sessions

Events

Conferences

Forums

Seminars

Feedback mechanisms

Conferences or meetings

Online consultation

Information

Easy and open information access

Research

Campaigning and lobbying

Website for key documents

Open and free access to policy documents

Website for key documents

Campaigns and lobbying

Web-cast

Campaigning and lobbying

Open access to information

Website for information access

E-mail alerts

FAQ

Public tendering

Procedures


Evidence gathering

Evaluations

Research studies



Two important factors should also be mentioned for the effectiveness of such participation strategies. The first one is the condition that CSOs’ inclusion should be based on clear rules and procedures and CSOs themselves should be transparent and accountable. The second factor is a clear definition of what is meant by civil society organisations and a deliberately set selection criteria for CSOs that are to be involved in joint decision making bodies to represent citizens’ interests. Therefore, any participatory strategy should aim at not only enhancing the level of CSOs’ involvement, i.e. the number of CSOs engaged in the process and their representational powers, but also target to deepen CSOs’ involvement by ensuring that different types of CSOs can be represented in mechanisms constructed for any policy area.

2.3. THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN TURKEY IN PRE-ACCESSION PROCESSAs mentioned before, an official document that explains in detail the mechanisms enabling CSOs’ participation in Turkey’s EU pre-accession process is unavailable. An examination of strategy documents and implementation examples reveals that CSOs are involved in different stages of policy making through various mechanisms. With regards to macro level policy making, which in practice implies CSOs’ participation to sectoral working groups and committees, the current legislative framework allows CSOs’ engagement in those groups if such a participation is “deemed necessary” by decision making bodies. Therefore, there is no obligation from the perspective of public institutions to involve CSOs to those groups, and, while in some sectors CSOs’ participation is actively sought, in many cases it is non- existent or limited to CSOs representing professions or special interest groups. Regarding the preparation of Indicative Strategy Documents, organising consultation meetings or other forms of tools for receiving feedbacks has become a common practice. However, CSOs do not have the opportunity to initiate such consultative mechanisms. There are no rules regulating how CSOs’ feedback will be used after the consultations; moreover, there is no mechanism for monitoring how CSOs’ feedback are being used. Consultative mechanisms are usually used after draft reports/documents are being prepared, giving insufficient time for CSOs to respond and therefore limiting the impact of CSOs on political decision making.

The concept of civil society and the corresponding categorisation of CSOs used within the EU pre-accession process defines a wide range of organisations with very different characteristics. This range includes all types of CSOs, from business organisations and social partners, which already enjoy a large degree of influence and which have established relations with the public sector to local organisations with limited capacity and financial means. Practices which only target to increase the number of participating CSOs and neglect involving different types of CSOs -in other words, approaches that do not aim to deepen and diversify participation- create additional advantages for organisations who already enjoy an advantagous status in terms of their relations to public institutions, particularly at the level of macro policies. While a comprehensive stakeholder analysis can identify CSOs working on different subjects and have different degrees of representational power and organisational capacity, at the level of macro policies, decision making process involve a limited number of CSOs within that wide-ranging stakeholders.

In terms of financial assistance, CSOs can benefit from various grant opportunities and they are informed and sometimes consulted during the design and implementation stages of those grant programs. However, those consultative mechanisms are not institutionalised and therefore do not have a structure that can be effectively monitored and evaluated.

Individual projects/actions/measures of public sector institutions also create opportunities for CSOs’ participation. In general, this occurs at the level of information and consultation and includes activities like awareness raising campaigns and meetings or activities like workshops, seminars, and conferences, while the participation of CSOs to project design is rarely observed. In some cases the level of partnership goes a step further and CSOs take active roles in project activities, mostly as providers of trainings. Though quite limited in number, in some projects CSOs take part in project working groups or steering committees and may benefit from specific sub-grant opportunities. In rare cases, CSOs are given the responsibility for project management and/or receive direct grants. The level of participation of CSOs to individual projects will be discussed in detail in the next section.

Two important reference documents related to CSOs participation in accession processes needs to be mentioned


in this section, as they provide additional information and has served as the basis of TAV’s research efforts. The first one is the report titled “Civil Society Organisations and Public Sector Relations: Problems and Expectations” and is prepared by TÜSEV a part of its project on civil society-public cooperation. In terms of civil society-public sector dialogue and cooperation, the report presents the following findings8:

• There is not a singular legislative framework to govern the relationship between civil society organisations and public institutions. In the absence of such a legislative framework, civil society-public sector cooperation is often built via personal ties and hence rights-based CSOs, which do not enjoy some level of proximity to public institutions, are excluded from policymaking processes. Without guidelines or principles to regulate the public sector-civil society relationship, decisions are made exclusively by public institutions.

• Existing legislation restricts the registration of CSOs to two types of legal entities: associations and foundations and as such excludes from policymaking processes unregistered or legally unrecognised civil society organisations such as groups, platforms, initiatives and networks.

• Public institutions do not regard CSOs as natural and equal parties to policy-making processes. This negative perception reduces the chances of CSOs to invoke their legal rights (however limited) to engage and converse with public institutions in various policy areas. As a result, most CSOs remain excluded from public institutions’ decision-making. Consultative processes include only those CSOs that have similar policy positions with the government/public institutions and hence are considered illegitimate and not pluralistic.

• The state is willing to include CSOs in policy negotiations concerning policy areas, such as social policies, on which public institutions have limited knowledge and expertise. CSOs on the other hand develop social policy expertise and capabilities with very limited resources so as to assume some of the roles that the social state ought to serve. This unjust arrangement is legitimised by public institutions as civil society-public sector “cooperation”.

• Public institutions are critical and suspicious towards CSOs. Most of the time, public institutions view CSOs

8 TÜSEV, 2013, p. 4-7.

as constantly seeking “help” from the state, incapable of implementing their chosen programs or projects and geared towards serving specific agendas. Thus when CSOs occasionally demand financial or in-kind support from public institutions, the latter acts doubtful and delays the extension of any form of aid for long inquiry processes. CSOs that seek to cooperate with public institutions as part of their advocacy efforts view public institutions’ adversity as an indication that public servants believe that the “state is never wrong” and not that “the state exists to serve citizens”.

• Public institutions fail to produce the information that CSOs need to carry out monitoring and oversight activities and to offer legible and meaningful data. For instance, crucial public spending data, which includes figures on the amount of public funds channeled into joint projects with CSOs, are distributed in an unintelligible format, making the tracking of public spending very difficult for non-public actors. Once the data is unpacked, CSOs find that very little amounts of funding by a small number of public institutions have gone into the financing of joint projects.

• CSOs are seldom able to participate in legislation and when they do engage in law making processes, they are only able consult on a limited/one-way capacity. CSOs that are consulted prior to or during legislation are not provided regular updates on the progress of the legislative process and are excluded from the further or final steps of this process.

• On the local level, the attendance of CSOs to City Councils, Provincial Employment Boards, Development Boards are compulsory however public institutions often select the CSOs that local bureaucrats have favourable relationships with. CSOs with the necessary expertise get sidelined.

• Public institutions and CSOs may act differently on the same issue area because there are not formalised procedures or frameworks of action to govern civil society-public sector cooperation. The two sides of this relationship often act without knowledge of the other and hence joint action and reporting become impossible.

• Public servants have very low levels of awareness and experience of the importance of CSOs to democratic governance. Consequently, public servants have difficulty engaging with CSOs. Moreover, most public servants do


not have a basic grasp of human rights and rights based thinking and hence do not take the necessary precautions to protect the rights to secrecy and confidentiality, for instance, in cases concerning women’s and children’s rights.

Another important document is the report of the conference on “Civil Society Transformations on the Way to the EU Looking at the Past, the Present and the Future” organised by TACSO in 2013, which brought together representatives of CSOs from pre-accession and EU member countries. Different studies presented during the session on the “Impact of Civil Society on the Accession Process” point out the following problems:

• Access does not necessarily mean influence. Low receptivity for CSO inputs and their limited involvement in the accession can serve to legitimise the actions of political actors, rather than to affect policy decisions. CSOs’ leverage is limited, and in pre- accession countries both a decline in public support for EU enlargement and a “transition fatigue” can be observed.

• Increased involvement of CSOs in policy making processes may harm their legitimacy as they may be perceived as actors serving as sources for EU influence.

• Capacity building in civil society is not adequately followed by actions aiming to enhance the capacity of public administrations.

• The distribution of funds available to CSOs across different projects can serve as a way of enforcing a particular understanding and conceptualisation of a problematic issue.9

• A non-conflicting relationship between CSOs and the state leads to a “technocratic” approach, which instrumentalises CSOs role in the reform processes. State institutions prefer such non-conflicting types of co-operation with civil society, and this in turn makes

• It difficult for CSOs to raise their concerns on problematic issues.10

9 As an example, majority of projects implemented in Turkey on minority rights and cultural diversity, focuses on issues like preserving local language, cuisine, folklore and similar aspects of local culture.

10 ibid, s. 11-14.

A World Cafe Meeting was also organised as a part of this Conference during which participants were able to put forward their recommendations in order to increase the impact of CSOs on the accession processes. In terms of active and effective participation of CSOs to political decision making related to accession processes, the following demands were expressed:

• A participatory and inclusive approach in consultation processes related to planning/ programming EU funds, which recognises civil society as a decision making actor and includes representatives of CSOs in all stages of policy making from programming to evaluation procedures.

• The establishment of national commissions within the EU Enlargement Policy for CSOs and the designing of a specific strategy focusing on the cooperation between civil society and the public sector and inclusion of CSOs in policy making at both national and EU levels.

• Transparency of the accession process, which requires creating tools and sources to make it easier for the public to understand the accession processes and to make the process and its contents more visible.

Finally, the expectations and recommendation of CSOs is also crucial for a realistic assessment on the degree of CSOs’ participation to pre-accession process related policy making and implementation. In that regard, the concerns expressed and recommendations made during consultations with CSOs (417 in total) organised between December 2013 and January 2014 to receive feedback on the draft IPA II Country Strategy Paper can be regarded as an invaluable source. The inputs of CSOs during that consultation meetings related to both the strategy as a whole and on sectors and sub-sectors have been collected in a separate document and can be accessed online. A list of recommendations and remarks of CSOs related to the participation of CSOs to policy making and implementation, as well as on governance and civil society sub-sectors is provided below:

• CSOs’ participation to EU programming/planning process should be more systematic and should be based on a participatory planning approach, which should not be limited to providing information to CSOs, but should aim developing policies together with CSOs.


• Participation should be comprehensive and involve multiple layers.

• CSOs’ participation to decision making process for EU programming should be timely. A timely involvement of CSOs will enable CSOs to make interventions to designed policies and will enable the EU to have a more adequate background and need analysis, which in turn will lead to more adequate planning.

• CSOs should be recognised as key stakeholders for each sector identified in the country strategy and all sectors should define measures to ensure CSOs’ participation. A regulation obliging public institutions to establish consultation mechanisms for CSOs should be adopted. Open Government Partnership should be included in the country strategy.

• The adequateness of leading institutions in different sectors and the key stakeholder analysis made for each sector should be re-examined.

• The absence of proper participatory mechanisms particularly regarding the design of financial supports on the one hand instrumentalises the role of CSOs in the process, while forces them to adjust their works according to available funding opportunities on the other.

• Country strategy should address central and local governments separately under different programs.

• There should be separate budget lines for all cross cutting themes in each sector.

• The cross impact of interventions and measures on cross cutting themes under different sectors should be taken into account and participation should be defined as a cross cutting theme.

• Cooperation and coordination of different sectors should also be planned within the country strategy.

• Citizens’ and CSOs’ exercise of rights to access to information should be improved. For each sector, indicators related to access to information should be identified.

• The country strategy was drafted on information provided by the public sector and therefore reflects the government’s perspective regarding the management of the IPA funds.

• A rights-based approach should be mainstreamed in the overall IPA II strategy and in all sectoral strategies.

• The strategies for each sector should include a monitoring and capacity building plan with indicators to evaluate progress in terms of quality and quantity.

• Impact analysis of IPA I funds should be conducted and CSOs should be involved in the process of developing an impact assessment and monitoring plan.

• Increasing CSOs’ capacity and CSO participation should be separate objectives, while an additional objective regarding the capacity development for public institutions on the role of CSOs should be included as well.

• CSOs should also improve their knowledge about the public administration system.

• The EU should support efforts aiming to improve that capacity.

• Indicators on the civil society sub-sector should be based on quality and sustainability.

• The number of CSOs involved in participatory mechanisms or the number of available participatory mechanisms are not adequate indicators, as they do not provide information on the impact of participation.

• EU should clearly define what is meant by “civil society organisations”.

• EU should develop and share with the public an impact analysis of its financial support for CSOs.

• Preference should be given to providing financial assistance to sectors rather than stand alone projects and multi-sector cooperation should be encouraged.

• Rather that action/project based funds, EU should provide operational funds/ core funds and should provide feedback on rejected proposals. EU funds for CSOs should be diversified.

• Cooperation among CSOs, and particularly cooperation between CSOs with different capacity levels should be encouraged.

• EU should create a mechanism to collect feedback and complaints about the management of EU funds.

• EU funding programs should be managed in a transparent and impartial manner and by a neutral institution. The performance of institutions responsible of managing those funds should be evaluated and discussed.


• EU support for cross-cutting themes should be provided directly by EU, rather than government agencies.

• CSOs should be able to benefit from direct grants, preferably under the management of the EU institutions.

It is impossible to include all the recommendations and remarks provided by CSOs on each sector of the country strategy, however a few important points, based on the demands commonly and repeatedly stated by CSOs and indicating problematic issues and tendencies, can be underlined. First of all, the whole document reflects a general distrust between CSOs and public institutions,

which is translated into recommendations in a number of ways. Rather than a decentralised approach for the management of EU funds, CSOs prefer a centralised approach led by EU institutions. CSOs seem to believe that EU monitoring on issues related to Political Criteria is more efficient and effective. As a result, there are many requests for transferring the issues and themes handled under different policy sectors to Political Criteria. CSOs demand for each sector and sub-sector, as well as for the general country strategy to integrate institutionalised forms of CSO participation, accompanied by adequate monitoring and impact analysis tools.

CIVIL SOCIETY IN IPA II INDICATIVE STRATEGY PAPER FOR TURKEY11

Sub-sector : Civil Society

Objectives, results, actions and indicators

Objectives under this sub-sector are to support the development of civil society through more active democratic participation in policy and decision making processes; promote a culture of fundamental rights and dialogue; enhance civil society dialogue and inter-cultural exchange between civil societies in Turkey and Europe.

Expected results:

• enabling environment improved, allowing for regular civil society consultation and active participation in policy processes;

• increased capacity, outreach, representativeness and networking of civil society, especially of rights-based organisations;

• people-to-people exchange between Turkey and the EU sustained at a higher level.

Actions to achieve these results include:

1. Improving the legislative environment to support active citizenship, through initiatives to facilitate founding, operating, funding and auditing CSOs, in line with the

11 Indicative Strategy Paper for Turkey, s. 17-20.

principles of freedom of association, freedom of speech and proportionality. Actions will include supporting a more transparent and accountable environment for civil society, improving funding mechanisms for CSOs (including facilitating fund-raising), and enhancing CSOs’ financial viability and sustainability.

2. Strengthening cooperation between the public sector (at local, regional and national level) and CSOs, including by effective CSO consultation in policy-making and governance, by establishing transparent mechanisms.

3. Strengthening the capacity of and networking between organised active citizens / CSOs, to improve outreach, governance, and institutional capacities, such as advocacy, administrative skills, and fundraising skills. This will allow individuals and CSOs to address individual and institutional donors, participate more effectively in public debate and contribute to shaping, implementing and monitoring public policies and the private sector. Actions will focus on areas that do not typically benefit from traditional philanthropy and other private funding. Areas for assistance include protecting and promoting fundamental rights and fighting against all forms of discrimination in society (e.g. protecting the rights of women, children, LGBTI, people with disabilities and vulnerable groups in the country), as well as key areas of EU integration and other areas of particular relevance for the inclusive development of Turkish democracy.

4. Connecting people to improve mutual understanding between citizens in Turkey and the EU, including encouraging exchanges at local level. The focus in this


area will be on generating long-term partnerships and cooperation between EU and Turkish CSOs, to exchange experiences in contributing to social activities at local, regional and national levels; and creating mechanisms to improve CSO ownership of civil society dialogue programmes and CSOs’ ability to influence the way the programmes are run, e.g. by creating appropriate participatory governance mechanisms. Activities in this area will also cover culture and the preservation of cultural heritage.

Main indicators of achievement:

• Progress in the enabling environment for freedoms, the operation of CSOs and participation in policy-making (EC);

• Number of associations and membership, including networks, platforms and civic initiatives (Turkish Ministry of Interior).

Types of financing:

Assistance in this sub-sector will be provided on the basis of a comprehensive programme, following a multi-annual planning approach. CSOs and public sector institutions can benefit from financial assistance. EU support for legislative reforms to improve the enabling environment for civil society and to encourage more inclusive governance will be provided mainly through institution-building measures (technical assistance and twinning) or the TAIEX instrument. Indirect management by the Turkish authorities will apply, particularly for the civil society dialogue component and most actions to support civil society development. These include grant schemes and other funding modalities that aim to improve the representativeness, credibility and institutional capacities of CSOs. Activities targeting specific goals, such as training or networking activities, may also be supported through direct management via the Civil Society Facility.

The European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) will remain available to complement the IPA II support covered under this Strategy Paper.

As support to civil society constitutes a strategic priority for pre-accession assistance to Turkey, allocations for this sub-sector will substantially increase as compared to the IPA 2007-13 framework.

Risks:

A multi-annual planning approach to programming for civil society support is new to Turkey and therefore poses a challenge for the lead institution coordinating the sector. Strong and inclusive coordination of all the relevant institutions and stakeholders will be crucial to ensure effective strategic multi-annual planning and programme its implementation. This will also be essential to ensure indicators are effectively monitored.

Civil society can also receive support under other sectors covered in this Strategy Paper. The risk of overlap and duplication needs to be minimised by coordinating with the lead institutions for those sectors in the strategic planning phases, to ensure complementarity and synergies.

CSO dependency on institutional donor funds, competition for project funding and donor- driven agenda setting have been identified as risks to the representativeness, credibility and sustainability of organised civil society in Turkey. Support will need to be planned so

as to allow civil society structures to be developed and to allow these to build their capacity in a sustainable manner. This will allow EU support to eventually be reduced.

3. RESEARCH FINDINGS

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3. RESEARCH FINDINGSTurkey-Europe Foundation’s (TAV) “Active Civil Society Participation in EU Accession Talks” project included three different but interrelated research studies. First of all, a survey targeting civil society organisations (CSOs) was conducted in the early stages of the project in order to test the basic hypothesis of the project’s logical framework, as well as the draft design of the subsequent research efforts. Following this survey, a preliminary scanning of data resources to be used for the preparation of the research report was completed. The results obtained from that survey and the scanning of data resources formed the basis of the second step of TAV’s research, which included two focus group meetings with CSOs and interviews with several Ministries. Finally, all data sources were gathered, inconsistencies were eliminated as much as possible, and were analysed from the perspective of participation. This chapter presents the results of all those steps, i.e. the survey, focus group meetings and interviews, and data analysis, as well as conclusions derived from those results.

3.1. RESULTS OF THE SURVEY, FOCUS GROUP MEETINGS AND INTERVIEWS3.1.1. Survey on the Perceptions of CSOs Regarding EU Grants and Civil Society-Public Sector RelationsThe main intention of the survey conducted during the second month of the project was to gather and examine CSOs views on main issues to be explored during the project period. Survey questionnaire prepared by the project team was disseminated to CSOs, particularly to those who had recently received EU grants and/or had experience in implementing EU funded projects and 50 CSOs responded to the questionnaire. Reaching a sample of CSOs that display a level of diversity in terms of their main areas of action, as well as their experience in EU processes and grants was a target of the project staff, which has been accomplished to a certain degree. On the other hand, the results of the survey were also expected to serve as a compass for organising the design of subsequent focus group meetings and in-depth interviews.

The questionnaire was composed of questions that aimed to understand the level of cooperation among CSOs and between CSOs and public institutions, the level of CSOs’ interest towards projects implemented by public institutions within the EU accession process, and CSOs’ assessments on those projects, as well as on the roles CSOs ascribed to them, particularly in the context of management and utilisation of EU grants.

The project team determined that 5 projects conducted by using EU grants could be accepted as the minimum threshold for a CSO to be acknowledged as an organisation with sufficient level of expertise on EU grants and grant mechanisms and the questionnaire was disseminated among various CSOs by also taking that minimum threshold into account. The CSOs that participated in the survey display various levels of experience with regards to the number of projects they had carried out by benefiting from the EU grants. The average number of projects conducted by participant CSOs is 2,76 and this represents an average level of experience (Figure 3.1). Moreover, the sample includes both recently established CSOs, as well as well-known and quite experienced ones.

FIGURE 3.1: QUESTION 1 How many projects have you implemented with

the EU’s financial support?

≥ 15

5-10

3-4

1-2

NONE

0 10 20

1

10

11

18

9

# of CSOs

# of

pro

ject

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FIGURE 3.2: QUESTION 2 Rate your level of partnership and cooperation with

other CSOs working on similar areas.

VERY GOOD

GOOD

ACCEPTABLE

POOR

VERY POOR

VERY OFTEN

OFTEN

SOMETIMES

RARELY

NEVER

0 105 15 20

17

10

19

3

# of CSOs

FIGURE 3.3: QUESTION 3 Do you follow the EU funded projects of other CSOs

working on similar issues?

0 105 15 20

20

12

13

1

1

# of CSOs

The first set of questions of the survey tries to assess the relations between CSOs and how closely they follow each other’s activities. According to the results, the average level of partnership and cooperation among CSOs is calculated as 3,6 over 5 (Figure 3.2), while the answers do not differ significantly according to the level of experience of participant CSOs. On average, CSOs evaluated their performance in following the EU funded projects of other CSOs as 3,7 over 5 (Figure 3.3). The comments made on those questions indicate that CSOs have difficulties in monitoring projects of similar organisations which are numerous and geographically dispersed. While some CSOs noted that an online portal (or a similar instrument) that collects the information on all previous and current projects would be useful, others mentioned that the use of social media also facilitated monitoring.

Understanding the opinions and evaluations of CSOs related to the projects implemented by the public sector

by benefiting from EU pre-accession financial support was the target of the second question set. Among 50 CSOs that participated in the survey, 30 declared that they followed the projects of the public sector sometimes or frequently (Figure 3.4). CSOs’ main complaint regarding the monitoring of the public sector projects appears to be related to the insufficiency of the public sector’s visibility activities. There are comments that underline the fact that those activities are mostly restricted to the publicity events organised at the launch of the projects. While some CSOs note that they only follow the projects implemented by relevant ministries, it is also apparent that CSOs with a longer history and higher level of experience can follow the public sectors projects more effectively due to the relations they have established with the public institutions over the years. The lack of openness and transparency of the public sector and the lack of knowledge regarding the amount of financial assistance used by public institutions are listed as important problems in this area.

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FIGURE 3.4: QUESTION 4 Do you follow the EU funded projects of public

institutions?

VERY OFTEN

OFTEN

SOMETIMES

RARELY

NEVER

0 10 20

16

5

14

8

2

# of CSOs

FIGURE 3.5: QUESTION 5 Are you included in the project design and

implementation processes of EU funded projects implemented by public institutions?

VERY OFTEN

OFTEN

SOMETIMES

RARELY

NEVER

0 13 26

4

7

14

22

# of CSOs

FIGURE 3.6: QUESTION 6 Do you think that the projects implemented by

public institutions are adequate in terms of their focus?

VERY GOOD

GOOD

ACCEPTABLE

POOR

VERY POOR

0 13 26

10

22

10

3

# of CSOs

Only 4 in 47 CSOs declared that they had been included in the design and implementation stages of public sector projects. 22 CSOs stated that they had never been included in a project conducted by a public institution (Figure 3.5). “It is not true that those projects are implemented by the participation of CSOs”, “Sometimes we are invited to meetings organised just for show”, “We witness that the public sector implements projects without respecting the rules of transparency and accountability” are examples of negative comments made by CSOs. Two CSOs mentioned that they had never received any invitation for participation despite their willingness, while two CSOs stated that they had participated in various projects in the past.

When the answers are re-examined by taking into account the thematic problem areas the respondent CSOs are working on, it is observed that, rather than experience, thematic working area is the main factor that affects participation. While the answers also underline that the level of participation is usually limited to attending publicity and consultation meetings, the level of criticism regarding the public sector projects among CSOs increases with level of expertise.

Of the participant CSOs, 48 percent believe that the foci of public sector projects are determined in a good or acceptable way (Figure 3.6). Some of the comments made

to those questions include: “Events and ceremonies. The projects are not genuine”; “The projects must focus more on democratisation”; “Political engagements and short-term interests and priorities are more dominant”; “Most of them are on issues that are for public benefit”.


FIGURE 3.7: QUESTION 7 Do you think that the EU funded projects

implemented by public institutions are managed properly?

VERY GOOD

GOOD

ACCEPTABLE

POOR

VERY POOR

0 10 20

6

14

16

8

# of CSOs

FIGURE 3.8: QUESTION 8 Do you think that target groups of the EU funded

projects implemented by public institutions are selected properly?

VERY GOOD

GOOD

ACCEPTABLE

POOR

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0 15 255 10 20

8

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20

12

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FIGURE 3.9: QUESTION 9 Do you think that EU financial support is used for

relevant subjects and adequate projects?

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OFTEN

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RARELY

NEVER

0 13 26

# of CSOs

2

9

22

11

2

55 percent of the CSOs that participated the survey thought that public sector projects were managed poorly or very poorly (Figure 3.7). The lack of visibility and transparency are the most frequently mentioned complaints related to this issue. The comments show that the attitude of those that are responsible of the management of the public sector projects is the main factor creating differences in the levels of performance among the public institutions. Almost half of the participants believed that the target groups of the public sector projects were selected properly (Figure 3.8); however, when the comments of CSOs are analysed, it becomes apparent that most of the CSOs do not have sufficient information about those projects and their target groups. Hence, their answers are mostly based on impressions. In fact, the same problem can also be detected in the answers given to previous questions. Therefore, the survey results, in essence, indicates the need for disseminating information on the public sector’s activities related to the EU accession process.

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FIGURE 3.10: QUESTION 10 Question 10 - Rate the level of dialogue and

cooperation between public institutions and CSOs during the EU pre-accession process

# of CSOs

28

21

14

7

00 3-4 5-6 7-81-2 9-10

6

25

114 1

FIGURE 3.11: QUESTION 11 Should CSOs be included in the decision making

processes of projects implemented by public institutions?

Yes

No98%

2%8%8%

85%

Yes

No

Maybe

FIGURE 3.12: QUESTION 12 Should CSOs be included in the macro level decision

making processes on projects funded by the EU?

Only 11 CSOs think that EU financial assistance is used for relevant subjects and adequate projects (Figure 3.9). On average CSOs grade the level of cooperation between civil society and the public sector within the framework of EU accession at 2.9 over 10 (Figure 3.10). While those answers reveal a high level of disappointment among CSOs, the average grade increases to 5, when only the answers of

CSOs which had implemented 5 or more EU funded projects are taken into account. This implies that CSOs with higher level of experience in implementing projects and/or have greater access to the sources of financial assistance, also work more closely with public sector institutions.

98 percent of the respondents think that CSOs should be included in the decision making processes of the projects implemented by public institutions (Figure 3.11). Some comments on the inclusion of CSOs are listed below:

• The public sector should accept that CSOs are a part of public administration’s organisational chart.

• An environment enabling CSOs to take an active role should be created.

• Public sector works on desks, CSOs works in the field. That is why CSOs should be included.

• Yes, they [CSOs] should be invited, but participation should be voluntary.

• Without any discrimination, all CSOs should be informed. Projects should be designed through dialogue meetings for making needs analysis and to assess the impacts of the projects in order to increase the effectiveness.

• CSOs and public institutions should take part in projects as co-beneficiaries.


• Especially in projects that are related to social issues, CSOs should be co-beneficiaries,. They should be included in steering and advisory committees, should take part in project monitoring and evaluation.

In general CSOs attach particular importance to participation during project design, while 10 of the respondent CSOs demand more active participation including co-management. CSOs with more experience in EU funded project management demand a higher level of active participation. CSOs also point out to the need for using proper communication channels and means, while also noting that CSOs have the potential to play an effective role in transferring this information to larger groups. The possibility of discriminatory attitudes of the public sector towards CSOs based on their political affiliation is the most commonly stated concern in that respect.

85 percent of the respondents think that CSOs should be included in the macro (programming) level decision making on projects to be implemented under the EU’s financial assistance (Figure 3.12). Most of the CSOs propose information and consultation meetings, and workshops, particularly those to be organised for identifying the thematic areas and priorities of future financial assistance. Three of the respondents noted that CSOs should also have powers that will allow them to be influential in decision making mechanisms.

However, the percentage of those who support the idea of active CSO participation in the monitoring of the EU’s financial assistance is 68 percent (Figure 3.13). Among opposing respondent CSOs, two of them point out that CSOs do not have the required capacity for monitoring. On the other hand, CSOs which demand a more active role in monitoring have different visions in terms of the role to be assigned to themselves. While most of the CSOs think that civil society can take part in monitoring through consultation meetings, five respondents prefer a higher level of responsibility assigned to CSOs in monitoring and even suggest the establishment of an independent monitoring mechanism composed of only CSOs.

Certainly, this survey conducted by TAV is quite limited in its scope and was designed to serve as a guide for future project activities. Yet, the results of the survey are quite similar to the outcomes of various studies on the same subject. The survey includes a restricted set of variables that can be used to question those results more comprehensively and deeply; for example the sample is not adequate for making an analysis based on geographical location of respondent CSOs. Therefore, it is not possible to make robust generalisations based on those results and this survey should be regarded as an experimental effort that might inspire future studies.

3.1.2. Focus Group MeetingsAs a part of its research efforts, TAV organised two focus group meetings with representatives of 20 CSOs in March and April 2015, in Istanbul and Ankara respectively. The main objective of these focus groups meetings was to gain a deeper understanding on how CSOs evaluate the EU’s financial assistance towards both the civil society and the public sector, while at the same time to gather their opinions on the state of CSOs-public sector relations. In line with its research purposes, TAV targeted CSOs that are experienced in project management and the EU’s financial assistance and that have established or need to establish close relations with the public sector due to their main areas of activity. The transcripts of those focus group meetings were later examined by using qualitative research methods and the comments made during the meetings gathered under clusters listed below.

In general, the views expressed in those meetings are consistent with both the survey results of TAV and the

FIGURE 3.13: QUESTION 13 Should CSOs play a role in monitoring how EU funds

are being utilised?

19%68%

13%Yes

No

Maybe

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comments gathered during consultation meetings with CSOs for the IPA II. CSOs’ representatives that participated focus groups have similar opinions regarding the state of civil society-public sector relations in Turkey. The common view is that the relations between CSOs and the public institutions have been worsening and regressing. CSOs are seriously concerned that the progress achieved in these relations, particularly during the period between 2005 and 2010, has been reversed and this trend will continue until the problem of civil society-public sector dialogue and cooperation is handled on practical grounds and the relations between both parties are institutionalised.

The Relations Between CSOs and the Public Sector

• Public institutions’ openness to dialogue and cooperation with CSOs depends on three factors: 1) Public institutions’ lack of capacity in a certain problem/policy area; 2) The urgency of the problem either as a result of political pressure or unexpected developments (like an unusually high flow of refugees); 3) The EU’s pressure for ensuring participation of civil society in a given policy area. If at least two of those conditions exist in a particular situation, public institutions are likely to welcome CSOs’ inputs and open to working with them. But in time public institutions adapt themselves to the situation; their organisational and human resource capacity increase and they find new ways to respond to urgencies or pressures that necessitate cooperation with civil society. Once they think that they have built sufficient capacity, they begin to exclude CSOs and close themselves to dialogue. On the other hand, in time they also find that they can use different tools to bypass pressures for participation, which leads to activities that block two-way dialogue between parties and in fact are expected to create no tangible results. As long as increasing the number of CSOs participating is regarded as more important than questioning who is participating and how these participants are selected, this problem is likely to persist.

• There is a significant difference in public institutions’ attitudes towards rights based CSOs and service providing CSOs. The latter is in an advantageous position and it is easier for them to make contacts and develop partnerships with public institutions. However, even this advantageous position has certain limits. If a service

providing CSO detects a certain problematic practice during its activities and makes it public, its relation with the related public institution is either degraded or totally severed.

• The language and the contents of the meetings are noted among problems related to consultative mechanisms used for the projects implemented by public institutions under the National Programs. When they do not have pre-specified objectives and they are not organised in the form of “structured dialogue” with the help of a professional facilitator, these consultative meetings become fruitless activities during which identical opinions are expressed repeatedly. Moreover, the technical language used during those meetings is another factor that affects productivity and neither public institutions nor the EU bodies exert efforts or show willingness for simplifying this excessively technical jargon.

• Distrust and fear play an important role in public officials’ attitudes towards CSOs. Some public officials fear that working closely with CSOs can negatively affect their careers and that certain problems and malpractices can be exposed as a result of cooperation with CSOs, which in turn may put themselves and/or their institutions in a difficult situation. Public officials may have doubts about the scope of their authority and this creates an environment of uncertainty. As a result, most of the time CSOs are referred from one department to another. More importantly, even when some sort of dialogue and/or cooperation can be established despite these problems, public sector officials refrain from institutionalising their relations with CSOs. For example, they can cooperate with a CSO on a certain project or issue, but refuse to sign required protocols.

• All Ministries should have a separate department responsible of the relations with CSOs; however, in order to create positive results, the mission statements and the codes of conducts of those departments should be carefully designed,

• Most of the time the relations established between CSOs and public institutions informal and dependent on the attitude of the person a CSO is in touch with. However, generally such relations are not sustainable due to staff rotations in the public sector. Especially in recent years, because of large scale staff reshuffling


in some Ministries, such discontinuities have begun to create more problems. The staff of a whole department can change in one week and CSOs cannot reach anyone they have been in contact with previously. For CSOs, establishing relations with the public sector requires an investment, and said discontinuities affect efficiency and effectiveness of those time consuming efforts.

• When a CSO is consulted or appointed to an advisory position by a public institution, it is expected to highlight only positive aspects of that institution’s policies or practices. The independent nature of CSOs is usually disregarded. Most of the time, only CSOs that do not have a critical stance are invited to fulfill advisory roles. Most of the time, the relations between CSOs and public institutions are not regarded as a way of conflict resolution, but as a way of veiling contested issues.

• When consultation meetings are organised just to meet requirements for participation and when establishing a productive two-way dialogue becomes impossible, CSOs find themselves instrumentalised in the implementation of a policy decision they oppose or do not fully support. On such instances, a public institution may declare that a policy document or a project is developed or implemented with the participation of the civil society, while in fact, decision making process regarding that project has not been handled in an adequate participatory manner. The information CSOs provide is neglected, the feedback they offer is excluded, therefore, participating those consultation meetings can even become harmful for the reputation and credibility of CSOs.

• Participating in consultation meetings are time and money consuming. Particularly for CSOs with low financial capacity, participating in those meetings is extremely difficult. In order to provide feedback, CSOs spare a certain amount of time and staff for articulating their opinions. Therefore, when CSOs’ inputs and opinions are totally ignored, the costs of participation far exceed the benefits and participation becomes futile exercise.

• Sectoral committees or working groups, in theory, should create more fruitful results since they are established as a part of the IPA process. However, those mechanisms are generally not used as discussion platforms and regarded as an obligation. Most of the time

officials make a presentation about their activities and the progress achieved ending the meetings without any debate.

• Even consultation meetings which have a higher level of official presence and are organised with the participation of representatives from the EU and/or other international organisations are not taken seriously and are merely arranged for ticking a box in the activity list.

• All consultative activities should be followed by evidence-based evaluations which should asses the performance achieved by participation by using relevant indicators such as the percentage of CSOs’ opinions integrated in official decisions.

• Even for the Grant Schemes managed by the Ministries themselves, what will actually happen in the field during implementation is rather uncertain. A provincial or sub-provincial official can prevent or cancel a project, even if that project receives a grant from such a scheme, thus in some sense approved by the Ministry itself. Sometimes, those who have no responsibility (like the driver of a director) can try to intervene in the projects. Or in some other instances, CSOs may be asked to provide certain types information on their activities that can create ethical problems. Other times, a project can suddenly be cancelled by the decision of someone from higher ranks.

• There are serious problems related to the participation of CSOs in decision making mechanisms of projects implemented by individual Ministries. For example a well-known and experienced CSO working on a certain policy area “hears” that certain consultation meetings are organised. Moreover, when they investigate, they also see that none of the CSOs in their network have participated in those meetings. While this problem frequently depends on the relevant public institution’s attitude, it is also observed that CSOs usually neglect attending technical meetings, while those meetings, particularly the ones related to grant programs to be implemented under the public institutions’ projects, are important in terms of influencing outcomes.

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Projects of the Public Sector

• There is a lack of coordination at both cross-sectoral and sectoral levels, and even within Ministries themselves. For example, a certain department in a Ministry may implement an important project but neglect to inform the Ministry staff working at provincial or sub-provincial level on that project. As a result, those units cannot provide field level feedback to those projects. Moreover, this attitude also restricts the project’s ability to provide capacity building for a larger group of Ministerial staff. This, in turn, creates piles of “successful” or “acceptable” projects, which cannot trigger a real transformation in problem areas and which are unsuccessful in creating ownership even within the implementing agencies themselves.

• Public institutions at the central or local level may implement projects targeting certain disadvantaged groups. However, those responsible of implementing such projects, may have no idea even on the basic needs of those groups. (For example, for a disability project they organise a meeting at a venue that is not suitable for the access of disabled people.)

• In some thematic areas, most of the available funds are used for infrastructure development projects, that exclude CSOs and on which CSOs cannot access information. Information on all projects should be made public, regardless of their technicality and complexity.

• A large amount of the EU financial assistance is allocated to public institutions for projects that are expected to stimulate change in organisational culture. Those projects usually include training on issues like human rights, citizenship, good governance, etc., however, they mostly fail in triggering a real transformation. Those projects are generally managed through technical assistance contracts signed with service providing companies, despite the fact that CSOs in Turkey have a great deal of capacity and experience in those areas. Instead, those projects can be designed and implemented with the participation of civil society or their responsibility can be fully delegated to CSOs, so as to achieve more successful outcomes.

• In cases where misconducts regarding the management of funds are observed, the related public institutions may face sanctions. However, there are no sanctions or a clear procedure on what should be done, when

the situation in a priority area does not change or even gets worse, though a significant amount of EU financial assistance has been allocated to that area. In other cases, if the project implemented by a public institution requires the production of certain outputs and/or use of certain methods and that output and/or method is totally neglected during the implementation phase, there are no rules for holding that public institution accountable.

• In the case of twinning projects, the selection of twinning partners may also reflect a certain political preference. For example, in some policy areas, the twinning partner is not selected among countries that have the best practices; instead they are intentionally chosen among those whose practices are criticized. This is important, as, when the results of a twinning project is subject to public debate, public institutions argue that those results are not debatable since they are adopted from an EU member country.

• The objectives or target groups of a certain grant scheme managed by a Ministry or implemented under an EU financial assistance allocated to that Ministry may seem quite appropriate. Yet, the distribution of grants among CSOs may reflect certain policy choices. For example, increasing economic participation of women is an important issue and a priority area for several grant schemes implemented in Turkey. However, economic participation of women can be enhanced by different means, which may mead to different outcomes in terms of creating opportunities to increase also women’s social participation (for example, projects aiming to create jobs through domestic work do not have such an effect). Such multiplier effects should be kept in mind when examining the results of a specific grant programme.

• The conditions of eligibility set for grant schemes can also be used as a tool for excluding certain political preferences. CSOs suspect that the eligibility conditions are being used as a “politically correct” method of exclusion, especially against rights based CSOs whose priorities conflict with the policy choices of the government.

Projects of the CSOs and the Relations among CSOs

• The number of projects implemented by CSOs is quite high. Therefore, it is really hard for a CSO to follow the projects implemented in a certain policy area, while


cross-sectoral monitoring is almost impossible. Most of the projects implemented by CSOs duplicate what had been done before and this implies that restricted financial sources are not being used efficiently. Even among CSOs working at the field level and/or with a specific group, there are inter-organisational coordination problems which create further inefficiency.

• As the capacity of CSOs have developed, their expectations in participating to CSOs’ networks become more targeted and, as a result, those networks become more effective. Financial allocations to both sectoral and cross-sectoral networks of CSOs should be increased

• When the number of CSOs working on a certain policy area is high, coordination problems arise. On the other hand, when there are only a few CSOs working related to a specific policy area or a target group, information flow is easy, but the overall capacity is limited.

• Due to the striking level of political polarisation in Turkey, establishing relations with the public sector may also create problems among CSOs themselves. Participating or even being invited to public sector consultation meetings may sometimes attract criticism.

Problems Related to the Management of EU Grant Schemes

• The procedures and requirements of EU’s grant programs have become increasingly more complex in time. As a result, CSOs have begun to give up seeking financial assistance from the EU or to apply to those schemes only for ensuring their financial sustainability12.

• In order to access funds and to prepare and implement effective projects, CSOs need qualified human resources. However, as the procedures and conditions of grant programs become more complex, the gap between the required and actual level of human resources widen.

• The duration between project design, application, and implementation also create problems in terms of human resources. Sometimes, due to staff changes, projects developed by one team, have to be implemented by a completely different one.

12 In such cases, rather that designing ambitious and innovative projects, CSOs formulate projects which can easily receive financial assistance but have limited effect in terms of expected results.

• The duration of projects is too short. If the objective of a CSO is to increase awareness and/or to advocate on a certain issue, the duration of the projects is not enough to create a real transformation regarding the perceptions and attitudes of relevant actors. As most of the time CSOs’ limited financial capacity does not allow the continuation of the projects afterwards many successful initiatives are cut without reaching their full potential.

• All project application forms include sections for sustainability and monitoring; however there are no evaluations on the performance of projects in achieving sustainability or delivering effective monitoring. Without such evaluations, it becomes impossible to make any effective and meaningful impact analysis.

• There are also alternative ways of administring grant schemes, Sivil Düşün13 program in Turkey. Another example are direct supports provided to consortiums or networks of CSOs, which implement individual but interrelated projects in a certain area. However, the procedures and the management of such alternative methods of financial allocation should be transparent and should not create a further discrimination among CSOs.

CSOs, the EU, and EU Accession

• Grants constitute the core of CSOs’ relations with the EU, while CSOs are totally nonexistent in the negotiation process. Rather than demanding participation to decision making on financial assistance, CSOs should insist on their inclusion in the negotiation process, particularly in the overall and sectoral programming of the IPA. Thus they can influence the distribution of financial assistance, without creating a conflict of interest.

• In successful examples like Croatia, we see a holistic approach of public institutions regarding EU accession and civil society-public sector dialogue is established voluntarily. In Turkey, on the other hand, the tendency is to divide the whole process into fragments, and therefore it becomes really difficult for CSOs to monitor, evaluate, and influence the overall process.

13 Sivil Düşün EU Programme is a mechanism designed by the Delegation of the European Union to Turkey to support civil society, particularly new initiatives.

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• The process of EU accession is complex and the language used by the officials is quite technical. In fact, most of the issues are presented to the society in a language which alienates people. Making it more simple and understandable should not fall on the shoulders of CSOs.

• CSOs have no information on the monitoring mechanisms used by the EU regarding the utilisation of financial assistance and in evaluating its impact. The Delegation of the EU to Turkey, which is the main institution responsible of monitoring the process, works on a sectoral basis and, as a result, generally overlooks the importance of cross-sectoral analysis.

3.1.3. Interviews with the Public SectorTAV project staff conducted interviews with five Ministries who will act as leading organisations in different sectors during the IPA II, as well as the Ministry for EU Affairs (MEUA). The objective of those interviews was to present TAV’s project, collect information that could be helpful for desk-top research, and to at least gain preliminary information about how those Ministries were approaching CSOs’ participation to both decision making and implementation processes. Those interviews were conducted with the Ministries’ departments responsible of EU projects. Up to now, those departments acted as information channels and have not been fully engaged in the design, implementation, and monitoring of projects implemented by other units of the Ministries. However, as the IPA II becomes fully operational, the powers of those departments will enhance and they will be responsible of overall coordination, as well as monitoring.

Meetings with the Ministries could not be organised as structured or semi-structured interviews, therefore, their contents were not suitable for analysis using qualitative techniques. However, the comments made on CSOs’ participation as well as civil society-public sector dialogue and cooperation are summarised below:

• Ministries have different levels of experience in terms of their familiarity to working with CSOs. Those who have been fully engaged to the EU accession process from the very start and have created a certain capacity in civil society-public sector dialogue, since then, have clearly defined objectives and targets for civil society capacity development and civil society-public sector dialogue and

cooperation for the IPA II term. Those Ministries also have a more positive attitude towards the roles CSOs can play in policy areas. We should also note that, apart from MEUA, in only one Ministry, the institutionalisation of the relations with CSOs has been seriously discussed and using a code of conduct to regulate the relationship between the Ministry and the relevant CSOs is being considered.

• All departments interviewed are aware of the fact that they have to work more closely with CSOs during the IPA II.

• All departments interviewed underline that they are open to establish cooperation with CSOs; however what they mean by CSOs and cooperation needs to be questioned further. In some sectors, particularly in those whose area of competence is regarded as technical and/or which mostly use EU financial assistance for infrastructure investments, a very restricted number of CSOs are identified as stakeholders. On the other hand, some Ministries have already established relations with certain institutions, such as professional organisations, whom they consider as their natural partners. This points out the necessity for conducting larger stakeholder analysis at the sectoral level and for increasing the diversity of CSOs those public institutions interact with.

• In some Ministries, there is reluctance about working with CSOs, since the results of the previous experiences were negative. Especially for public officials acting as mediators in CSOs-public sector dialogue, those negative experiences can have professional consequences. Some complain that CSOs do not have the necessary negotiation and diplomacy skills.

• There is a general agreement on the impact of the EU pre-accession process on capacity development. Project based working and adopting a different tradition of governance have led to positive outcomes and trigerred changes in administrative attitudes.

• On the other hand, implementing EU funded projects also creates difficulties for public institutions themselves. When the priorities of the Ministries and the EU bodies differ, the decision making power lies in the EU, and this also leads to discontinuities in public sector projects. Moreover, Ministries have to comply with political decisions made at the governmental level, which also affects the design and the implementation of projects managed by them.


• CSOs are also criticised for lacking sufficient knowledge on legislative procedures and for expecting solution s to some of the problems to be provided by the Ministerial staff, while those solutions require decisions to be made by the Parliament. Moreover, CSOs’ lack of knowledge on the EU pre-accession process and on the programming of EU financial assistance is also cited as a relevant problem.

3.2. AN ANALYSIS OF EU’S FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE (2005-201414)

The research study of TAV required the compilation of a huge bulk of data regarding the projects implemented through EU’s financial assistance. Parallel to objectives of TAV’s project, the collected data is analysed in this report from the perspective of participation. However, taking into account that this data can also be used in various other studies and can be evaluated from different perspectives, TAV project team has decided to share not only the results of its analysis but the compiled data that formed the basis of this analysis. This has also been regarded as a way to address the demands for transparency expressed during the focus group meetings with the CSOs.

14 A mentioned before, this research study cover all information available for years between 2005 and 2014. Sin

Therefore, as stated before in Introduction, the report is in fact divided into two separate parts; the first one is presents a conceptual framework and the research results and the second one provides the data collected.

Table 3.1 shows the total number of projects/actions/measures implemented by the public institutions and the corresponding budgets and financial assistance received from EU between years 2005 and 2013.15 The table does not include financial assistance received by institutions outside the central government. The budgets of some projects implemented by the public institutions include grant schemes targeting civil society. The amount spared for those grant schemes are not subtracted from the total costs of the projects, but the projects implemented under those grant schemes are also examined separately under the section compiling projects implemented by CSOs. Moreover, financial assistance used for the “Jean Monnet Program”, the “Support Activities to Strengthen European Integration Process”, and the “Participation to EU Programs” are excluded.

15 Detailed information on the data gathered is provided in Chapter 4.

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TABLE 3.1: THE NUMBER AND THE TOTAL BUDGETS OF THE PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED BY PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS UNDER THE CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION, 2005-2013 (EXCLUDING THE SECRETARIAT GENERAL OF EU AFFAIRS -THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS- AND THE MINISTRY FOR EU AFFAIRS (*)

Main Beneficiary (**)# of

Projects (***)

Total Cost (EUR)

Share in total EU Financial

Assistance (%)

Contribution of EU (EUR)

Contribution of EU (%)

Prime Ministry 9 86.715.450 5,5 39.050.405 45,0

Prime Ministry (excluding SELP II Project) 8 20.695.450 1,3 19.025.405 91,9

Ministry of Culture and Tourism 2 9.188.900 0,6 8.120.000 88,4

Ministry of Customs and Trade 8 58.794.707 3,8 50.398.354 85,7

Ministry of Defence 1 1000000 0,1 1000000 100,0

Ministry of Development 16 111.377.810 7,1 92.686.019 83,2

Ministry of Economy 2 7.500.000 0,5 7.500.000 100,0

Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources 12 59.385.988 3,8 58.910.328 99,2

Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation 25 133.058.500 8,5 113.597.250 85,4

Ministry of Family and Social Policies 3 11.438.180 0,7 10.953.180 95,8

Ministry of Finance 7 15.220.910 1,0 14.301.550 94,0

Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock 21 314.830.650 20,1 259.535.370 82,4

Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs 6 24.266.000 1,6 22.101.600 91,1

Ministry of Health 12 38.497.950 2,5 33.425.620 86,8

Ministry of Interior 45 410.371.944 26,3 328.543.387 80,1

Ministry of Justice 21 90.796.205 5,8 76.099.840 83,8

Ministry of Labour and Social Security 12 51.385.000 3,3 45.427.000 88,4

Ministry of National Education 11 70.814.920 4,5 61.410.920 86,7


During the period covered in TAV’s research, there have been changes in Turkey’s central government’s administrative system. Some Ministries were divided, while others merged and new Ministries were constituted. In Table 3.1, the previous projects implemented before those changes took effect are listed under the Ministry which is now responsible of that policy area. For example, projects implemented by the General Directorate of Women’s Status working previously before under the Prime Ministry are listed in the table under the Ministry of Family and Social Policies. For projects with more than one main beneficiary, total budget amounts are divided evenly among related institutions. However, this has a minimal effect on the results since the number of such projects are quite low. A more comprehensive version of Table 3.1 listing the seperate projects implemented by the public institutions is available in the Appendix.

Table 3.1 includes projects programmed between 2005 and 2013 and can be accessed through online resources. Second column of the table shows the number of projects implemented by each public institution, while the third column lists the total costs of those projects. As mentioned

(*) Figures for 2014 are not included as information on projects is not available.(**) For projects with more than one main beneficiary, total cost is divided evenly between related institutions.(***) The number of projects accessed during research.

TABLE 3.1: THE NUMBER AND THE TOTAL BUDGETS OF THE PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED BY PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS UNDER THE CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION, 2005-2013 (EXCLUDING THE SECRETARIAT GENERAL OF EU AFFAIRS -THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS- AND THE MINISTRY FOR EU AFFAIRS (*)

Ministry of Science, Industry, and Technology 6 13.280.000 0,8 12.406.000 93,4

Ministry of Transport, Maritime and Communication 13 73.940.000 4,7 61.459.500 83,1

Ministry of Youth and Sports 2 6.560.000 0,4 3.870.000 59,0

Constitutional Court 1 6.382.228 0,4 4.082.228 64,0

Turkish General Staff 3 34.500.000 2,2 27.950.000

Grand National Assembly of Turkey 3 5.676.650 0,4 5.252.825 92,5

Council of Higher Education 1 5.000.000 0,3 4.250.000 85,0

TOTAL 250 1.660.677.442 106 1.361.356.781 82,0

before, those total costs include grant schemes open to CSOs implemented under public sector projects. That should be taken into account when making a comparative evaluation of the financial assistance used by the public institutions and by the CSOs.

According to the results, the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, and the Ministry of Development have the highest number of projects implemented. When the public institutions are ranked according to the total costs of the projects, those Ministries still have the highest share, yet the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock moves to second rank. In some cases, Ministries with low number of projects may seem to get a relatively larger share in terms of financial assistance received. This is especially the case for Ministries that implement infrastructure projects which have very high costs. For example, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock implemented two large scale inoculation projects and as a result has a higher rank in terms of total costs. On the other hand, the projects implemented by the Ministry of Interior

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should be divided into two groups. The first group of projects includes actions for border management and reflects the level of the EU’s investment in Turkey’s border security. This also indicates a certain policy choice and should be evaluated in relation to the EU’s policy on refugees and asylum seekers. The second group of projects implemented by the Ministry of Interior targets to create administrative change. Three of those projects are related to women. The importance attached to “the rule of law” under the EU’s Political Criteria has been mirrored in the number of projects implemented by the Ministry of Justice. Yet, in terms of total financial assistance, Ministry of Justice has a lower share, since the project costs of the Ministry is lower compared to other Ministries. The number of projects implemented by the Ministry of National Education and the Ministry of Labour and Social Security may seem low; however those two Ministries have also benefited from financial allocations made available under the IPA Component IV, “Human Resource Development”. Moreover, other IPA components also include actions related to regional or local development.

In some cases, issues related to a specific disadvantaged group falls under the scrunity of a certain Ministry. Yet, allocations directed to such Ministries do not equate the total allocations made toward related disadvantaged groups. For example, the total financial allocations spared for the Ministry of National Education does not show the total amount of projects related to children. Many projects are cross-sectoral in terms of their content and different Ministries can implement projects related to a specific disadvantaged group. On the other hand, this makes it harder to categorize projects according to their relation to a certain thematic policy area or disadvantaged group. The outcome of such efforts will be subjective and will differ according to the researcher’s perspective. Table 3.2 prepared by the TAV research team shows the distribution of public projects across thematic areas.

Table 3.2 was developed by using the following method of classification: First of all, projects which are directly linked to fundamental rights and relevant disadvantaged groups, as well as to good governance are determined. The remaining projects are evaluated from the perspective of the civil society and listed under a policy area from that perspective. Therefore, for example, a project listed under “Environment” in the National Programme can fall under “Participatory Governance” in Table 3.2, if it mainly focuses

on participatory development of environmental policies. Moreover, many projects implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock are related to food security and therefore listed under projects related to health. We should underline once more that table 3.2 is only an example; classifications to be made by different organisations as researchers are likely to produce different results. The main reason behind presenting such a classification is to underline the differences between allocations made to a specific Ministry and allocations made to a specific thematic area. Nevertheless, though subjective, Table 3.2 also points out some priority areas in EU-Turkey relations. For example, the high level of total costs of the projects related to environment, which include projects implemented by the Ministry of Urbanisation and Environment as well as other Ministries, are strongly linked to the fact that environment is one of the most difficult chapters of Turkey’s pre-accession negotiations. Table 3.2 once again reveals the importance attached to border security by the EU. We should also note that, total allocations for employment and education should be evaluated by also taking into account the actions implemented under IPA Component IV.

During the research phase, TAV project team has not only accessed to financial figures related to the projects; all available information on public sector actions, usually found in project fiches, have also been scanned. Project fiches are programming documents which include a project’s background, objectives, expected results, method of implementation, activities, its relation to cross cutting issues, and its budget (In the IPA II, information on separate projects will be available in Action Documents or Multi Annual Sectoral Action Plans). Those documents provide the opportunity to analyse public sector projects from various perspectives. TAV research team used those documents to analyse public sector’s projects in terms of their relation to disadvantaged groups and their level of participation.


TABLE 3.2: DISTRIBUTION OF EU FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE ACCORDING TO THEMATIC AREAS

Thematic Area Total Project Costs (EUR)

Share in Total Financial Assistance (%)

Heath (including Public Health, Animal Welfare, Mental Health, and Food Security) 263.696.550 16,3

Environmental Protection (including Climate Change, Pollution, Emissions, Water Management, Waste/Wastewater Management)

206.696.000 12,7

Development (including Regional Development, Rural Development, Support to SMEs, Industrial Policy, and R&D) 205.761.150 12,7

Immigration and Human Trafficking 203.424.183 12,5

Free Movement of Goods 80.325.407 5,0

Demining 79.725.000 4,9

Law Enforcement 72.385.538 4,5

Access to Justice 52.520.728 3,2

Education (including Citizenship Education) 52.084.000 3,2

Respect to Human Rights (including Prevention of Torture, Judiciary, Police and Gendarmerie, Prison System) 50.824.550 3,1

Employment 48.880.920 3,0

Energy / Energy Conservation 43.330.334 2,7

Social Inclusion (excluding women) 41.732.260 2,6

Transparency, Accountability & Efficiency 40.762.505 2,5

Transportation 35.350.000 2,2

Violence Against Women and Children 26.248.180 1,6

Access to Information 23.281.060 1,4

Dialogue, Partnership, and Networking 18.970.100 1,2

Gender Equality 17.748.000 1,1

Market Liberalisation/Regulation 16.649.104 1,0

Participatory Democracy 15.144.444 0,9

Occupational Health and Safety 13.880.500 0,9

Culture (including Cultural Heritage) 9.188.900 0,6

Disaster Management 1.800.000 0,1

Social Security 1.110.000 0,1

Capacity Building on EU Affairs 1.042.100 0,1

TOTAL 1.622.561.513 100,0

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Table II in the Appendix makes a list of all public projects that can be linked to specific disadvantaged groups.16 In identifying projects related to specific disadvantaged groups, Ministries’ own assessments reflected in project fiches were taken into account; however some disadvantaged groups are totally excluded in those assessments and some Ministries overlook the impact of their projects on specific social groups. Initially, women, children, the youth, the disabled, refugees and asylum seekers and the LGBTIs were identified as the disadvantaged groups. While there were no projects related to LGBTIs, the scanning of projects pointed out that many projects had the potential to create significant effects on local communities and therefore an additional category is added. Figure 3.4 depicts the general results of this categorisation.

16 Projects that cannot be linked to any disadvantaged groups are excluded.

The high number of projects linked to local communities demonstrates the importance of conducting local level stakeholder analysis for public sector projects. Yet, aside from some infrastructure projects, examples that include local communities to project design and implementation is rarely observed. Among all projects that can be linked to local communities, only two has adequate participatory practices (TR 05 02 and TR 06 02 16). In some cases, the relations with local communities is expected to be established by including a national level CSO to project design or implementation. However, even if this approach is preferred, the inclusion of local level CSOs to those processes is still crucial. The number of projects linked to refugees and asylum seekers are quite high as expected; yet only 2 projects in 18 aim to provide services to that disadvantaged group. The number of projects related to people with disabilities appears to be low, however, aside from public sector projects, people with disabilities have been one the main priority groups of several grant schemes implemented.

The Matrix of Participation, presented in the previous chapter, was used as a basis in identifying different levels and methods of participation. In relation to that Matrix, the participation levels are examined for two different stages of the project cycle; design and implementation. The stage of project design includes three different forms of participation: Non consultative information sharing, consultations, and direct involvement in project preparations. The stage of project implementation consists of seven types of participation listed below:

• Target Group: Identifying CSOs and/or local communities as target groups to be accessed during project implementation.

• Information Sharing/Awareness Raising: Sharing information with the public or organising various awareness raising activities.

• Consultation: Receiving feedbacks from CSOs and/or local communities during project implementation by using different mechanisms.

• Participation to Project Activities: Targeting and ensuring the active participation of CSOs and/or local communities to project activities.

• Project Management and Guidance: Assigning roles to CSOs and/or local communities in project management

FIGURE 3.14: Projects of the Public Sector According to Related

Social/Disadvantaged Groups

LOCAL COMMUNITIES

WOMEN

CHILDREN

YOUTH

DISABLED

REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS

LGBTI

0 9 2718

17

16

13

17

4

18

# of projects


FIGURE 3.15: CSO Participation during the Design of Public

Sector Projects

INFORMATION SHARRING

CONSULTATION

JOINT PROJECT DESIGN

0 12864

37

36

12

# of projects

0 12864

FIGURE 3.16: CSO Participation during the Implementation of Public

Sector Projects

TARGET GROUP

INFORMING / AWARENESS

RAISING

CONSULTATION

PARTICIPATION TO PROJECT ACTIVITIES

PARTICIPATION TO PROJECT

ADMINISTRATION

PARTICIPATION TO GRANT PROGRAM

DIRECT GRANT

11

79

46

82

5

11

24

# of projects

directly or indirectly through mechanisms like working or steering groups.

• Grant Schemes: Implementing a grant scheme targeting CSOs and/or local communities as a part of the project activities.

• Direct Grant: Giving the responsibility of the project to a CSO by a direct grant agreement.

Each project can simultaneously include different types of participation; Table III in the Appendix shows the types of participation planned for each individual project. Yet, that Table is prepared by using the information accessed through project fiches, therefore cannot evaluate the actual level of participation achieved during implementation. In the beginning TAV aimed to evaluate also the actual levels of participation; however the available information that can be obtained through desk-top research proved to be insufficient. Since available information is insufficient, such an evaluation can only be made by indentfying a representative sample of project and by conducting interviews with the staffs and participants of the projects within the sample. Unfortunately, time limitations and financial constraints prevented TAV from carrying out such an evaluation.

Figures 3.14 and 3.15 summarise the types of participation used by public institutions in two stages of the project cycle. 128 projects scanned included one or more types of participation. The graphs show the total number of projects for each type of participationThe next chapter of the report presents a more detailed information on the participatory mechanisms used in individual projects of the public sector. Under the conceptual framework explained in Chapter 2, it can be argued that effective participation of CSOs can be achieved only by including them in all stages of the project cycle. In order to accomplish this, CSOs should play advisory roles or should be engaged in joint project development during the design stage. At the implementation stage, practices like consultation, participation to project activities and project management should be more comprehensively and effectively used. Yet, examples of such projects with strong levels of participation is rarely observed among the public sector actions scanned. Only 13 projects can be listed as such examples. The level of CSOs’ participation is particularly low at the project design stage, while participation to project activities and information sharing/

awareness raising are the main types of participation predominantly used in implementation stages. Yet, even if a project is designed in a manner to use several types of participation, in case the targets to be achieved through participation are not deliberately set, most of those efforts

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prove to be fruitless. The low number of projects allowing CSOs to benefit from direct grants also point out that the capacity of CSOs are not adequately used. Only in 24 projects CSOs are included in project management and guidance. One can assume that CSOs can be included in design and implementation indirectly through sectoral committees. Yet, that type of indirect involvement could not be detected, unless it was underlined in related project documents.

Moreover, neither Table III nor Figures 3.14 and 3.15 give the reader an idea about the quality of participation, i.e. the diversity of CSOs involved. In order to understand this, projects should have a stakeholder analysis attached to project documents. This is rarely done and most of the time stakeholder analysis is used only for projects directly targeting a specific disadvantaged group. The sub-titles “minorities and disadvantaged groups” and “civil society” were added to project fiches as of 2009. Though the information under those titles should include a relevant stakeholder analysis, they are usually filled as an obligation. For example, in each project fiche, the definition of minorities under the Constitution of the Turkish Republic is stated, followed by a note explaining that, according to that definition, the project is not related to any minority group. When different project fiches are compared, it is observed that the same paragraphs under those titles have been directly copied and pasted, without even correcting grammatical mistakes. Since the Ministries do not use a specific definition for CSOs and since the concept of CSOs used by the EU include numerous types of organisations, the CSOs listed as main stakeholders usually differ from the definition of CSOs used in that report, i.e. associations and foundations.

It is plausible to assume that, during the IPA II implementation phase, Action Documents to be prepared may present more explicit information on CSOs’ participation. While most of the sectoral committees were established before the IPA II, their influence on sectoral programming will increase during that term. As mentioned before in Chapter 2, CSOs may be invited to those committees if the leading public institution deems it necessary. Examining available Action Documents for IPA II points out that CSOs’ participation will be limited, unless their inclusion is made obligatory. So far, only the sub-sectoral document on “Justice and Fundamental Rights”

explains that CSOs were involved during the preparation phase and the sectoral activities were planned by taking into account the feedback received from those CSOs. As a part of the research, information on the members of all sectoral committees were tried to be obtained. However, there are no official documents listing the members of those committees. Some Ministries publish the minutes of sectoral committee meetings online; yet those minutes rarely include a participant list or do not provide it regularly. It is observed that there is a serious need for a specific guideline that will explain CSOs the functioning of sectoral committees, their responsibilities, and members.

Table 3.3 shows the distribution of awards across different types of organisations received under grant schemes implemented between 2002 and 2014. As the Table indicates, there are various types of institutions that can benefit from those grant schemes and all are categorised as civil society. CSOs (associations and foundations) rank first in terms of grant agreements signed, followed by SMEs and Municipalities. In terms of total awards received, CSOs rank second.


TABLE 3.3: DISTRIBUTION OF PROJECTS SUPPORTED THROUGH GRANT PROGRAMS FOR CIVIL SOCIETY ACROSS DIFFERENT TYPES OF INSTITUTIONS/ORGANISATIONS (2002-2013)

Type of Institution/Organisation # of Grant Contracts

# of Grant Contracts(%)

Total Amount of Grants

Share in Total

Amount of Grants (%)

Civil Society Organisation (Associations/Foundations) 972 27,5 89.230.433 19,4

SMEs 654 18,5 47.767.999 10,4

Municipality 416 11,8 116.381.241 25,2

Chamber 390 11,0 42.997.087 9,3

University-Academies 191 5,4 28.849.321 6,3

Union 135 3,8 20.635.326 4,5

Union of Village Delivery Service 114 3,2 23.897.300 5,2

Vocational School 101 2,9 15.138.045 3,3

Provincial Special Administration 83 2,3 20.631.699 4,5

Cooperative 75 2,1 6.273.153 1,4

Farmer Group 65 1,8 5.311.119 1,2

Primary School 61 1,7 5.282.423 1,1

Labor Union 51 1,4 7.147.642 1,6

Public Education Center 39 1,1 5.105.828 1,1

Public Institution 57 1,6 9.784.728 2,1

Neighbourhood Unit 36 1,0 4.894.680 1,1

Secondary School 9 0,3 1.003.057 0,2

Development Agency 9 0,3 1.707.885 0,4

Counselling and Research Centre 6 0,2 532.871 0,1

Pre-school 5 0,1 376.441 0,1

Other 69 2,0 8.013.533 1,7

TOTAL 3.538 100,0 460.961.810 100,0

Source: Ministry for EU

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(*) CSOs from other EU member of candidate countries also benefited from the grant scheme.(**) The objectives of the grant program is the same as the previous one with the same title.(***) The grant program targeted individuals as beneficiaries.

Table 3.4 lists the grant schemes examined during TAV’s research and the total number of projects implemented and total amount of grants received under those grant schemes. The table also includes the total number of projects

implemented by CSOs in Turkey and the total number of assistance awarded to them. Grants Schemes with the sign (*) also have beneficiary CSOs from EU member countries.

TABLO 3.4: GRANT SCHEMES FOR CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS 2005-2014 (INCLUDING ONLY CSOs FROM TURKEY)

Grant SchemeTotal Number

of Projects Awarded

Total Amount

of Grants Awarded

Projects Implemented by CSOs from

Turkey

Amount of Grants Received by CSOs

from Turkey

Share of CSOs from

Turkey in Total


Turkey-Bulgaria Cross-Border Cooperation: Joint Small Projects Fund

13 465000 1 24.990 5,4

Objectives: support the establishment or further development and deepening of contacts between different regional and local institutions on either side of the border; stimulate and support the creation of common cross-border action implementation structures among the local and regional organisations in the border regions; increase the personnel and institutional capabilities for co-operation and participation in future development programmes.

Strengthening Civil Society in the Pre-Accession Process 131 9501906,37 114 8.368.394 88,1

Promotion and Protection of Women’s Rights 28 1.799.464 25 1.652.666 91,8

Objective: To contribute to the promotion of gender equality in Turkey through small grants to civil society organisations in order to support activities targeting increased access of women to employment and entrepreneurship opportunities, increased participation and representation of women in local and national decision-making bodies and finally increased awareness in the society on women’s rights.

Enhancement of Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities 21 1.343.431 20 1.291.854 96,2

Objective: To contribute to the strengthening of the social inclusion of people with disabilities by providing small grants to civil society organisations in order to support activities targeted to build capacity, to improve services for people with disabilities as well as to increase awareness in the society.

Protection of Consumers 11 469.335 7 334.395 71,2

Objective: To contribute to the strengthening the effective enforcement of consumer protection by providing small grants to civil society organisations in order to support activities targeted to build capacity, to improve services for consumers as well as to increase awareness in the society.




of Projects Awarded

Total Amount

of Grants Awarded


Turkey


from Turkey

Share of CSOs from

Turkey in Total


Strengthening the Protection of Children’s Rights 16 1.073.447 11 717.053 66,8

Objective: To increase the well-being of children and to promote the prevention of the forced child labour by providing small grants to civil society organisations in order to support activities targeted to build capacity, to improve services for children and families as well as to increase awareness in the society.

Protection of Environment 17 541.960 17 541.960 100,0

Objective: To contribute to the consolidation and broadening of political reforms and EU alignment efforts through strengthening the civil society in Turkey in the pre-accession process by supporting the legal, institutional, technical and financial capacities of NGOs operating in the fields of environment and rural development in Turkey in order to increase their efficiency during the process of approximation with the EU Acquis and to contribute in preventing environmental deterioration in Turkey.

Consolidating and Promoting Human Rights and Democracy 12 1.475.215 10 1.220.398 82,7

Objective: To support various civic initiatives that address issues and deficiencies related to the protection of human rights and the process of democratisation in Turkey that would ultimately support Turkey’s continued compliance with the Copenhagen political criteria.

Combating Violence Against Women 11 1.451.474 11 1.451.474 100,0

Objective: To contribute to the prevention of violence against women by providing small grants to civil society organisations in order to support activities targeted to build capacity, to improve services for victims of violence as well as to increase awareness in the society.

Civil Society Dialogue: Culture in Action 15 1.347.579 13 1.158.593 86,0

Objective: To promote a cultural dialogue and understanding between civil societies in Turkey and the EU member states and to encourage a cultural cooperation and networking between organisations in Turkey and the EU.

Promotion of the Civil Society Dialogue between EU and Turkey 119 19.292.846 32 3.101.996 16,1

Youth Initiatives for Dialogue 25 2031254 25 2031254 100,0

Objectives: to promote mutually beneficial and sustainable relationship between youth initiatives in Republic of Turkey and in EU Member States and candidate countries and promote dialogue between the Turkish and EU youth organisations addressing the opportunities and challenges of enlargement to encourage exchange of knowledge and best practices on planning and implementation of EU policies.

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of Projects Awarded

Total Amount

of Grants Awarded


Turkey


from Turkey

Share of CSOs from

Turkey in Total


Universities 28 7.709.327 1 319.909 4,1

Objectives: to establish and strengthen long-term sustainable cooperation and partnerships between universities in Turkey, EU Member States and Candidate countries; and promote dialogue between the following categories of Turkish and EU counterparts to encourage exchange of knowledge and best practices on planning and implementation of EU policies.

Professional Organisations 25 3.328.921 6 750.834 22,6

Objectives: to promote mutually beneficial and sustainable relationship and to establish and strengthen long-term sustainable cooperation and promotion of dialogue between professional organisations in Turkey and in EU Member States and candidate countries; to encourage exchange of knowledge and best practices on planning and implementation of EU policies.

Towns and Municipalities 41 6.223.344 - - -

Objectives: to establish and strengthen long-term sustainable cooperation and promotion of dialogue between the municipalities in Turkey and in EU Member States and Candidate countries. to foster effective, transparent and participatory local government, delivery of good quality municipal services

Regional Development in TR 90 (Artvin, Giresun, Gümüşhane, Ordu, Rize and Trabzon) NUTS II Region Local Development Initiatives

213 24000000 10 651558,16 2,7

Tourism & Environment Related Infrastructure Grant Scheme (DOKAP-TEI)

30 10.143.177 - - -

Objectives: To increase the quality of environment and living conditions in the region.

Small and Medium Sized Enterprises 103 8.336.503 - - -

Objectives: To increase the capacity of small and medium sized and micro scale enterprises in the target region in generating and conducting projects to address the needs of the private sector, especially small and micro enterprises, in agro-processing, manufacturing and the service sector, including tourism.

Local Development Initiatives (DOKAP-LDI) 80 5.520.320 10 651.558 11,8

Objectives: To promote measures regarding collective benefits, stimulate locally driven responses for development and contribute to the diversification of income generating activities in the region concerned.




of Projects Awarded

Total Amount

of Grants Awarded


Turkey


from Turkey

Share of CSOs from

Turkey in Total


Euromed III (MEDA 2005) 10 317.072 10 317.072 100,0

Objectives: fostering mutual understanding and intercultural dialogue among young people within the Euro-Mediterranean region. promoting young people’s active citizenship and a sense of solidarity. enhancing the contribution of non-governmental youth organisations to civil society and democracy. Contributing to the development of youth policy.

Active Labour Market Measures 101 15.994.821 23 3.531.230 22,1

Objectives: To increase capacity within the eligible provinces to design and implement effective active labour market measures in order to increase the employability of women and youth.

Mitigating Flood Risk in Flooded Areas (Batman, Diyarbakır, Mardin, Siirt, Şanlıurfa and Şırnak) in the GAP Region

37 15.000.000 - - -

Objectives: To contribute to the alleviation of social and economic damage caused by the flooding.

Turkey-Bulgaria Cross-Border Cooperation Joint Small Projects Fund 2006

17 620.667 3 117.494 18,9

Objectives: support the establishment or further development and deepening of contacts between different regional and local institutions on either side of the border; stimulate and support the creation of common cross-border action implementation structures among the local and regional organisations in the border regions; increase the personnel and institutional capabilities for co-operation and participation in future development programmes.

Strengthening Civil Society in Turkey: Integrated Approach to the Civil Society and the Participatory Local Projects

21 499.836 21 499.836 100,0

Objectives: The objective of the Programme is to enhance participatory democracy in Turkey through strengthened NGOs.

EU-Turkish Chambers Forum EU-Turkey Chambers Partnership Grant Scheme Programme

22 2.248.788 22 2.248.788 100,0

Objectives: to obtain adequate knowledge on core Chamber issues (management, services, communication) to increase understanding of EU business practices in Turkey, and vice versa Turkish business practise in the EU to foster opportunities for trade and investment

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of Projects Awarded

Total Amount

of Grants Awarded


Turkey


from Turkey

Share of CSOs from

Turkey in Total


Supporting Civil Society in Turkey: Local Mobilisation for Participatory Democracy

47 399.998 47 399.998 100,0

Objectives: To enhance participatory democracy through strengthening the capacity of civil initiatives / NGOs in Turkey.

Promoting Registered Employment through Innovative Measures 42 9.317.651 10 2.626.635 28,2

Objectives: To facilitate formalisation process by “promoting for magnifying formal employment/ minimizing informal employment by enabling the regional / local society innovative actions to find and implement effective ways and methods to promote registered employment.

Promoting Women’s Employment 135 24.505.625 34 6.137.903 25,0

Amaç: NUTS II bölgelerindeki büyüme merkezleri ve artalanlarında kadınların istihdam edilebilirliklerini arttırmak amacıyla, etkili aktif işgücü piyasası tedbirleri geliştirme ve tedbirlerin uygulanma kapasitesini arttırmak.

Promotion of Life Long Learning (LLL) 45 4.996.769 7 586.912 11,7

Objectives: supporting the fully functional NQS complementary with European Qualifications Framework. supporting the cooperation, enhancement of dialogue and networking among all parties related with LLL. encouraging the education-training institutions and the sector to implement LLL awareness activities on LLL approach. expanding and improving the lifelong learning opportunities towards people and enterprises by increasing the basic-skills, vocational basic skills of adults (especially women) in the 12 NUTS II Regions; and employment related qualifications of persons in line with the needs of the local private sector.

Promoting Youth Employment 128 24.308.788 34 1.949.016 8,0

Objectives: to create synergy among complementary activities of relevant actors; such as, local authorities, employees’ and employers’ organisations, universities, professional chambers, NGOs and companies (as associates) in promoting youth employment and entrepreneurship. to support relevant actors; such as, local authorities, employees’ and employers’ organisations, universities, professional chambers, NGOs and companies (as associates) in implementing activities to promote youth employment and entrepreneurship.

Increasing School Enrolment Rates Especially for Girls 89 9.822.287 17 1.949.016 19,8

Objectives: to increase enrolment rates particularly for girls in secondary education and VET, to decrease school drop-outs particularly for girls, to increase vocational skills and competences of labor force, particularly of girls and women,tTo promote awareness-raising for parents on the importance of education, especially for girls.




of Projects Awarded

Total Amount

of Grants Awarded


Turkey


from Turkey

Share of CSOs from

Turkey in Total


2007-2013 Black Sea Basin Joint Operational Programme 39 6.843.512 4 908.495 13,3

Objectives: promoting economic and social development in the Black Sea Basin areas working together to address common challenges promoting local, people-to-people type actions

Civil Society Facility- Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture (*) 11 1.519.597 5 671.882 44,2

Objective: To support artistic and cultural projects in order to help Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture to fulfil its role on its way towards 2010 and demonstrate its cultural legacy and its cultural capacity in building up the metropolis’ future.

Strengthening Pre-School Education 75 5.233.380 9 646.732 12,4

Objectives: to disseminate pre-school education and community based day care models, especially in disadvantaged areas, to strengthen cooperation and dialogue between parties that can make contributions to the objectives of strengthening pre-school education, to increase the number of especially disadvantaged children benefiting from pre-school education, by establishing different models as well as strengthening existing pre-school education system, to enhance the quality of existing pre-school education services by increasing the personnel capacity of institutions that provide or plan to provide pre-school education services, to raise the awareness of public on the importance of pre-school education.

Promotion of the Civil Society Dialogue Between EU and Turkey (Civil Society Dialogue II)

98 5177962,99 74 2266401,17 43,8

Fisheries and Agriculture 23 2.796.220 - - -

Objectives: establishment of long-term cooperation and partnerships between all actors in agriculture, food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary as well as fishery sectors of civil society in the Member States and Turkey. encouragement of exchange of knowledge and best practices on planning and implementation of EU policies.

Culture and Arts (*) 18 2.110.161 17 1.994.819 94,5

Objectives: establishment of long-term cooperation, partnerships and networking among the civil societies of Turkey, EU counterparts and other Candidate Countries on Culture and Arts. promoting cultural dialogue and understanding among the civil societies of Turkey, EU counterparts and other Candidate Countries on Culture and Arts.

Micro Grant Scheme 57 271.582 57 271.582 100,0

Objectives: strengthening contacts and mutual exchange of experience among the civil societies of Turkey, EU counterparts and the Candidate Countries. ensuring a better knowledge and understanding of Republic of Turkey within the European Union including Turkish history and knowledge. ensuring a better knowledge and understanding of the European Union within Republic of Turkey including the values on which it is founded, its functioning and its policies.

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of Projects Awarded

Total Amount

of Grants Awarded


Turkey


from Turkey

Share of CSOs from

Turkey in Total


Empowerment of Women and Women NGOs in the Least Developed Regions of Turkey

36 2.951.902 36 2.951.902 100,0

Objectives: To improve project development and management capacities of women NGOs on the building public awareness and capacity to fight against gender based discrimination, against violations in the human rights of women and in enhancing women’s social, political and economic status.

VOC Test Centres 26 6.618.994 9 2.036.541 30,8

Objectives: To establish and/or develop and operationalize Occupational Standards Development Vocational Knowledge and Skills Testing and Certification Centres (VOC-TEST) in 11 priority sectors which are automotive and related sub-sectors, tourism, construction, transportation, energy, metal industry, plastic and chemical industry, information and communication technologies, printing and publishing, machine design and manufacturing, and textile, ready wear and leather products sectors in order to establish and initiate an efficient and sustainable National Qualifications System (NQS) enabling appropriate assessment, grading and certification system at all levels in line with European Qualifications Framework.

Empowering Civil Participation at Local Level 23 199.576 23 199.576 100,0

Objectives: To strengthen the capacities of local NGOs to enhance their role in civil participation in Turkey.

Civil Society Facility - EU - Turkey Intercultural Dialogue 38 3832488,8 17 1729089,76 45,1

Culture and Arts (*) 17 1.802.392 14 1.451.350 80,5

Objectives: To enhance the potential of cultural operators in Turkey to cooperate with their counterparts in EU member states and other candidate countries, establishment of long-term cooperations and partnerships in culture and arts sector and providing financial support to exchange of experience and knowledge amongst artistic and cultural milieu between EU and Turkey.

Museums 21 2.030.097 3 277.740 13,7

Objectives: To enhance the potential of museums in Turkey to cooperate with their counterparts in EU member states, establishment of long-term cooperations and partnerships in the sector and providing financial support to exchange of experience and knowledge amongst museums in Europe and Turkey.

Developing Civil Dialogue among NGO’s 23 797.508 23 797.508 100,0

Objectives: to strengthen civil participation through developing civil dialogue among NGOs.




of Projects Awarded

Total Amount

of Grants Awarded


Turkey


from Turkey

Share of CSOs from

Turkey in Total


Promotion of Life Long Learning II (**) 45 4.996.769 8 785.724 15,7

Civil Society Dialogue – EU- Turkey Chamber Forum II (**) 21 2.520.000 - - -

Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education 31 2.603.609 11 989.796 38,0

Objectives: To strengthen the level of awareness and to build skills for democratic citizenship among those groups who are stakeholders in the education of children.

Improved Integration of Disabled Persons into Society (*) 23 1.931.617 21 1.762.318 91,2

Objectives: To strengthen capacities of CSOs of persons with disabilities and of CSOs defending the rights of persons with disabilities and to enhance the dialogue between the General Directorate on Services to Disabled Persons and Seniors and the CSOs in the realm of disability.

Strengthening Capacity of National and Local NGOs on Combating Violence Against Women (VAW) (*)

20 2.969.935 19 2.775.190 93,4

Objectives: To contribute to the strengthening of NGO capacity on combating VAW, foster networking among NGOs and promote partnerships and support partnership with local authorities that offers services for women.

Civil Society Dialogue Between EU And Turkey III 55 7026364,82 35 4357323,93 62,0

Political Criteria (*) 39 4.911.037 30 3.763.737 76,6

Objectives: enhanced institutional capacity of civil society organisations (CSOs) to contribute to development and implementation of political reforms and to facilitate the adoption of the reforms by the Turkish society, establishment of sustainable networks between the Turkish CSOs and their European counterparts on political criteria encouraging further dialogue and contributing to better exchange of information and know-how and to reduce misperceptions and concerns both in Turkey and in the EU Member States concerning political criteria issues.

Media 16 2.115.328 5 593.587 28,1

Objectives: enhanced networking, joint actions and peer-learning between Turkish-EU media and media-related CSOs, shared good practices and promotion of innovative initiatives and media productions between Turkish-EU media and media-related CSOs on EU matters.

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of Projects Awarded

Total Amount

of Grants Awarded


Turkey


from Turkey

Share of CSOs from

Turkey in Total


Developing Civil Dialogue among CSOs II 29 1.258.043 29 1.258.043 100,0

Objectives: To contribute to the establishment of cooperative and collective actions among CSOs (partnerships, networks, platforms, etc.) in order to strengthen their roles as effective claimants of democratic rights and freedoms and bolster their organisational and operational capacities in their main thematic areas of action.

Economic and Social Integration of Internally Displaced Persons in Van Province (***)

82 1.128.913 - - -

Objectives: increase employability of the IDPs, enhance entrepreneurial ability of the IDPs and develop capacity of them as service providers, set up replicable service delivery models for urban integration of the IDPs in Van by creating social integration conditions, help to the termination of displacement of IDPs to make them adapt society successfully.

TOTAL 1.845 218.902.228 708 56.647.360 25,9

(*) CSOs from other EU member of candidate countries also benefited from the grant scheme.(**) The objectives of the grant program is the same as the previous one with the same title.(***) The grant program targeted individuals as beneficiaries.


The individual projects implemented by CSOs in Turkey under those grant programs are presented in Chapter 5. During the preparation of the report, TAV staff also tried to obtain information on co-beneficiary CSOs, however this information was not available for all grant schemes. Project co-beneficiaries are sometimes listed by their names, sometimes by their country of origin or geographical location in Turkey. Yet, the information on the geographical locations of the main beneficiaries and the geographical locations of project activities were available and the geographical categorisations of projects according to projects’ main beneficiaries and project activities can be seen in Table 3.5 and 3.6.17 As expected, Ankara and Istanbul have a strikingly higher share both in terms of main beneficiaries receiving grant awards and project activities organised.

17 That information is not available for some grant programs, see Chapter 5.

TABLE 3.5: PROJECTS OF CSOs ACCORDING TO THE PROVINCES OF MAIN BENEFICIARIES

Provinces # of Projects

İstanbul 138

Ankara 118

Adana 23

Sivas 21

Bursa 18

Van 18

Kayseri 17

Samsun 17

İzmir 16

Diyarbakır 14

Mardin 12

Trabzon 11

Antalya 10

Gaziantep; Giresun; Rize 9

Denizli: Konya; Şanlıurfa 8

Adıyaman; Kahramanmaraş; Uşak 7

Amasya; Eskişehir; Hatay; Kocaeli; Ordu 6

Batman; Bingöl; Gümüşhane; Mersin 5

Bayburt: Çorum; Erzurum; Hakkari; Muş; Nevşehir; Niğde; Tekirdağ 4

Ağrı; Aydın; Balıkesir; Çanakkale; Edirne; Erzincan; Kastamonu; Kırklareli; Sinop; Tokat

3

Afyon; Aksaray; Bolu; Çankırı; Elazığ; Iğdır; Kilis; Malatya; MuğLa; Şırnak; Tunceli; Yalova

2

Bartın; Bitlis; Düzce; Isparta; Karabük; Kars; Kırşehir; Kütahya; Manisa; Sakarya; Zonguldak

1

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When the individual projects implemented under those grant schemes are examined (Chapter 5), one can claim that projects are distributed proportionally across regions, given that Istanbul is the province with the highest population, while Ankara is the capital of the State. However, when the characteristics of different grant schemes are also taken into account, it is observed that CSOs in Istanbul and Ankara have a greater access to grant schemes with higher amount of grant awards, usually distributed through programs under the title of “Civil Society Dialogue”. In other words, access of local CSOs with lower capacities to grants awarded under those schemes is relatively limited.

TAV project team also intended to reach the specific objectives and target groups of those individual projects. However, this information was not available for all grant schemes and those could be accessed are added to the tables in Chapter 5. Nevertheless, even with this limited amount of information available, some important points regarding the management and the effectiveness of grants schemes can be identified:

• The limitations in terms of language to be used in project applications affect the distribution of awards among CSOs with different capacities and in different locations.

• One can detect that national level CSOs with stronger capacities can receive awards from grant programs that have a limited scope and is expected to target local level CSOs. The contrary is rarely observed.

• The information available on projects that can be accessed online through CSOs’ web-sites is quite insufficient and is nearly impossible for projects implemented in previous years. Even if CSOs publish online some information on their projects, this information is mostly limited to project activities and do not specify project budgets. CSOs that share project monitoring and evaluation reports with the public is almost non-existent.

• Most of the CSOs cannot have a properly run web-site because of their limited financial capacities. Therefore, it is not possible to make conclusions based on the information obtained from online resources.

• Defining CSOs as associations and foundations can be misleading. For example,taking into account their objectives and main areas of activity, some non-profit

TABLE 3.6: PROJECTS OF CSOs ACCORDING TO PROJECT LOCATIONS

Provinces # of Projects

İstanbul 221

Ankara 201

Adana 36

Van 27

Bursa; Kayseri 26

Sivas 25

İzmir 23

Diyarbakır 21

Samsun 20

Mardin 19

Antalya 18

Denizli; Konya; Rize; Uşak 14

Kahramanmaraş 13

Trabzon 12

Eskişehir; Gaziantep; Giresun 11

Adıyaman; Mersin 10

Kocaeli; Şanlıurfa 9

Amasya 8

Erzurum; Hatay; Ordu 7

Aydın; Balıkesir; Batman; Bayburt; Bingöl; Muş; Tekirdağ 6

Çanakkale; Gümüşhane; Hakkari; Kastamonu; Niğde; Sinop 5

Ağrı; Bolu; Çorum; Elazığ; Kırklareli; Nevşehir; Tokat; Tunceli; Yalova 4

Afyon; Aksaray; Edirne; Erzincan; Kilis; Malatya; Muğla 3

Bartın; Çankırı; Iğdır; Isparta; Karabük; Kütahya; Manisa; Sakarya; Şırnak 2

Bitlis; Düzce; Kars; Kırşehir; Zonguldak 1


companies and women’s cooperatives are sometimes included among project beneficiaries listed in Chapter 5. Moreover, it is observed that many Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundations are among beneficiaries of grant schemes. Those foundations are established under Law No. 3294 at the provincial and sub-provincial level and they are in fact state organisations responsible of distributing social assistance. Moreover, associations and foundations operating under Municipalities and other public institutions can also benefit from grants available under those schemes. Therefore, there is an urgent need to make a proper definition of CSOs in order to differentiate those types of quasi-governmental organisations and non-governmental ones.

• Naturally, those grant schemes are expected to increase the capacity of CSOs in a given pre-accession country. Therefore, it is plausible to assume that organisations of women and young people should receive a higher share in grants distributed by schemes specifically targeting those groups. In terms of projects implemented at the local level, this condition can be fulfilled by partnerships, given the capacity restrictions of local CSOs. An examination of grant schemes directly targeting women, shows that the participation of womens’ CSOs to those grant schemes is relatively high and they had even taken part in the design of those grant programs in some cases. However, in the case of the youth, the situation is quite the opposite; young people are regarded as passive recipients, while those grant schemes will be more effective if they can provide funds to organisations managed by young people and projects implemented by the active participation of them.

• When the “civil society dialogue” grant schemes are examined, it becomes apparent that the main target group of CSOs is CSOs themselves. This situation is mostly an inevitable result of project application procedures. However, it also indicates that most of the projects in practice can only reach a limited group. Those grant schemes also show that the level of dialogue and cooperation between CSOs in Turkey and CSOs in other EU member or pre-accession countries have developed profoundly. Though such dialogue and cooperation is quite essential, the implementation of grant schemes with more or less similar objectives may lead to the duplication of projects and can be ineffective in terms of creating social

change. Given that full membership of Turkey is still not on the horizon, a higher level of available financial assistance may be directed to CSOs in Turkey for projects with concrete results to be implemented in more adequately calibrated problem areas.

Finally, TAV’s research also included an examination of evaluation reports on financial assistance prepared by the EU institutions or by research groups assigned by them.18 Here, we present the findings from four reports that are closely linked with problems and issues covered in TAV’s research. One of the problems observed while scanning the evaluation reports prepared by or for the EU institutions is the time lag between the implementation of grant schemes and the evaluations on them.

The report prepared by the EU’s Court of Auditors in 2009 on “The European Commission’s Management of Pre-Accession Assistance To Turkey” draws conclusion on a sample of 11 projects implemented between 2002 and 2004. As the report covers projects implemented years ago, there have been important changes in terms of management of financial assistance since then. However, the report points out to important problems and factors affecting the management of financial assistance and can be useful for institutions that aim to conduct evaluations on similar issues:

• Insufficiency of project objectives and indicators for performance monitoring: The court found that only two of the 11 projects had SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound), objectives and RACER (Relevant, Accepted, Credible, Easy, and Robust) expected results. The information on individual projects’ objectives and expected results presented in Chapter 4 may indicate the level of progress achieved in that regard.

• In order to evaluate the performance of projects, there is a need for baselines — the starting point against which to measure improvement —. If those indicators are not included in project fiches, it is impossible to evaluate the performance of individual projects in achieving their objectives.

• Once project objectives have been determined, the equipment, facilities, actions and activities to be

18 Those comments are directly taken from related reports and therefore reflects the opinions of those persons or institutions that have prepared those reports.

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undertaken within the project have to be specified. Only two of the 11 projects, examined by the Court had two fully met the specific project requirements. The Court notes that preliminary preparations are insufficient and project designs usually ignore the necessity of achieving outputs in a limited time span.

• The Court also found that performance indicators defined in project fiches were not used in the monitoring reports for 10 of the 11 projects audited. Moreover, the lack of final evaluation reports needed for examining the sustainability of the projects was also noted as a problem.

• The Court argues that the adequacy of projects should be evaluated not only by taking into account the priorities set for pre-accession programs, but also by examining different project alternatives. TAV has not come across such a practice or an example of such reports during its research.19

A study which examines EU’s support to civil society in the Western Balkans and Turkey during the first phase of IPA I (2007-200) as well as in 2005 and 2006, prepared through interviews made with the representatives of CSOs present the below listed important points:20

• In particular, Decentralised Implementation System (DIS) in Turkey presents certain problems, directly impacting the effectiveness of the EU support to civil society. This is further exacerbated by the deteriorated status of EU – Turkey relations, regarding the prospects of Turkey’s accession to the EU. Given the complexity and scope of civil society issues and challenges in the country, this creates a barrier the Commission cannot easily transcend in order to enhance its support to civil society. The situation is particularly difficult in spheres related to civil society activities in favour of human rights and discriminated groups, where the government’s biased position is negatively and strongly felt.

• A need is felt for EU assistance to be better balanced in order to reach out to small grassroots organisations, particularly those active in isolated areas and working with excluded groups in the country.

• An impending factor for organisations to compete for grants is the cumbersome bureaucratic application

19 European Court of Auditors, 2009.

20 Crnjanski et. al., 2012, s: 96-99

procedure and the rigid and complicated contracting, reporting and monitoring process. Significant efforts have been made to increase outreach to smaller and remoter CSOs, for example, the introduction of different Lots with the option for small organisations to apply and submit their application in a local language. Another positive change is noted as the implemented approach of interfacing larger “first-line” CSOs to implement programmes with (sub) grant schemes. However, this also brings the risk of domination or/and “indoctrination” of smaller CSOs by the large CSO implementing the programme as a whole.

On the other hand, this study can be criticised in a number of ways. First of all, evaluating Western Balkan countries and Turkey in the same report has led to insufficient information on problems experienced by different types of CSOs in Turkey. The research is mainly based on the opinions expressed by large scale CSOs in Ankara and Istanbul and attaches an unproportional importance to the grant scheme to be managed by Civil Society Development Centre (STGM). Though this grant program is an invaluable opportunity for especially newly formed CSOs, it is impossible to solve the problem of proportionality in grant distributions by only that action. Moreover, without reaching different types of CSOs and conducting in-depth interviews, those reports only re-state the problems observed in similar previous efforts such as the rigidity of bureaucracy and financial sustainability issues of CSOs. What is needed for articulating more targeted recommendations are studies that can provide a thematic or program based impact analysis of grant programs.

Another report dated 2012 presents a thematic evaluation of projects implemented under the sector “Justice and Fundamental Rights”. The report draws its conclusions on a sample of 20 projects implemented between 2004 and 2008. The report, which includes a comprehensive analysis, lists the following problems and recommendations that can be useful for the implementation of the new sectoral approach under the IPA II.

• The projects examined are generally relevant to IPA objectives, but project design is of uneven quality, leading to some projects’ failure to deliver fully on their intended outputs and results. In some cases, the projects are designed without sufficient consultation with all relevant stakeholders – particularly civil society. A sector-


based approach, if adopted in future, could contribute to mitigating some of the concerns, by making the programming process more predictable and encouraging joint projects between institutions. However, a sector-based approach would be ill-suited to supporting civil society-led human rights projects, since it would jeopardise the independence of these organisations.

• The projects have undeniably produced a wide range of important outputs in relation to the judiciary and fundamental rights. However, in a context of continued distrust between national institutions and independent human rights actors, as well as of a lack of will on the part of the authorities to implement certain human rights reforms, the effectiveness of EU assistance in relation to human rights remains weak. An additional concern is that, while most planned outputs are delivered, they do not always bring about the expected results or outcomes, in particular in cases where projects touch upon sensitive human rights issues, and where they involved cooperation with civil society organisations. Cooperation between civil society and institutions is rarely optimal, and government institutions tend to dominate the implementation of projects, even when civil society input is specifically sought.

• Sustainability is more challenging in relation to civil society projects since CSOs often lack the capacity to maintain activities without project funding. In terms of broader sustainability, there is no evidence that projects aimed at supporting civil society are sustainable. The highest levels of sustainability are achieved by those projects that were most closely aligned with domestic policy priorities. In terms of sectoral based approach, two conditions should be met for achieving sustainability: priorities should be agreed at the higher political level by the Turkish authorities, and the programming process should be streamlined in such a way that it does not lead to excessive delays

• The projects have achieved many undeniable elements of impact. The understanding of European human rights standards by judicial officials and others has been significantly enhanced, while the skills and effectiveness of civil society organisations have also been enhanced by involvement in projects. However, as noted in the report prepared by the Court of Auditors, it is not possible at this time to give quantitative indications of the impact of the projects, partly as a result of a lack of clear and relevant baseline indicators. Weak sharing of information among

institutions and limited cooperation among Ministries are also noted as factors negatively affecting the impact of the projects.

• In the context of sector-based programming approach, the report makes the following recommendations:

- The ownership of programmes and projects of the relevant beneficiary institutions can be improved by upgrading the role of the current sector working groups to that of Sector-based Quality Support Groups (SQSGs). Each SQSG should draft and regularly review and update the sector’s pre-accession strategy, the related planning of IPA assistance as well as the resulting multi-annual sector project pipeline.

- Project Fiches should also be checked for attention to cross-cutting issues before submission.

- Funding for civil society human rights projects and programmes should be administered in a separate and case-by-case manner, for example through project-based programming, preserving both the independence of civil society and the need for accountability under EU rules, while at the same time encouraging partnership between civil society and government, and collaboration where appropriate.

The last report published in 2013 provides an ex-post evaluation of 10 projects implemented in Turkey between 2002 and 2006 in terms of their objectives, activities, impact and sustainability. Some of the relevant findings of this report include:

• The performance of the programmes in terms of the effectiveness, the immediate and intermediate impact, and the prospects for sustainability has been strongest in areas where actions were directly related to the alignment with/adoption of the Acquis, and where local political and institutional ownership was strong. The performance of the programmes is weaker in regard to support in the areas of promoting human rights reforms/standards, and the development of consultative dialogue between the public sector and civil society.

• In terms of the effectiveness of financial assistance, the greatest threat is the level of ownership and adequacy of the beneficiary’s management structures to support the take-up of results and to embed them in the institutional operations of the beneficiary. It is a weakness that the

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management systems and institutional procedures for the effective absorption of the results are rarely detailed in project documentation or indicators of such processes provided. As the majority of actions aimed to support institutional reforms in the beneficiary and thus a change of specific behavioural patterns in the targeted institutions the limited consideration as to ‘how’ this will be achieved procedurally within the overall operational/administrative framework of the beneficiary is noted as a design weakness.

• The focus of programme/project monitoring is mainly linked to counting the delivery of project outputs. Too rarely those monitoring efforts also assess the effectiveness of the outputs delivered, or the effectiveness of the beneficiary’s decision-making processes linked to the absorption and institutionalisation of the results.

• A further design weakness in terms of assessing the effectiveness of the assistance is stated as the frequent deficiency of the intervention objectives and indicators of achievement.

• Sustainability is stronger when the beneficiary institutions have clear multi-annual strategic plans for policy orientation and delivery supported by medium-term implementation action plans and budget plans.

• The impact and ownership of the projects is better ensured whenever the projects are part of multi-phased interventions or whenever they are followed up on by one or more projects.

• In the areas of the promotion of human rights and the promotion of public sector dialogue with civil society, the immediate impact of projects is moderate and the intermediate impact and sustainability is limited.

• The impact in the area of human rights has also been negatively affected by the slow pace in establishing a clear and transparent, functional institutional and operational framework for the human rights agenda. The human rights projects each contained a Training-of-Trainers component as a core deliverable, however they failed to institutionalise the training capacity by establishing a pool of future trainers.

• The impact and sustainability of the programme/projects is also weakened by the lack of post-project follow-up monitoring and reporting. Partners almost exclusively

focus on project implementation period and delivery. Rarely there is an exit strategy or post-project follow-up action plan specified within the context of the DIS.21

3.3. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONSThe impact of the EU pre-accession processes on candidate countries can be followed through transformations achieved in two inter-dependent areas: 1) Policy reforms adopted as a result of adherence to the EU Acquis; 2) Changes in governance traditions of a pre-accession countries’ administrative bodies. On the one hand, EU accession means introduction of a large number of new policies and significant changes in the existing ones. On the other hand, the successful implementation of those policy reforms require profound changes in the practices and attitudes of public administrations. However, those changes take place in country-specific political and economic environments and occur in countries with different governance traditions. Traditionally, Turkey is an example of a strong state with a deeply rooted centralist tradition, which creates a distance between citizens and public administrations. Therefore, in the case of Turkey, the expected impact of EU accession on governance practices cannot occur immediately, takes a longer time and is more sensitive to changes in the political climate that affect the prospects and willingness for EU accession.

TAV’s research reveals that, particularly during the first five years of EU pre-accession process, there has been a rapid and significant transformation regarding both policies and governance structures. However, there is a commonly stated concern indicating that the progress achieved during the first five years has stalled and even been reversed. Yet, EU pre-accession process still plays a very important role for CSOs, particularly for those who work on policy changes related to certain areas and/or with certain disadvantaged groups. TAV’s research also points out a high level of disappointment among CSOs about the impact of EU pre-accession, particularly related to its effect on civil society-public sector relations and the use of participatory mechanisms.

When all project resources (reports, research studies, and outputs of different meetings) and research outputs (transcripts) are examined as a whole, three recurring concepts can be detected repeatedly almost in every document:

21 Business Strategies Europe Consortium, 2013, s. 10-14.


1) Sustainability:

The problem of sustainability is observed to be related nearly to all of the problems detected in TAV’s analysis. Accession process as a whole, policy reforms, relations between civil society and the public sector, and the availability of funds all appear to be closely linked to the term sustainability. Therefore, progress and improvement in any of those areas can only be accomplished by putting the issue of sustainability at the core of the solution efforts and making it a priority.

2) Monitoring and Evaluation:

There is a crucial need for assessments measuring the impact of the whole accession strategies, as well as individual programs and actions. Lack of monitoring and evaluation means lack of adequate information and is regarded as the main reason behind the lack of transparency, as well as lack of proper basis for making informed and evidence-based modifications in policies and priorities. Especially, with regards to program and projects implemented under the EU’s financial assistance, the monitoring and evaluations should go beyond project based managerial performances and should include impact assessments. The rules regulating the administration of financial assistance ensure transparency and accountability to a certain extent. However, transparency and accountability of policy and project performances are also essential to understand “what has been achieved”, “why certain activities are organised”, and “how those activities are put into practice”.

3) Conflict:

Though rarely expressed openly, the existence of conflict is an important factor, particularly affecting the relations between the civil society and the public sector. Conflict is a natural characteristic of relations between those two parties and dialogue and cooperation between the civil society and the public sector inevitably takes place in an environment of conflict. Moreover, one needs to note that there are also conflicts and frictions between the civil society and the EU institutions; in other words, the civil society and the CSOs do not need to fully support all EU policies and practices. There is a need for establishing mechanisms in order to manage and mediate conflicts without attempting to change the nature of the relationship, through clear rules and procedures, as well as carefully designed mechanisms and institutions.

TAV’s desk-top research highlights that many important projects related to critical policy areas have been programmed and implemented during the ten years of pre-accession process. However, when the level of investments made in a problematic issues are evaluated in terms of the impact achieved, the resulting picture can be disappointing. Particularly in terms of projects implemented on priority issues such as the judicial system, human rights, or environment and related to disadvantaged groups, such as women, questioning the low level of progress achieved becomes unavoidable. Though important legislative changes have been made on those problem areas, policy reforms have not been successful in ensuring administrative and/or social change. There is no doubt that this unsatisfactory results are closely linked to the political and social climate within the country; yet this should not be an excuse for overlooking the problems evident at the level of implementation. Are the projects being properly designed and implemented? Do using participatory practices so as to increase the ownership of reforms within the society get the attention they undoubtedly deserve? Are projects being monitored and evaluated satisfactorily and are impact analysis being conducted by using proper methods? How does the stagnation in EU-Turkey relations affect the motivation of the actors implementing those projects? Have those projects become unproductive tools with no clearly set targets? Do the public institutions consider institutionalising and internalising policy reforms and related practices as an important priority?

The results of TAV’s research demonstrate that most of those questions cannot be answered positively, especially from the perspective of civil society-public sector relations. Apparently there has been an important progress achieved in civil society-public sector relations and new and unprecedented mechanisms have been established and put into practice. Yet, those relations have not been institutionalised and cannot take root in an environment marked by mutual distrust. It is obvious that a legal or strategic framework is urgently needed for both using the existing mechanisms properly and ensuring satisfactory results from civil society-public relations within the context of pre-accession. The recommendations listed below can be useful for creating a constructive environment for civil society-public sector relations, while at the same time for utilising pre-accession financial assistance in an efficient way and to formulate effective pre-accession policies and strategies.

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Access to Information:

A proper impact analysis of pre-accession policies and strategies materialised through the allocations of the EU’s financial assistance and the ensuing public sector and civil society projects requires exploring and discussing the answers of the of the following questions:

• What is designed in terms of objectives, targets groups, and expected results?

• Which decision making mechanisms are used, which partnerships types are supported, and which types of activities are effectively used?

• What happens in practice? What are the main results related to the delivery of outputs? What do the monitoring and evaluation reports point out? What has been achieved and in what areas achievements are far from satisfactory?

At the beginning of this research study, TAV project team targeted to find the answers of some of those questions; however difficulties in accessing necessary information on projects/actions/measures designed and implemented by both the public sector and civil society organisations needed for such an analysis has prevented meeting that target in a satisfactory manner. Though accessing information on programmed public sector projects is easy, there is a serious lack of information regarding the implementation phases of those projects. For example, in order to understand the effectiveness of consultative mechanisms used in those projects, one needs to know the participants of those mechanisms and to what extent feedback of those participants has been integrated to policy documents, project activities and outputs. Or, in order to understand the overall performance of training programs, a researcher needs not only the number of trainees, but also the degree of internalisation of those trainings measured by their effect on existing administrative practices.

Evaluation reports prepared for the EU institutions point out that there are certain problems detected in project fiches of public institutions, all together implying deficiencies in project designs: objectives and expected results are not formulated in the proper way and indicators for measuring project performance are generally non-existent. TAV’s research has shown that three additional points should be taken into account during the project design and should be included in the project fiches. First of all, every project

fiche and programming document contains a section titled “lessons learned”, which provides information about the implementation phase of previous projects. Those sections show how throughly the performance and outputs of previous projects have been evaluated during an action’s design. The examination of the fiches of the public sector projects implemented during the last ten years demonstrate that those evaluations have not been done properly and, apart from some projects on women’s rights and human rights, those sections generally list the previous projects without deliberately explaining the lessons learned from previous actions. Those sections in project fiches should provide information on indicators used in measuring the performance of previous projects, the results of those evaluations, and the links between programmed and previous actions. Secondly, all project fiches should present a proper analysis of target groups and stakeholders and should explain how those target groups and stakeholders will be included in project activities and will be affected from them. Especially in the areas of development, transportation, and agriculture that necessitate large scale infrastructure investments, the need for comprehensive stakeholder analysis -which is generally overlooked- becomes more crucial. Moreover, programming documents of projects directly or indirectly affecting disadvantaged groups should not only provide information on how effectively the organisations representing those groups will be included to project activities, but also on how the members of disadvantaged groups will be reached, how they will react to project activities, and how the overall impact of the project on those individuals will be measured. Finally, “civil society” sections of the project fiches should include an extensive stakeholder analysis and should explain the role the CSOs will play in project activities and the selection method used in identifying the CSOs to be cooperated during project implementation. Sectoral programming documents should include a list of sectoral steering committee members and their inputs during the preparation and program design phase. Most of the time, those documents only underline that consultation have been made in order to formulate projects; yet, in order to assess the effectiveness of those consultative mechanisms, one needs to know who has taken part in consultations, which recommendations and feedbacks have been received and from whom, as well as which proposals have been accepted or rejected and on what basis. In addition to those


points related to the project design stage, monitoring and evaluation reports to be prepared at the sectoral level by leading public institutions during the IPA II period should be made public. Those reports should include the indicators are used in evaluations, the methods are used in determining performance achieved, and the list of people responsible of the preparation of those documents.

Compared to the public sector, accessing information about projects implemented by CSOs is even more difficult. Project web-sites are rarely sustainable and shut down right after the projects are finalised. The information on projects accessed through CSOs’ own web sites is quite limited; in fact providing at least a minimum level of information, such as the summary of the projects and their budgets, should be regarded by civil society actors as a requirement for transparency and accountability. It is possible to access lists of grant awards of all grant schemes through the CFCU and the EU web sites, but the available information is not uniform across different schemes. For EU funded projects, CSOs are usually required to open individual project web-sites during project implementation. Aside being financially unsustainable, this practice also makes it impossible to track information, not only about projects implemented in previous years, but also about those that are being currently implemented. Evaluating the performance of projects implemented by CSOs by checking the delivery of outputs is not an adequate method for impact analysis. Most of the expected results of those projects can only be detected in the medium term, therefore impact analysis cannot be conducted right after project implementation. Hence, being able to reach sufficient information on previous projects becomes more crucial for those trying to understand the impact of civil society efforts in certain policy areas. A single web portal, which can gather basic information on the results of the grant schemes and the projects implemented under those and which can allow making searches across thematic areas and target groups would be quite helpful in facilitating access to information. This web-portal should present information on projects in a standardised format and should allow CSOs to upload their outputs, reports, and other materials and even give them the opportunity to tag their projects according to thematic/policy areas and according to disadvantaged groups they are related.

Civil society - Public Sector Dialogue:

This report has analysed the level of civil society-public sector dialogue by focusing on Turkey’s pre-accession process and the EU’s financial assistance. Yet, undoubtedly, the extent of civil society-public sector relations is not limited to the EU pre-accession process and should cover the whole public decision making and policy implementation mechanisms and practices. Turkey has declared in 2011 its decision to participate to Open Government Partnership. For civil society-public sector relations in general and for pre-accession policies and strategies in particular, the Open Government Partnership system should be immediately adopted and internalised in governance practices.

Apparently, the most urgent and crucial need is the institutionalisation of civil society-public sector dialogue through development and signing of codes of conduct, and the establishment of civil society departments in public institutions. Institutionalisation is the only way to prevent arbitrary attitudes, to ensure sustainability, and to overcome the distrust between the civil society and the public sector. In the case of Turkey, institutionalisation can only be achieved through a binding legal framework that can regulate the relations between two parties. As a part of its project on civil society-public sector cooperation, TÜSEV has developed an example of such a legislative framework; a code of conduct that can be adopted to different policy areas. This code of conduct is hoped to serve as a basis for future efforts of institutionalisation, particularly in the context of Turkey’s pre-accession process. Moreover, a specific civil society strategy document or plan for the EU pre-accession process, which defines those relations, sets targets, and identifies the roles and responsibilities of both parties is also deemed crucial. This plan should include proper definitions for civil society and civil society organisations and should provide a categorisation of different types of institutions. Moreover, it should clearly articulate the rules for CSOs’ participation to the pre-accession negotiation process and decision making mechanisms and should present a comprehensive list of indicators to be used for evaluating the progress achieved in civil society-public sector dialogue and cooperation, both quantitatively and qualitatively. The inclusion of CSOs to sectoral committees formed under the IPA should be made obligatory and the selection criteria and method for CSOs that are going to take part in those committees

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should be clearly defined and shared with the public. As long as those criteria is not transparent, CSOs’ participation to those committees will only exacerbate the current climate of social distrust within the society and facilitate the exclusion of certain groups. Of course having a certain level of administrative capacity should be a pre-condition for participating such committees; however increasing diversity should also be a priority. Moreover, a strategic plan on civil society should also make available time tables to be used in the management of consultative mechanisms (such as, the minimum duration for consultations). The results of the consultative practices should also be followed, monitored and reported. Such reports should include information on which CSOs are being consulted and on which policy areas, while also measuring the level of CSOs’ influence on final documents and policies.

At sectoral level, comprehensive stakeholder analysis should be conducted for each sector under the IPA programming. Those stakeholder analyses should be developed jointly by public institutions and CSOs. Informational meetings regarding the EU funded projects of the public institutions should be organised regularly and an open call of invitation should be made for every meeting. Those meetings should not only target CSOs working specifically on related policy area, but also those who work on other thematic areas but have the potential to provide cross-sectoral feedback. Participation of CSOs to steering committees and working groups established for public sector projects should be a priority and performance achieved in that regard should also be included in evaluation and monitoring reports. Last but not least, IPA programming on public sector projects should consider to benefit more extensively from CSOs’ expertise and capacity in certain policy areas. Therefore, including CSOs to the design and implementation of grant schemes as well as to other project activities without creating a conflict of interest should also be taken into account more seriously.

Grant Opportunities for CSOs

First and foremost, grant schemes open to CSOs should be designed from the beginning by considering the future needs of program monitoring and evaluation. In addition to general and specific objectives, priority areas, and expected results of stated in the calls for proposals, performance indicators for impact assessment of grant schemes should

also be determined beforehand and should be shared in related program documents. As the application and implementation procedures of those grant schemes become more complex, CSOs lose their motivation to apply those calls and to implement EU funded projects. Moreover, most of the time they tend to apply to those calls only with the aim of ensuring their financial sustainability and view EU funding as a burden rather than an opportunity. In addition to provide more flexible application and implementation procedures, CSOs, particularly those that need assistance for capacity development, should be informed not only about the results of grant award applications, but also about deficiencies observed in project applications.

TAV also recommends to extend and modify the scope of grant schemes implemented under the title of “Civil Society Dialogue”. In other previous and recent pre-accession countries such as Croatia, grant schemes and pre-accession policies adopted a holistic approach and grant opportunities to ensure CSOs’ effective monitoring and evaluation in certain policy areas were formulated. Moreover, more importance should be attached to active participation as a priority grant scheme programs to be implemented in the next phase. Additionally, alternative grant opportunities like Grant Schemes implemented by CSOs targeting newly established ones or Consortiums of CSOs established in certain policy areas can be useful in increasing the access of different types of CSOs to grant schemes. Yet, those alternative opportunities should be formulated and put into practice in a transparent manner. The opportunities for direct grants and the criteria to be used in establishing consortiums should be decided jointly with CSOs and should be explained in civil society strategic plans. In terms of impact, extending the duration of projects implemented by CSOs, especially for those with satisfactory performances and on critical policy areas should be considered in the programming of grant schemes, while novel and innovative methods of grant management should also be integrated in pre-accession management. The feedbacks received from CSOs during TAV’s research phase also indicate that there is a need for a more targeted and extended support for both sectoral and cross-sectoral networks of CSO.

The number of projects implemented by CSOs under pre-accession grant schemes is quite high and they have different characteristics. This not only makes following and monitoring CSOs’ projects more difficult; it also makes it


more complex to understand the short-run and medium-run impacts of those projects. Therefore, impact analysis of those projects should be conducted on program and thematic area basis. Those impact analyses should of course evaluate the managerial capacity of CSOs; however those analysis should focus more on detecting effective and efficient activities and methods of project implementation, the conditions facilitating successfull project design and implementation as well as the sustainability of the actions, and the common organisational and operational mistakes of both program administrators and project implemetors. The impact analysis or other forms of evaluations related to grant schemes and grant programming should not only rest on the results of interviews conducted with the representatives of CSOs; they should also gather the opinions of project participants and beneficiaries. Those types of evaluative studies will not only contribute to the capacity development of the civil society, but will also provide invaluable field level information that will make it possible to design and implement more effective and efficient grant programs.

4. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE OF THE

EUROPEAN UNION AND THE PROJECTS OF THE

PUBLIC SECTOR (2005-2013)

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4. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE PROJECTS OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR (2005-2013)

This section lists all programmes, projects, and measures of the public sector that have been implemented between the years 2005 and 2013 by using EU’s financial assistance. By presenting an inventory of all data on the projects of the public sector, TAV aims to create a source of reference for those who want to access information on the utilisation of the EU’s financial assistance and to lay out the background information that constituted the basis of the research outcomes explained in the previous chapter.

The years between 2005 and 2013 cover two phases of financial assistance, i.e. Pre-Accession Financial Assistance (2002-2006) and the IPA-I (2007-2013) and the programs prepared for each year have different priorities, objectives, and sectoral focuses, which affect the distribution of financial assistance among projects across policy areas. Moreover, the available information in the programs covering different years is not uniform and may have differences. While these differences complicate the collection of data on public sector projects, they also allow the researcher to follow the linkages between national programming of financial assistance and political developments in Turkey and the situation of EU-Turkey relations. For example, by following yearly allocations of financial assistance across thematic areas, one can easily observe that migration policies have been one of the priority areas for the whole period, while some policy areas’ importance has increased or decreased parallel to the political events taking place in the country.

For each year, National Programs are used as the main official source regarding the allocation of financial assistance across different priorities, sectors, and projects and the related action budgets. Nearly all years’ National Programs are easily accessible online, apart from 2006, which is the period of transition from one phase of financial assistance

to another. National Programs for each year include an analysis of the performance achieved in previous years’ programming, the objectives and the priorities set for that year, a summary of programmed projects/actions, as well as project budgets. English versions of the National Programs can be accessed through web-portal of the EU, via pages on PHARE and IPA.

The programming of a project under a given year’s National Program does not imply that those projects take start at the same year. It only means that those projects will be financed through allocations made for that year. In practice, projects can only be launched with considerable time lags, usually one or two years following the programming. In terms of research data, those time lags have created important consequences. The information accessed on projects programmed under the National Program of 2012 and afterwards is quite limited and is insufficient compared to the information gathered regarding previous years’ National Programs and projects. Moreover, given that a proper impact analysis can only be conducted at least a few years after the projects are completed, it is difficult to draw conclusions about the impacts of the most of the projects listed in this section.

Detailed information on each programme, project or measure in each year’s National Programme can be obtained in English through project fiches made available via above mentioned web-pages. Project fiches in general provide the objectives, the backgrounds, and the expected results of the projects, a detailed list of project activities, the budgets of those projects, implementation means to be used, the logical frameworks, and an analysis of cross cutting issues. Project fiches are not available in Turkish and there is no online resource in Turkish that provides at least a summary

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of those projects. On its web-site, MEUA gives only a list of those projects according to their geographical locations. The online resources that can be accessed through the Ministries’ web-sites usually are not uniform in terms of their content and generally just consist of project announcements and news about project activities. Additionally, since the administrative system of the central government has gone through important changes during the period covered in this research, accessing information on previous years’ projects in Turkish becomes nearly impossible.

Project fiches of the projects implemented under each year’s National Program can be accessed through the above mentioned EU resources up until 2012. The project fiches of actions programmed under 2012 National Program has not been published yet, while the format of the project fiches have changed in 2013, as a preparation for the new phase. During the IPA II, Action Documents and Sectoral Operational Programs will substitute National Programs and project fiches. EU web pages include sectoral programming documents for some IPA sectors for the year 2013. We should note that, the new sector-based approach and the consequent changes in program and project documents will simplify the monitoring of numerous projects implemented by the public sector and will facilitate sectoral level evaluations and cross-sectoral comparisons of projects related to different thematic areas.

However, the contents of the project fiches can also vary between years and especially is more consistent after 2009. As of 2013, with the introduction of the sectoral approach, sectoral fiches have begun to be prepared for each sub-sector and each sectoral fiche contains several projects and measures to be implemented under that sub-sector in a given year or period. For those who try to access information on actions implemented through EU financial assistance, this new approach makes it easier to follow and examine the programs and projects implemented under different sectors as the sector fiches present that information in a more consistent and integrated way and provide stakeholder analysis at the sectoral level. Moreover, the new approach also makes it easier to monitor the participation of the CSOs in both sectoral level decision making and in activities and the management of the projects implemented by different public institutions. The sub-sector programming documents for 2013 have certain differences in terms of budgetary figures listed in different sources;

yet those problems of inconsistency are likely to be solved after the transition to the IPA II has once been completed. For year 2014, the only available information on financial assistance programming is the allocations made to each sector (Table 1.3), therefore, detailed information on the program for 2014 could not be included in this section.

This chapter covers the projects programmed under National Programs of years 2005 and 2006, as well as those programmed under the IPA I, Component I, i.e. “Transition Assistance and Institution Building”. For each year, the chapter provides a table of for each year’s National Program, including all projects programmed and the main beneficiaries and the budgets of those projects, as well as the amounts of EU financial assistance received. As mentioned in the pervious chapter, the projects fiches of all projects have been scanned during TAV’s research and analysed from the perspective of participation. In addition to National Programs, this chapter also provides a more detailed information on a restricted set of projects. The detailed information on those projects include project objectives, expected results, implementation means of those projects, as well as comments made on participation of the civil society in project fiches. However, as the available information on projects from 2012 onwards is insufficient, detailed information on projects programmed from that year on only provides what can be accessed through existing resources.

The projects, for which detailed information is provided in this chapter, are selected by using the following method:

• Projects for infrastructure and/or equipment investments are excluded, unless they involve the participation of civil society and/or target or may create results on one or more disadvantaged groups;

• Projects that include CSOs in project activities in a significant way, as well as those in which CSOs take part in project management or benefit from sub-project grant schemes are included;

• Projects that target one or more disadvantaged groups and/or have the potential to affect a specific disadvantaged group are included;

• Projects that are closely related to CSOs’ activities and/or related to subjects that are widely discussed in public in recent years are included;

• Actions under the headings “Participation to Union


Programmes”, “Support Activities to Strengthen the European Integration Process”, and “Jean Monnet Scholarship” are excluded;

• Civil society dialogue actions and projects which similarly involve only grant distribution activities are excluded, as they will be examined in the following chapter;

• Finally projects that are related to certain themes such as human rights; rule of law; women’s rights; children’s rights;

4.1. THE NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR 2005

youth; worker’s rights, social inclusion, migration, public health; environment; and good governance are included.

All information on those projects are directly taken from project fiches without any changes, while additional information under the rows titled “description” provides brief notes on how civil society participation is planned within a given project and how comprehensively the inclusion of civil society actors have been considered.

TABLE 4.1: NATIONAL PROGRAM, 2005

Project Title Main Beneficiary Total Cost (Euro)

EU Contribution (Euro)

Objective 1: Addressing the Copenhagen political criteria

TR 05 01.01 Better Access to Justice in Turkey Ministry of Justice 4.400.000 3.585.000

TR 05 01 02 Strengthening Civil Society in the Pre-Accession Process -- NGO Grant facility NGO Grant Facility 10.500.000 10.500.000

TR 05 01 03 Training Programme on the Istanbul Protocol

Ministry of Justice, Council of Forensic Medicine

3.000.000 2.925.000

TR 05 01.04 Cascaded Training of Turkish lawyers on ECHR Union of Turkish Bars 1.300.000 1.300.000

TR 05 01.05 An Independent Police Complaints Commission and Complaints system for the Turkish National Police and Gendarmerie

Ministry of Interior 1.600.000 1.600.000

TR 05 01.06 Promoting Gender Equality GD for the Status of Women

5.838.180 5.838.180

TR 05 01.07 Support to the Establishment of Courts of Appeal in Turkey Ministry of Justice 30.000.000 22.500.000

Sub-total 56.638.180 48.248.180

Objective 2: Economic and Social Cohesion

TR 05 02 01 Technical Assistance for Programming, Management and Implementation of Regional Development Programmes and Support to RDAs

State Planning Organisation

19.500.000 18.500.000

TR 05 02 02 Regional Development in TR90 NUTS II Region

State Planning Organization

24.000.000 18.000.000





TR 05 02 03 Support to the Solution of Economic and Social Integration Problems in Urban Areas as Major In-Migrant Destinations in Priority Nuts II Regions (Diyarbakir, Sanliurfa, Gaziantep and Erzurum)

Metropolitan Municipality of Diyarbakır, Municipality of Şanlıurfa, Metropolitan Municipality of Gaziantep, and Metropolitan Municipality of Erzurum.

12.500.000 10.375.000

TR 05 02 04 CBC with Bulgaria: Joint Small Project Fund


500.000 500.000

TR 05 02 05 Interreg III/A Greece-Turkey Programme


4.355.000 3.509.000

TR 05 02 06 Fashion and Textile Cluster (FTC) - Phase II

Istanbul Textile and Apparel Exporters Union

9.000.000 6.750.000

TR 05 02 07 Development of a Clustering policy in Turkey

Undersecretariat for Foreign Trade

6.000.000 6.000.000

TR 05 02 08 Small Entreprise Loan Programme, 2nd phase (SELP II)

Undersecretariat of Treasury

25.800.000 20.000.000

TR 05 02 09 Supporting Women’s Entrepreneurship

Confederation of Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen

4.800.000 4.725.000

TR 05 02 10 Contribution to the FEMIP Support Fund European Investment Bank 3.000.000 3.000.000

Sub-total 109.455.000 91.359.000

Objective 3: Approximation to the acquis communautaire

TR 05 03 01 Reinforcement of Institutional Capacity for Establishing a Product Safety System in Turkey

Undersecretariat for Foreign Trade

1.500.000 1.500.000

TR 05 03 02 Support to the Market Surveillance Laboratories for the Implementation of EC Directives in the areas of New Hot Boilers, Gas Appliances, Cosmetics, IVD, Veterinary Pharmacy, ATEX

Ministry of Health 3.298.500 2.473.875

TR 05 03 03 Reinforcement of Institutional Capacity of the Directorate General for State Aids in the Undersecretariat of State Planning Organisation

State Planning Institution 1.000.000 1.000.000

TR 05 03 04 Establishment of National Food Reference Laboratory

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs

6.399.000 4.849.000





TR 05 03 05 Establishment of Rural Development Paying Agency


5.199.000 4.249.000

TR 05 03 06 Control of Rabies Disease in Turkey Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs

11.884.500 9.103.750

TR 05 03 07 Establishing New Border Inspection Posts (BIPs ) in theRepublic of Turkey


13.250.000 10.000.000

TR 05 03 08 Increasing Public Awareness on Energy Efficiency in Buildings

Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources

1.070.000 1.040.000

TR 05 03 09 Enhancement of Traffic Management and Environmental Safety in Turkish Ports and Coastal Areas

Undersecretariat for Maritime Affairs

1.590.000 1.427.500

TR 05 03 10 Technical Assistance for the Improvement of Access Regime in the Turkish Telecommunications Market

Telecommunications Authority

1.200.000 1.200.000

TR 05 03 11 Çanakkale Regional Solid Waste Management Project

Canakkale Municipalities’ Union

16.600.000 11.900.000

TR 05 03 12 Kusadasi Regional Solid Waste Management Project

Kuşatak Union (Municipalities of Kuşadası, Güzelçamlı, Davutlar, and Söke)

20.200.000 13.800.000

TR 05 03 13 Strengthening of the Epidemiological Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases System (ESCCDS) in Turkey - II

Ministry of Health 6.993.100 5.507.325

TR 05 03 14 Upgrading Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) in Turkey- Phase 2

Ministry of Labour and Social Security

3.000.000 2.250.000

TR 05 03 15 Capacity Building for the Compilation of Accounting Data in All Institutions and Agencies within General Government Sector in the Context of E-government

Ministry of Finance, GD of Public Accounts

2.000.000 2.000.000

TR 05 03 16 Upgrading the Statistical System of Turkey – Phase II State Institute of Statistics 11.237.300 10.361.750

Sub-total 106.421.400 82.662.200

Objective 4: Promotion of the EU-Turkey Civil Society Dialogue and Support for the European Integration Process

TR 05 04 01 Continuation of the “JEAN MONNET” Scholarship Programme SG for EU 3.820.000 3.820.000


Projects under the 2005 National ProgramTR 05 01 03 TRAINING PROGRAMME ON THE ISTANBUL PROTOCOL: ENHANCING THE KNOWLEDGE LEVEL OF NON-FORENSIC EXPERT PHYSICIANS, JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Justice (MoJ), Council of Forensic Medicine

Overall Objective Promoting further alignment with the EU acquis on human rights

Specific Objective

Enhancement of effectiveness of the evaluation process in medical examination and judicial procedures of torture claims by:

- training of physicians who are not expert on forensic medicine regarding the Istanbul Protocol in order to be able to perform an appropriate examination of possible victims of torture,

- training of prosecutors and judges regarding the Istanbul Protocol in order to improve their ability to prosecute and assess torture cases.

Expected Results

1. The Istanbul Protocol implemented as regards medical examination of torture claims.

2. The Istanbul Protocol implemented as regards interpretation of medical reports of torture claims by prosecutors and judges.

3. New guidelines, procedures and services adopted for medical examinations and judicial interpretations in line with the Istanbul Protocol.

4. Monitoring mechanism established for medical examinations.

5. Training strategy on medical examination of torture claims developed and implemented by the Council of Forensic Medicine, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Justice.

6. Equipment requirements in medical examination facilities regarding the Istanbul Protocol fulfilled in terms of non-digital cameras.

DescriptionThe project included a situation assessment on medical examinations and judicial procedures of torture and maltreatment cases and the establishment of a joint working group between the Council of Forensic Medicine, MoJ, MoH, Police, Gendarmerie and relevant CSOs

Implementation Direct Grant (Turkish Physicians Association and International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims - Denmark), Supply Contract (withdrawn)




TR 05 04 02 Participation in Community Programmes and Agencies Ministry of Foreign Affairs 136.300.309 36.710.620

TR 05 04 03 Support Activities to Strengthen the European Integration Process SG for EU 14.900.000 14.870.000

Sub-total 155.020.309 55.400.620

TOTAL 427.534.889 277.670.000


TR 05 01.04 CASCADED TRAINING OF TURKISH LAWYERS ON EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS (ECHR)

Main Beneficiary Union of Turkish Bars (UTBA)

Overall Objective To promote better functioning of the Turkish judiciary system with respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Specific ObjectiveTo enhance the effective application of the ECHR by lawyers throughout proceedings before the courts, by increasing their knowledge related to human rights concepts and the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Expected Results

1. Creation of a pool of lawyers experts on human rights who will be able to pass their knowledge to the junior lawyers of their bar associations and also to provide guidance services to the lawyers in their locality.

2. Creation of a significant number of Turkish lawyers who will have the necessary understanding and practical experience of European human rights standards to be able to incorporate them more effectively into their work.

3. Creation of an annotated version of the new Turkish Code on Criminal Procedures with the judgements of the ECtHR

4. Turkish lawyers will acquire the necessary professional tools to represent clients before national courts and the ECtHR.

5. Practicing human rights law will become more appealing to a larger number of lawyers.

Implementation Direct Grant (Council of Europe)

TR 05 01.05 AN INDEPENDENT POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMISSION AND COMPLAINTS SYSTEM FOR THE TURKISH NATIONAL POLICE AND GENDARMERIE

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Interior (MoI)

Overall Objective

To enhance the accountability, efficiency, effectiveness and public confidence of the Turkish National Police, Gendarmerie and other law enforcement bodies in the discharge of their responsibilities in respect of the enforcement of law in accordance with democratic principles and having regard for the Human Rights of all citizens.

Specific Objective To complete the preparation of a legislative framework for the establishment of a new complaints system for the Turkish National Police and Gendarmerie.

Expected Results

1. Conceptual and institutional framework for a new complaints system for Police and Gendarmerie developed on the basis of public consultation and adopted by the government.

2. Legislative framework prepared for the establishment of an Independent Complaints Commission.

3. Human resources programme (including training programme) and equipment needs related to the establishment of the National Complaints Commission.


TR 05 01.05 AN INDEPENDENT POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMISSION AND COMPLAINTS SYSTEM FOR THE TURKISH NATIONAL POLICE AND GENDARMERIE


Description

The project was based on the need for a uniform system in the handling and investigation of complaints against the Police and Gendarmerie. It included the preparation of a framework document to inform the public on the new complaints system. The project also envisaged the establishment of a Project Steering Committee composed of senior representatives of the MoI, Turkish National Police, Turkish Gendarmerie, other relevant government bodies, relevant Human Rights CSOs, the European Commission and the Member State(s) providing the technical assistance.

Implementation Twinning

TR 05 01.06 PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY

Main Beneficiary GD for the Status of Women (KSGM)

Overall Objective To promote gender equality and the protection of women’s human rights in Turkey.

Specific Objective

To strengthen the institutional capacity of the National Mechanism’s (KSGM) to mainstream gender issues into all public policies and promote the implementation of gender equality legislation with the participation of central and local authorities and CSOs, and to contribute to the establishment of a Gender Equality Body in line with the EC practices and acquis.

Expected Results

1. National data is available to show the causes and consequences of domestic violence which will act as a basis for the formulation of appropriate national policies and strategies to combat domestic violence against women.

2. KSGM becomes capable of developing policies, including developing a National Action Plan, to combat violence, in collaboration with all related stakeholders.

3. A Communication Strategy for combating violence against women developed and put into action in order to increase awareness about violence against women in the general public.

4. Measures to combat violence against women are ready for implementation by related public officials.

5. Increased sensitivity among public officials on combating violence against women.

6. The municipalities to establish shelters for women are identified, together with investment needs, to be utilised for future EU pre-accession funding

Description

The project consists of two components: 1) Institutional Capacity Building - mainstreaming gender in public polices; 2) Combating Domestic Violence Against Women - strengthening the capacity of all stakeholders to protect women from domestic violence through research, development of better and more holistic governmental policies, establishment of a database, and development of service models and various awareness and in-service training programme modules, taking into account the best practices in EU countries. The project included the establishment of a Steering Committee composed of all governmental bodies related to women’s issues, as well as women’s CSOs (including the Bar Association of Turkey), Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies, and Universities’ Women’s Studies Centres.

Implementation Twinning, Direct Grant (United Nations Population Fund)


TR 05 02 01 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR PROGRAMMING, MANAGEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES AND SUPPORT TO REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES (RDAS)

Main Beneficiary State Planning Organisation (DPT)

Overall Objective Enhance efficiency in designing and implementation of Turkish regional development policy in line with EU.

Specific Objectives

To support preparation of participatory regional development strategies, plans, programmes and prioritisation of project ideas in line with the (preliminary) national development plan.

To support central and regional management, monitoring and evaluation capacity for EU regional development programmes in accordance with the targets toward implementation of pre-accession funds.

To provide technical and material support for establishment and functioning of RDAs.

Expected Results

Component 1: Support for the preparation of participatory regional development strategies, operational plans and prioritisation of infrastructure investment project ideas

• Regional/local development initiatives will be activated, regional public investment will oriented and the absorption capacity of future EU Pre- accession Assistance (IPA) increased through regional development plans, strategies and project ideas.

• Component 2: Support to the central and regional management, monitoring and evaluation capacity for EU regional development programmes

• The capacity of the State Planning Organisation to design, prepare, implement and monitor development programmes at regional level being substantially improved from its current level.

• Project Implementation Units having successfully implemented, coordinated and monitored regional development programmes for which they are responsible.

• Public awareness of development programmes being considerably increased especially in the target regions and also across the whole country.

• Interest and participation of local stakeholders being enhanced and cooperation between central and local institutions and other actors strengthened.

• On-going programmes being effectively monitored.

• TR 90 programme producing good quality applications and being implemented efficiently and in a timely manner and project assessment and evaluation is ensured.

• Component 3: Technical and material support for the establishment and functioning of RDAs

• The creation of fully functioning RDAs equipped to become drivers of the regional economy and to play the leading role in the design, preparation, implementation and monitoring of development programmes at regional level.

• High public and institutional awareness both at national and regional level of the roles and responsibilities of RDAs as key regional players.

Implementation 3 Service Contracts, Supply Contract


TR 05 02 02 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN TR90 NUTS II REGION

Main Beneficiary State Planning Organization (DPT)

Overall ObjectiveTo support the objective set out in Preliminary National Development Plan (pNDP) of reducing interregional disparities in Turkey and build institutional capacity at both central and regional level.

Specific ObjectiveTo contribute to the economic development of the priority region targeted by the pNDP for support under economic and social cohesion measures and to improve the project implementation capacity at central and regional level.

Expected Results

1. Economic and social development in the region concerned promoted by interventions assisting community development through local initiatives, the sustainable growth of SMEs, and improvement of quality of environment and life.

2. Key national and local institutions have the capacity to design and manage projects, including grant schemes in the framework of the EU approach to regional development with practical experience.

Implementation 3 Grant Schemes: 1. The SME Grant Scheme; 2. The Local Development Initiatives Grant Scheme; 3. Tourism & Environment Related Infrastructure Grant Scheme


TR 05 02 03 SUPPORT TO THE SOLUTION OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION PROBLEMS IN URBAN AREAS AS MAJOR IN-MIGRANT DESTINATIONS IN PRIORITY NUTS II REGIONS (DIYARBAKIR, ŞANLIURFA, GAZIANTEP AND ERZURUM)

Main Beneficiaries Metropolitan Municipality of Diyarbakır, Municipality of Şanlıurfa, Metropolitan Municipality of Gaziantep, and Metropolitan Municipality of Erzurum.

Overall Objective Mitigation of the adverse impacts of migration in selected urban areas in Priority Nuts II Regions

Specific Objective

a. Help to the solution of economic-social integration and environment related infrastructure problems derived from migration in the selected provinces in a multi- actor manner and to improve the capacity of local administrations in conducting joint projects.

b. To help building local capacity with a view to enhancing resources in planning and determining the type, quality and quantity of services they need to offer.

Expected Results

Component 1: Capacity Building for Municipalities and Governorships

To enhance the capacity of municipalities and governorships to plan, provide and manage public services for a rapidly growing urban population and support them to adopt measures that will assist the integration of migrant communities into the economic and social life of the city.

Component 2: Pilot Projects

A. Diyarbakir Pilot Projects

1: Information and referral services provided to migrants coming to Sümerpark; 2:Vulnerable groups received services (Sümerpark – Woman Support Centre, Sümerpark – Child Support Centre, Sümerpark - Rehabilitation Centre for Disabled); 3: Urban consciousness enhanced (Sümerpark – City Volunteers Platform); 4: Employability of young people and women improved (Sümerpark -Training and Education Centre for Qualified Youngsters, Vocational Training Centre for Unqualified Youngsters; 5: Education and health services for women are delivered through communal laundry, health and social centres and mobile health units; 6:Sports facilities are available for migrant children; 7: Capacity established to tackle problems of children living / working in the street - Shelter for Street Children.

B. Sanliurfa Pilot Projects

1: Education and vocational training services established; 2: Basic health services provided to outlying districts through two mobile health units; 3. Employability of young people and women improved: 4: Sports facilities are available for migrant children.

C. Gaziantep Pilot Projects

1: Capacity of Child/Youth Rehabilitation Centres Improved /established; 2: Counselling / rehabilitation and education/vocational training facilities

are available for migrant children; 3: Education and training services for women are delivered through communal laundries

D. Erzurum Pilot Projects

1: Information / counselling provided for migrants; Social, cultural and sports facilities available for migrant population; 3: Coordination of vocational training for migrant population ensured; 4: Child care facilities for migrant population improved; 5: Health services improved through health centre and mobile health unit

Implementation Service Contract (TA), 4 Works Contracts, 4 Supply Contracts


TR 05 02 05 INTERREG III/A GREECE-TURKEY PROGRAMME


Overall Objective To improve cooperation at local level between the two countries and to support the further development of the economic potential of the eligible regions.

Specific ObjectiveTo strengthen economic activity and to encourage initiatives for addressing unemployment; to upgrade quality of life of citizens, to improve environmental management and management of cultural resources and to improve accessibility and communication.

Expected Results

1. The projects covered under the economic development and employment priority are expected to support the economic situation of the eligible region by encouraging initiatives for entrepreneurship, cooperation between the institutions of the two countries and addressing unemployment. The tourism industry is one of the areas that an improvement is expected.

2. With the projects that fall into the quality of life / environment / culture priority among the others health and environmental problems of the region are expected to be addressed and cultural resources of the eligible region are expected to be protected and better promoted. The projects are also expected to improve the cooperation between educational and research institutions of two countries.

3. Technical assistance axis of the programme will increase, both in the region and in the center, the technical and institutional capacity to manage the programme and involved EU procedures and activities.

Implementation 2 Grant Schemes: 1. Economic Growth and Employment; 2. Quality Of Life / Environment / Culture.


TR 05 02 09 SUPPORTING WOMEN’S ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Main Beneficiary Confederation of Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen (TESK)

Overall Objective To support women entrepreneurship and to get them to play a more active role in business

Specific Objective

Component 1: Supporting women entrepreneurship, through the provision of Entrepreneurship and Management Training and Consultancy

Component 2: Supporting women entrepreneurship through establishment of business incubators

Expected Results

1. 9 Training Centres in Ankara, Adana, Antalya, İstanbul, Konya, Malatya, Manisa, Nevşehir, Samsun established; 2. 16 Training Relays in Amasya, Balıkesir, Düzce, Eskişehir, Erzurum, Hatay, Kastamonu, Kırklareli, Mugla, Ordu, Sivas, Tekirdag, Tokat, Tunceli,Uşak, Yozgat created;. 3. 2700 women trained at 9 Training Centres; 4. 1800 women trained at 16 Training Relays; 5. 900 women received consulting at 9 Training Centres concerning entrepreneurship related issues; 6. 600 women received consulting at 16 Training Relays concerning entrepreneurship related issues; 7. 25 Business Development events organised such as business meetings, concentrate business opportunity meetings, search conferences, meetings for exchanges of experiences between women; 8.TESK personnel trained to support the operation and sustainability of the 9 Training Centres for women entrepreneurs and able to guarantee replicability in other regions; 9. Increased awareness among women of the possibilities to start a new business; 10. Maximum five incubator centres to accommodate minimum 60 businesses (20 in each centre) established, refurbished and equipped; 11. Minimum 60 businesses (20 in each centre) at maximum five incubator centres accommodated and incubating services - such as office space, common use of equipment, consulting, networking - provided; 12. A replicable incubator model (package) for future applications developed; 13. The capacity of KOSGEB and the incubators improved

Implementation 3 Service Contracts (TA), 2 Supply Contracts, Works Contract.


TR 05 03 08 INCREASING PUBLIC AWARENESS ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN BUILDINGS

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MoENR), GD of Electrical Power Resources Survey and Development (EIE) and National Energy Conservation Centre (NECC);

Overall Objective To increase energy efficiency in building sector in Turkey.

Specific Objective Development and implementation of education programmes for specified target groups in the building sector in order to increase energy efficiency consciousness of the public.

Expected Results

1. Capacity building of EIE/NECC personnel in developing and implementing education programs achieved.

2. New techniques and other relevant instruments for disseminating this subject to all target groups more effectively learned and employed.

3. Public attention attracted by publishing well prepared material and documentation.

4. Students informed about importance of the subject of energy efficiency

Implementation Service Contract for TA, Supply Contract

TR 05 03 14 UPGRADING OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (OHS) IN TURKEY- PHASE 2

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MoLSS)

Overall ObjectiveTo contribute to the improvement of occupational health and safety (OHS) in Turkey by means of ensuring effective and efficient implementation of harmonized OHS legislation especially among SMEs.

Specific Objective To improve and enhance occupational health and safety measurement, analysis and training services.

Expected Results

1. Minimum 4 mobile laboratories established and operational to improve occupational health and safety standards, particularly in SMEs.

2. The number of occupational accidents reduced.

3. Number of diagnosis of occupational diseases increased.

4. Equipment available for raising awareness and training programs for OHS professionals and for social partners.

5. Increased awareness and knowledge among social partners and OHS experts on OHS issues as a result of activities to be conducted by the MOLSS.

Implementation Supply Contract





Objective 1: Addressing the Copenhagen political criteria

TR 06 01 01 Support to the Set up an Asylum and Country of Origin and Information (COI) system

Ministry of Interior, GD of Security

12.051.000 9.793.250

TR 06 01 02 Civilian Oversight of Internal Security Sector Ministry of Interior 3.000.000 3.000.000

TR 06 01 03 Training of Gendarmerie Officers on European Human Rights Standards

Ministry of the Interior, Gendarmerie General Command

1.947.500 1.773.125

TR 06 01 04 Support to the Court Management System Ministry of Justice 3.300.000 3.300.000

TR 06 01 05 Shelters for Women Subject to Violence Ministry of Interior, GD for Local Authorities

10.360.000 8.110.000

TR 06 01 06 Strengthening the Capacity of TK on the Struggle Against Drug Trafficking

Ministry of Interior, Gendarmerie General Command, Turkish National Police, Coast Guard Command

3.450.000 3.232.500

TR 06 01 07 Combatting Human Trafficking

Ministry of Interior, Public Order Department of the Turkish National Police and the Human Smuggling Crimes Department of the General Command of Gendarmerie

3.000.000 3.000.000

TR 06 01 08 Ethics for the Prevention of Corruption in Turkey

Ethic Council of Prime Ministry

1.500.000 1.350.000

Sub-total 38.608.500 33.558.875

Objective 2: Economic and Social Cohesion

TR 06 02 01 Nevşehir Wastewater Treatment Plant Project Nevşehir Municipality 8.751.000 6.563.000

TR 06 02 02 Tokat Wastewater Treatment Plant Project Tokat Municipality 13.600.000 10.200.000

TR 06 02 03 Active Employment Measures and Support to Turkish Employment Organisation at Local Level

Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Turkish Employment Organisation

20.000.000 16.000.000






TR 06 02 04 Support to Human Resources Development through VET

Ministry of National Education and Higher Education Council

15.480.920 12.980.920

TR 06 02 05 Support to the Solution of Economic and Social Integration Problems in Istanbul, Izmir, Ankara and Bursa as Major In-Migrant Destinations

Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality; Ankara Metropolitan Municipality; Izmir Metropolitan Municipality; Bursa Metropolitan Municipality

12.886.975 11.905.854

TR 06 02 06 Expansion of EU Turkish Business Centres Network

The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

25.000.000 24.125.000

TR 06 02 07 Access of Trademen and Craftsmen TESKOMB 4.992.000 4.879.500

TR 06 02 08 Industrial Restructuring of SanlìurfaGAP Regional Development Administration

21.580.000 15.513.000

TR 06 02 09 Improvement of Road Safety in TK GD for Highways 27.300.000 20.475.000

TR 06 02 10 Amasya Solid Wate Management Project

Ministry of Environment and Forestry

24.400.000 18.000.000

TR 06 02 11 Kütahya Regional Solid Waste Management Project

Kütahya Provincial Local Administrations’ Solid Waste Disposal Facilities Implementation and Operation Union

24.200.000 16.800.000

TR 06 02 12 Bitlis Solid Waste Management Project Ministry of Environment and Forestry

19.500.000 15.500.000

TR 06 02 13 TA for the mgt of the Ekmekcizade Caravanserai in Edirne


160.000 157.500

TR 06 02 14 Ugrading of Kirklareli-Derekoy-Aziziye TK-BG Border State Road Project


5.349.000 4.000.000

TR 06 02 15 Flood Forecasting State Planning Organisation

4.080.000 3.255.000

TR 06 02 16 Protection and Sustainable Development of Natural Resources and Biodiversity in the Yıldız Mountains

Ministry of Environment and Forestry, GD of Nature Conservation and National Parks and GD of Forestry

2.050.000 1.862.500





TR 06 02 17 Joint Small Project Fund State Planning Organisation

765.100 700.000

Sub-total 230.094.995 182.917.274

Objective 3: Approximation to the acquis communautaire

TR 06 03 01 Establishment of a Pilot Turkish Farm Accountancy Data Network


1.240.000 1.080.000

TR 06 03 02 Control of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in Turkey

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, GD of Protection and Control

65.437.800 49.078.350

TR 06 03 03 Improvement of the Conditions for Cross Border Electricity Trade in Turkey in Compliance with the Best Practice in EU

Turkish Electricity Transmission Corporation

1.380.000 1.380.000

TR 06 03 04 Capacity Building Support to Turkey for the Water Sector

General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works

2.500.000 2.375.000

TR 06 03 05 Strengthening the Capacity of the Turkish Grand National Assembly

Grand National Assembly of Turkey

1.042.100 1.002.825

TR 06 03 06 Introducing Regulatory Impact Analysis into the Turkish Legal Framework

General Directorate of Laws and Decrees of Prime Ministry

1.000.000 1.000.000

TR 06 03 07 Modernisation of the Turkish Customs Administration

Turkish Customs Administration

19.027.139 16.532.854

TR 06 03 08 Support to the Turkish Police in Enforcement of Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights

Ministry of Interior, General Directorate of Police/State Security Department

1.510.000 1.332.500

TR 06 03 09 Development of the Seed Sector in Turkey and Alignment to the EU

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, GD for Protection and Control

2.335.000 2.020.000

TR 06 03 10 Improving Labour Inspection System Labour Inspection Board 1.300.000 1.300.000

TR 06 03 11 Capacity Building Support for the Ministry of National Education

Ministry of National Education

3.700.000 3.700.000

TR 06 03 12 Establishment of an Environmental Information Exchange Network (TEIEN)


11.500.000 9.875.000





TR 06 03 13 Support Activities to Strengthen the European Integration Process 36.000.000 36.000.000

Sub-total 147.972.039 126.676.529

Objective 4: Promotion of the EU-Turkey Civil Society Dialogue and Support for the European Integration Process

TR 06 04 01 Promotion of the Civil Society Dialogue between EU and Turkey SG for EU 21.500.000 21.500.000

TR 06 04 02 Continuation of the Jean Monnet Scholarship Programme for Post- Graduates in Turkey

SG for EU 3.350.000 3.350.000

TR 06 04 03 EU-Turkish Chambers Forum

Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry and Union of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Maritime Trade and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

4.750.000 4.500.000

TR 06 04 04 Civil Society Dialogue – Bringing together Workers from Turkey and European Union through a “Shared Culture of Work”

European Trade Unions Confederation

3.500.000 3.500.000

TR 06 04 05 Supporting Civil Society Development and Dialogue in Turkey

Civil Society Development Centre

4.000.000 4.000.000

TR 06 04 06 Participation in Community Programmes and Agencies Ministry of Foreign Affairs 87.852.764 62.510.322

Sub-total 124.952.764 99.360.322

Project for Bird Flu Epidemic in Turkey Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs

10.400.000 835.000

TOTAL 552.028.298 443.348.000


Projects under the 2006 National Program

TR 06 01 02 CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT OF INTERNAL SECURITY SECTOR


Side Beneficiary Ministry of Justice (MoJ)

Overall ObjectiveExpanded enjoyment of civil rights by Turkish citizens and democratic control of internal security are structurally embedded in the regulatory system and public administration practice of Turkey.

Specific Objective

To establish framework conditions for Governors, District Governors and Ministry of Interior staff to make transition from narrowly conceived, bureaucratically and legalistically managed oversight of policing to a system of security sector governance based on human centred understanding of security and public safety and transparency in partnership the civil society.

Expected Results

1. Legislative framework developed to enable the MoI and the public administrators (governors and sub governors) to exercise effective civilian oversight over law enforcement bodies.

2. MoI and the public administrators have access to the conceptual and institutional and resources tools to oversee policing effectively.

3. Civil society and the media have the conceptual and institutional tools to engage with policing oversight.

4. Ministry of Interior and the Grand National Assembly establish working framework for ensuring transparency of internal policing services through the standing committees on Internal Affairs and Planning Budget Commissions of the Parliament.

Description

Project fiche: “During the assessment of civilian oversight capacities of the MoI and the governors, human rights community in Ankara and think tank organisations (such as the Economic and Social Studies Foundation, TESEV) were consulted. Follow up consultations with the academia and the civil society took place in September 2005 in Ankara and Mardin where meetings were held with the City Council of the City of Mardin as well as with citizens’ groups and other stakeholders in Aksaray and Sakarya. Also consultations were held with members of the academia through structured seminar events.”

Moreover,the project fiche also notes that civil society would be included in project activities in a number of ways: (i) activities in 4 pilot provinces; (ii) establishment of regular consultation mechanisms for the MoI at central and local level, (iii) study visits to civil society networks abroad; and, national level conferences and roundtables.

Implementation Direct Grant Contract (United Nations Development Program), Twinning


TR 06 01 03 TRAINING OF GENDARMERIE OFFICERS ON EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS

Main Beneficiary Ministry of the Interior (MoI), Gendarmerie General Command

Overall Objective To consolidate a functioning democratic system, including respect for the rule of law and human rights and other Copenhagen Criteria.

Specific Objective

1. To increase the knowledge and skills in European human rights and ethical standards among Turkish Gendarmerie through training, and other capacity-building activities, facilitating effective implementation of these standards at the national level.

2. To improve and place statement-taking activity in the process of judicial investigations in the context of a shift towards evidence-based prosecutions

Expected Results

1. To increase knowledge and skills of Turkish gendarmerie on European human rights standards and standards of good conduct, and support the effective implementation of these standards.

2. The production of a human rights concept for the Gendarmerie with a view to its adoption and future implementation by the institution, covering a period of 5 to 10 years after its drafting.

3. Standards concerning physical conditions of statement-taking rooms developed and adopted by the Turkish Gendarmerie; pilot statement-taking rooms (30 in total) equipped with appropriate means.

4. Strengthening Co-operation and Coordination between the Gendarmerie, the Police, the Prosecutors and Lawyers in Judicial Investigations

Implementation Twinning, Supply Contract, Works Contract

TR 06 01 04 SUPPORT TO THE COURT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Justice (MoJ)

Overall Objective To improve the functioning and efficiency of the judiciary according to European standards as foreseen in the Accession Partnership and the National Program for the Adoption of the Acquis.

Specific Objective To reconstruct the court management system, strengthening the effectiveness of the judiciary and facilitating speedy judicial processes.

Expected Results

1. New court management system including, fiscal, case flow and human resources management of the courts, developed and implemented.

2. Backlog of the cases from previous years reduced.

3. The average trial duration shortened.

4. Professional skills of the auxiliary personnel in pilot courts raised, especially effectiveness and responsibility of administrative staff enhanced

5. Effective technological solutions and technology management system serving to the more satisfactory and rapid judiciary obtained.



TR 06 01 05 SHELTERS FOR WOMEN SUBJECT TO VIOLENCE

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Interior (MoI), GD for Local Authorities (GDLA)

Overall Objective Protection of women’s human rights in Turkey.

Specific Objective To ensure that women subjected to violence are provided with sufficient protection through establishing and managing shelters.

Expected Results

1. Women subjected to violence in İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Samsun, Gaziantep, Antalya, Eskişehir, and Bursa are able to receive remedial action and modern delivery services.

2. Increased awareness about gender equality and violence against women at local level.

3. Increased cooperation between local authorities and women’s CSOs for combating violence against women.

4. Increased sensitivity and knowledge among public officials on combating violence against women to be able to deal with victims of violence.

5. Necessary local mechanism is in place to monitor the situation of victims of violence.

Description

During the preparation of the project, a meeting was held with some of the prominent CSOs –Ankara Women’s Solidarity Fund, Purple Roof and KAMER- with the participation of EC Delegation, Ministry of Interior, EUSG, UNFPA and senior project officer.

The project’s institutional framework included a steering committee composed of relevant institutions, as well as CSOs, and a technical committee consisting of women’s CSOs.

Implementation Works Contract, Service Contract, Supply Contract,Direct Grant (United Nations Population Fund)


TR 06 01 07 COMBATTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Interior (MoI), Public Order Department of the Turkish National Police and the Human Smuggling Crimes Department of the General Command of Gendarmerie

Side Beneficiary Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Consular Department

Overall ObjectiveTo provide support to Turkish institutions in their fight against human trafficking and protection of victims in line with the EU Acquis.

Specific ObjectiveTo increase identification and protection of victims of trafficking and prosecution of human trafficking crimes in Turkey.

Expected Results

1. Strengthening the administrative capacity of the National Task Force on Combating Trafficking in order to render interaction among the members more efficient.

2. Prevention and awareness raising activities conducted in Turkey and the countries of origin to reduce stigma associated with trafficking and provide a tool for self-rescue for potential and actual victims through the 157 Helpline.

3. Increased identification, and strengthening the investigation and prosecution of traffickers.

4. Improved protection of trafficked persons in Turkey through the strengthening of existing infrastructure and the development of new ones.

5. Improving understanding of the demand for different forms of human trafficking, including forced prostitution, and the development of measures to counteract it.

6. An established data gathering system in place to promote a coordinated response to human trafficking between Turkey and the main countries of origin.

Description

The project is a continuation of a former project titled “Assistance to Victims of Trafficking in Turkey”, implemented by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), which in collaboration with the MOI and NGO partners, had tried to establish a national referral mechanism for victims, as well as means for direct assistance.

Human Resource Development Foundation and the Foundation for Women’s Solidarity. are identified as the main NGO stakeholders of the project.

Implementation Direct Grant (IOM)


TR 06 01 08 ETHICS FOR THE PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION IN TURKEY

Main Beneficiary Ethic Council of Prime Ministry

Overall Objective To contribute to the prevention of corruption in Turkey in accordance with European and other international standards.

Specific Objective To ensure the effective implementation of the Code of Ethics for public officials and the adoption of such codes by other categories of officials.

Expected Results

1. The staff of the Ethics Council are trained and have the necessary working tools and procedures to better exercise their mandate.

2. A training package is available to support the application of the code of ethics for public officials.

3. At least 10 trainers have been trained and are able to deliver ethics training

4. The governors, assistant governors and members of ethics commissions of the 81 provinces have been trained in the application of the code of ethics for public officials.

5. Officials of central institutions and organisations responsible for ethics (members of the ethics commissions and senior managers) have been trained in the application of the code of ethics for public officials.

6. At least 10 research studies are available on the risks of corruption in relation to unethical behaviour and have been discussed in public.

7. The development and implementation of codes of conduct for elected office holders and the judiciary will have been supported.

8. The effectiveness of codes of conduct and other anti-corruption measures in Turkey will have been evaluated and recommendations for future prevention strategies are available.

9. Coordination of measures to promote ethics with other anti-corruption measures in Turkey will have been ensured.



TR 06 02 03 ACTIVE EMPLOYMENT MEASURES AND SUPPORT TO TURKISH EMPLOYMENT ORGANISATION AT LOCAL LEVEL

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MoLSS), Turkish Employment Organisation (İŞKUR)

Overall ObjectiveImprove the existing capacity to design, develop and implement policies and programmes in order to contribute to human resource development aligned with European Employment Strategy in Turkey.

Specific ObjectiveTo implement more efficient active employment measures according to labour market needs at local level and to increase the employability of young unemployed and women through improving the institutional capacity of İŞKUR

Expected Results

1. Increased capacity of ISKUR model offices in accordance with the model office concept.

2. Improved capacity for implementing e-İŞKUR applications through staff trainings.

3. Employment roundtables established and functioning in the model offices.

4. Increased capacity of İŞKUR to design and implement labour market policies at the local level.

5. Enhanced career counselling services for jobseekers, employees and students in the model and pilot offices.

6. Jobseekers better informed about employment, training and other opportunities.

7. Increased employability of young unemployed and women through implementation of programmes and actions promoted by local communities based on specific local and regional needs and solutions.

8. Upgraded skills of young unemployed and women according to the needs of the labour market

Implementation Grant Scheme for Active Employment Measures


TR 06 02 04 SUPPORT TO HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT THROUGH VET

Main Beneficiaries Ministry of National Education (MoNE) and Higher Education Council (YOK)

Overall ObjectiveTo promote the development and competitiveness of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Eastern and South-Eastern regions of Turkey through the participation of a qualified and skilled labour force.

Specific ObjectiveTo promote human resources development through the up-grading and modernisation of initial and continuing vocational education and training (VET) in the selected provinces within a lifelong learning perspective.

Expected Results

1. Structural dialogue between SMEs’ associations and local education institutions established in order to analyse labour market demands in the 8 provinces. Vocational education and training, both initial and continuing is relevant to the needs of the labour market, in particular in 7-8 sectors of the economy (automotive, textile, machine and metal works, electric and electronics, tourism, computer, agriculture and food processing).

2. New profile of technicians is tested in 8 higher vocational schools through the introduction of new curricula and new equipment.

3. 30 vocational educational and training schools implement new flexible curricula through the support of new didactic materials and equipment. (VET institutions will be selected from Malatya, Van, Gaziantep, Diyarbakır, Şanlıurfa, Elazıg, Erzurum, Kahramanmaraş provinces)

4. Entrepreneurship is introduced on a regular basis in the provision of vocational education and training at the level of 30 vocational schools, 8 higher vocational schools and the 5 public education centres.

5. Social partners contribute in making vocational education and training more attractive in the selected regions.

6. Competencies and skills of teaching and managing staff enhanced.

DescriptionTwo possible institutional constraints were noted about the project implementation: 1. Participation of social partners to the decision making processes; 2. Sufficient participation of the unemployed and professional working part of the society (planned to be addressed).

Implementation TA Contract; 3 Supply Contracts


TR 06 02 05 SUPPORT TO THE SOLUTION OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION PROBLEMS IN ISTANBUL, IZMIR, ANKARA AND BURSA AS MAJOR IN-MIGRANT DESTINATIONS

Main Beneficiaries Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality; Ankara Metropolitan Municipality; Izmir Metropolitan Municipality; Bursa Metropolitan Municipality

Overall Objective Reduced urban disparities through enhanced economic, social and cultural opportunities for all citizens.

Specific ObjectiveSupport to İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir and Bursa municipalities to increase institutional capacity to mitigate socio economic integration and environmental related problems derived from migration, and to rehabilitate and reintegrate street children in the targeted districts.

Expected Results1. Capacity of Municipalities increased to mitigate immigration related problems.

2. Street Children Centres established and living conditions of street children upgraded.

Description NGO participation was planned for both the Working Group and The Steering Committee of the project.

Implementation (minimum) 2 TA Contracts, 1 Supply Contract

TR 06 02 16 PROTECTION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND BIODIVERSITY IN THE YILDIZ MOUNTAINS

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF), GD of Nature Conservation and National Parks and GD of Forestry

Overall Objective Sustainable cross-border cooperation developed and strengthened for the conservation, and sustainable development of natural resources and biodiversity of the Yıldız Mountains.

Specific ObjectiveAll the necessary institutional, technical and social framework conditions have been established and application is made for nomination of the Yıldız Mountains (Istranca forest) on the Turkish side as a Biosphere Reserve.

Expected Results

1. Inventory and the planning of the Yıldız Mountains as a BR including nomination dossier is completed and submitted to UNESCO.

2. Cooperation between relevant institutions of both sides is improved for the conservation, and sustainable development of natural resources and biodiversity of the Yıldız Mountains.

3. Training and awareness:

3a. Training Centre is established and fully operational.

3b. Capacity is increased of central and local level, responsible for the implementation of the project and also for staff of other related local directorates of ministries and institutions.

3c. Nature protection consciousness and ecological awareness in the cross-border region is raised.

Description

According to project fiche, CSOs were consulted during project preparation. During the implementation of the project, CSO participation was planned via: (i) taking part in activities; (ii) being represented in Local Committee on Training and Awareness; and (ii) participation of local CSOs to Local Committee on Inventory and Planning.

Implementation Works Contract, Supply Contract, Service Contract for TA


TR 06 03 04 CAPACITY BUILDING SUPPORT TO TURKEY FOR THE WATER SECTOR

Main Beneficiary General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works (DSI)

Side BeneficiariesMinistry of Interior (General Directorate of Local Authorities) Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ministry of Healthİ Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs; Undersecretariat of State Planning Organization; General Secretariat of European Union; General Directorate of Bank of Provinces

Overall Objective

Promoting the introduction of a water management system at river basin level in Turkey through strengthening institutions and water management instruments applicable to the conditions of various river basins; facilitating the design of a framework for action in the field of water policy.

Specific Objective

To assist Turkey in the water management in line with the EU water legislation, in particular the Water Framework Directive (WFD) 2000/60/EC of 23 October 2000, Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (UWWTD) 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 and Dangerous Substances Directive (DSD) 76/464/EEC of 4 May 1976 and daughter directives in order to enable the full implementation of the EU water acquis by the date of Turkey’s accession to the EU.

Expected Results

1. Outline appropriate methods to establish the necessary legal and institutional framework to harmonize existing water legislation with the EU water related acquis.

2. To have support for the transposition and implementation of Water Framework and Dangerous Substances Directives by the accession of Turkey.

3. Pilot implementation of the principles of the WFD, UWWTD and DSD at Buyuk Menderes River Basin.

Implementation Twinning, 1 Supply Contract

TR 06 03 06 INTRODUCING REGULATORY IMPACT ANALYSIS INTO THE TURKISH LEGAL FRAMEWORK

Main Beneficiary General Directorate of Laws and Decrees of Prime Ministry

Overall Objective To contribute to the improvement of the policy-making and regulation processes.

Specific Objective Increasing the quality of regulation and improving regulatory process by implementing better regulation principles and Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) methodologies.

Expected Results

1. A body of 40 officials knowledgeable and skilled in impact assessment and better regulation policies and tools is created and thus increased administrative capacity.

2. The putting in place and assuring the quality of the procedures and the outputs from these procedures; thus, manuals and guidelines are prepared for RIA and consultation.

3. A central coordination body is established for assuring quality of RIA reports.

4. Peer review is carried out.

Description

The project aimed to address the lack of regulatory impact assessment in Turkey, which in general creates weaknesses in quality control procedures; restricts the accountability of ministries and their ability to assess likely impact of proposed regulations, and heavy reliance on qualitative data in policy making.

Implementation TA Contract


TR 06 03 09 DEVELOPMENT OF THE SEED SECTOR IN TURKEY AND ALIGNMENT TO THE EU

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA), GD for Protection and Control

Side Beneficiary Ministry of Environment and Forestry

Overall Objective Food safety for consumers is ensured according to EU legislation on seed sector.

Specific Objective

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) has an adequate administrative capacity and technical infrastructure to follow EU rules and practices in the seed sector, with special emphasis on variety registration, seed certification, implementation of plant breeder rights and extension services.

Expected Results

1. Vertical legislation on seed health, seed quality, and seed trade is harmonised and effectively implemented and legislation on plant breeders’ rights is effectively enforced.

2. Institutional capacity of MARA and its services to transpose the rules and practices of EU seed sector are strengthened.

3. Administrative and technical structures for a data base system are established for the registration activities enabling market control.

Implementation Twinning, Service Contract, TA Contract, Supply Contract

TR 06 03 10 IMPROVING LABOUR INSPECTION SYSTEM

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MoLSS), Labour Inspection Board

Overall Objective Full implementation and enforcement of the acquis communautaire in the area of Health and Safety at Work and labour relations.

Specific ObjectiveTo strengthen the capacity of the Labour Inspection Board for effective implementation of the new EU based legislation in the area of Health and Safety at Work and labour relations and to strengthen the cooperation between labour inspectorate and social partners.

Expected Results

1. The labour inspectors’ capacity is improved in terms of technical skills to enforce new EU based legislation effectively.

2. Uniform implementation of the new legislation in all workplaces is ensured.

3. Social dialogue between Labour Inspection Board and social partners is improved and the responsibility of social partners to play a part in implementation of the related labour legislation is enhanced.

4. Employers’ and employees’’ capacity to implement the new EU based legislation in terms of knowledge and awareness is increased.



TR 06 03 11 CAPACITY BUILDING SUPPORT FOR THE MINISTRY OF NATIONAL EDUCATION

Main Beneficiary Ministry of National Education (MoNE)

Overall ObjectiveTo ensure an improved efficiency and effectiveness of Turkish education system meeting the requirements of a modern society and in line with the EU priorities identified in the process “Education and Training 2010”.

Specific ObjectiveTo assist the MioNE in implementing a restructuring process aimed at improving its planning, implementation and monitoring capacities within the scope of making the governance of the system more effective and efficient.

Expected Results

1. Human resources capacity in MoNE at central and provincial level strengthened and better governance of the system in place.

2. Ministry’s structure re-organised on the basis of an action plan (Green Paper) to better reflect the strategy for education for Turkey.

3. Awareness raised and relevant parties informed on the institutional governance models of the education systems of the EU Countries and examples of best practices disseminated.

4. Legal and regulatory frameworks for revised governance structure, including decentralisation, drafted and submitted to the upper level management of the Ministry.

5. Awareness raised and relevant parties informed about the results/outputs of the project activities.


TR 06 04 03 EU-TURKISH CHAMBERS FORUM

Main BeneficiariesAssociation of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry (EUROCHAMBRES) and Union of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Maritime Trade and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB)

Overall ObjectiveTo strengthen the dialogue and co-operation between the Turkish Chambers and their counterparts in the EU as members of civil society; thus promoting the integration of EU and Turkish business communities.

Specific Objective The establishment of long term partnerships between EU and Turkish Chambers of Commerce and Industry, enhanced cooperation of EUROCHAMBRES and TOBB, as well as a series of training activities facilitating the effective implementation of business-related acquis in Turkey.


TR 06 04 03 EU-TURKISH CHAMBERS FORUM

Main BeneficiariesAssociation of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry (EUROCHAMBRES) and Union of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Maritime Trade and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB)

Expected Results

1. The establishment and further deepening of a strong and sustainable dialogue between Turkish and European Chambers, both at a global EU-Turkey level and at a regional level.

2. Increased mutual knowledge and understanding between EU and Turkish Chambers, and their respective business communities, facilitating long-term collaboration.

3. Enhanced abilities of Turkish Chambers to design and generate value-added services to their members.

4. Enhanced abilities of Turkish Chambers to take an active part in the accession negotiations.

5. Better understanding by the European Chambers and their business communities of the potential impact of Turkish accession to the European Union.

6. Integration of Turkish Chambers into the European Chamber network through dialogue, partnerships, traineeships.

7. Accreditation capacity of TOBB enhanced and participating chambers accredited.

Implementation Direct Grant (EUROCHAMBRES), EU-Turkey Chambers Partnership Grant Scheme

TR 06 04 04 CIVIL SOCIETY DIALOGUE – BRINGING TOGETHER WORKERS FROM TURKEY AND EUROPEAN UNION THROUGH A “SHARED CULTURE OF WORK”

Main Beneficiary European Trade Unions Confederation (ETUC)

Partners Türk-İş, Hak-İş, DİSK, KESK (Trade Unions from Turkey) as well as national trade union confederations from France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Slovakia, Sweden and Greece

Overall Objective

To strengthen contacts and mutual exchange of experience between the trade unions of Turkey and trade unions of EU Member States with a view to ensure a better knowledge and understanding of one another, and an awareness of the opportunities and challenges of future enlargement.

Specific Objective To create and/or enhance sustainable dialogue between the workers of Turkey and EU member states.

Expected Results

1. Existing prejudices between Turkish and EU citizens that could hamper Turkey’s EU accession process have been identified and addressed.

2. Awareness visits to Turkey for European workers and to Europe for Turkish workers have been carried out in order to create the conditions for the acceptance, on both sides, of the realities experienced by the other.

3. Communication about “culture of work” among workers of both sides has been strengthened.

4. The level of expertise of workers’ representatives in Turkey on workers’ rights and their implementations has been increased.

Implementation Direct Grant (ETUC)


TR 06 04 05 SUPPORTING CIVIL SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT AND DIALOGUE IN TURKEY

Main Beneficiary The Association for the Civil Society Development Centre (STGM)

Overall Objective Enhancing participatory democracy in Turkey through strengthened CSOs

Specific ObjectiveTo provide capacity building services for local CSOs to increase their involvement in decision making processes and to encourage communication and cooperation among themselves as well as with their counterparts in the EU.

Expected Results

1. Component 1: Support services for CSOs (Headquarter): The services provided by STGM HQs are further improved in quantity and quality and continued regularly.

2. Component 2: Establishment of Local NGO Centre: Four fully equipped and operational local NGO support centres established to provide regular support to local civil organisations, enhance cooperation among them, and provide facilitation by means of decentralisation of STGM services.

3. Component 3: Capacity building for CSOs: Institutional and operational capacity of grassroot CSOs within the target group of the project for democratic participation to decision making process, dialogue and networking have been strengthened.

4. Component 4: Communication Activities: Improved coherence and communication between Turkish grassroots CSOs ensured and the visibility of the NGO community and their activities to the Turkish society improved.

5. Component 5: Micro-grant schemes, grant support for exchanges and administrative costs of CSOs: Grassroots CSOs are capable of carrying out their specific core tasks and thereby increasing their civil societal role for Turkish society.

Description

STGM which is the only civil body in Turkey working nation wide on the capacity building of civil society was established on May 2004 with support from civil society organisations in diverse regions in Turkey. The founding members of the STGM have conducted several meetings with more than 150 CSOs bringing together CSOs from different provinces to discuss the principles and methods of operation. STGM has also benefited from these feasibility studies prepared in determining its strategy to provide support for CSOs in Turkey.

In order to formulate its strategy, STGM conducted a workshop with the participation of several CSO activists in February 2004. In this meeting, the vision and mission statement, priorities, principles, values and working methods have been formulated.

The “Supporting Civil Society Development and Dialogue in Turkey Project” which is a continuation of “Strengthening Freedom of Association for Further Development of Civil Society Project” is developed in the light of the results of the mapping study and various other studies. The target groups of STGM include local organisations active in the following fields: human rights, gender, youth, children, environment, people with disabilities, culture&arts/cultural rights. The proposed project is mainly aiming to enhance the capacity building process of local CSOs that are active in the above mentioned seven areas and raise awareness of civil society on freedom of association through strengthening and decentralising STGM’s services.

Implementation Direct Grant (STGM) and Grant Scheme






Priority Axis I: Progress towards fully meeting the Copenhagen political criteria

Political Criteria

TR 07 01 01 Work with Juveniles and Victims by the Turkish Probation Service

Ministry of Justice, GD of Prisons and Detention Houses

2.000.000 1.948.000

TR 07 01 02 Civic Training for Mehmetcik (Conscripts) Turkish General Staff 15.300.000 12.700.000

TR 07 01 03 Training of Military Judges_Prosecutors on Human Rights Issues

Ministry of National Defense; Turkish General Staff

2.000.000 2.000.000

TR 07 01 04 Empowerment of Women and Women NGOs in the Least Developed Regions of Turkey

GAP Regional Administration

5.000.000 5.000.000

Public Administration

07 01 05 Support to Further Implementation of Local Administration Reform in Turkey

Ministry of Interior, GD for Local Authorities

4.000.000 4.000.000

Sub-total 28.300.000 25.648.000

Priority Axis II: Adoption and implementation of the acquis communautaire

Agriculture and Fisheries

TR 07 02 01 Plant Passport System and Registration of Operators


1.140.000 1.105.000

TR 07 02 02 Introduction of Stock Assessment to the Fisheries Management System of Turkey

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, DG for Agricultural Research

2.200.000 2.200.000

Customs Union and Taxation

TR 07 02 03 Modernisation of Turkish Customs Administration -IV


4.950.000 3.775.000

TR 07 02 04 Introduction of Quality Management in the Revenue Administration

Turkish Revenue Administration

1.184.300 1.184.300

Environment

TR 07 02 05 Rehabilitation of the Frequency Control Performance of Turkish Power System for Synchronous Operation with UCTE


2.500.000 2.500.000





Environment

TR 07 02 06 Implementation of Nitrate Directive Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs

6.765.000 5.823.750

TR 07 02 07 Institution Building on Air Quality in The Marmara Region


7.080.000 5.785.000

07 02 08 Capacity Building in the Field of Environment


3.000.000 3.000.000

Financial Control

TR 07 02 09 Strengthening the Public Financial Management and Control System in Turkey

Ministry of Finance, DG of Budget and Fiscal Control

1.800.000 1.800.000

Internal Market

TR 07 02 10 Establishment of an Accredited Calibration Laboratory

Ministry of Health, Refik Saydam Hygiene Center

1.130.000 1.035.000

TR 07 02 11 Establishment of a Market Surveillance Support Laboratory for Personal Protective Equipment

Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Central Directorate of Occupational Health and Safety Centre

1.200.000 1.050.000

TR 07 02 12 Support to the Strengthening of the Quality Infrastructure in Turkey

Undersecretariat of the Turkish Prime Ministry for Foreign Trade; Turkish Society for Quality (KalDer)

5.555.000 5.555.000

TR 07 02 13 Strengthening the Vocational Qualifications Authority and the National Qualifications System in Turkey

Vocational Qualifications Authority

10.900.000 10.700.000

07 02 14 Supporting Turkey for Enhancing Implementation and Enforcement of Industrial Property Rights

Turkish Patent Institute 1.260.000 1.200.000

Justice, Freedom, and Security

TR 07 02 15 Action Plan on Integrated Border Management-Phase 1

Ministry of Interior; Turkish National Police; Gendarmerie General Command; Coast Guard Command

10.963.000 9.834.750





TR 07 02 16 Support to Turkey’s Capacity in Combating Illegal Migration and Establishment of Removal Centres for Illegal Migrants

Ministry of Interior, GD of Security, Department of Foreigners Borders and Asylum

19.433.333 15.000.000

TR 07 02 17 Establishment of a Reception, Screening and Accommodation System (Centres) for Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Ministry of Interior, GD of Security, Department of Foreigners Borders and Asylum

62.400.000 47.100.000

TR 07 02 18 Dissemination of Model Prison Practices and Promotion of the Prison Reform in Turkey


7.000.000 6.000.000

TR 07 02 19 Strengthening the Turkish National Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drugs Addiction

Turkish Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction

1.923.250 1.887.000

Social Policy and Employment

TR 07 02 20 Improving Occupational Health and Safety at Workplaces

Ministry of Labour and Social Security, DG for Occupational Health and Safety and Occupational Health and Safety Centre

4.075.000 3.932.000

TR 07 02 21 Development of Regional Laboratories of Occupational Health Safety Centre

Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MoLSS), Directorate General for Occupational Health and Safety and Occupational Health and Safety Centre (İSGÜM)

1.800.000 1.800.000

TR 07 02 22 Capacity Building of Social Security Institution


1.110.000 1.095.000

Statistics

TR 07 02 23 Strengthening the Statistics of Ministry of National Education


2.000.000 2.000.000

TR 07 02 24 Strengthening the Statistical Capacity of Ministry of Labour and Social Security


1.000.000 950.000





TR 07 02 25 Strengthening the Statistical Capacity of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs


1.150.150 1.100.150

Transport

TR 07 02 26 Safer seas: Upgrading of Turkish Coastal Radio

Ministry of Transport, DG of Coastal Safety/Turkish Coastal Radio

3.050.000 2.350.000

TR 07 02 27 Reform of the Turkish Railways Ministry of Transport 3.600.000 3.600.000

TR 07 02 28 Support Activities to Strengthen the European Integration Process SG for EU 10.500.000 10.000.000

Sub-total 180.669.033 153.361.950

Priority Axis III: Promotion of an EU-Turkey Civil Society Dialogue

TR 07 03 01 Promotion of the Civil Society Dialogue Between EU and Turkey SG for EU 5.100.000 5.100.000

TR 07 03 02 EU-Turkey Civil Society Dialogue – Cultural Bridges SG for EU 6.600.000 6.600.000

TR 07 03 03 Continuation of the “JEAN MONNET” Scholarship Programme SG for EU 6.980.000 6.980.000

TR 07 03 04 Participation in Community Programmes and Agencies

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

125.736.850 58.512.770

Sub-total 144.416.850 77.192.770

TOTAL 353.385.883 256.202.720



TR 07 01 01 WORK WITH JUVENILES AND VICTIMS BY THE TURKISH PROBATION SERVICE

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Justice (MoJ), GD of Prisons and Detention Houses

Overall Objective Improving implementation of international and European standards in the field of community protection and preventing crime.

Specific Objective To improve the capacity of the probation services for rehabilitation of victims of crime and for prevention of re-offending of children.

Expected Results

1. Improved quality and quantity of services provided by the Turkish Probation Services regarding juveniles and victims of crime.

2. Rehabilitation of the juveniles and victims of crime ensured.

3. Probation Services on juveniles and victims promoted to public, other institutions and CSOs.

DescriptionThe project fiche notes that child delinquency in Turkey highlights the importance of early and effective intervention in two areas: 1) To develop interventions for children under probation; 2) Victims - victim rights-related arrangements-.

Implementation Twinning, Supply Contract

TR 07 01 02 CIVIC TRAINING FOR MEHMETCIK (CONSCRIPTS) (FIRST PHASE)

Main Beneficiary Turkish General Staff

Overall Objective To provide conscious, responsible citizens to the society who are respectful to the rights of one another and are sensitive about protection of their physical environment.

Specific Objective

To educate conscripts who are in military service on the issues of human rights, gender equality and women’s rights, children’s rights, social human rights, protection of the environment, general health care and fight against substance addiction through computer and web based interactive distance-learning systems (and peer to peer activities for illiterates and for those who could not acquire interactive distance learning skills), so as to make them responsible and sensitive individuals of the society.

Expected Results

1. Increased institutional capacity for the sustainable provision of knowledge, skills and awareness to around 500.000 conscripts at the end of the project on human rights, gender equality and women’s rights, children’s right, social human rights, protection of the environment, general health care and fight against drug-addiction.

2. Around 650,000 conscripts gained knowledge and skills for modern social life at the end of the project.

3. Knowledge and results of the training disseminated and shared with the public at the end of the project.

4. Technical and IT infrastructure in place and fully operational to accommodate continuous education and training to conscripts on human rights, gender equality and women’s rights, children’s rights, social human rights, protection of the environment, general health care and fight against drug-addiction.

Implementation TA Contract, Supply Contract


TR 07 01 03 TRAINING OF MILITARY JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS ON HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES


Overall ObjectiveTo support the interpretation and application of legal provisions related to human rights and fundamental freedoms in line with European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and its related case law.

Specific ObjectiveTo improve the knowledge and implementation capacity of military judges and prosecutors and legal counselors at MoND and TGS on ECHR, European Court of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECtHR) and its related case law by the end of the 2010.

Expected Results

1. Training system for military judges and prosecutors and other TAF personnel

developed.

2. Easy access of all military judges and prosecutors and legal counselors at MoD and TGS to the translation of the ECHR, related agreements and judgments of ECtHR provided.

3. Military judges and prosecutors and legal counselors awareness raised on the problematic areas in military judiciary.


TR 07 01 04 EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN AND WOMEN CSOS IN THE LEAST DEVELOPED REGIONS OF TURKEY (EASTERN, SOUTHEASTERN, AND EASTERN BLACK SEA REGIONS)

Main Beneficiary GAP Regional Administration

Overall Objective To upgrade women’s status in the least developed regions of Turkey with a view to reducing regional disparities.

Specific ObjectiveTo assist the Turkish government to increase and facilitate women’s access to municipal, social and judicial services through improving capacity of women CSOs and awareness building in South East Anatolia, Eastern Black Sea and East Anatolia regions.

Expected Results

1. Gender sensitive approach is incorporated into service provision policies of governmental organisations, local administrations and CSOs, and their human resources are improved in terms of gender sensitivity.

2. Organisational and technical capacities of women CSOs are improved, new women’s organisations are established in three regions.

3. Communication and cooperation among women CSOs is improved.

4. Smoothly structured dialog and partnerships among women CSOs, governmental organisations and local administrations are developed.

5. Project development and management capacities of women CSOs on the building public awareness and capacity to fight against gender based discrimination, against violations in the human rights of women and in enhancing women’s social, political and economic status are improved.

Implementation Service Contract, Grant Scheme for Women CSOs


07 01 05 SUPPORT TO FURTHER IMPLEMENTATION OF LOCAL ADMINISTRATION REFORM IN TURKEY

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Interior (MoI), GD for Local Authorities (GDLA)

Overall Objective To ensure effective, transparent and participatory local government in Turkey, in particular through full implementation of the new legislation adopted in 2003-2005.

Specific Objective

To develop and strengthen the administrative capacity and co-operation of Turkish Ministry of Interior (particularly general Directorate for Local Authorities, Governorships and District Governorships), Unions of Local Authorities and Local Authorities themselves in the task of ensuring the effective implementation of new policy and legislation on local administration.

Expected Results

1. Capacity of the elected representatives and professional managers and staff of local authorities (in (a) strategic planning, multi-year budgeting and investment planning; (b) financial management and control including audit, (c) service delivery (performance, quality) and (d) identification, formulation and management of projects aimed at sustainable social and economic development of local communities) strengthened.

2. Strengthened capacity of Unions of Local Authorities (national and regional) for effective representation of the interests of local administrations, the formulation and management of projects aimed at the development of local self- government in Turkey, and the provision of adequate support to their members.

3. City councils and other participatory mechanisms to foster democracy, transparency, accountability and citizens’ involvement in local administration are in place and made more effective.

4. Inter-municipal co-operation between Turkish local authorities and partnerships between Turkish and EU local authorities enhanced.

5. Strengthened capacity of the Ministry of Interior (General Directorate for Local Authorities, Governorships etc.) to develop and implement policies, legislation, strategies and programs/projects aimed at the development of an effective, transparent and participatory local government system in Turkey; as well as minimum common standards for local services.

Description

The project included implementation of 10 pilot projects involving co-operation between municipalities and CSOs at local level, in the following areas: delivery of social services through CSOs and volunteering, minorities and vulnerable groups, urban development planning, promotion of employment, youth and family, equal opportunities for women, environment, sustainable development, culture and sport, etc.

Implementation Direct Grant (United Nations Development Program)


TR 07 02 02 INTRODUCTION OF STOCK ASSESSMENT TO THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF TURKEY

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA), DG for Agricultural Research (DGAR)

Overall Objective To prepare MARA for the introduction of the Common Fisheries Policy in Turkey.

Specific Objective To establish and improve necessary capacity required for ecosystem based fisheries resource management in Turkey.

Expected Results1. Framework conditions in place, with a road map, for the establishment of a sound integrated

fisheries resource management.

2. Improved capacity of MARA for fish resource management

Description

The project activities included the organisation of workshops and advanced trainings for 300 staff from MARA, other ministries, institutions and CSOs in the following specific areas:

− Resource management, fisheries/aquaculture- environment interactions

− Advanced training in stock assessment

Implementation Twinning, TA Contract

TR 07 02 06 IMPLEMENTATION OF NITRATE DIRECTIVE

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA)

Overall Objective To reduce the nutrient input impact on the water resources, soil and atmosphere by controlling pollution caused by the agricultural sources in Turkey’s water and soil resources.

Specific ObjectiveTo reduce nutrient pollution caused by the agricultural sources on surface and ground water resources and soil by strengthening the infrastructure of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) for implementation of EU Nitrate Directive.

Expected Results

1. Legislative alignment achieved and policy options for effective implementation and toward implementation of EU similar support mechanism developed.

2. Effective monitoring on surface and ground water for agricultural nitrate pollution obtained by developing network system and vulnerable areas determined.

3. Institutional and technical capacity of MARA has been strengthened and farmer awareness and knowledge has been increased in pilot areas and information and knowledge share has been developed by MARA to Ministry of Environment and Forestry and GD of State Hydraulic Works / Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources.

Implementation Twinning, TA Contract, 1 Supply Contract


TR 07 02 07 INSTITUTION BUILDING ON AIR QUALITY IN THE MARMARA REGION

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Environment and Forestry

Overall Objective To improve the environmental conditions in Turkey by implementation and enforcement of the EU environmental acquis in the frame of ambient air quality.

Specific ObjectiveFramework conditions are established for efficient, effective and transparent implementation of the Air Quality Framework Directive (AQFD) requirements in the Marmara Region which will serve as a model for Turkey to implement those requirements

Expected Results

1. For the implementation of AQFD and daughter directives in a regional level Regional Ambient Air Quality Monitoring System was established and operated.

2. For the implementation of the AQFD and daughters directives requirements the development of the institutional and technical capacity was ensured.

3. Awareness of priority groups and decision makers were raised.

Description The project included the organisation of workshops and 10 seminars with various stakeholders, including CSOs.


07 02 08 CAPACITY BUILDING IN THE FIELD OF ENVIRONMENT

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF)

Overall Objective To facilitate transposition, implementation and enforcement of the EU environmental acquis thereby accelerating Turkey’s EU accession process in the field of environment.

Specific ObjectiveTo enhance environmental management of Turkey by strengthening the capacity of key environmental stakeholders in Turkey active in the field of promoting the implementation of the environmental acquis.

Expected Results

1. The institutional and technical capacities of the MoEF and other governmental institutions including local authorities and municipalities were strengthened through trainings and technical assistance in order to effectively transpose and implement the EU environmental acquis; and to successfully plan environmental investments through participatory processes.

2. Significant economic, social and environmental impacts of implementation of specific EU environmental legislation were assessed through regulatory impact assessments and sectoral impact assessments.

3. The institutional capacity of local authorities on environmental planning and management and on the implementation of EU environmental acquis at the local level was improved.

4. The technical expertise of other environmental stakeholders was improved to access and use of environmental information and public participation was increased in environmental decision-making with respect to EU accession.

DescriptionOne of the main activities of the project was trainings delivered to other key environmental stakeholders, including CSOs, to improve the institutional capacity to enhance public participation and to facilitate approximation.

Implementation Direct Grant (Regional Environmental Centre - Turkey)


TR 07 02 12 SUPPORT TO THE STRENGTHENING OF THE QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE IN TURKEY

Main Beneficiaries Undersecretariat of the Turkish Prime Ministry for Foreign Trade; Turkish Society for Quality (KalDer)

Overall Objective To contribute to the removal of technical barriers to trade between Turkey and EU in order to ensure the free movement of goods between two parties.

Specific Objective A strengthened institutional and insfrastructural framework in Turkey to enable better implementation of the acquis regarding the free movement of goods.

Expected Results

1. Further transfer of technical know-how with regards to accreditation, standardisation, conformity assessment and metrology/calibration.

2. Increase in the capacity of relevant public institutions, universities, SMEs and consumer associations in general as to their roles and duties for correct implementation of the quality infrastructure and market surveillance.

Implementation 2 Service Contracts

TR 07 02 13 STRENGTHENING THE VOCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AUTHORITY (VQA) AND THE NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS SYSTEM (NQS) IN TURKEY

Main Beneficiary Vocational Qualifications Authority (VQA)

Overall Objective

Ensuring the provision of formal and non-formal vocational and technical education and training according to labour market needs, supporting life-long learning, strengthening the relation between education and employment, and facilitate harmonisation with European Qualifications Framework. (EQF).

Specific Objective

Supporting the VQA and Occupational Standards Development, Vocational Knowledge and Skills Testing and Certification Centres (VOC-TEST) to establish and initiate an efficient and sustainable National Qualifications System (NQS) based on agreed occupational standards with an appropriate system for assessment, grading and certification at all levels in line with European Qualifications Framework.

Expected Results

1. The framework for the NQS to operate in a sustainable and efficient way has been established, and the system has started functioning in selected priority sectors.

2. The institutional capacity of the VQA and Occupational Standards Development, Vocational Knowledge and Skills Testing and Certification Centres (VOC-TEST) to provide services in a sustainable and coordinated manner to all stakeholders has increased.

3. The awareness of all stakeholders (public and private sector actors, unions, labour force, and CSOs) on NQS increased, and their ownership of the system has been achieved.

Description

VOC-Test Centres were planned to be established by the institutions/organisations and/or consortiums representing the relevant sectors, such as employers’ and employees’ institutions, vocational training institutions, universities, CSOs, non-profit organisations and organised industrial zones.

Implementation Service Contract, Supply Contract, Grant Scheme to provide support to the eligible VOC-Test Centres


TR 07 02 16 SUPPORT TO TURKEY’S CAPACITY IN COMBATING ILLEGAL MIGRATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF REMOVAL CENTRES FOR ILLEGAL MIGRANTS

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Interior, GD of Security, Department of Foreigners Borders and Asylum

Overall Objective To reform the overall system of controlling illegal immigration in line with the EU standards and practices.

Specific Objective In controlling illegal migration, to strengthen the institutional capacity and to introduce standards for legislative and administrative alignment with the EU acquis and best practices.

Expected Results1. Functioning of at least two well-structured removal centres.

2. Adoption of recommendations on legislative and administrative alignment with the EU acquis and best practices.

Implementation Twinning, Works Contract, Supply Contract, TA Contract

TR 07 02 17 ESTABLISHMENT OF A RECEPTION, SCREENING AND ACCOMMODATION SYSTEM (CENTRES) FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Interior, GD of Security, Department of Foreigners Borders and Asylum

Overall Objective To promote better implementation of asylum policies of Turkey in line with international and EU standards and best practice.

Specific Objectives

To strengthen the institutional capacity for dealing with refugees and asylum seekers and to introduce standards for legislative and administrative alignment with EU acquis and best practices.

Adoption and enforcement of human rights of refugees and asylum seekers in line with the EU best practice and international standards, strengthening the institutional capacity to deal with refugees and asylum seekers in a well structured, modern asylum system, including a network of reception centres managed by specialised staff.

Expected Results

1. Functioning of up to seven well-structured reception centres whose trained staff correctly applies a set of approved procedures in line with EU best practice for the reception and accommodation of asylum applicants and recognised refugees and basic assistance to both groups.

2. A sustainable training delivery system for asylum staff.

3. Functional Documentation and Resource Centre.

DescriptionActivities included drafting and agreeing a co-operation plan with CSOs and local authorities for joint development and implementation of asylum applicants’ assistance programmes, integration programmes for recognised refugees.

Implementation Twinning, Works Contract, Supply Contract, TA Contract


TR 07 02 18 DISSEMINATION OF MODEL PRISON PRACTICES AND PROMOTION OF THE PRISON REFORM IN TURKEY


Overall Objective To contribute to the improvement of the penitentiary system in Turkey in line with European Prison Rules and other international standards.

Specific ObjectiveTo create a professional, effective and efficient prison service through dissemination of model prison practices and promotion of prison reform in Turkey by upgrading the prison services and contributing to the improvement of detention conditions.

Expected Results

1. Rules and practices adopted and implemented regarding prison management and treatment of inmates according to European standards.

2. Rehabilitation and training of inmates complying with international human rights and prison standards ensured, detention conditions improved.

3. Two new Prison Staff Training Centers are operational with same level of professionalism of the other three training centers.

4. The role of the Monitoring Boards and the enforcement judges enhanced.

5. Prison Reform promoted to public and civil society.

6. The capacity of the General Directorate of Prisons and Detention Houses of the Ministry increased for further design and implementation of prison reforms.

Description The project included a specific activity set for engaging CSOs and civil societies in the development of the prison system.

Implementation Direct Grant (Council of Europe), Supply Contract

2007/TR 07 02 19 STRENGTHENING THE TURKISH NATIONAL MONITORING CENTRE FOR DRUGS AND DRUGS ADDICTION

Main Beneficiary Turkish Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (TUBIM), EMCDDA National Focal Point

Overall Objective Developing and strengthening Turkey’s legal, institutional and technical capacity for further alignment with the EU Acquis in the fight against drugs.

Specific ObjectiveTo strengthen the Turkish Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (TUBIM) to prepare for participation into the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction and further alignment with the Acquis.


2007/TR 07 02 19 STRENGTHENING THE TURKISH NATIONAL MONITORING CENTRE FOR DRUGS AND DRUGS ADDICTION

Main Beneficiary Turkish Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (TUBIM), EMCDDA National Focal Point

Expected Results

Institutional structure of EMCDDA Turkish National Focal Point (TUBIM) at national and international level developed.

Technical capacity of TUBIM increased.

Awareness of Non-Governmental Organizations (CSOs) and mass-media institutions of their responsibilities developed and their willingness to cooperate in this field increased.

Data collection means nationwide with regard to treatment, forensic labs and supply reduction with that EMCDDA standardized.

National capacity of scientific studies based on appropriate methodology which supports prevention, intervention and reduction activity on drugs and drug abuse increased.

The capacity of the agencies and institutions against drug and drug abuse with regard to project-oriented work increased and Exchange on Drug Demand Reduction Action (EDDRA) supported.

Description The project included a specific activity set for raising awareness among CSOs and the media.


TR 07 02 20 IMPROVING OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORKPLACES

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MoLSS), DG for Occupational Health and Safety and Occupational Health and Safety Centre

Overall Objective To improve the health and safety conditions of workers at work, and to ensure the implementation of the related EU acquis in Turkey.

Specific ObjectiveTo assist the Turkish government to upgrade Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) related recording system and to promote OHS culture among workplaces with specific focus on mining, construction and metal industries.

Expected Results

Upgraded OHS conditions in construction, mining and metal sectors.

An OHS management system model is available for use in construction, mining and metal sectors.

Increased capacity to collect OHS related data through improved recording system.

Increased capacity among OHS professionals to ensure health surveillance and diagnosis.

Increased awareness and knowledge among social partners, related organizations and OHS professionals on occupational accidents and diseases

Implementation Supply Contract, Service Contract







Political Criteria

TR080101 Strengthening Supreme Judicial Authorities in Respect of European Standards

The Turkish Constitutional Court, Turkish Court of Cassation, the Turkish Council of State, the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors

3.172.500 3.000.000

TR080102 Strengthening the Court Management System Ministry of Justice 5.263.500 5.000.000

TR080103 Civic Training For Mehmetçik Turkish General Staff 18.200.000 14.250.000

TR080104 Promoting Services for People with Disabilities

General Directorate of Social Services and Child Protection Agency; Ministry of Health, General Directorate of Curative Service and General Directorate of Primary Health Care Services

4.000.000 3.800.000

TR080105 Strengthening Special Education Ministry of National Education

7.000.000 6.150.000

TR080106 Strengthening Pre-school Education Ministry of National Education

16.750.000 13.900.000

Public Administration

TR080107 Participatory Strategic Governance at Local Level

Ministry of Interior, GD of Local Authorities

3.333.333 3.000.000

Civil Society

TR080108 Civil Society Facility-Civil Society Development for Active Participation

Association of Civil Society Development Centre

3.200.000 3.040.000

Sub-total 60.919.333 52.140.000



TR080201 Environment and Countryside under IPARD


1.140.000 1.055.000





TR080208 Tagging and Vaccination of sheep and goats

Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs

44.600.000 34.530.000

Customs Union and Taxation

TR080209 Improving Chemical and Ionizing Radiations Metrology

Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey National Metrology Institute

3.930.000 3.930.000

Internal Market

TR080220 Modernisation of Turkish Customs Administration V


3.870.000 2.900.000

Environment

TR080202 The REACH Chemicals Project Ministry of Environment and Forestry

2.500.000 2.250.000

TR080203 Improving Emissions Control Ministry of Environment and Forestry

2.050.000 1.910.000

TR080204 IPPC-Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control


2.500.000 2.325.000

TR080205 Mining Waste Management Ministry of Environment and Forestry

4.600.000 4.085.000

Financial Control

TR080206 Decision Making and Performance Management in Public Finance

Ministry of Finance, Strategy Development Unit

2.390.000 2.176.000

TR080219 Improving Data Quality in Public Accounts

Ministry of Finance, GD of Public Accounts

1.875.000 1.721.250

Financial Services

TR080207 Strengthening the Capital Markets Board

Capital Markets Board of Turkey

4.760.450 4.110.405


TR080210 Action Plan on Integrated Border Management-Phase 2 Ministry of Interior 28.800.000 21.880.000

TR080211 Improving the Skills of Forensic Experts

Ministry of Interior; Criminal Laboratory of Gendarmerie, Criminal Police Laboratory

2.111.300 2.005.735





TR080212 Strengthening the Investigation Capacity of Turkish National Police and Gendarmerie Against Organised Crime

Ministry of Interior; Turkish National Police, General Command

8.000.000 6.300.000

TR080213 Training of Border Police

Ministry of Interior, Turkish National Police (Training Department and Department for Foreigners, Borders and Asylum)

1.200.000 1.140.000

TR080214 Strengthening Forensic Capacity of Turkey

Ministry of Interior; Turkish National Police Department of Criminal Police Laboratories, Gendarmerie Forensic Department

26.600.000 19.950.000

Health

TR080215 Strengthening the Blood Supply System

Ministry of Health,GD of Curative Services

3.217.000 2.776.800

TR080216 Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases Ministry of Health 4.500.000 4.050.000

Research and Development

TR080217 Strengthening Research & Development Capacity

Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

2.250.000 2.010.000

Social Policy and Employment

TR080218 Promoting Gender Equality in Working Life

Ministry of Labour and Social Security, GD of Labour

1.000.000 950.000

Sub-total 151.893.750 122.055.190


TR080301 Civil Society Facility - Parliamentary Exchange and Dialogue

Grand National Assembly of Turkey

2.500.000 2.250.000

TR080302 Civil Society Facility - EU - Turkey Intercultural Dialogue

Ministry of Culture and Tourism

3.306.736 3.120.000

TR080303 Civil Society Facility- Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture

Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency

1.678.900 1.590.000

TR080304 Participation to EU Community Programmes and Agencies Ministry of Foreign Affairs 132.906.515 65.970.107





Sub-total 140.392.151 72.930.107

Öncelik IV: Destek faaliyetleri

TR080401 Support Activities to Strengthen the European Integration Process SG for EU 10.450.000 9.000.000

Sub-total 10.450.000 9.000.000

TOTAL 363.655.234 256.125.297


TR080101 STRENGTHENING SUPREME JUDICIAL AUTHORITIES IN RESPECT OF EUROPEAN STANDARDS

Main Beneficiaries The Turkish Constitutional Court, Turkish Court of Cassation, the Turkish Council of State, the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors

Overall Objective

To contribute to the enhancing of the role of the superior judiciary in Turkey in initiating new changes in the normative framework and its implementation in line with the acquis, the rights and freedoms guaranted by the ECHR, the provisions of the ESC and other European standards shared by the EC and the CoE through its interpretative decisions.

Specific Objective

To enhance the respective roles of the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors and of the Higher Courts (Constitutional Court, Court of Cassation and State Council) as the superior judicial authorities in the accession process and in the adoption of the European high judicial standards.

Expected Results

1. Greater awareness of the members of the beneficiary institutions on the EU institutions, their decision making processes and the acquis, as well as on the implications of Article 90 of the Turkish Constitution, the ECHR, the case-law of the ECtHR and the execution of the ECtHR’s judgments, and the ESC.

2. To promote the co-operation of the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors and of the Higher Courts (Constitutional Court, Court of Cassation and State Council) as superior judicial authorities with equivalent European institutions.

Description

Project included activities related to topics such as: right to a fair trial; use of illegal evidence, right to silence, conviction in abstentia; right to liberty and security; freedom of expression; freedom of thought, conscience and religion; freedom of peaceful assembly and association; property rights; protection of social rights: protection of the environment



TR080102 STRENGTHENING THE COURT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM


Co-Beneficiary Turkish Justice Academy

Overall ObjectiveTo improve the functioning and efficiency of the judiciary according to European standards as suggested in the Accession Partnership and the National Program for the Adoption of the Acquis.

Specific ObjectiveTo establish a professional, effective and efficient court management system through dissemination of pilot court management practices and to reform the system by creating a new judicial post.

Expected Results

1. Efficient court management system adopted and implemented in the pilot courts in line with the European standards.

2. Professional skillfulness of the auxiliary personnel in pilot courts raised, effectiveness of court managers and the registrars enhanced.

3. Commitment of the Inspection Board to the new court management system raised


TR080103 CIVIC TRAINING FOR MEHMETÇIK


Overall ObjectiveTo create consciousness and sensitivity among the Turkish society that would result in behavioral change in time regarding the protection of and respect for rights of the others and general health care, and to protect environment.

Specific Objective To educate conscripts on social rights and responsibilities, general health care and fight against substance addiction; and protection of the environment so as to create behavioral changes.

Expected Results

1. TAF will have the institutional capacity to reach 400.000 conscripts per year to educate them on project themes covered in Phase I and Phase II of the project.

2. Around 400.000 conscripts are donated with the knowledge and skills on themes covered by Phase I and Phase II.

3. Knowledge and results of the Phase I and Phase II of the project is disseminated and shared with the public at the end of the project.

4. Remaining technical and IT infrastructure in place and fully operational to accommodate continuous education and training to conscripts on project themes covered in Phase I and Phase II.

Implementation Direct Grant (United Nations Development Program), Supply Contract


TR080105 STRENGTHENING SPECIAL EDUCATION


Overall Objective To contribute to social inclusion of the disabled individuals within disadvantaged groups by improving the special education services in Turkey.

Specific Objective

To increase opportunities and to improve the learning environments for disabled individuals with a view to increasing their access to education and inclusion in society through campaigns, in-service trainings, psychological assessment and diagnostic tests, equipment and educational material support with the active participation and support of CSOs, local public institutions, municipalities and private sector organizations.

Expected Results

1. Policy recommendation on inclusive special education developed.

2. Awareness for inclusion of the disabled in the society increased.

3. Professional qualifications of teachers on special needs education increased in pilot provinces.

4. “School Without Barriers Model” designed for the learning needs and characteristics of each individual implemented in pilot provinces.

5. Necessary materials and equipment support provided to the schools and institutions in pilot provinces.

6. Quality of educational diagnosis and assessment services improved.

7. Quality of work and vocational training for the disabled individuals improved

DescriptionAccording to project fiche, foundations, federations and confederations representing the disabled such as Hearing Impaired and Visually Impaired etc., private sector and CSOs took part in project implementation.

Implementation Service Contract for TA, Supply Contract

TR080106 STRENGTHENING PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION


Overall Objective To contribute to improve the enrolment and attendance of disadvantaged children and their families to day-care and preschool education

Specific Objective

To upgrade and establish quality child day care and pre-school education services for disadvantaged children and their families through the capacity building of MoNE institutions, public institutions, municipalities, CSOs, and development of community based models and partnership.


TR080106 STRENGTHENING PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION


Expected Results

1. Capacity building of MoNE Institutions (MoNE Pre-school Education General Directorate, MoNE Girls’ Vocational Education General Directorate, and MOoE Non- Formal Education-Apprenticeship General Directorate) and programmes on community based child day care and pre-school education services developed and piloted in 10 provinces (Pilot provinces: Van, Erzurum, Agrı, Şanlıurfa, Diyarbakır, Adana, Hatay, Mersin, Ankara, İzmir).

2. Quality community based child day care and pre-school education service models developed and institutionalized.

3. Number of families reporting their intention to enroll their children into pre-school and primary school on time increased.

4. Equipment, educational materials, and furniture for public pre-schools and pre- school classrooms within primary schools in 16 provinces procured (Pilot provinces: İstanbul, Van, Erzurum, Agrı, Şanlıurfa, Gaziantep, Diyarbakır, Mardin, Adana, Hatay, Mersin, Ankara, Yozgat, Konya, Ordu, İzmir).

5. A grant scheme prepared and implemented through call for proposals which targets collaboration of public institutions, municipalities, CSOs, and mobilising private sector organizations by means of jointly prepared and proposed pilot projects.

Implementation Direct Grant (United Nations Children’s Fund), Supply Contract, Grant Scheme

TR080107 PARTICIPATORY STRATEGIC GOVERNANCE AT LOCAL LEVEL

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Interior, GD of Local Authorities (GDLA)

Overall Objective To increase the scope of Local Administration Reform in Turkey by improving the capacity of local governments for enhancing participatory strategic governance at the local level.

Specific Objective

To support the implementation of the new legislation related to local governments and to ensure participation, transparency and accountability at the local level in 26 local governments around Turkey. At the same time, to contribute to local development by improving the strategic planning and programming capacity and capability of local governments through training of at least 1000 local government personnel on the use of analytical tools. And lastly, to enhance the role of urban councils in local decision making mechanisms through the involvement of at least 500 representatives from non-governmental organisations.

Expected Results

1. Strategic planning capacity of local governments increased.

2. Efficiency and effectiveness of urban councils increased.

3. Participatory decision-making culture enhanced at the local level.

Description

Within the scope of Result 3, the project aimed to enhance participatory decision making culture at the local level through a joint mission agreement to be signed by all main provincial stakeholders in order to confirm commitment to the sustainability of cooperation and dialogue. In accordance with this joint mission agreement, each governor from 6 pilot provinces was expected to initiate an awareness-raising campaign to promote the participation of CSOs and other stakeholders to urban council activities.

Implementation Service Contract for TA


TR080108 CIVIL SOCIETY FACILITY-CIVIL SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT FOR ACTIVE PARTICIPATION

Main Beneficiary Association of Civil Society Development Centre (STGM)

Overall Objective The overall objective is enhancing participatory democracy in Turkey through strengthened CSOs.

Specific ObjectiveTo strengthen the institutional capacity of target group CSOs in order to encourage civil participation to decision making processes at local and national levels and to enhance dialogue between state, CSOs and private sector.

Expected Results

1. The services provided by STGM are further improved in quantity and quality and continued regularly.

2. Institutional and operational capacity of grassroots CSOs within the target group of the project have been strengthened.

3. Target group CSOs are capable to carry out their specific core tasks and thereby increasing their civil society role for the Turkish society.

4. Facilitation for improved dialogue between key actors such as CSOs, state and private sector has been provided and dialogue process initiated. Visibility and sustainability of STGM improved.

5. Improved coherence and communication between Turkish CSOs and other social actors ensured and visibility of NGO community and their activities to the Turkish society improved.

Implementation Direct Grant Agreement (STGM), Grant Scheme for small scale projects of local CSOs

TR080201 ENVIRONMENT AND COUNTRYSIDE UNDER IPARD


Co-Beneficiary Agriculture and Rural Development Support Institute (IPARD Agency)

Overall Objective Strengthening the institutional capacity for alignment to EU Rural Development Policy.

Specific Objective Institutional capacity building to implement preparatory actions for pilot agri-environmental measures under IPARD.

Expected Results

1. The Managing Authority and the IPARD Agency institutional capacities are ready for the implementation of the IPARD agri-environmental measures.

2. Strengthened institutional capacity of Managing Authority and IPARD Agency for the implementation of agri-environmental measures under IPARD.

3. Raised awareness of related institutions and public on preparation and implementation of agri-environmental measures under IPARD.

DescriptionBy the end of the project, both public servants, personnel from relevant CSOs and some farmers were expected to gain awareness and sense about the environment and the effect of agricultural activities on environment.



TR080204 IPPC-INTEGRATED POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL


Overall Objective To achieve a high level of protection of the environment by introducing integrated prevention and control of pollution.

Specific ObjectiveThe establishment of the framework conditions to achieve reform of the administrative, legal and technical structures to implement integrated environmental permitting of IPPC installations in Turkey by the end of the project.

Expected Results

1. Institutional Framework and functions for the coordination and implementation of IPPC defined in detail.

2. Legislative alignment achieved and policy options (strategy and timetable for the full implementation of the IPPC Directive) developed and agreed for effective implementation of IPPC in Turkey by the end of the project.

3. Required technical, institutional and financial capacities for Competent Authorities for future IPPC implementation have been determined at the end of the project.

4. Further increase of the institutional and technical capacity of all relevant stakeholders, especially the industry concerned, the CSOs concerned and the designated Competent Authorities for IPPC permitting.

Description The project included capacity building activities for its stakeholders, including CSOs.

Implementation Twinning, Technical Assistance Contract

TR080211 IMPROVING THE SKILLS OF FORENSIC EXPERTS

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Justice (MoJ), The Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK)

Overall Objective To contribute to the functioning of the judicial system through improving the standards of forensic services in Turkey.

Specific ObjectiveTo improve the capacity of the forensic experts in the Council of Forensic Medicine, Criminal Laboratories of Police and Gendarmerie by training and to bring the forensic analysis methods in line with the EU standards.

Expected Results1. Improved forensic capacity of the Council of Forensic Medicine, Criminal Laboratories of

Police and Gendarmerie

2. The quality and the credibility of expert reports in these institutions will improve.

DescriptionIn the long term the project was expected to cause a decrease in cases related to violation of Article 2 of ECHR with the support of thorough forensic evidence based investigation and proper documentation for all criminal cases.



TR080217 STRENGTHENING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CAPACITY

Main Beneficiary Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)

Overall ObjectiveTo contribute to the integration of Turkey with the European Research Area (ERA) in the field of Research and Technological Development (RTD), via increasing its overall success rate in the EU 7th Framework Programme (FP7)

Specific Objective

Developing the capacity of National Coordination System, and enhancement of the participation of Turkish researchers into FP7 for the better integration with ERA, via establishing an Information Multipliers System consisting of at least 50 multipliers, organizing trainings for around 2.000 participants, moving at least 100 Turkish researchers on networking events in abroad and by realizing some other activities and purchasing promotional material, to be used in these activities.

Expected Results

1. Capacity building of the National Coordination System was achieved by increasing the awareness and knowledge level on FP7 through trainings, one-to-one consultation services and technical assistance, and by ensuring the sustainability of the Turkish FP7 network via the establishment of an effective Information Multipliers System; hence the participation of private sector, especially the SMEs, to FP7 was increased.

2. Match-making activities -any process of introducing people or parties for the purposes of submitting and implementing collaborative research projects- between Turkish Research Community and European counterparts, which are very crucial to develop trans-national joint research projects, were carried out.

3. Capacity building of the National Coordination System was achieved by developing wide and easy access web-based tools.

4. Effective use of media relations was provided in order to increase the level of awareness on FP7.

5. Promotional materials were provided in order to increase the level of knowledge about specific issues of FP7.

Description

The project was expected to have direct impact on strengthening the capacities of the National Coordination System actors and stakeholders, such as universities, private sector, especially the SMEs, CSOs, research institutes etc. in confronting the challenges of EU Framework Programmes process.

Implementation 1 Service Contract, 1 Supply Contract


TR080218 PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY IN WORKING LIFE

Main Beneficiary Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)

Overall Objective To ensure gender equality in working life.

Specific Objective To align Turkish legislation with EU gender equality acquis and improve capacity of institutions responsible for the implementation of the acquis.

Expected Results

1. Draft bill prepared related to the expert report on the legislation alignment between national legislation and EU acquis regarding working life.

2. The human resources capacity in central and provincial bodies of MoLSS and other institutions strengthened.

3. Increased sensitivity on gender equality in working life among CSOs and social partners.


TR080301 CIVIL SOCIETY FACILITY - PARLIAMENTARY EXCHANGE AND DIALOGUE

Main Beneficiary Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Overall ObjectiveTo maximize the role of Grand National Assembly of Turkey in the process of EU membership negotiations by promoting the dialogue between parliamentarians as well as political parties represented in the parliament of the Member States and Turkey.

Specific Objective A better knowledge and understanding between Turkey and the European Union, thus allowing for a better awareness of the opportunities and challenges of Turkey’s accession to the EU.

Expected Results

1. A shared experiences and information directly on common issues faced in EU and Turkish MPs, CSOs and Political Party representatives to raise awareness in both sides.

2. Build up local civil society dialogue between Turkey and the EU through improving contacts and dialogue between local politicians.

3. Strengthened mutual understandings between Turkey and the EU through improving inter- parliamentary contacts and contacts between political parties represented in their parliaments.

4. Established direct mechanisms among youth and women representatives of political parties in order to share experiences on better structured and well informed political channels for powerful civil society participation in the political life.

5. Raised visibility of the activities of the GNAT on EU and civil society issues.

Implementation 5 Service Contracts







Political Criteria

TR2009/013601 Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education Ministry of National Education 9.100.000 7.650.000

TR2009/013602 Women’s Shelters for Combating Domestic Violence

Ministry of Interior, General Directorate of Local Authorities

10.150.000 9.135.000

TR2009/013603 Mental Health Care and Drug Addiction Treatment Services in Prisons


1.500.000 1.350.000

TR2009/013604 Efficiency of Turkish Criminal Justice System Ministry of Justice 4.000.000 3.400.000

TR2009/013605 Consolidating Ethics in the Public Sector

Prime Ministry, Council of Ethics for Public Service

1.500.000 1.200.000

TR2009/013606 Coordination of Anti-Corruption Policies Prime Ministry Inspection Board 1.600.000 1.360.000

TR2009/013607 Disproportionate Use of Force in Turkish police

Ministry of Interior, Turkish National Police

2.000.000 1.900.000

TR2009/013608 Capacity of Civil Enforcement Offices Ministry of Justice 1.800.000 1.710.000

Civil Society

TR2009/013501 Integration of Disabled Persons into Society

Turkish Prime Ministry Administration for Disabled People

3.600.000 3.215.000

Sub-total 35.250.000 30.920.000



TR2009/031101 Pilot Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) Project


1.450.000 1.377.500

Internal Market

TR2009/030101 Control Tests for Human Vaccines and Sera

Ministry of Health, Refik Saydam National Public Health Agency

3.587.200 3.257.620

TR2009/030102 Supply of Chemical Metrology Equipment to TUBITAK UME


3.000.000 2.550.000

Transport





TR2009/031401 Weight and Dimension Controls of Commercial Vehicles Ministry of Transport 11.600.000 9.910.000

TR2009/031402 Intermodal Transport in Turkey

Ministry of Transport, Directorate-General for Land Transport

1.000.000 950.000

Energy

TR2009/031501 Turkish Electricity Transmission


2.005.500 1.804.950

Statistics

TR2009/031801 Statistical System of Turkey Programme Turkish Statistical Institute 3.016.410 2.714.769

Enterprise and Industrial Policy

TR2009/032001 Administrative Capacity of Ministry of Industry and Trade in industrial strategy

Ministry of Industry and Trade 1.240.000 1.116.000

Regional Policy

TR2009/032201 Economic and Social Cohesion Policy State Planning Organisation 2.000.000 1.800.000


TR2009/032401 Strengthening Capacity against Cybercrime

Turkish National Police (Project Implementation: Department of Anti Smuggling and Organised Crime), Gendarmerie General Command

1.400.000 1.330.000

Education and Culture

TR2009/032601 Aligning Higher Education with the European Higher Education Area

Council of Higher Education 5.000.000 4.250.000

Environment

TR2009/032701 Control of Industrial Volatile Organic Compound Emissions


2.850.000 2.625.000

TR2009/032702 Capacity Building on Water Quality Monitoring


4.000.000 3.650.000

TR2009/032703 Environmental Noise Directive


6.180.000 5.557.500

TR2009/032704 Implementation Capacity of Seveso II Directive


3.000.000 2.700.000





TR2009/032705 Institutional Capacity on Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Implementations


1.425.000 1.318.750

Customs Union

TR2009/032901 Turkish Customs Administration

Turkish Customs Administration, DG of EU and External Relations

15.600.000 13.340.000

TR2009/032902 Turkish Customs Administration - Risk management

Turkish Customs Administration, DG of EU and External Relations

1.000.000 950.000

Financial Control

TR2009/033201 Institutional Capacity of Inspection Boards

Ministry of Finance, Finance Inspection Board (FIB)

1.758.000 1.670.000

Health

TR2009/032801 Alignment in Organ Donation

Ministry of Health, GD of Curative Services

3.700.000 3.300.000

TR2009/032802 Alignment in Human Tissues and Cells

Ministry of Heath, DG of Curative Services, Tissue and Cell Transplantation Services Office

3.000.000 2.700.000

Sub-total 77.812.110 68.872.089


TR2009/0135.02 Continuation of the Jean Monnet Scholarship Programme SG for EU 6.980.000 6.882.000

TR2009/0135.03 Civil Society Dialogue – EU- Turkey Chamber Forum II

The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry (EUROCHAMBRES)

4.500.000 4.500.000

TR2009/0465.01 Participation in Community Programmes Ministry of Foreign Affairs 151.271.695 88.216.221

Sub-total 162.751.695 99.598.221

Priority Axis IV: Supporting activities

TR074001 European Integration Process SG for EU 5.770.000 5.130.500

Sub-total 5.770.000 5.130.500

TOTAL 281.583.805 204.520.810



TR2009/013601 DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP AND HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION


Overall Objective To foster a more democratic society by strengthening democratic citizenship and human rights education (EDC/HRE) that corresponds with European core values.

Specific Objective

To increase the institutional capacity of MoNE on EDC/HRE through developing and revising regulations and curricula on EDC/HRE; producing educational materials and increasing the capacity and awareness on EDC/HRE of pre-school, primary and secondary school communities (teachers, pupils, students, non-teaching staff, parents and community leaders) and fostering a democratic school culture from pre-school to the end of the secondary education.

Expected Results

1. Education regulations and the present curriculum is analysed and strengthened based upon the principles of EDC/HRE and a compulsory course on EDC/HRE is developed at primary school level.

2. Educational materials on EDC/HRE are developed and distributed to pilot schools.

3. Basic skills and knowledge of MoNE personnel and concerned groups developed on EDC/HRE through awareness raising activities and trainings.

4. Democratic School Culture is promoted and Democratic School Competence Framework is prepared

DescriptionAccording the project fiche, CSOs took part in working groups established for the project, as well as were included in grant scheme development. The project notes the importance of creating ownership for project activities and participation of civil society several times.

Implementation Direct Grant (Council of Europe), Grant Scheme for parents, school family unions (PTAs), local decision makers and local CSOs.

TR2009/013602 WOMEN’S SHELTERS FOR COMBATING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Interior (MoI), General Directorate of Local Authorities

Overall Objective Contributing to the Turkish Government’s efforts for the protection of women’s human rights in Turkey.

Specific ObjectiveTo ensure that women are provided with sufficient protection against violence in 24 cities through establishing and/or providing support services for women subjected to violence/domestic violence.

Expected Results

1. Sufficient protection against violence in 24 cities through establishing and/or providing support services for women subjected to violence/domestic violence.

2. Collaboration of central and local governing bodies and local CSOs enhanced for improved mechanisms to combat Violence Against Women in 24 project cities

3. Local and National CSOs capacity on combating Violence Against Women strengthened through a Grant Scheme.

Implementation TA, Grant Scheme for CSOs


TR2009/013603 MENTAL HEALTH CARE AND DRUG ADDICTION TREATMENT SERVICES IN PRISONS


Overall Objective Improving penitentiary system in Turkey in line with international and European prison standards

Specific ObjectiveTo improve mental healthcare and drug addiction treatment services in prisons including the development of sufficient approach models regarding early diagnosis, assessment and treatment of prisoners, in line with Council of Europe minimum prison standards rules.

Expected Results1. The high quality mental health care and treatment are ensured for the prisoners.

2. The high quality mental health protection service model is ensured for all prison staff.

DescriptionThough the project fiche does not specify means of CSO participation, it nevertheless notes that the project was prepared under the assumption of active participation of CSOs and other stakeholders.

Implementation Service Contract

TR2009/013604 EFFICIENCY OF TURKISH CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM



Overall Objective To improve the Turkish criminal justice system in line with the EU standards.

Specific Objective To improve the appliance of human rights standards and strengthen the efficiency and confidence in the criminal justice system.

Expected Results

1. The capacity of the judiciary and prosecution service to apply the ECHR in the delivery of criminal justice is strenghtened

2. Pre-service and in-service training curriculaof the Justice Academy redesigned in line with the European Convention on Human Rights

3. Judicial cooperation is strengthened.



TR2009/013605 CONSOLIDATING ETHICS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR

Main Beneficiary Prime Ministry, Council of Ethics for Public Service

Overall Objective To contribute to the prevention of corruption in Turkey in accordance with European and other international standards

Specific Objective

To ensure the effective dissemination and implementation of the Code of Ethics across the public sector and support the work of the Council of Ethics for Public Service and Ministries Ethics Commissions in developing ethical frameworks within ministries

Expected Results

1. Enhanced capacity of the Council of Ethics for Public Service promote awareness of the Regulation and support the integration of ethics principles and requirements of the code of ethics in the daily work of the Turkish administration

2. Enhanced capacity to promote the integration of ethics principles and requirements of the code of ethics in the daily work of the Turkish administration

3. Knowledge base on ethics principles and the Regulation embedded in the Turkish administration and awareness on these issues with the general public has been raised

Description The project’s awareness rising activities aimed to achieve close collaboration with CSOs.


TR2009/013606 COORDINATION OF ANTI-CORRUPTION POLICIES

Main Beneficiary Prime Ministry Inspection Board (PMIB)

Co-Beneficiaries

Ministry of Interior Inspection Board; Ministry of Finance Inspection Board; Ministry of Transportation Inspection Board; Ministry of Agriculture Inspection Board; Ministry of Labor Inspection Board; Ministry of Public Works and Settlement Inspection Board; Undersecretary of Treasury Controllers; Sworn In Banking Auditors; Ministry of Justice

Overall Objective To contribute to achieve more efficient and effective structure in the fight against corruption in Turkey.

Specific Objectives

To enhance the expertise of the inspectors, auditors and controllers of different institutions about modern investigation and reporting techniques, cooperation, data collection and analysis, information sharing and developing sector specific anti-corruption policies

To enhance the expertise of PMIB Inspectors on (i) coordinating the corruption investigations and implementing anti-corruption policies across relevant agencies and (ii) monitoring the implementation of national anti-corruption strategies.

Expected Results

1. The current legislative framework covering investigations, information sharing, anti- corruption strategies and coordination of investigations is analyzed and compared with the requirements international conventions. Based on the results, investigation guide, reporting standards are developed.

2. Data regarding investigations of corruption cases is gathered and analysed, and corruption map of risky areas are produced.

3. Inspectors are trained on developing sector specific anti-corruption strategies, coordinating corruption investigations, modern investigation and reporting techniques and sharing information.

Implementation Direct Grant(Council of Europe), Supply Contract


TR2009/013607 DISPROPORTIONATE USE OF FORCE IN TURKISH POLICE

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Interior (MoI), Turkish National Police (Departments of Legal Affairs, Training, Security and Public Order)

Overall Objective Full compliance of Turkish National Police (TNP) with the European Convention on Human Rights.

Specific Objective Develop and implement use of force practices for TNP in accordance with the European Convention on Human Rights.

Expected Results1. Factors causing disproportionate use of force determined and guiding procedures on

implementation established

2. Efficiency of the practices in compliance with EU best practices in training improved.

DescriptionThe project fiche states that this project focused on establishing communication channels between police and civil society and participation of civil society in some project activities was foreseen.


TR2009/013608 CAPACITY OF CIVIL ENFORCEMENT OFFICES


Overall Objective Enhancing the efficiency and the confidence in the judiciary

Specific Objective Strengthening the institutional capacity of enforcement (execution) offices to ensure effectiveness and efficiency of enforcement service.

Expected Results1. Enforcement offices restructured to enhance the effectiveness.

2. Capability and competency of the staff of enforcement offices enhanced.

Description The project also included ethics training for enforcement officers.



TR2009/013501 INTEGRATION OF DISABLED PERSONS INTO SOCIETY

Main Beneficiary Turkish Prime Ministry Administration for Disabled People

Overall Objective Ensuring equal access to goods, services and all aspects of life, to people with disabilities.

Specific Objective Strengthen capacity of CSOs working in disability field and institutional capacity of Administration for Disabled People

Expected Results1. Increased capacity of CSOs

2. Strengthened institutional capacity of Administration for Disabled People

Description

The project was developed through a consultation meeting with representatives of several CSOs, during which representatives of CSOs pointed out three priority areas related to disabled people: (a) discrimination, especially in the area of employment; (b) vocational rehabilitation, job and profession analyses taking the disability types into account; and, (c) communication, pre-school education of children with disabilities. In addition to a grant scheme, the project also included trainings for CSOs working in that area.

Implementation Service Contract, Supply Contract, Grant Scheme for CSOs

TR2009/031101 PILOT FARM ACCOUNTANCY DATA NETWORK (FADN) PROJECT


Overall ObjectiveTo establish and consolidate Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) in compliance with the EU requirements in order to provide reliable information on the Turkish agricultural sector to the EC and Turkish policy makers.

Specific Objective Extending the FADN to 12 regions at NUTS 1 level and ensuring its sustainability.

Expected Results

1. Turkish policy makers and sector stakeholders are provided with information and refined analysis on agricultural support policies.

2. The physical infrastructure and institutional capacity required for the implementation of FADN is strengthened.

Description Union of Turkish Chambers of Agriculture was expected to act as a channel for civil society participation.



TR2009/031402 INTERMODAL TRANSPORT IN TURKEY

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Transport (MoT), Directorate-General for Land Transport

Overall Objective To promote a balanced, environment-friendly, safer and sustainable transport system in Turkey.

Specific Objective Alignment with EU legislation (Council Directive 92/106) and strengthening capacity of Ministry of Transport for intermodal/combined transport.

Expected Results

1. The Human resource capacity of relevant institutions has been strengthened through workshops, trainings, site visits and internships. These results will also be verified when Ministry of Transport other relevant institutions are able to produce and implement combined transport regulation.

2. Harmonization of EU legislation on Combined Transport Regulation, that is, Council Directive 92/106 has been assured via draft Combined Transport legislation prepared through project activities. Combined Transport legislation has been published in the official gazette in 2011.

3. A strategy indicating policies to promote Intermodal transport in Turkey considering the re-structuring administrative structure MoT has been outlined. This procedure was also evident when Intermodal/combined transport strategy has been developed. Through application of intermodal transport strategy and combined transport regulation share of road transport was to be decreased in medium term up to % 80.

DescriptionAccording to the project fiche, project also targeted to increase and strengthen the human capacity of the civil society institutions by their active participation in the training activities, study visits, workshops and seminars, and improving the collaboration between all of the stakeholders.


TR2009/032001 ADMINISTRATIVE CAPACITY OF MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE IN INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT)

Overall Objective To contribute to enhancing the overall industrial competitiveness of Turkey.

Specific Objective

To strengthen the capacity of MIT for better implementation, monitoring, evaluation and revising of the Industrial Strategy and Sectoral Strategies. To achieve this aim; MIT wants to strengthen its technical and the administrative capacity, improve the Entrepreneur Information System and establish a formal dialogue mechanism.

Expected Results

1. The administrative capacity of MIT was developed in order to implement, improve, monitor and evaluate industrial strategy and sectoral strategies.

2. Technical capacity was developed in order to analyze sectors timely.

3. The dialogue between public institutions and the relevant stakeholders (private sector and CSOs) on industrial policy and strategy was strengthened.

Implementation

The project fiche refers to the Industrial Strategy Document of Turkey as a relevant example of dialogue in that sector. The document was prepared with the participation of TOBB, TESK, TÜSİAD, ISO, Chambers of Industry (İstanbul, Gaziantep, Kocaeli), İKV, TEPAV, and other relevant industrial organisations and CSOs that took part in the preparation the ninth development plan.



TR2009/032201 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COHESION POLICY


Overall Objective To support effective, efficient, transparent and accountable functioning IPA and preparations for EU Cohesion Policy.

Specific ObjectiveTo ensure effective guidance and coordination by the Strategic Coordinator (SC) in the implementation of components III and IV programmes under IPA with a view to waive ex-ante controls and prepare for EU Cohesion Policy

Expected Results

1. Improved participatory programming and coordination capacity of the Strategic Coordinator

2. An effective functioning of the monitoring and evaluation system under the Components III and IV of IPA.

3. Awareness raised regarding the Strategic Coherence Framework (SCF) and EU funding opportunities in the area of Economic and Social Cohesion.

4. Turkey better prepared for the implementation of the Community’s Cohesion Policy.

Description

The project includes participatory programming and awareness rising activities and, though it does not specify the stakeholders, notes that “during the project implementation, civil society participation will be ensured as one of the main goals of the project through increased partnership to develop effective programming and coordination mechanisms in this respect”.



TR2009/032601 ALIGNING HIGHER EDUCATION WITH THE EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION AREA

Main Beneficiary Council of Higher Education (YÖK)

Overall ObjectiveTo align the Turkish Higher Education system and practice with the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) so that it can respond to the needs of the society and challenges of a knowledge based economy.

Specific ObjectiveTo improve the institutional capacity of the CoHE and higher education institutions in Turkey in line with the developments in the Bologna process mainly concentrating on national qualifications framework (NQF), quality assurance, and recognition.

Expected Results

1. The National Qualifications Framework (NQF) for Higher Education is finalised and approved.

2. Coherence between NQF for Higher Education (HE) and other parts of the national qualifications system is ensured.

3. The NQF for HE piloted at 10 higher education institutions in 5 selected areas.

4. The NQF for HE is self-certified against the Qualifications Framework for European Higher Education Area (QF EHEA).

5. The Quality Assurance Agency of Turkey is fully operational.

6. The Quality Assurance Agency of Turkey actively promotes a quality culture among the

7. concerned institutions and stakeholders.

8. Holders of foreign qualifications have their qualifications fairly assessed in accordance with the provisions of the Lisbon Recognition Convention and within reasonable time.

9. Pilot implementation of the recognition of prior learning has started in 5 universities in cooperation with the YÖK.

10. Awareness is raised among the academic community and other stakeholders of the challenges faced by higher education and the roles and activities of this project to meet those challenges.

DescriptionThe project fiche lists social partners (confederations of employers and employees unions), and other organisations representing the business world (TOBB, TESK, etc) as relevant civil society stakeholders.



TR2009/032702 CAPACITY BUILDING ON WATER QUALITY MONITORING


Overall Objective To achieve a good environmental status for surface waters.

Specific Objective Strengthening Turkey’s capacity to implement the EU Water Framework Directive.

Expected Results

1. The legal and institutional gap analysis is executed between Turkey and EU in terms of WFD requirements.

2. Capacity building of related institutions is provided on water quality monitoring, analysis and assessment of surface water bodies in line with WFD

3. Pilot implementation is executed related to monitoring of surface water bodies for selected basins.

DescriptionThe project fiche lists the related CSOs to be included in project activities: [TÜDAV (Turkish Marine Researches Foundation) , SAD (Underwater Researches Association) AFAG (Mediterranean Seal Research Group), WWF Turkey, and REC Turkey.

Implementation Twinning, Supply Contract, Service Contract

TR2009/032703 ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE DIRECTIVE


Side Beneficiaries)

Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, Bursa Metropolitan Municipality, İzmir Metropolitan Municipality, Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality, Samsun Metropolitan Municipality, Mugla Municipality, Adana Metropolitan Municipality, Nevşehir Municipality, Eskişehir Metropolitan Municipality, Erzurum Metropolitan Municipality, Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality, Edirne Municipality, Antalya Metropolitan Municipality

Overall ObjectiveThe wider objective of this project is to assist Turkey in lying the basis for developing measures to reduce noise emitted by major sources, in particular road and rail vehicles and infrastructure, outdoor and industrial equipment and mobile machinery in accordance with Directive 2002/49/EC.

Specific ObjectiveTo develop and strengthen the institutional capacity in selected municipalities and institutions which are responsible for the preparation of noise maps and action plans for major noise sources.

Expected Results

1. All relevant stakeholders, especially designated competent authorities, consultants and CSOs are practically acquainted with the requirements for the implementation and enforcement of the Noise Assessment Directive (2002/49/EC).

2. Institutional, Financial and Legal Framework conditions are in place to enable effective and efficient implementation of the Noise Assessment Directive (2002/49/EC)in Turkey.

3. Competent implementing authorities better physically equipped to perform their tasks in relation with the Noise Assessment Directive (2002/49/EC).

Implementation Service Contract, TA Contract


TR2009/032704 IMPLEMENTATION CAPACITY OF SEVESO II DIRECTIVE


Overall Objective

The prevention of major accidents which involve dangerous substances, and the limitation of their consequences for man and the environment, with a view to ensuring high levels of protection together with further capacity building and strengthening of Institutional Structure in the field of managing major industrial accidents

Specific Objective To strengthen the administrative and institutional capacity of central and local bodies that are responsible for future implementation of the Seveso II Directive in Turkey.

Expected ResultsAll relevant stakeholders, especially industry, local authorities, CSOs and designated competent authorities are practically acquainted with the requirements for the implementation of the Seveso directive.

Description

Seveso Directives, named after the Seveso disaster, are related to major industrial accidents involving dangerous chemicals.

The CSOs related to the projection are listed as Turkish Chemical Manufacturers Association (TKSD), Chambers of Industry, and TOBB.


TR2009/032705 INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY ON CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD FAUNA AND FLORA (CITES) IMPLEMENTATIONS


Co-Beneficiary(ies)Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA)

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)

Overall Objective Strengthening the sustainability of the biological diversity in line with CITES Regulation in Turkey.

Specific Objective Strengthening administrative and technical capacities regarding control of trade of CITES species.

Expected Results1. Strengthened institutional Capacity on CITES Implementation.

2. Strengthened Technical Capacity on CITES Implementation

Description CSOs are listed as one of the target groups of the project.



TR2009/032801 ALIGNMENT IN ORGAN DONATION

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Health (MoH), GD of Curative Services

Overall Objective To contribute to the harmonization with and implementation of the EU acquis communautaire in the area of public health, specifically focusing on increasing cadaveric organ donation in Turkey.

Specific Objective To ensure quality and safety standards for human organ donation and transplantation in medical treatment.

Expected Results

1. Turkish organ transplantation and donation legislation harmonized with that of EU.

2. Healthcare personnel’s knowledge and awareness on organ donation and transplantation improved.

3. The safety and quality of human organs improved.

4. Public awareness of organ donation and transplantation improved.

5. Bilateral agreements or protocols on organ transplantation and donation signed.

Description According to the project fiche Turkish Society of Nephrology (public awareness studies) and Transplant Coordinator’s Society (training) took part in project activities.


TR2009/033201 INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY OF INSPECTION BOARDS

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Finance (MoF), Finance Inspection Board (FIB)

Side BeneficiariesPrime Ministry Inspection Board, Inspection Board of the Ministry of Interior, Inspection Board of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Inspection Board of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Inspection Board of the Undersecretariat of Customs

Overall Objective Supporting the PFMC system by increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of its implementation, particularly in the field of inspection.

Specific Objective

Developing the role of Finance Inspection Board (FIB), Prime Ministry Inspection Board, Inspection Board of the Ministry of Interior, Inspection Board of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Inspection Board of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Inspection Board of the Undersecretariat of Customs as defined in the scope of PFMC system, in line with EU best practices.

Expected Results

1. The establishment of a framework for the identification and making clear distinction of the functions of the Inspection Boards and Internal Audit Units by taking into account the Law No: 5018 and Turkish Public Administration Structure.

2. The related legislation is revised in line with the roadmap.

3. Administrative and operational capacity of the FIB and other pilot inspection boards is strengthened in line with the roadmap by the end of the project.

DescriptionThe project fiche noted that members of the civil society had been informed about the preparation of the project and would be invited to the opening and closing events of the project as well.



TR2009/013503 EU-TURKISH CHAMBERS FORUM II

Main Beneficiary The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry (EUROCHAMBRES)

Final Beneficiaries Small Chambers and Commodity Exchanges and / or Chambers from less developed regions in Turkey.

Overall Objective

To strengthen mutual knowledge and understanding between Turkish Chambers and their counterparts in the EU, thus promoting the integration of EU and Turkish business communities and ensuring a stronger awareness of the opportunities and challenges of a potential future Turkey’s accession to the EU in both Turkey and the EU.

Specific ObjectiveAllowing the Turkish and European Chambers and business communities to improve their cooperation, thus enhancing the capacity of Turkish Chambers and their role in the EU accession process

Expected Results

Strengthened sustainable collaboration and mutual knowledge between Turkish and European Chambers

Increased capacity of Turkish Chambers to provide up-to-date services to their members Indicator

Increase capacity of Turkish Chambers to actively participate in the accession negotiation process

Better understanding by Turkish Chambers and companies of relevant EU legislation to improve the acquis implementation in Turkey

Implementation Direct Grant (EUROCHAMBRES), Grant Scheme for partnerships between chambers in EU-27 and Turkey.







Political Criteria

TR2010/0136.02 Support to the Local Human Rights Boards and Women’s Rights Awareness

Prime Ministry Human Rights Presidency

2.500.000 2.250.000

TR2010/0136.03 Prevention of Domestic Violence against Women

Gendarmerie General Command

3.100.000 2.790.000

TR2010/0136.04 Promoting Gender Equality in Education Ministry of National Education 3.600.000 3.240.000

TR2010/0136.05 Increasing Primary School Attendance Rate of Children Ministry of National Education 3.200.000 2.880.000

TR2010/0136.06 Supporting Social Inclusion through Sports Education

Directorate General for Youth and Sports

2.300.000 2.070.000

TR2010/0136.07 Fight Against Violence Towards Children Ministry of National Education 3.000.000 2.700.000

TR2010/0136.08 Justice for Children Ministry of Justice 3.750.000 3.345.000

TR2010/0136.09 Towards an Effective and Professional Justice Academy Justice Academy of Turkey 2.120.000 1.942.000

TR2010/0136.10 Improvement of Enforcement Services in Prisons


5.500.000 4.970.000

TR2010/0136.11 Strengthening Witness Protection Capacities

Turkish National Police (Project Implementation: Department of Witness Protection)

1.000.000 950.000

TR2010/0136.12 Improved Relations Between Mass Media and Judiciary Ministry of Justice 1.700.000 1.615.000

TR2010/0136.13 Improved Court Expert System

Ministry of Justice, GD for Criminal Affairs

1.500.000 1.425.000

Public Administration Reform

TR2010/0136.01 Improved Strategic Management

Undersecretariat of the State Planning Organisation (DPT)

2.600.000 2.330.000





Sub-total 35.870.000 32.507.000


Internal Market

TR2010/0301.01 Strengthened Market Surveillance System For ICT sector

Information Technologies and Communications Authority

2.850.000 2.497.500

TR2010/0301.02 Improving Chemical and Ionising Radiation Metrology II


1.600.000 1.600.000

Information Society

TR2010/0310.01 Prevention of Anti-Competitive Behaviors in the Electronic Communications Sector

Information and Communication Technologies Authority

1.000.000 900.000

Agriculture

TR2010/0311.01 Digitisation of Land Parcel Identification System

Ministry for Agriculture and Rural Affairs

46.200.000 39.270.000

TR2010/0312.01 Oral Vaccination Against Rabies


2.200.000 1.870.000

TR2010/0312.02 Control of Foot and Mouth Disease- Phase 2


38.375.000 32.618.750

Transport and Energy

TR2010/0314.01 Improved Maritime Education and Training


1.300.000 1.235.000

TR2010/0314.02 Control of Ship- Sourced Emissions


1.650.000 1.519.500

TR2010/0315.01 Harmonisation of Transmission System for Electricity


1.500.000 1.350.000


TR2010/0324.01 Establishment of Reception and Removal Centres– phase II

Ministry of Interior, Department of Foreigners Borders and Asylum, Turkish National Police

11.500.000 9.775.000





Environment

TR2010/0327.01 Alignment in Bathing Water Monitoring

Ministry of Health, GD of Primary Health Care

1.500.000 1.425.000

TR2010/0327.02 Implementation of by-law on Strategic Environmental Assessment


1.150.000 1.035.000

TR2010/0327.03 Implementation of Persistent Organic Pollutants Regulation


1.000.000 900.000

TR2010/0327.04 Better Air Quality By Transposing The Large Combustion Plant Directive


1.000.000 900.000

TR2010/0327.05 Capacity Building to Implement the Flood Directive

General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works

1.800.000 1.710.000

Health

TR2010/0328.01 Recruitment of Future Blood Donors

Ministry of Health, GD of Curative Services

2.500.000 2.250.000

Customs Union

TR2010/0329.01 Modernisation of the Turkish Customs Administration VII


505.000 505.000

Sub-total 117.630.000 101.360.750


TR2010/0135.01 Civil Society Dialogue III Ministry of Foreign Affairs 10.700.000 9.630.000

TR2010/0465.01 Turkey’s Participation in Union Programmes and Agencies SG for EU 174.725.795 67.607.076

Sub-total 185.425.795 77.237.076

Priority Axis IV: Supporting activities

TR2010/0740.01 Support Activities to Strengthen the European Integration Process SG for EU 7.450.000 6.705.000

Sub-total 7.450.000 6.705.000

TOTAL 346.375.795 217.809.826



TR2010/0136.01 IMPROVED STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

Main Beneficiary Undersecretariat of the State Planning Organisation (DPT)

Co-Beneficiaries General Directorate for Local Authorities Ministry of Interior, General Directorate of Budget and Fiscal Control Ministry of Finance, The Council of Higher Education

Overall Objective Efficient and effective public service and transparent and sound financial management of public funds.

Specific Objective More effective and impactful strategic planning by central public administration.

Expected Results

1. Current status of strategic management practice in Turkish public administration assessed and policy recommendations developed

2. Capacity of the central guiding and coordinating institutions (main beneficiary and co-beneficiaries) improved

3. Strategic management capacity (with the focus on strategic planning) of central public institutions enhanced

4. Monitoring and evaluation system for strategic planning established

Description

Project fiche notes: “Relevant civil society organisations will be involved and consulted during the assessment studies within the project. Moreover civil society involvement in strategic planning and formulation of public policies will be enhanced as a result of this project by including some civil society representatives in various project activities such as conferences and trainings.”

Implementation Service Contract, Supply Contract

TR2010/0136.02 SUPPORT TO THE LOCAL HUMAN RIGHTS BOARDS AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS AWARENESS

Main Beneficiary Prime Ministry Human Rights Presidency

Overall ObjectiveFull compliance of human rights actually enjoyed by Turkish citizens and the civil society as a whole with principles and practices in accordance with the highest standards indicated by the prominent international instruments that Turkey is a party to.

Specific Objective

1) To improve human rights complaints taking mechanism;

- To improve the standards of human rights violation investigations and the process of taking human rights violation applications.

2) To raise awareness among the society, especially on human rights in general and to promote women’s participation to social, economic and cultural life and to implement effectively the necessary measures to prevent domestic violence and honor killings.

- To increase awareness among the civil society in general and among the local CSOs in particular, on human rights and encourage their involvement to the activities of the Human Rights Boards especially for the effective functioning of complaints taking mechanism.


TR2010/0136.02 SUPPORT TO THE LOCAL HUMAN RIGHTS BOARDS AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS AWARENESS

Main Beneficiary Prime Ministry Human Rights Presidency

Expected Results

1. The organisational structure and coordination between the Human Rights Presidency and the Human Rights Boards (HRBs) improved. This improvement will have a positive impact and will constitute a basis to the foreseen structure that will be established in the scope of the Independent National Human Rights Institution Law which is currently at the parliament.

2. The standards of human rights complaints taking procedures established. During first year after the implementation of the project, 100% of the applications sent will comply with the standards set. 100% of the complaints will be processed according to the application processing standards set.

3. Capacity of the Boards in dealing with the human rights violations increased from 60% to 90%.

4. The implementation of the human rights standards monitored.

5. The quality of the reports, of which 60% contain the essential information sent, by the HRBs, increased to 95%.

6. Women are encouraged to become members to the Boards. The local women’s NGO’s will be contacted and encouraged. The six pilot cities of the UN Joint Programme “To Protect and Promote the Human Rights of Women and Girls” (March 2006- December 2009), which have Local Equality Action Plans, will be examined and the experiences of the local women’s CSOs at these cities will be benefited during the implementation of the countrywide activities and when contacting the local CSOs at other cities.

7. Awareness and the capacity increased among the Boards on women’s rights and on how to deal with the women’s rights’ violations. Currently Boards do not have the standards of what to do in case of women’s rights violations.

8. Awareness on women’s rights raised among the people at the provinces and sub- provinces.

Implementation 3 Contracts (not specified)


TR2010/0136.03 PREVENTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Main Beneficiary Gendarmerie General Command

Side Beneficiaries

Prime Ministry Directorate General on the Status of Women; Prime Ministry Directorate General on Social Services and Prevention of Children; Ministry of Justice; Ministry of Interior; Ministry of Labour and Social Security; Ministry of Education; Turkish Statistical Institution; Turkish Bar Associations; At least (1) NGO relating to domestic violence issues against women

Overall Objective To ensure the respect of human rights among citizens based on gender equality and minimise domestic violence incidents particularly against women.

Specific Objective To strengthen the capacity of the Gendarmerie in protection of human rights based on gender equality particularly, in the field of combating violence against women.

Expected Results

1. The administrative capacity of Gendarmerie General Command in dealing with domestic violence incidents against women will be increased.

2. Gendarmerie personnel at all levels (officers, non-commissioned officers, sergeants including conscripts) are empowered with technical and practical knowledge on domestic violence issues to ensure the effective protection of human rights with a service oriented- approach.

3. Gendarmerie General Command will increase its cooperation among relevant institutions to contribute to awareness raising on the issue.


TR2010/0136.04 PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY IN EDUCATION


Overall Objective To contribute to promoting gender equality all throughout the society.

Specific Objective To promote gender equality for girls and boys in schools and equality and gender sensitive approach throughout the education system.

Expected Results

1. A Gender Equality Assurance Tool for Schools (GEATS) which is a guideline and an assessment tool for teaching and non-teaching staff at schools is available with the necessary capacity for implementation.

2. MoNE is fully equipped to promote equality and gender sensitive approach throughout the education system.

Description The project aimed NGO participation in almost all activities, including working groups and organisation of events.



TR2010/0136.05 INCREASING PRIMARY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE RATE OF CHILDREN


Overall Objective To increase the attendance rates for 8 years compulsory primary education in Turkey.

Specific Objective To decrease drop-outs and non-attendance in primary schools.

Expected Results

1. Measures identified and policy recommendations developed related to drop outs and non-attendance by making a complete analysis of the situation.

2. Revised regulations for providing the legal basis for the newly developed interventions and for Turkish language teaching program.

3. Adequate intervention measures identified and taken in place on drop-outs and non-attendance for different types of risk groups.

4. Capacity of MoNE personnel and awareness of all related groups increased on preventing drop-outs and non-attendance.


TR2010/0136.06 SUPPORTING SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH SPORTS EDUCATION

Main Beneficiary Directorate General for Youth and Sports

Overall Objective Improved future opportunities and living standards for youth and children in Southeast Turkey.

Specific ObjectivePreparatory studies and management structures in place for new sports facilities and supplementary education opportunities for youth and children which will increase social inclusion and cohesion in pilot areas of Southeast Turkey.

Expected Results

1. Supplementary social and sports training provided to the children and youth of the region.

2. School enrolment rates of youth and in particular young girls are expected to improve.

3. The number of children in conflict with law or engaged in criminal activities is also set to decrease.

DescriptionTurkish Educational Volunteers Foundation, Mother and Child Education Foundation, World Wild Life Fund– Turkey, and the International Association for Physical Education and Sport for Women and Girls were among project partners.


TR2010/0136.07 FIGHT AGAINST VIOLENCE TOWARDS CHILDREN



Overall ObjectiveTo contribute to the protection of children against all forms of violence of a physical, emotional, verbal and psychological nature to attain high level of health protection, well being and social cohesion.


TR2010/0136.07 FIGHT AGAINST VIOLENCE TOWARDS CHILDREN


Specific Objective To reduce and prevent violence towards children.

Expected Results

1. Capacities of follow up and prevent services on preventing violence against children increased.

2. Violence towards children at schools prevented by developing a safer school model which is free from physical, verbal and psychological violence.

3. Preventing domestic and other forms of violence against children outside schools.

DescriptionThe project fiche notes that active participation of CSOs/CSOs is ensured through; (i) information sharing during project design; (ii) attendance to workshops and studies related to policy recommendations; (iii) participation to training activities.


TR2010/0136.08 JUSTICE FOR CHILDREN


Overall ObjectiveTo ensure the protection of children’s rights in the justice system in line with the principle of rule of law.

Specific Objective

To ensure the effective implementation of the Child Protection Law and full realisation of all rights of the children in contact with the law through protecting

children’s right to fair trial, effective the inter-sectoral collaboration in the juvenile justice system and high standards of services provided to children deprived of liberty.

Expected Results

1. Children’s rights are protected in the justice system through realisation of fair trial principles, prevention of their secondary victimisation and ensuring that deprivation of their liberty is used as a measure of last resort.

2. A specialised and institutionalised in-service training programme is made available for juvenile justice professionals.

3. Children deprived of their liberty receive individualised quality rehabilitation services through ‘efficient case (inmate) management’ system.

Description

Project fiche (p.16): “Close collaboration with CSOs working in the area of juvenile justice and the Turkish Bar Association has been established throughout the implementation of all the related projects, especially in the areas of strengthening inter-agency coordination and developing child related policies. Contribution of the Turkish Bar Association and CSOs was also ensured to the design of this Project fiche through a consultation meeting held in 2009 to assess the implementation of the Child Protection Law. Further consultations are planned to be held during the detailing of the Project and preparation of the detailed work plans. Close collaboration with the Turkish Bar Association, provincial bar associations and CSOs will be a pre-requisite for the effective and coordinated implementation of the Justice for Children Project activities.”

Implementation Direct Grant(UNICEF), Supply Contract


TR2010/0136.09 TOWARDS AN EFFECTIVE AND PROFESSIONAL JUSTICE ACADEMY

Main Beneficiary Justice Academy of Turkey

Overall Objective Ensuring the proper functioning, effectiveness and efficiency of the judiciary in line with the EU standards.

Specific Objective Ensuring the Academy to become a strong and independent training provider for the entire judiciary to attain a high degree of professionalism.

Expected Results1. Capacity of Justice Academy of Turkey improved.

2. Academic efficiency and productivity of Justice Academy of Turkey improved.

DescriptionEstablishment of a Human Rights Unit within the academy was one of the project activities. Ankara Bar Association.was the only institution that is noted in the project fiche about civil society participation.

Implementation Twinning, Supply Contract, Service Contract

TR2010/0136.10 IMPROVEMENT OF ENFORCEMENT SERVICES IN PRISONS



Overall Objective Penitentiary system in Turkey fully in line with international and European prison standards.

Specific Objective

Well-defined, standardised and structured enforcement service, including a fully functional system to ensure rehabilitation, treatment and successful reintegration of prisoners coming from different criminological backgrounds and prison staff performing in line with European standards.

Expected Results1. High degree of efficiency of enforcement service.

2. Prison management standards increased and treatment of inmates reached to the international standards.

Description

The project included the development of an individual-focused intervention system and operational standards for specific vulnerable groups (female, foreigner, disabled, elderly, terminally-ill etc.).

Health and Education Society and Penal Institutions’ Personnel Assistance and Solidarity Association were consulted during the preparation of the project fiche. Classification, tool development, job analysis, manual development and material preparation activities of the project was planned to be implemented with the participation of CSOs.

Implementation Twinning, Service Contract


TR2010/0136.12 IMPROVED RELATIONS BETWEEN MASS MEDIA AND JUDICIARY


Overall ObjectiveTo enhance reliability of the judiciary through strengthening right to receive accurate information of public and the principle of presumption of innocence taking into account of freedom of the media.

Specific Objective To create a sound functioning judiciary spokesmanship and to create a sound functioning relationship between judiciary and independent media.

Expected Results1. Judiciary Media Spokesmanship established.

2. Relation between independent media and judiciary strengthened in terms of protecting fundamental rights.

Description

During the preparation of the project fiche 18 judicial correspondents form the media were consulted. In the project fiche, it was stated that one media civil society organisation would be consulted before the fiche was finalised and CSOs, as well as other stakeholders, would participate some of the activities.The project activities included the development of a code of ethics and a training for 100 judicial correspondents on the balance between freedom of expression and independence -impartiality of judiciary.


TR2010/0136.13 IMPROVED COURT EXPERT SYSTEM

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Justice (MoJ), GD for Criminal Affairs

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Justice (MoJ), GD for Criminal Affairs

Co-Beneficiary Justice Academy of Turkey

Overall Objective Strengthening the impartiality, reliability and efficiency of the judiciary.

Specific Objective Complete reform and standardisation of the court expert system so that their contribution maximises the efficiency, effectiveness, impartiality of the judiciary.

Expected Results1. Overall quality of the expertise services raised and court expert system subjected to concrete

standards and ethical rules.

2. Awareness raised in high courts, first instance courts and related parties.



TR2010/0314.02 CONTROL OF SHIP- SOURCED EMISSIONS

Main Beneficiary Undersecretariat for Maritime Affairs

Co-Beneficiary Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF)

Overall Objective To contribute to the efforts to combat climate change by identifying and taking measures against ship sourced emissions.

Specific Objective Strengthen the administrative capacity to ensure high level control of ship sourced emissions.

Expected Results

1. Online and instant emission information is provided to aid policy making by the Undersecretariat for Maritime Affairs.

2. Measures and targets (Administrative measures, Policy measures, Technological and operational measures) to decrease ship sourced emissions and related risks identified.

3. The Turkish national legislation on control of ship-sourced emissions is improved and aligned with the international rules and regulations including EU Acquis.

4. Inspection capacity of UMA regarding ship- sourced pollution in local and central level is improved.

Implementation Service Contract, Twinning

TR2010/0327.01 ALIGNMENT IN BATHING WATER MONITORING

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Health (MoH), GD of Primary Health Care

Overall Objective To contribute to the reduction of public health risks and to ensure coordination, cooperation and data sharing between institutions and organisations in bathing waters

Specific Objective

Transposition of the new bathing water Directive 2006/7/EC into the Turkish national legislation and strengthening the bathing water quality monitoring system of Ministry of Health within the framework of the new Directive.

Expected Results

1. The alignment of the new bathing water Directive 2006/7/EC will be done.

2. Transition from 76/160/EEC to 2006/7/EC Directive regarding the classification and quality assessment of bathing water will be gradually ensured starting with the pilot applications and then disseminating to the whole bathing areas.

3. The bathing water profiles will be gradually established starting first in the selected areas of the pilot Provinces and then disseminating to the whole bathing areas.

4. Sets of bathing water quality data will be compiled.

5. The bathing water quality monitoring system of the Ministry of Health will be improved.

6. The technical capacity of the Ministry of Health laboratories to perform analysis according to the new bathing water directive will be improved.

Description Turkish Foundation for Environmental Education was included in project activities.



TR2010/0327.02 IMPLEMENTATION OF BY-LAW ON STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT


Co-Beneficiary State Planning Organization (DPT)

Overall Objective

To provide for a high level of protection of the environment and to contribute to the integration of environmental considerations into the preparation and adoption of plans and programs with a view to promoting sustainable development by ensuring that an environmental assessment is carried out of certain plans and programmes, which are likely to have significant effects on the environment.

Specific Objective To create institutional capacity and to raise awareness necessary for the implementation of By-law on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for all sectors.

Expected Results

1. MoEF, DPT and other competent authorities have necessary capacity end expertise in order to implement by-law on SEA.

2. Active participation of local and national stakeholders (universities, CSOs, chambers and public) is available for SEA process and they are well informed on SEA, to ensure the effective implementation of by-law on SEA in Turkey.

Description

The project fiche pointed out the need for capacity building for CSOs, chambers, and on the requirements of By-Law on SEA. It also noted that national and local environmental CSOs would be involved in the trainings and their comments would be taken into consideration in the production of the major documents.


TR2010/0327.03 IMPLEMENTATION OF PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS REGULATION



Overall ObjectiveTo protect human health and environment from adverse effects of Persistent Organic Pollutants and their waste by prohibiting, phasing out and eliminating release of them in line with EU Persistent Organic Pollutants Regulation by the end of 2028.

Specific ObjectiveTo establish the necessary capacity for effective implementation of EU Persistent Organic Pollutants Regulation in Turkey at national and regional level taking into account social and economic impacts.

Expected Results

1. The institutional and technical capacity were defined and strengthened.

2. The Turkish government conceived the steps to be taken for effective implementation of the POPs Regulation (EC) No 850/2004.

3. National and sectoral effects of the implementation of the POPs Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 were determined.

DescriptionThe project fiche noted that Turkish Chemicals Manufacturers Association and Turkish Society of Toxicology would be informed about the draft National Implementation Plan to be developed on the project subject and their comments would be taken into consideration.



TR2010/0327.04 BETTER AIR QUALITY BY TRANSPOSING THE LARGE COMBUSTION PLANT DIRECTIVE


Co-Beneficiary Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MoENR)

Overall Objective To improve the protection of human health and environment in Turkey by implementation and enforcement of the Large Combustion Directive.

Specific Objective The project purpose is to establish the necessary capacity to implement Large Combustion Plant Directive (2001/80/EC) in Turkey.

Expected Results

1. A detailed inventory of all large combustion plants in Turkey and a web-site including information about large combustion plants is available to use.

2. Regulatory Impact assessments for the implementation of Large Combustion Plant Directive is available to use.

3. Required institutional structure, technical capacity and procedural arrangements defined and developed to implement LCP Directive.

Description

Project fiche: “Electrical Manufacturers Association will be a part of the trainings as participants or as trainers and in the impact assessment study. And also one representative from each NGO will be invited to the steering committee meetings.” CSOs that were planned to be invited to those meetings were not specified.


TR2010/0327.05 CAPACITY BUILDING TO IMPLEMENT THE FLOOD DIRECTIVE

Main Beneficiary General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works (DSİ)

Overall ObjectiveTo reduce the adverse consequences of flood events for human health, environment, cultural heritage and economic activity by setting out a framework for the assessment and management of flood risk.

Specific ObjectiveBuilding up an administrative and technical capacity in the General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works (DSİ) in order to transpose and implement Flood Risks Assessment and Management Directive (2007/60/EC) (shortly named as Flood Directive) in Turkey.

Expected Results

1. Enhanced juridical capacity, and improved technical and institutional capacity at adequate level, and increased awareness and participation regarding flood phenomena and the Flood Directive.

2. Implementation of the Flood Directive in a pilot basin, namely Batı Karadeniz River Basin, aiming at decreasing adverse effects of floods compared to the 1998 floods.

Description

Project fiche (p. 15): “The stakeholders and the local people living in the pilot basin will be informed about the proceedings of preparation of the flood hazard maps, flood risk maps, and flood risk management plan. During those activities, the public participation and stakeholder consultation will be provided.”



TR2010/0328.01 RECRUITMENT OF FUTURE BLOOD DONORS

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Health (MoH), GD of Curative Services

Co-Beneficiaries Ministry of National Education (MoNE) and Turkish Red Crescent Society (TRC)

Overall Objective To contribute to the improvement of community health by preventing problems in supplying safest blood.

Specific Objective To supply the safest blood from voluntary and non-remunerated donors regularly.

Expected Results

1. The knowledge and understanding level of students on importance of voluntary and non-remunerated blood donation is increased nationwide.

2. Capacity of MoNE, MoH and TRC human resources is developed on voluntary and non-remunerated blood donor recruitment.

3. The awareness of the public on blood donation is raised by 2 Blood Donor Education and Recruitment Campaign in 500 pilot schools and Media & Public Relation Campaign nationwide.

Description

Project fiche (p.15): “TRC which is also civil society organisation is a co-beneficiary of this project that TRC has had a lot of experience and physical and technical infrastructures since 1957. On the other hand, other civil society organisations which are related blood services will join the seminars, meeting, with all activities.”

Implementation Service Contract for TA


4.7. NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR 2011




Sector 1: Justice, Home Affairs and Fundamental Rights

TR2011/0324.01 Protecting Victims of Human Trafficking

Ministry of Interior, Turkish National Police

1.900.000 1.710.000

TR2011/0136.03 Economic and Social Integration of Internally Displaced Persons in Van Province

Ministry of Interior, General Directorate for Provincial Administrations

3.800.000 3.420.000

TR2011/0324.02 Improvement of Civilian Oversight in Turkey – Phase II Ministry of Interior 3.800.000 3.800.000

TR2011/0136.04 Strengthening of Local Investment Planning Capacity with the Participation of Local Actors

Ministry of Interior, Directorate of Strategy Development

2.000.000 1.800.000

TR2011/0136.05 Common Cultural Heritage: Preservation and Dialogue Between Turkey and the EU


3.000.000 2.700.000

TR2011/0136.06 Students Learning About the EU – Common Values, Fundamental Rights And Policies


3.600.000 3.210.000

TR2011/0135.07 Strengthening Civil Society Development and Civil Society-Public Sector Cooperation in Turkey

Secretariat General for EU Affairs; Association of Civil Society Development Center); Third Sector Foundation of Turkey; Istanbul Bilgi University’s CSO Research and Training Center; YADA Foundation; Helsinki Citizens Assembly

7.365.000 6.628.500

TR20110124.10 Socioeconomic Development through Demining and Increasing the Border Surveillance Capacity at the Eastern Borders of Turkey

Ministry of Interior, Development and Implementation Bureau on Border Management Legislation and Administrative Capacity; General Staff (Land Forces Command)

52.450.000 39.450.000

TR2011/0124.11 Witness Protection Capacities Phase II

Turkish National Police (Department of Witness Protection)

1.764.800 1.500.000





TR2011/0124.12 Forensic Capacity

Turkish National Police Department of Criminal Police Laboratories; Turkish Gendarmerie General Command Gendarmerie Forensic Department

10.667.000 8.000.000

TR2011/0123.13 Support to Better Introduction of the Data Protection System Ministry of Justice 2.134.550 2.000.000

TR2011/0123.14 Support to Establishment of Ombudsman Institution in Turkey Ombudsman Institution 2.134.550 2.000.000

TR2011/0135.15 Civil Society Dialogue Between EU and Turkey-IV Grant Facility 11.778.000 10.600.000

TR2011/0135.16 Dialogue between Trade Union Organisations in Turkey and the European Union with a Focus on Young Workers

European Trade Union Confederation

1.600.000 1.600.000

TR2011/0136.17 Jean Monnet Scholarship Programme MEUA 14.924.914 14.758.423

Sub-total 122.918.814 103.176.923

Sector 2: Private Sector Development

TR2011/0318.18 Upgrading Information and Communication Technologies Services of Turkstat

Turkish Statistical Institute 6.235.000 5.345.000

TR2011/0465.19 Support to Turkey’s participation in 7th Framework Programme MEUA 70.465.000 10.000.000

Sub-total 76.700.000 15.345.000

Sector 3: Environment and Climate Change

TR2011/0314.08 Improvement Of Maritime Safety Regarding Handling Of Dangerous Goods At Ports And Coastal Facilities


6.600.000 6.005.000

TR2011/0627.01 Capacity Building for Prevention of Marine Pollution Caused by Ship- Sourced Wastes

Ministry of Environment and Urbanization

2.500.000 2.250.000





TR2011/0627.01 Strengthening the National Nature Protection System for Implementation of Natura 2000 Requirements

Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs

6.816.000 6.099.100

TR2011/0315.20 Improving Energy Efficiency in Buildings

Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation

3.000.000 2.700.000



2.500.000 2.250.000

TR2011/0327.01 Implementation of Export and Import of Dangerous Chemicals Regulation


1.000.000 950.000

TR2011/0327.01 Capacity Building in Horizontal Sector (INSPIRE and Liability Directive)


5.480.000 4.932.000

Sub-total 27.896.000 25.186.100

Sector 4: Transport



2.000.000 1.840.000

Sub-total 2.000.000 1.840.000

Sector 5: Energy



3.333.500 3.000.000

Sub-total 3.333.500 3.000.000

Sector 6: Social Development

TR2011/0465.09 Turkey’s Participation in Union Programmes and Agencies MEUA 102.094.895 56.270.000

TR2011/0319.22 Strengthening Institutional Capacity of Centre for Labour and Social Security Training and Research

Centre for Labour and Social Security Training and Research

2.500.000 2.250.000

TR2011/0336.23 Supporting Social Inclusion through Sports Education – phase II

Ministry of Youth and Sports, GD for Sports

4.260.000 1.800.000





TR2011/0328.24 Strengthening Cancer Screening and Palliative Care Capacity in Turkey

Ministry of Health (MoH), Department of Cancer Control

3.072.150 2.750.000

Sub-total 111.927.045 63.070.000

Sector 7: Agriculture and Rural Development

TR2011/0311.25 Training Staff on IACS procedures

Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, GD of Agricultural Reform

1.500.000 1.350.000

Sub-total 1.500.000 1.350.000

Sector 8: Support and Other Activities

TR2011/0740.26 Enhanced Support Activities to Strengthen the European Integration Process

MEUA 18.890.000 17.000.000

Sub-total 18.890.000 17.000.000

TOTAL 365.165.359 229.968.023


TR2011/0324.01 PROTECTING VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Interior (MoI), Turkish National Police

Co-Beneficiaries

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA); Ministry of Justice (MoJ); General Command of Gendarmerie; Human Resource Development Foundation (HRDF): Foundation for Women’s Solidarity (FWS); Antalya Family Counsellors Association (AFCA); International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Overall Objective Prevention of human trafficking and human rights-based protection to victims of trafficking.

Specific ObjectiveEffective implementation of the national strategy and policy on organised crime including trafficking of persons in line with 2nd National Action Plan and Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings.


TR2011/0324.01 PROTECTING VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Interior (MoI), Turkish National Police

Expected Results

1. Adequate capacity to identify victims of trafficking and uniform, measurable and comparable criteria and procedures enhanced.

2. Existing protection structure strengthened and further expanded and protection services standards for trafficked persons in Turkey evenly improved and applied throughout the country.

3. Awareness level with regard to victim identification and protection among trade associations, tourism companies, local CSOs, taxi drivers and other groups of society substantially raised and consolidated.

4. National Referral system strengthened through the establishment of coordination mechanisms as well as inter agency cooperation.

5. A fully institutionalised 157 Helpline coordinates all rescues expand its services to provide information to migrants and refer clients to the relevant government and non government institutions.

6. Technical Assistance for Software developed for collecting data and statistics in order to develop strategies in the field of human trafficking.

Description

Project aimed NGO participation through: (i) training of CSOs in hotspot and about techniques for victim identification; (ii) the establishment of a working group related to the identification process. CSOs, other than those that were project partners, were defined as the target group of project activities.

Implementation Direct Grant (International Organisation for Migration)

TR2011/0136.03 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN VAN PROVINCE

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Interior (MoI), General Directorate for Provincial Administrations (GDPA)

Overall Objective Improving socio-economic conditions of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) through capacity building ease in access to basic services and social integration.

Specific Objective Replicable service delivery models set up for urban integration of the IDPs in Van Province by creating social integration conditions and by providing improved public services for IDPs.

Expected Results1. IDPs in Van Province benefit from better public services.

2. Improved economic and social condition of the IDPs through direct support of women entrepreneurs.

Description

The project was targeting strong CSO participation. Association for Supporting Women Entrepreneurship was responsible of coordination and communication among CSOs. CSOs were also taking part in project activities, while they were planned to be encouraged to take part in implementation, monitoring and evaluation process of the project.

Implementation TA Contract, Grant Scheme for IDPs who attended vocational training activities of the project


TR2011/0324.02 IMPROVEMENT OF CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT IN TURKEY – PHASE II


Overall Objective To support expanded enjoyment of civil rights by Turkish citizens and democratic control of internal security forces by the regulatory system and public administration of Turkey.

Specific ObjectiveMaking transition from narrowly conceived, bureaucratically and legalistically managed oversight of policing to a system of security sector governance based on human centred understanding of security, public safety and transparency in partnership with civil society.

Expected Results

1. Legislative framework in place to enable the Ministry of Interior and local public administrators to exercise effective civilian oversight over law enforcement bodies.

2. Local Security Commissions including civil society and media in place and Parliamentary oversight strengthened.


TR2011/0136.04 STRENGTHENING OF LOCAL INVESTMENT PLANNING CAPACITY WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF LOCAL ACTORS

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Interior (MoI), Directorate of Strategy Development

Side Beneficiaries Undersecretariat of State Planning Organization, Development Agencies, Local Authorities, Professional Associations and Civil Society Organizations

Overall ObjectiveEstablish a well functioning and effective civil service and to proceed with modernisation of the public administration in order to assure the effectiveness and efficiency of the planning and programming of public investments at local level.

Specific Objective Adequate capacity of the local public administration for local investment planning and sound coordination among stakeholders.

Expected Results

1. Adequate institutional capacity of the units coordinating local actors and local investment planning.

2. Responsibilities of local actors are defined and they have a clearly defined role to actively participate in the process of investment planning. (Processes have been defined where civil society organisations will be consulted.)

Description

Project fiche (p. 15): In this context, to include local civil society organisations, working in the different activities, in the investment planning process is crucial. In this direction, Project’s pilot implementations will ensure, to large extent, the participation of civil society organisations, professional chambers, etc. via Investment Planning Working Group and Sub-sectoral Working Groups.



TR2011/0136.05 COMMON CULTURAL HERITAGE: PRESERVATION AND DIALOGUE BETWEEN TURKEY AND THE EU

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MoCT)

Overall Objective Preservation and international cooperation on cultural heritage and promotion of cultural diversity in Turkey.

Specific Objective

Sustainable management plan for cultural heritage in Turkey in close co-operation and civil society partnership between Turkey and EU Member States firmly established in the area of cultural heritage. With respect to supporting cultural diversity, promoting cross border dialogues and networking, establishing partnerships between CSOs in Turkey and the EU, and increasing exchange of experience.

Expected Results1. Cultural Heritage Training Programme set up and implemented stressing cultural diversity.

2. Model Site Management Plan adopted and in use as well as pilot implementation in Sinop fully prepared.

DescriptionThe project fiche notes that CSOs would be specifically consulted in setting up the framework of the site management plan, determination of the students to be trained, and determination of the terms of the grant scheme.

Implementation Service contract

TR2011/0136.06 STUDENTS LEARNING ABOUT THE EU – COMMON VALUES, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND POLICIES


Overall Objective Society in Turkey has a high level of awareness and knowledge about the European Union’s values, fundamental rights and policies

Specific Objective The knowledge of students at age between 7 and 19 about the EU’s values, fundamental rights and policies is raised through effective educational measures.

Expected Results

1. The capacity for teaching about the EU’s values, fundamental rights and policies, the EU institutions and their functions, fundamental rights of the EU, the accession process of Turkey and reforms regarding Turkey’s EU accession process is measurably increased through revised curricula and textbooks, developed informative materials and a web site in use.

2. Students and teachers increased their EU related knowledge (the EU, EU institutions and their functions, fundamental rights of the EU, how the EU Accession Process affects Turkey, what changes are achieved and what are underway) by participating in systematic education based activities.

DescriptionProject fiche (p. 9): “During the preparation and implementation phase of the project, active participation of CSOs/CSOs is ensured. Especially the CSOs/CSOs with EU related departments will be consulted on the project activities.”



TR2011/0135.07 STRENGTHENING CIVIL SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY-PUBLIC SECTOR COOPERATION IN TURKEY

Main BeneficiariesAssociation of Civil Society Development Center (STGM); Third Sector Foundation of Turkey (TUSEV); Istanbul Bilgi University’s CSO Research and Training Center; YADA Foundation (YADA); Helsinki Citizens Assembly (hCa)

Overall ObjectiveDemocratic institutions will be strengthened through a broader and active involvement of civil society organisations promoting pluralism and values of European integration in the governmental processes.

Specific Objective

Improved environment and organisational capacity for civil society and strengthening the capacities of organised active citizens, more effective civic participation in policy processes at all levels, including a better legal framework for establishing, operating and funding civil society organisations as well as support provided to the sustainable development of grassroots civil society organisations and established organisations and networks.

Expected Results

1. Civil society-government relations reach a new level where a permanent dialogue is held and participation of civil society organisations in public debate and decision-making is visibly increased.

2. Capacity of civil society organisations is improved for better civil dialogue, participation and reputation.

Implementation 4 direct grants to partner CSOs. The project activities of STGM also included a separate grant scheme for CSOs.

TR20110124.10 SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGH DEMINING AND INCREASING THE BORDER SURVEILLANCE CAPACITY AT THE EASTERN BORDERS OF TURKEY

Main BeneficiaryMinistry of Interior (MoI), Development and Implementation Bureau on Border Management Legislation and Administrative Capacity; General Staff (Land Forces Command)

Overall Objective Social and economic development through demining and more secure borders in Eastern Turkey.

Specific Objective

To contribute to the prevention of illegal migration and all types of cross-border crimes at Turkey’s Eastern borders in line with EU’s IBM policies and strategies via de-mining the area and providing effective and humanitarian border surveillance tools for a technologically supported modern border surveillance system.

Expected Results1. Clearance of landmines in the eastern border regions of Turkey

2. Supply of Technological Border Surveillance Equipment for the Cleared regions.

Description “Initiative for a Demine Turkey’ was the only NGO consulted during the project preparation phase.



TR2011/0123.13 SUPPORT TO BETTER INTRODUCTION OF THE DATA PROTECTION SYSTEM


Overall Objective Support to establish a complete and well functioning data protection system in Turkey to meet the need of society.

Specific Objective To align data protection system of Turkey with the EU acquis and best European practices.

Expected Results 1. Improved institutional capacities of Data Protection Supervisory Authority and relevant authorities on data protection, and treatment in line with best practices.

Description Project activities included two symposiums to be organised in Istanbul and Ankara for the private sector and representatives of CSOs.

Implementation Twining Contract, TA Contract

TR2011/0123.14 SUPPORT TO ESTABLISHMENT OF OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION IN TURKEY

Main Beneficiary Ombudsman Institution

Co-BeneficiariesGrand National Assembly of Turkey (GNAT) and Ministry of Justice

(MoJ)

Overall Objective To promote and enhance the performances of the public authorities in Turkey in terms of rule of law, respect for human rights and freedoms, transparency and fairness, and good governance.

Specific Objective Support to the establishment of the Ombudsman Institution in Turkey at its inception phase of operations to develop into a prominent body in line with EU standards and the Paris Principles.

Expected Results

1. Organisational structure of the Ombudsman improved in accordance with the EU best practices and institutional capacity of the institution strengthened.

2. The assessment of the existing legislation underlying the Ombudsman in light of the acquis and EU best practices.

3. Wider public awareness on the role and importance of the institution ensured through a nationwide professional public awareness campaign.

Description Activities included workshops to be organised to prepare a strategic management plan with the participation of relevant stakeholders, including CSOs.



TR2011/0135.16 DIALOGUE BETWEEN TRADE UNION ORGANISATIONS IN TURKEY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION WITH A FOCUS ON YOUNG WORKERS

Main Beneficiary European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)

Co-Beneficiary DİSK, HAK-İŞ, KESK

Overall Objective Intensive dialogue, communication and cooperation between Turkish trade unions and those of the EU member states.

Specific ObjectiveThe establishment and strengthening of youth structures in trade unions and confederations to increase awareness, dialogue, communication and cooperation and interest of young workers on labour issues in Turkey and the EU.

Expected Results

1. Increased awareness of challenges faced by young people within a trade union environment in Turkey and the EU.

2. Young workers from Turkey and also from EU countries have a high level of understanding of the ways in which trade unions address young workers’ needs in the EU and Turkey (similarities and differences) by an improved dialogue between young Turkish and European trade unionists within the context of youth trade union structures which is achieved through the project activities.

3. Completed strategic document/training module on meeting labour market challenges faced by young workers from Turkey and EU.

4. Improved knowledge of each other’s culture and fight of prejudices.

Implementation Direct Grant (ETUC)

TR2011/0327.01 CAPACITY BUILDING IN HORIZONTAL SECTOR (INSPIRE AND LIABILITY DIRECTIVE)

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation (MoEU)

Overall Objective To enhance the protection of environment by preventing or remedying environmental damage and by fostering exchange of spatial information between institutions.

Specific ObjectiveMain purpose of the project is to strengthen the institutional, technical and legislative framework for effective implementation of the EU INSPIRE and Environmental Liability directives and establishment of strong administrative and technical capacity at all levels.

Expected Results

1. MoEU has increased its capacity to future implementation of the INSPIRE Directive.

2. Raised awareness for related stakeholders and decision makers.

3. More environmentally friendly land planning has developed in line with the EU spatial planning approach.

4. The institutional and technical capacity of MoEU and related stakeholders were defined and strengthened.

5. Draft legislation is prepared to establish a framework of Environmental Liability.

6. Increase of awareness of relevant stakeholders, especially the industry concerned, the CSOs concerned and Competent Authorities for the implementation of environmental liability.


TR2011/0327.01 CAPACITY BUILDING IN HORIZONTAL SECTOR (INSPIRE AND LIABILITY DIRECTIVE)


Description

INSPIRE Directive establishes an infrastructure for spatial information in Europe to support Community environmental policies, and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment. Environmental Liability Directive establishes a framework liability based on polluter pays principle, with a view to preventing and remedying environmental damage.

The project fiche notes that “Civil society will be informed by the documents and website to be developed by the Project. NGO’s working on environmental issues will be invited to the workshops and seminars, their active involvement to the project activities will be ensured.”. Yet, it does not provide any stakeholder analysis specifying those CSOs.

Implementation 2 TA Contracts

TR2011/0327.01 IMPLEMENTATION OF EXPORT AND IMPORT OF DANGEROUS CHEMICALS REGULATION


Overall Objective

To protect human health and the environment from potential harm of certain hazardous chemicals subjected to international trade by promoting shared responsibility and cooperative efforts in the international movement of hazardous chemicals with contributing the environmentally sound management, use and trade of hazardous chemicals concerned.

Specific Objective

To establish the necessary capacity for effective management of chemicals in Turkey, in order to prevent harmful environmental impact and in line with the EU’s legislation on chemicals (Export and Import of Dangerous Chemicals Regulation no 689/2008/EC) at national level taking into account social and economic impacts.

Expected Results

1. Required institutional arrangement for the implementation of EU Regulation on Export and Import of Dangerous Chemicals will be determined. The institutional capacity for effective implementation of the Rotterdam Convention and EU Regulation on Export and Import of Dangerous Chemicals will be enhanced.Raised awareness for related stakeholders and decision makers.

2. Requirements for full accessing and using the European Database for Export and Import of Dangerous Chemicals (EDEXIM) will be completed by Turkish Side.

3. The institutional capacity for effective control of import and export of dangerous chemicals in customs will be enhanced.

4. Awareness of exporters on import and export of dangerous chemicals will be raised by workshops, seminars and pilot studies.

Description

The project aims to support cooperation and partnerships among public institutions and organisations, private sector and the CSOs. Exporters’ and importers’ unions/associations and chemical manufacturers’ associations/unions are listed as CSOs to be will be informed about the project and to be consulted before the finalisation of the project.



TR2011/0327.01 CAPACITY BUILDING ON MARINE STRATEGY FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE IN TURKEY


Overall Objective To achieve a good environmental status in the marine environment in a sustainable manner aligned with the EU Acquis especially the MSFD with regard to coastal and marine areas.

Specific ObjectiveThe purpose of the project is to develop necessary institutional and technical capacity for the transposition and implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) 2008/56 EC.

Expected Results

1. Required technical and administrative capacity for future transposition and implementation of MSFD are improved.

2. Methodology developed regarding the implementation of the directive in the pilot areas which are in Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea.

Description

The project fiche notes that, for the goals of this project, the Ministry is highly aware of the importance of a healthy cooperation with the universities in the basins, TUBITAK, and related CSOs. TÜDAV (Turkish Marine Researches Foundation) , SAD (Underwater Researches Association) AFAG (Mediterranean Seal Research Group), WWF Turkey are listed as related CSOs.


TR2011/0327.01 SUPPORT TO MECHANISM FOR MONITORING TURKEY’S GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS


Overall ObjectiveTurkey contributes efficiently and effectively to the EU effort to achieve the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level which prevents dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.

Specific ObjectiveTo establish a fully functioning monitoring mechanism of greenhouse gas emissions in Turkey, in line with the EU Monitoring Mechanism Decision 280/2004/EC, while taking into account relevant and likely aspects of the expected revision of the Decision.

Expected Results

1. Institutional, legal and procedural arrangements in place and linked to the planning, preparation and management of the inventory.

2. Improvement of the quality of the National Inventory Reports, with a focus on improved estimations and reporting following UNFCCC and IPCC guidelines.

3. Improvement of the data quality and technical capacity for preparing elements of the National Communications.

Description

Members of Coordination Board on Climate Change, which includes The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchange, Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association, and Independent Industrialists and Businessmen Association are identified as the stakeholders of the project. The project fiche notes that other CSOs will also be involved in the project as required, but does not explain how.



TR2011/0627.01 STRENGTHENING THE NATIONAL NATURE PROTECTION SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF NATURA 2000 REQUIREMENTS

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs

Overall Objective To protect and enhance the Turkey’s natural habitats and biodiversity.

Specific Objective Strengthening the Institutional and Technical Capacity to Select and Design NATURA 2000 Network in Turkey

Expected Results

1. Technical structure established to designate NATURA 2000 sites in Turkey.

2. Turkey’s IT infrastructure has all means to match the EU for Bird and Habitat Directives.

3. Institutional capacity regarding the Natura 2000 concept increased in Turkey.

Description

The project fiche states that the previous Strategy for Natura 2000 Implementation in Turkey Project’ showed that getting scientific contribution from many Turkish academicians and nature conservation CSOs is crucial for the success and acceptance of the species lists and site selection method for N2000 implementation. Therefore, involving as many experienced academicians and CSO representatives as possible is noted as a priority. The ways of CSO participation is explained as follows: “CSOs will be represented in working groups since they are the organisations collecting data in the field, doing project for conserving targets and create public opinion. CSOs have many data to be considered in the evaluations and experience in the field. Those will be purchased and implemented in the process. It will support the works of CSOs.”

Implementation TA Contract, Supply Contract

TR2011/0314.08 IMPROVEMENT OF MARITIME SAFETY REGARDING HANDLING OF DANGEROUS GOODS AT PORTS AND COASTAL FACILITIES

Main Beneficiary Undersecretariat for Maritime Affairs

Overall Objective To improve the safety of maritime transport in Turkey in line with EU acquis and international conventions.

Specific Objective To establish a system for the administration to ensure safe handling of dangerous goods in ports and coastal facilities.

Expected Results

1. Legal framework for safe handling of dangerous goods adopted.

2. Adequate administrative capacity in place for safe handling of dangerous goods established.

3. Procedures and IT system for the monitoring of handling of dangerous goods by the administration established

4. Database for monitoring of dangerous goods operational by the end of 2013

Description CSOs included in consultations on action plan related to the project and briefings.



TR2011/0319.22 STRENGTHENING INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY OF CENTRE FOR LABOUR AND SOCIAL SECURITY TRAINING AND RESEARCH

Main Beneficiary Centre for Labour and Social Security Training and Research (ÇASGEM)

Overall Objective Developing the labour market through better skilled labour force, improved working conditions, social security services and occupational health and safety.

Specific Objective Increase the capacity of CASGEM on design, development, delivery, evaluation of trainings and marketing and research in line with EU Social Policy and Employment Acquis.

Expected Results

1. Quality of trainings delivered by the Centre has improved

2. Marketing and research capacity of the Centre have increased.

3. A more effective institutional structure for the Centre has been designed.

Description

Project fiche (p. 24): “During the preparation phase of the project, the most important civil society institutions of Turkey such as trade unions, employer organisations (HAK-İŞ, TÜRK-İŞ, DİSK and TİSK) and MoLLS have been consulted. Their opinions and comments have been taken into consideration. They will attend to the activities of the project.”


TR2011/0336.23 SUPPORTING SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH SPORTS EDUCATION – PHASE II

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Youth and Sports (MoYS), GD for Sports

Overall Objective Improved future opportunities and living standards for youth and children in Southeast Turkey.

Specific ObjectiveModem sports facilities are in use for enhancing supplementary education opportunities for youth and children, with a view to increase social inclusion and cohesion in pilot areas of Southeast Turkey.

Expected Results

1. Better developed local capacity of supplementary social education and sports training as tool for promoting social inclusion and social cohesion.

2. The school enrollment rates of youth and in particular young girls are expected to improve.

3. The number of children in conflict with law or engaged in criminal activities decreases.

Description

Project fiche (p. 20): “The project design phase involved the participation of several civil society organisations. The content of the in class education modules have been designed in cooperation with TEGEV, WWF-Turkey and ACEV. The physical training programs have been established with the cooperation of the Turkish Football Federation and the Turkish Athletics Federation. The cooperation of these CSOs will continue during the implementation of the project. These CSOs will be responsible for preparing the training materials, training the trainers and monitoring the trainers. The CSOs will also participate in the outreach activities.”

Implementation Works Contract, TA Contract


TR2011/0328.24 STRENGTHENING CANCER SCREENING AND PALLIATIVE CARE CAPACITY IN TURKEY

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Health (MoH), Department of Cancer Control

Overall Objective To reduce the prevalence of cancer in Turkey through improved prevention as well as to provide high quality palliative care to all cancer patients.

Specific Objective

To increase the number of early detected cancers and thereby improve life expectancy rates and quality of life of cancer patients and their families, through increasing utilisation rates of cancer screening services and delivery of high-qualitative palliative services at primary health care level.

Expected Results

1. Cancer screening data collection system strengthened.

2. Quality of screening services improved.

3. Model primary level palliative care system established in 8 provinces.

4. Awareness and knowledge level of target population increased on cancer screening and palliative care.

Description

Turkish Society of Medical Oncology; Turkish Society of Oncologic Nursing; Turkish Society of Family Physicians were listed as main CSOs to be consulted. In addition to including CSOs to project activities, the project also planned to ensure the support of cancer patient advocacy CSOs.


TR2011/0311.25 TRAINING STAFF ON IACS PROCEDURES

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (MoFAL), GD of Agricultural Reform

Overall Objective To improve the readiness of Turkey for future implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy.

Specific Objective To establish the capacity of MoFAL for future implementation of Integrated Administration and Control System and use of Land Parcel Identification System.

Expected Results1. The institutional capacity of MoFAL and other stakeholders to implement agricultural support

schemes reaches an adequate level to manage schemes related to Integrated Administration and Control System and Land Parcel Identification System.

Description Project activities included the training of 10.500 persons from all stakeholders, including representatives of farmer’s unions and CSOs.








TR2012/0123.01 Prevention of Corruption and Promotion of Ethics

Council of Ethics for Public Service

2.500.000 2.225.000

TR2012/0123.02 Strengthening Judicial Ethics in Turkey

High Council of Judges and Prosecutors

3.340.000 3.000.000

TR2012/0324.03 Efficiency in Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing

Financial Crimes Investigation Board

4.213.610 3.750.000

TR2012/0124.04 Socioeconomic Development through Demining and Increasing the Border Surveillance Capacity at the Easter Borders of Turkey - Phase II

Ministry of Interior 53.500.000 40.000.000

TR2012/0323.05 The Strengthening of Probation Services’ Institutional Capacity in Transition to Electronic Monitoring System

Ministry of Justice 2.000.000 1.800.000

TR2012/0329.06 Modernization of Turkish Customs Administration VIII


11.842.568 10.495.500

TR2012/0136.07 Common Cultural Heritage: Preservation and dialogue between Turkey and the EU (Phase II


6.188.900 5.420.000

TR2012/0136.08 Jean Monnet Scholarship Programme MEUA 8.840.000 8.840.000

Sub-total 92.425.078 75.530.500

Sector 4: Transport

TR2012/0314.09 Capacity Building on Safety and Security Training Requirements of the Turkish Civil Aviation

GD of Civil Aviation 15.800.000 13.555.000

Sub-total 15.800.000 13.555.000

Sector 5: Energy

TR2012/0315.10 Energy Sector Programme (Phase I)


11.800.000 11.800.000





Sub-total 11.800.000 11.800.000


TR2012/0465.11 Turkey’s Participation in Union Programmes and Agencies MEUA 185.933.180 67.939.161

TR2012/0328.12 Preventing and Combating selected Risk Factors for Health in School


3.334.000 3.000.000

Sub-total 189.267.180 70.939.161

Sector 7: Agriculture and Rural Development

TR2012/0312.13 Electronic Identification and Registration System for Sheep and Goats

Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, GD of Agricultural Reform

34.100.000 34.100.000

Sub-total 34.100.000 34.100.000

Sector 8: Support and Other Activities

TR2012/0740.14 Enhanced Support Activities to Strengthen the European Integration Process

MEUA 27.800.000 25.000.000

Sub-total 27.800.000 25.000.000

TOTAL 371.192.258 230.924.661



TR2012/0123.01 PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION AND PROMOTION OF ETHICS

Main Beneficiary Council of Ethics for Public Service

Overall Objective To contribute to the prevention of corruption in Turkey in accordance with European and other international standards.

Specific ObjectiveTo promote an ethical culture in society through strengthening the Council of Ethics and CSOs functioning within the field and ensuring a sustainable collaboration among CSOs, public and private sectors.

Expected Results

1. The capacity of the Council is enhanced.

2. Joint activities with the public sector, private sector, universities, and CSOs are organised.

3. Ethic standards with two public institutions and those institutions stakeholders are developed.

4. Activities of voluntary and selected professional and private institutions activities for developing professional and business ethics are supported.

5. Awareness on corruption and ethics is increased.

Implementation TA Contract, Grant scheme for CSOs to increase their quality in advocacy and monitoring to improve ethical culture and lessen corruption

TR2012/0123.02 STRENGTHENING JUDICIAL ETHICS IN TURKEY

Main Beneficiary High Council of Judges and Prosecutors

Specific Objective To contribute enhance the independence of the judiciary and to improve public trust in the judiciary in accordance with European standards.

Expected Results

1. Situation in the field of judicial ethics is analysed and a code of ethics is developed.

2. Increased awareness of the Turkish judges and prosecutors on judicial ethics.

3. Enhanced capacity of the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors to implement the Code.

4. Increased public awareness on judicial ethics and the availability of complaint mechanisms.


TR2012/0324.03 EFFICIENCY IN ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING AND COUNTER TERRORIST FINANCING

Main Beneficiary Financial Crimes Investigation Board (MASAK)

Overall Objective Efficiency and effectiveness in anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing system detecting, preventing and reducing crimes committed in these areas.

Specific Objective Efficient and effective legal, institutional and technical framework for combating money laundering and terrorist financing in line with EU legislation and international practices.


TR2012/0324.03 EFFICIENCY IN ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING AND COUNTER TERRORIST FINANCING

Main Beneficiary Financial Crimes Investigation Board (MASAK)

Expected Results

1. Legal, administrative, analytical and investigative capacity for combating terrorist financing is adequate and ensures efficiency and effectiveness.

2. Legal, administrative, analytical and investigative capacity for combating money laundering is adequate and ensures efficiency and effectiveness.

3. Strong enforcement and supervision capacity of MASAK.

DescriptionBanks Association, the Association of Capital Market Intermediary Institutions, Participation Banks Association, the Association of the insurance and Reinsurance Companies are listed as relevant civil society stakeholders.

Implementation Twinning, Investment Contract

TR2012/0323.05 THE STRENGTHENING OF PROBATION SERVICES’ INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY IN TRANSITION TO ELECTRONIC MONITORING SYSTEM


Overall Objective Effective prevention and reduction of crime.

Specific Objective To set up an effective and functional electronic monitoring system in Turkey through pilot implementations and in line with European standards.

Expected Results1. Public protection and effective supervision of offenders in probation were provided through

an effective electronic monitoring system.

2. More effective implementation of probation services, technological means were provided.


TR2012/0136.07 COMMON CULTURAL HERITAGE: PRESERVATION AND DIALOGUE BETWEEN TURKEY AND THE EU (PHASE II)

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MoCT)

Co-Beneficiary Preservation and international cooperation on cultural heritage and promotion of cultural diversity in Turkey.

Side Beneficiary

Sustainable management plan for cultural heritage in Turkey in close co-operation and civil society partnership between Turkey and EU Member States firmly established in the area of cultural heritage. With respect to supporting cultural diversity, promoting cross border dialogues and networking, establishing partnerships between CSOs in Turkey and the EU, and increasing exchange of experience.

Specific Objectives1. Cultural Heritage Training Programme set up and implemented stressing cultural diversity.

2. Model Site Management Plan adopted and in use as well as pilot implementation in Sinop fully prepared.

Implementation Works Contract, TA Contract, Grant Scheme for development of dialogue on preservation of Common Cultural Heritage




Project Title Main Beneficiary

Total Cost (Euro)



2013/1.1.1 Strengthening the Legal Aid Service in Turkey Ministry of Justice

1.375.000 1.306.250

2013/1.1.2 Performance Assessment and Management System for Judiciary

Ministry of Justice

2.140.655 1.926.590

2013/1.1.3 Supporting the Individual Application to the Constitutional Court in Turkey

Constitutional Court

6.382.228 4.082.228

2013/1.1.4 Enhancement of Participatory Democracy in Turkey: Monitoring Gender Equality MEUA 1.628.000 1.628.000

2013/1.1.5.1 Strengthening the Institutional Capacity of Turkish National Police Regarding Public Order Management and Crowd

Turkish National Police

7.131.193 5.748.395

2013/1.1.5.2: Strengthening the Institutional Capacity of Gendarmerie General Command Regarding Public Order Management and Crowd


3.124.635 2.608.403

2003/1.1.6 Independent Police Complaints Commission and Complaints System for the Turkish National Police, Gendarmerie and Coast Guard

Ministry of Interior

2.000.000 1.900.000

2013/1.1.7 Improving the Crime Scene Investigation Capacity of Turkey


4.000.000 3.400.000

2013/1.2.1.1 Reinforcement of Turkey’s National Asylum System

General Directorate for Migration Management

5.500.000 4.950.000

2013/1.2.1.2 Supporting Turkey’s Efforts to Manage Migration


5.500.000 4.950.000

2013/1.2.1.3 Supporting Migration Policy Development in Turkey


1.527.100 1.374.390

2013/1.2.1.4 Increasing Technical Capacity for Effective Migration Management


5.898.720 5.013.912




Total Cost (Euro)


2013/1.2.2 Strengthening the Border Check Capacity of Turkey- Improving Administrative Capacity of Border Management at Local Level


1.705.000 1.534.500

2013/1.2.3.1 Increasing Border Surveillance Capacity of Borders between Turkey and Greece


29.046.030 22.057.677

2013/1.2.3.2. Improving the Maritime Customs Surveillance Capacity and Operational Procedures of TCA


5.420.000 4.807.000

2013/1.4 Improving Cooperation Regarding Border Management – Regional Co-operation on Border Management with Greece and Bulgaria - phase 2


3.000.000 2.000.000

2013/1.3 Improving Social Dialogue in Working Life Ministry of Labour and Social Security

3.500.000 3.150.000

Sub-total 88.878.561 72.437.345

Sector 5: Energy

2013/5.1 Energy Efficiency


14.750.378 14.750.378

2013/5.2 Renewable Energy


14.429.378 14.429.378

2013/5.3 Electricity and Gas Market Development


1.703.654 1.703.654

2013/5.4 Long-term energy scenarios, capacity building and establishment of an Energy Electronic Data Centre


5.298.854 5.298.854

2013/5.5 Improvement of Nuclear Safety Regulatory Infrastructure

Turkish Atomic Energy Authority

1.902.192 1.807.082

2013/5.6 Awareness raising among all relevant Stakeholders


1.046.032 1.046.032




Total Cost (Euro)


Sub-total 39.130.488 39.035.378

Sector 6: Environment and Climate Change

2013/6.1 Project Capacity Building in the Field of Climate Change in Turkey


15.500.000 13.950.000

2013/6.2 Capacity Building on the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register in Turkey


2.410.000 2.149.000

2013/6.3 Technical Assistance on Economic Analyses within River Basin Management Plans and Water Efficiency Aspects in 4 Pilot River Basins in Turkey

Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs

4.500.000 4.050.000

Sub-total 22.410.000 20.149.000


2013/7.1 Participation in Union Programmes and Agencies MEUA 71.203.189 71.203.189

Sub-total 71.203.189 71.203.189

Sector 8: Agricultural and Rural Development

2013.8.1 Agriculture and Rural Development; Food and Feed safety, Fisheries

Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock

15.468.000 12.525.000

Sub-total 15.468.000 12.525.000

Sector 9: Support and other activities

2013/9.1 Enhanced Support Activities to Strengthen the European Integration Process MEUA 23.700.102 21.400.102

Sub-total 23.700.102 21.400.102

TOTAL 260.790.340 236.750.014



2013/1.1.1 STRENGTHENING THE LEGAL AID SERVICE IN TURKEY


Specific Objective To establish a more effective, sustainable and satisfactory legal aid system in order to strengthen the right to a fair trial and access to justice.

Description

Within this measure, a competent body responsible for implementation of all legal aid services will be established which do not exist either in Ministry of Justice or in Turkish Bar Association. Transparent and objective economic criterion will be defined for applying to legal aid services throughout Turkey. The new legal aid authority will (i) establish a consistent application procedure for the usage of legal aid for courts and bar associations; (ii) effectively supervise the compulsory defence lawyers by forming rules for controlling the cases followed by them, as problems in payments for lawyers; and (iii) increase the quality of legal aid services by evaluating and resolving the legal aid demands from beneficiaries in a faster and reliable way.

The sector fiche notes that this measure includes a comprehensive public awareness component, “since skeptical approach of citizens to the system and appointed lawyers due to limited number of awareness raising campaigns has a detrimental effect to the success of the system”.


2013/1.1.2 PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR JUDICIARY


Specific ObjectiveTo provide a systematic framework and an empirical basis for the Turkish authorities to be able to measure justice sector performance in general and to empirically assess the impact of future improvement initiatives in particular.

Description

The activities within this measure will include: (i) identifying the duties and working standards of judicial professionals; (ii) providing a framework and empirical data about relevant aspects of justice sector performance; (iii) determining principles concerning the organisational structure suitable to judicial work processes; (iv) preparing a need analysis regarding performance-based salaries.

Implementation Direct Grant (World Bank)

2013/1.1.3 SUPPORTING THE INDIVIDUAL APPLICATION TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT IN TURKEY

Main Beneficiary Constitutional Court

Co-Beneficiaries High Council of Judges and Prosecutors, Council of State, Court of Cassation, Turkish Justice Academy and Bar Associations

Overall ObjectiveTo contribute to supporting and strengthening of the individual application system in Turkey by empowering the judiciary in Turkey in line with the acquis, the rights and freedoms guaranteed under the system of the ECHR.


2013/1.1.3 SUPPORTING THE INDIVIDUAL APPLICATION TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT IN TURKEY

Main Beneficiary Constitutional Court

Specific Objective

To contribute to the capacity development of the higher courts, first instance courts and bar associations in the functioning of the individual application mechanism to the Constitutional Court in and implementation of the fundamental rights guaranteed under the system of the ECtHR.

Description

The main target group of the project is the judges and prosecutors of first instance courts. The foreseen activities of the measure include: (i) increasing capacity of the judges, prosecutors and lawyers n Turkey on the individual application mechanism and implementation of fundamental rights protected by the ECHR, the case law of the ECtHR, the ESC and national mechanism; (ii) promoting co-operation between the Constitutional Court and its European counterparts, as well as other human rights institutions; (iii) establishing dialogue between national and international judges and jurists.


2013/1.1.4 ENHANCEMENT OF PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY IN TURKEY: MONITORING GENDER EQUALITY

Main Beneficiary Ministry of EU Affairs (MEUA)

Side Beneficiaries Ministry for Family and Social Affairs, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Health and Ministry of National Education

Overall Objective To further engage the women’s rights organisations towards the achievement of greater de facto gender equality for the development of a more participatory democracy in Turkey.

Specific Objective

- To build up and strengthen the organisational capacities of women’s rights organisations’ so that they can monitor the implementation of public policies in terms of both gender equality and the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women involved in the processes of policy and project implementations better.

- To the development/further development of cooperation and communication between women’s rights organizations and policy makers for the enhancement of participatory democracy in Turkey through recognizing democracy as one that which should be sensitive to gender-based inequalities.




Expected Results

1. Component 1: The enhancement of gender-related public policies: mapping the opportunities for monitoring towards greater gender equality

2. Increased Awareness and Knowledge about How to Eradicate Gender-based Inequalities through Research, Data Collection and Reporting

3. Women and Human Rights Organisations analysed the implementation problems of the public policies.

4. Increased Knowledge and Awareness among Women and Human Rights Organisations about public policies.

5. Component 2: The empowerment of women and human rights organisations about all aspects of monitoring.

6. Increased cooperation and communication between women’s civil society organisations and public institutions at the local and national levels.

7. Increased cooperation and communication among women’s civil society organisations locally, nationally and internationally.

Implementation Direct Grant (Association for Monitoring Gender Equality)



Side Beneficiaries Ministry for Family and Social Affairs, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Health and Ministry of National Education

Overall Objective To further engage the women’s rights organisations towards the achievement of greater de facto gender equality for the development of a more participatory democracy in Turkey.

Specific Objective

To build up and strengthen the organisational capacities of women’s rights organisations’ so that they can monitor the implementation of public policies in terms of both gender equality and the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women involved in the processes of policy and project implementations better.

To the development/further development of cooperation and communication between women’s rights organizations and policy makers for the enhancement of participatory democracy in Turkey through recognizing democracy as one that which should be sensitive to gender-based inequalities.




Expected Results

1. Component 1: The enhancement of gender-related public policies: mapping the opportunities for monitoring towards greater gender equality

2. Increased Awareness and Knowledge about How to Eradicate Gender-based Inequalities through Research, Data Collection and Reporting

3. Women and Human Rights Organisations analysed the implementation problems of the public policies.

4. Increased Knowledge and Awareness among Women and Human Rights Organisations about public policies.

5. Component 2: The empowerment of women and human rights organisations about all aspects of monitoring.

6. Increased cooperation and communication between women’s civil society organisations and public institutions at the local and national levels.

7. Increased cooperation and communication among women’s civil society organisations locally, nationally and internationally.

Implementation Direct Grant (Association for Monitoring Gender Equality)

2013/1.1.5.1 STRENGTHENING THE INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY OF TURKISH NATIONAL POLICE REGARDING PUBLIC ORDER MANAGEMENT AND CROWD

Main Beneficiary Turkish National Police

Overall Objective Providing a more secure environment in which citizens can enjoy the freedom of expression and freedom of assembly.

Specific ObjectiveTo develop the human resources and technical structureof law enforcement bodies and to improve the current situation in accordance with best practices of EU Member States on crowd control.

Description

One of the project activities is the establishment of crisis centres in Ankara, Van and Diyarbakır. Moreover, Police Vocational School in Diyarbakir will serve as the Regional Training Centre on crowd control. The project also includes awareness raising seminars on the rights and duties guaranteed by laws and enjoyed in public demonstrations, with the participation CSOs.

Implementation Supply Contract, Twinning


2013/1.1.5.2 STRENGTHENING THE INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY OF GENDARMERIE GENERAL COMMAND REGARDING PUBLIC ORDER MANAGEMENT AND CROWD


Overall Objective

To eliminate human rights violations originating from lack of training and technical inadequacies and to contribute to the “zero tolerance” policy in violations of human rights by strengthening the institutional capacity of the Gendarmerie personnel and technical infrastructure.

Specific ObjectiveTo prevent the acts that may cause to the human rights violations by use of disproportionate force during the riot control, to train the personnel on this issue and maximise the riot control capabilities of the personnel.

Expected ResultsIncreased capacity of the Gendarmerie on crowd control in line with the implementation standards of European countries, EU Acquis, ECHR and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights.

Implementation Works Contract, Twinning

2003/1.1.6 INDEPENDENT POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMISSION AND COMPLAINTS SYSTEM FOR THE TURKISH NATIONAL POLICE, GENDARMERIE AND COAST GUARD


Overall Objective

To enhance the accountability, efficiency, effectiveness and public confidence of the Turkish National Police, Gendarmerie and Coast Guard in the discharge of their responsibilities in respect of the enforcement of law in accordance with democratic principles and having regard for the Human Rights of all citizens.

Specific ObjectiveTo support the implementation of the primary legislation with regard to a new independent complaints system for the Turkish National Police, Gendarmerie and Coast Guard, and to start the full operations of the new complaints system and consolidate the system.

Expected Results

Establishment of the Commission for the Monitoring of Law Enforcement Bodies is the main aim of the project. This Commission will follow and monitor the central record system, provide uniformity in practices, and contribute to the development of new policies. Most importantly the Commission is expected to ensure transparency, accountability, and efficiency.


2013/1.1.7 IMPROVING THE CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION CAPACITY OF TURKEY


Overall Objective To contribute to the effective functioning of the judicial system in Turkey, by supporting human rights sensitive, scientific and transparent crime scene investigations.

Specific Objective To improve the efficiency of the Crime Scene Investigation Teams through the introduction and nationwide dissemination of means and methods in line with EU best practices.



2013/1.2.1 REINFORCEMENT OF TURKEY’S NATIONAL ASYLUM SYSTEM


Specific Objective

Building the capacity of the GDMM to ensure the effective implementation of the provisions related to asylum included in the new “Law on Foreigners and International Protection”, while fostering the continuation of the legal and institutional reform process of Turkey in the field of asylum towards the EU and international standards.

Description

The measure consists of trainings for the General Directorate’s personnel and the development of guidelines for the asylum system. Particularly, the action aims to:

• Establish high quality asylum procedures in compliance with main principles and international standards.

• Introduce sustainable and systematic quality assurance mechanisms.

• Build the capacity of local and abroad branches of the GDMM.

• Develop procedures for determination of stateless persons.

• Establish a reception system in compliance with the international standards ensuring human dignity,

• Develop policies for the facilitation and long term integration of refugees in coordination with other state institutions and with the active involvement civil society.

Implementation Direct Grant (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)

2013/1.2.2 SUPPORTING TURKEY’S EFFORTS TO MANAGE MIGRATION

Main Beneficiary General Directorate for Migration Management (GDMM)

Specific Objective

Building the capacity of the General Directorate for Migration Management to ensure the effective implementation of the provisions related to migration management included in the new Law on Foreigners and International Protection while fostering the continuation of the legal and institutional reform process of Turkey in the area of migration management towards the EU and international standards.

Description

The project aims to support institutional reform process on migration management through a variety of actions, including:

• Setting up inter-institutional coordination mechanisms to ensure migrants’ access to services such as health, legal aid as well as establish consultation and information centres for migrants.

• Reviewing and supporting the implementation of the anti-trafficking action plan; enhancing the capacity of all the concerned institutional actors, including civil society, to prevent and combat human trafficking.

• Strengthening the capacities of civil society organisations working in this field and supportting awareness raising activities on migration management among local governments, public officials and public.

Implementation Direct Grant (International Organisation for Migration)


2013/1.2.3 SUPPORTING MIGRATION POLICY DEVELOPMENT IN TURKEY

Main Beneficiary General Directorate for Migration Management (GDMM)

Specific Objective

Establishment of the capacity to analyse empirical data and information on the features and drivers of all the components of this phenomenon, including legal, irregular migration as well as refugee flows, and focusing not only on the incoming, but also on the transit and outgoing migratory flows; and to support the capacity to elaborate migration policies inspired by and responsive to the results of these analysis.

Implementation Direct Grant (International Centre for Migration Policy Development)

2013/1.2.3.1 INCREASING TECHNICAL CAPACITY FOR EFFECTIVE MIGRATION MANAGEMENT

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Interior

Co-Beneficiary General Staff (Land Force Command)

Specific Objective

Support border security and surveillance through increasing institutional capacity of relevant border guards (currently Land Forces) and modernisation of border surveillance system and contribute to the prevention of illegal migration, human trafficking, cross-border crimes, and smuggling and to ensure further development and implementation of border management and standards in line with EU’s Integrated Border Management policies and strategies.


2013/1.3 IMPROVING SOCIAL DIALOGUE IN WORKING LIFE

Main Beneficiary Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MoLSS)

Overall Objective To promote social dialogue at all levels in Turkey.

Specific Objective To increase the capacity of social partners and relevant public institutions as well as to raise awareness on social dialogue at all levels.

Expected Results

1. Institutional capacity of MoLSS, related institutions and social partners has been improved to better engage in social dialogue in working life.

2. Awareness of the institutions and the general public on freedom of association, collective bargaining and social dialogue at all levels has been improved.

3. Social dialogue mechanisms at all levels have been improved.

Description

Project fiche (p. 19): “With the implementation of the project, general public will have stronger awareness about social dialogue, trade union rights, the implementation of legislation as well as about related EU requirements with the help of spotlights, conferences etc. A survey and field research on perception of the society about trade unions and social dialogue will be conducted and the results will be formulated in order to identify and share recommendations. Also, trade unions, employees and employers who are not unionised, as well as the public institutions and officials who are dealing with trade unions are in the agenda of the project. And the project also aims to develop social dialogue among these groups.”

Implementation Direct Grant (International Labor Organisation), Grant Scheme for enhancing social dialogue at branch and companies levels and improving social dialogue mechanisms

5. GRANT PROGRAMS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

AND THE PROJECTS OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS

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5. GRANT PROGRAMS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE PROJECTS OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS

As its is the case in other of the pre-accession countries, EU is the most important donor that provides financial support to CSOs in Turkey. CSOs can benefit from different sources of grants available through EU Programs.

1. Grant Programs Managed by the EU Institutions: Those grant schemes are implemented under various EU Programs for which CSOs in Turkey are listed as aligible applicants. Those programs usually operate through call for proposals targeting more than one country. In addition to these, there are also grant opportunities available only for CSOs in Turkey, like those implemented under the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights

2. Grant Programs Available under the Pre-Accession Financial Assistance:

a) Civil Society Grant Facilities: Grants Schemes such as Cultural Bridges, Civil Society Dialogue (I-II-III)

b) Grant schemes implemented under the projects of public institutions, which generally have a more limited scope and narrowly defined objectives and/or which have restrictions in terms of geographical locations or target groups.Those grant schemes are usually formulated and implemented in line with the sectoral level pre-accession policies.

The Central Finance and Contract Unit (CFCU) had been the main institution responsible of managing grant programs implemented under pre-accession financial assistance till 2012. The responsibilities of CFCU include the announcement of the call for proposals, the collection of project applications, and the coordination of project evaluations, as well as the monitoring of project administration. As of 2012, the responsibility of grant programs to be implemented under the Human Resources Development

Operational Program is transferred to the Human Resources Development Operation Structure under the Ministry of Labour and Social Security.

This research study only covers grant programs implemented via the financial support provided by the EU to Turkey as an instrument of pre-accession strategies (See Table 3.4). In other words, grant programs that are managed centrally by EU institutions and available under specific EU level policy programs are excluded. The main source of information used for accessing information on grant programs is the database on the web-portal of CFCU, which includes all documents related to grant programs, including program guidelines and lists of grant awardees. The documents listing the awardees generally include information on the beneficiary organisations, project titles, project durations, project locations, and the amount of grants to be received. The information on co-beneficiaries of those projects are not presented in a uniform manner; for some programs there is no information about co-beneficiaries, while for others the geographical locations of co-beneficiaries are available. For a narrower set of grant programs, co-beneficiaries are also listed. Additionally, grant award announcements are missing for several programs.

In the beginning, the goal of the TAV was to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the projects implemented by CSOs, including project objectives and target groups. However accessing information on the objectives and target groups of the projects carried out under different grant schemes is generally impossible. For grant programs administered centrally by the EU institutions and for those whose grant awardee lists can be obtained through Europeaid web-site, information on the objectives of each project as well as project partners is available. However, as mentioned above, in

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case of grant programs managed by the CFCU, those types of information are not accessible through these documents. In some cases, grant programs may have individual web pages, but those are usually shut down at the end of grant programs. For example, the current Civil Society Dialogue III grant program has such a web page, which provides more detailed information about the projects that receive financial support under that program, while the web page of the previous Civil Society Dialogue II program has already been shut down. However, brief summaries of projects implemented under Civil Society Dialogue II program can be accessed by making online research by project title. For the remaining grant schemes, the required minimum level of information is only accessible if the individual web-sites of the projects are open and include that information. However, web sites of projects implemented in previous years are usually shut down.

A second problem arises from the difference between the definitions of “civil society” and “civil society organisations”. As explained before, this report defines associations and foundations with a legal status as CSOs. There are only two exceptions made throughout the report regarding the definitions of CSOs to this definition. Firstly, since there are many women cooperatives operating as additional bodies of CSOs working on womens’ issues, the projects implemented by those cooperatives are included in this chapter. Secondly, a similar approach is adopted for grant beneficiaries which are legally operating as non-profit companies, but which are important civil society actors, particularly in relation to the EU pre-accession process.

The projects catalogued in this chapter are presented under two headings. Civil Society Grant Facilities include grant programs open to various types of organisations that are considered as a part of the civil society. Therefore, the beneficiaries of a large number of grant schemes are organisations other than CSOs. On the other hand, it could not be possible to present the beneficiaries of all grant programs in this report, due to budgetary restrictions. Therefore, in cases which CSOs have a larger share in terms of grants awarded, all beneficiaries are listed. In other cases, only CSOs that received financial support under a grant scheme are included. The second group of grant programs presented in this Chapter consist of those implemented and financed as a part of the projects implemented by the Ministries (excluding MUA) or other public institutions operating under central government.

5.1. GRANT PROGRAMS IMPLEMENTED UNDER THE TITLI “CIVIL SOCIETY”

5.1.1. (TR 05 01 02) Strengthening Civil Society in the Pre-Accession Process8 different grant schemes were implemented under two different components within this civil society grant facility. Component A, consisting of 5 grant award programs, was administered under the decentralised system and the call for proposals was announced in 2007 May. The remaining 3 grant award programs was managed by the Delegation of the European Union to Turkey. The results of the first four programs of Component A can be found in the compendium published by the Secretariat General for EU Affairs. The information about the projects implemented within the fifth grant program can be accessed via REC Turkey, which was responsible of program management. The results of the programs under Component B is available on the EUROPEAN web-site.


TABLE 5.1: A1- PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS GRANT AWARDS

Beneficiary Project Title Project Locations Grant Amount (Euro)

AÇEV, Mother Child Education Foundation

Literacy for Women’s Rights: Empowering Women through Political and Civil Rights Training

Adana, Ankara, Bursa, İzmir, Kocaeli

83.682

Objective:Ensuring that 14+ women in intensely in-migrant cities, of Adana, Ankara, Bursa, Kocae- li and İzmir, become literate increasing their awareness/ consciousness about their political rights, and develop their skills to protect their rights.

Amasya Association for Civil Society Support

Promotion and Protection of Women’s Rights

Amasya 54.662

Objective:

Giving women the consciousness that they have to have a status in the city of Amasya where no women take place in managerial positions by way of training support to 40 women nominees for success and citywide organisations and making sure women become aware of their individual powers

Ana Fatma Women’s AssociationProject of Education for Protection of Women’s Rights and Access of Women to Employment I in Tunceli

Tunceli 62.915

Objective:In order to ensure women’s access to economical, political and cultural - artistic rights in Tunceli, training 30 women aged between 28- 35 on pottery, painting and photography; implementing awareness-raising activities on social gender equality.

Aşağıçerçi Village Beautification Association Multi-Functioning Women’s Centre Bartın 54.230

Objective:

Repairing of a building jointly owned by the village by Aşagıçerçi Village Improvement Society and make it a centre for village women to use for various purposes, raising their income levels in production. Ensuring they do production in current standards.

Bahçelievler Women, Enviroment, Culture and Enterprise Cooperative

Inclusion of Women Living in Shelter Houses into Employment and Life

İstanbul 44.283

Objective:Training young girls and women living in Bahçelievler Women’s Guesthouse and Bahçelievler Children’s and Youth Center under SHCEK in order to support them in getting employed and suffice themselves economically.

Bandırma Association of Industrialists and 8 Businessmen

Developing Economic Rights Of Women Making Needle Lace In Bandırma rough Increasing eir Entrepreneurial Ability

Balıkesir 35.853

Objective:

Offering necessary training and consultancy services aimed at entrepreneurship to housewives dealing with needlework and embroidery, making them conscious about production and marketing subjects, ensuring they establish companies and cooperatives, and developing their employment qualifications.




Union of Local Government and Public Employees (Bem-Bir-Sen)

Union for Municipality and City Administration Personnel

İstanbul 52.042

Objective:

Establishing the Women Works Observatory Center under Bem Bir Sen and supporting gender equality and create a database on this and ensuring that women working in local governments -particularly in Zeytinburnu and Beylikdüzü Municipalities- gain a better working environment.

Friendship, Education and Solidarity Association (DostDer)

White Lab Coat (Pharmacy Assistant Staff Education)

Samsun 67.094

Objective:Training 40 women aged between 18 - 30 years - at least elementary school graduate - about being pharmacy assistant personnel and ensuring employment of 10 women by this way.

Gönülbirliği Culture and Solidarity Association

Identification of Abstentions of Women to Participate the Political Decision Making, Resolutions and Enlightening for Encouragement

Ankara 66.880

Objective:Determination of reasons underlying abstention of women in various educational and social backgrounds from political participation, determination of democratic solution ways for their elimination and making them conscious.

Association of Business and Professional Women

Pace for Employment and Assurance For Respectful Life

Ankara 76.648

Objective:

To increase the employment opportunities of 75 female students; to increase the number of institutions who are aware that one of the most crucial aspects of achieving sustainable development is to establish gender equality; to ensure that the program is implemented in orphanages in Turkey and to enable the restructuring of orphanages as permanent education centres.

Ka-Der Eskişehir Women’s Strength with Entrepreneurship

Eskişehir 30.363

Objective: Contributing, through trainings, to the development of women’s entrepreneurial skills and their employment, and utilising local resources in a manner guaranteeing economic development and employment.

Foundation for the Support of Women’s Work

Establishment of Women’s Cooperatives’ Network

İstanbul 77.696

Objective:

Strengthening interaction among women’s cooperatives with a communication network and interactive web portal to be established between about 50 existing women’s cooperatives, and introducing them with new programs and application examples through which they will expand their access areas and affect their local decision-making processes.




Women’s Social Life Research and Studies Association FIRST STEP, WOMAN IN LOCAL Ankara 61.716

Objective:

Realizing effective participation of women in politics and making sure that they develop in the social and cultural area, and become modern and equal individuals of the society; ensuring that the fact that the women have legally equal election rights with men is implemented in the existing situation and making women conscious in this area.

Foundation for Women’s Solidarity Snowball Project

Kocaeli, Sakarya, Yalova

78.103

Objective:

Trainings and activities were organised for 1150 women who have been discriminated in the society in Kocaeli city centre, Gölcük, Körfez and Gebze Districts, Yalova city centre and Sakarya city Sapanca district to increase their visibility and making sure they get stronger, more free and more organised.

Cappadocia Women, Youth, Education, and Culture Association

Our Life is a Dram-A Nigde 33.580

Objective: Implementation of gender equality related and awareness raising activities in Nig de.

Kayseri Chamber of Commerce Stear Standing Women Kayseri 78.032

Objective: Continuously spreading the consciousness of target group in Kayseri city borders regarding raising women from substitute labor force to main labor force.

Marmara Group Strategic and Social Research Foundation

Project to Develop the Social Scale of Young Women by Beekeeping in Rural Area and Production of Organic Honey

Kırklareli 87.975

Objective:

To teach bee-keeping and organic honey production to 40 unemployed women aged 18-25, elementary school graduate, living in Kırklareli project area and working to ensure they set up their own bee-keeping enterprises, thus giving them a profession and making them entrepreneurial.

S.S. Sinop Region Forestry Cooperatives Union

Edification of the Country Women and Girls in Sinop

Sinop 56.605

Objective:Teaching of production of healthy agricultural products for people to eat healthy products, practical vegeta- ble growing training aimed at showing how to gain more economic income in village life.

S.S Doğubayazıt Women, Environment, Culture, and Management Cooperative

Hand in Hand Women Training Center Project

Agrı 84.628




Objective:

Establishment of the Hand in Hand Women’s Training Center and offering training to 60 women about textile; offering consultancy services on access to women’s rights and other rights and services, creating infrastructure for vocational trainings to other areas.

S.S. Ankara Zeytindalı Women, Environment, Culture, and Management Cooperative

Effort is Earthen, Silver is Seed Ankara 80.929

Objective:

Training 30 women on silver jewellery processing, and making sure there is an improvement in their living conditions as a result of their utilisation of own labor in an organised or individual manner. Supporting women to develop democratic attitude and action in line with their rights, problems, needs and requests.

Filmmor Women, Environment, Culture, and Management Cooperative

Moragenda: Making Women’s Agenda Visible

İstanbul 70.566

Objective:

Ensuring that all works/activities/campaigns made within one year shall be visible and shall spread with the purpose of eliminating social gender inequalities of women and women’s organisations. Contributing in transferring a visual and regularly recorded history to future generations, and to the creation of an archive.

Association for Solidarity with Asylum Seekers and Migrants

Promoting the Gender Equality, Eliminating the Gender Based Discrimination,Improving the Access and Enjoyment of the Economic and Political Rights of Local, Refugee, and Asylum Seeker Women in Nevşehir

Nevşehir 68.648

Objective:

Informing the local people in Nevşehir about immigration, gender equality, gender-based discrimination, and women’s utilisation of their political and economic rights; ensuring communication among beneficiaries, non-governmental organisations, local government authorities and universities, establishing the Women’s Rights Commission with all parties attending.

Association for Sustainable Rural and Urban Development

Strengthening Economical and Social Development of Women Through Goose Breeding

Kars 69.585

Objective:

To increase the quality of goose-raising, making women producers conscious, increasing number of trained women producers equipped with new technologies, and ensuring that they make a regular income. Developing at local level sensitivity on gender. Making sure the traditionally produced “Kars Goose” will be produced in healthy conditions and increasing their marketing opportunities and family nutrition.




Association for Democratic Law and Solidarity of Relatives of Ar- rested and Imprisoned Persons

Participation of the Women to Social Life With Their Own Identity

Van 72.032

Objective: Assisting women in gaining their economic and social rights and trying to change the prejudices against the women in society.

Turkish Democracy Foundation Gender Sensitive Budgeting for Local Governments: Marmara Model

Balıkesir, Bilecik, Bursa

83.070

Objective:

Increasing defensiveness, participation, consultancy, monitoring and evaluation capacities of women non- governmental organisations at the local level and making sure their budgets are transparent and efficient. Making sure international conventions on gender equality are known and ensuring their implementation in the medium term at the local scale.

Womens’s Council of Turkish Society Association Turkish Women’s Council Society Ankara 42.973

Objective:

Creating the Policy Development Center for Women (KAPOGEM) aimed at women’s developing policies and participation to politics, ensuring that female students studying in universities in Ankara shall participate to KAPOGEM, and ensuring that they work on politics, and increasing the participation of women to politics of NGOs.

Women’s Associations Federation of Turkey

Educatingthe Women About “The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Cedaw) “ and “Optional Protocol”

Ankara 71.404

Objective:

Consciousness of women at a trainable level for “Treaty for the Prevention of All Sorts of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)” and the “Voluntary Protocol” that Turkey is a part of, ensuring the conscious women participate in non-governmental organisations which are actives in women studies in order to promote CEDAW and Voluntary Protocol to wider masses.

Yalova Soroptimist Business And Professional Women Club

Let Democracy, Equivalency and Politics Endure With Women

Yalova 36.545

Objective:Training 40 women on vocational qualifications and personal development; establishment of a “School of Politics” aimed at +25 women interested in politics, creating social awareness and sensitivity on EU Women’s Rights.

TOTAL 1.782.740


TABLE 5.2: A2 - ENFORCEMENT OF SOCIAL INCLUSION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES GRANT AWARDS


Batıkent Association for the Protection of Mentally Disabled People

Advocacy and Consciousness Raising for the Mentally Disabled Students in Mixed Schools (Engel-Kaynaş)

Ankara 56.034

Objective:

Elimination of discrimination against the mentally disabled studying within the scope of combined education in 5 separate Elementary School administrators and student families within the borders of Ankara Yenimahalle district, and creation of defensiveness of disabled rights in educational facilities.

Bursa Association for Construction and Protection of Care and Rehabilitation Centers for Mentally Disabled People

Bursa Non-Handicapped Civilian Platform

Bursa 33.879

Objective:

To establish an effective communication network concerning the disabled individuals among non-governmental organisations, public institutions and municipalities; to enable an effective communication network among the NGOs of the disabled; to increase the institutional capacity of such NGOs.

World Schizophrenia Association Revival Project İstanbul 80.164

Objective:Developing a service model based on society and informing schizophrenia patients and their families and also the society about the illness with the aim of fusing mentally disabled individuals into society.

Association for Providing Employment and Professions for Disabled People

We Can Take Responsibility of Our Own Lives

Adana 31.012

Objective:

Establishing a “Service Center for the Mentally Disabled” aimed at mentally disabled people and their families in Adana under the roof of Ebimed-Der Association, fighting the discrimination and externalisation against the mentally disabled children and youth implementing the “Facilitator Coach” method, thus making sure the society and the mentally disabled become conscious, developing handicraft skills of the mentally disabled and their economical self-sufficiency.

Erciyes Univesity Faculty of Engineering

Hands Getting Ready To Touch Life (Hagret)

Kaysehir, Kırşehir, Nevşehir, Yozgat

51.577

Objective:Adding new ones to the limited occupational fields in which visually handicapped individuals can be employed and establishing centres with continuity which will provide vocational training for this purpose.

Foundation of Physically Handicaps

Sportive Skills And Coordination Trainings (SBK) For Handicapped Children

İstanbul 57.168




Objective: Establishing a sportive ability and coordination training centre in Istanbul-Kartal for 60 disabled children

GAP Association for the Blind Without Disabled Life Adıyaman 67.365

Objective:

Developing the visually handicapped individuals’ capacities of moving independently and supporting themselves economically, enabling them to have an idea about their rights and encouraging the society to support combat with discrimination.

Gören Kalpler Association for Education Practical Independence Life Education Ankara 71.036

Objective:Improving communication skills of 24 sight impaired children and youth in order to help them integrate to secondary school and professional life by introducing them skills for self sufficiency and self expression.

İzmit Zihinsel Engelliler Beceri Geliştirme Derneği

Mentally Impaired People Agricultural Production And Entrepreneurship

Kocaeli 65.319

Objective:

Offering vocational training in agriculture to the mentally handicapped people in the city of Kocaeli, reducing the dependence of the disabled to another person’s physical and economic support, increasing awareness for the existence of the physically disabled in life.

Turkey Disabled Association Konya Branch

Vocational Education And Communication Platform For Employment And Self-Awareness Of Disabled People With Disadvantages

Konya 40.814

Objective: Working to increase the social integration of 20 needy disabled persons aged 18-30 living in Konya.

Association for the Protection and the Education of Autistic Children

Mentally Handicapped People Are Getting United With The Society

Mersin 36.918

Objective: Removing the obstacles for integration of handicapped people in Mersin with society thus enabling them to be included in social life.

Özel Sporcular Youth and Sports Association

Young Seedlings Overcome Big Handicaps

Antalya 77.186

Objective:

Developing the physical independence and movement abilities of mentally disabled children living in Antalya and alternative new society-based services aimed at them and carrying to the European dimension and sharing of good practice examples among stakeholders and spreading them through communication networks.




Society for Children with Cerebral Palsy Playground Without Barriers Ankara 78.816

Objective:Constructing a sample play field that may contribute to rehabilitations of handicapped children, supporting their access to social and cultural rights and contributing changes to be made in legislation about present play fields.

Tohum Autism Foundation

Promoting Full Participation Of Children With Autism In e Society, By Improvement Of Physical Independence, Mobility, rough Education

Adana, Bursa, Gaziantep, İstanbul, İzmir, Kocaeli

84.630

Objective:Training and specialising the trainers of Guidance and Research Centre (RAM) and private training teachers on children with autism in order to increase the participation of children with autism in society.

Türkiye Engelliler Vakfı I Can Work Too İstanbul 59.011

Objective: Offering vocational training to disabled women and assisting their participation to social and economic life and employment.

Turkey Foundation for the Handicapped

Visually Impaired People’s Integration To The Society Mersin 85.334

Objective:

Providing social integration and rehabilitation of 80 sight impaired living in Mersin through trainings to be offered developing their abilities and to act independently and to reach to source of information and news, giving them professional skills and increasing their economic independence.

Turkish National Federation of the Deaf

We Do Not Want Pity, but Our Right to Honor

Türkiye 46.062

Objective:Preparing spot films with an aim to make conscious the society about all disabled groups and broadcasting them in TV stations, thus contributing in breaking prejudices about the disabled and development of consciousness.

Turkey Spinal Cord Paralytics Association Hope Employment Ankara 87.235

Objective:Creating an equipped center that the target group and region can benefit from where they can apply for jobs, make connections, and that can be a reference point between the unemployed disabled and employers.

Türkiye Sakatlar Derneği Kütahya Şubesi Disabled Info Desk Online Kütahya 60.590




Objective:

Developing the physical in-dependence, movement abilities and economic competence of the disabled, encouragement of the communication networks and organisations formed of the disabled and increasing the consciousness of the disabled.

Turkey Disabled Association Mardin Branch

“Sound of Two Hands” Teaching of Turkish Sign Language to Deaf People Project

Mardin 87.817

Objective:

Raising the living standards of the hearing impaired in all areas of the social, economic and political life, ensuring equality between the hearing and hearing disabled people, creating awareness and public opinion about the hearing impaired, initiate non-governmental works in Mardin for the hearing disabled, teaching the hearing disabled the Turkish sign Language and making sure they participate in the business, production and social life, working to make sure that the Public Agencies and Non-Governmental Agencies communicate without barriers with the hearing disabled.

Vangölü Folk Dance, Tourism, Sports Club Association Brothers Meeting Their Talents Van 85.466

Objective:

Teaching hand crafts to a group of 15 persons composed of Down Syndrome disabled persons by establishing a location (cafe) in Van that shall develop music, dance, sports, drawing and occupational skill and that shall enable them to earn money.

TOTAL 1.343.431

TABLE 5.3: A3 - PROTECTION OF CONSUMERS GRANT AWARDS


Fatih University Ankara Vocational High School

Increasing Consumer Awareness through Informative and Instructive Activities

Ankara 49.648

Objective:Providing the target groups and beneficiaries in Etimesgut District to be more sensitive in terms of consumer rights and raising awareness for using their legal rights.

Federation of Consumer Associations

Call For End To Unethical Drug Promotion

Ankara 52.750

Objective:Informing the pharmacists in the role of drug guarantor and the doctors in the role of director for drug prescriptions prepared for the patients’ treatment in the role of consumer benefiting from health sector.




Association for Consumer Protection and Solidarity

Consumer Rights and Responsibilities-Training for Sustainable Consumption

Ankara, Kayseri, Trabzon

37.890

Objective:

Developing “Sustainable Consumption Training Kit” to be used in training of the young consumers in order to protect consumer rights, providing the generalisation of this kit by training and promotion activities to be organised in Ankara, Kayseri and Trabzon.

Consumers Union Association Konya Branch Tuyep Consumer Expert Training Project Konya 49.604

Objective:

Training the children and young people at training age and teachers in terms of consumer rights. Training of 160 teachers and 256 students selected from 40 schools as consumer expert for this reason and offering training in order to motivate for supporting their environment.

Association for the Development of Consumer Awareness

Consumer Awareness Development Project

İstanbul 55.878

Objective:Establishing “Consumer Support Network” including pro-ect partner, supporters and volunteers in order to improve the cooperation between institutions to prevent the violation of the rights.

All Meat and Dairy Cattle Breeders Association

Project for Raising Awareness among Consumers in Terms of Open Milk Sales in Turkey

Bursa, İstanbul, Tekirdag

25.911

Objective:

Ensuring the consumers to make more rational and hygienic choices in terms of milk consumption within the domestic market; raising awareness for preventing the open milk consumption; ensuring the realisation of milk consumption in Turkey is in accordance with the specified hygiene conditions within EU harmonisation period; strengthening the institutional capacity of TÜSEDAD in protecting the consumer rights; decreasing the consumer violations with by the cooperation of non governmental organisations and universities and changing the wrong information within the society in terms of milk consumption.

Agricultural Development Foundation Konya Agency

Project for the Protection and Awareness of the Food Consumer

Konya 51.867

Objective:

Increasing general awareness and sensitivity by supporting training and information of the food consumers in Konya centrer, protecting economic and legal rights of the consumers, increasing NGO-Public cooperation in studies and increasing experience of our association before participation by developing capacity in raising awareness among the society.

Sivas Chamber of Commerce and Industry Young Food Auditors Sivas 43.528




Objective:

Training 800 young people consisting of 20% university students as food auditors in order to provide reliable/ high quality food, production, sales and common consumption within primarily the school canteens and food production and sales places around the schools.

Diyarbakır Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Rising Consumption Awareness In Young Consumers

Diyarbakır 43.547

Objective:

Providing the Young Consumers with consumer information relevant to them, increasing the knowledge, description and awareness about product safety and high quality product among the target group and social stakeholders, providing the demand for high quality and reliable product to increase within the domestic market and providing the promotion of this kind of product, increasing the institutional capacity and developing the relations between the institutions, providing awareness and sensibility in Consumer policies.

Association for Consumer Protection

TükoDer Information Development and Testing

İstanbul 60.495

Objective:Accelerating, improving, following up the consumer protection activities and thus increasing the institutional capacity and recognition of Tükoder in order to provide qualitative and quantitative development in consumer complaints and demands,

Union of Turkish Pharmacists Smart Children Use Rational DrugAnkara, Corum, Eskişehir, Kırıkkale, Kırşehir, Yozgat

54.266

Objective:

Reaching at least 3000 primary school students in Ankara, Yozgat, Kırşehir, Kırıkkale, Eskişehir and Corum via a drama giving information about rational drug usage, manual, brochure and poster, providing a model for the generalisation of rational drug usage among children by public and NGO stakeholders within health sector and sharing this model by all stakeholders.

TOTAL 525.385

TABLE 5.4: A4 - STRENGTHENING THE PROTECTION OF CHILDRENS RIGHTS GRANT AWARDS


Career Counselling and Human Resources Development Association

Orienting Children Living in Streets Towards Science, Technology and Innovation Fields Project

Ankara 76.781

Objective:Providing career consultancy and vocational guidance services to those children registered in Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Children Working in Streets Centre, and enabling continuity of those services.




Kocaeli Yeniköy Education Association

“Parents Go to Work, Children Go to School” Project

Kocaeli 44.423

Objective:Creating consciousness on encouraging families whose children are working in Kocaeli Province and districts of Yeniköy and its surroundings, encouraging children concerning education and supporting during the educa-tion process.

Kars, Ardahan, Iğdır Development Foundation Kars Pre-School Training Project Kars 78.123

Objective:Setting up of a Pre-School Education Center (PSEC) for pre-school education in Kars; providing pre-school education for 60 children living in slums in province center; to make conscious to mothers of children about significance of education.

HAK-İŞ Confederation of Turkish Real Trade Unions

Creating Awareness Against Children Labor Through Media Organisation Project

Antalya, Gaziantep, İzmir

84.811

Objective:

Developing cooperation between social partners to ensure more protective environment for the children and setting up of multi-lateral mechanisms to facilitate children to achieve educational opportunities, and thereby capacity development and raising awareness through visual and printed media in all segments of society.

İstanbul Bilgi University Center for Migration Research Tarlabaşı Children Own Their Rights İstanbul 80.892

Objective:Raising the awareness of children on the issue of child rights living in Tarlabaşı and activities oriented to achieve this goal.

Uşak Province Development Foundation

Uşak Races To The Top In Protecting Children Rights

Uşak 78.987

Objective:Providing social and legal ed-ucation to children who are under risk of working and their parents; thereby, advancing consciousness and sensitivity on risks on children labouring and children rights.

Association for the Support and Development of Social Services

There is no Children Working in Streets in Alanya

Antalya 80.478

Objective:Focusing especially on the issues of preventing, identifying and administering of abuse towards children working in streets and thereby supporting services providing by the existing local actors to those children who are under risk.

Gevaş Development and Solidarity Association Lecture Room Project Van 66.219

Objective:Providing support for the children concerning appropriate reading and studying environment by establishing a Reading Room in Gevaş. Strengthening ties of children with the school and socio-cultural life; and increasing children’s school success.




Vocational and Health Education Foundation From the Viewpoint of Working Children Ankara 91.905

Objective:Documenting view-points and solutions of children, their parents and employers, printed and visual media and academicians by a documentary study, raising awareness of the public opinion by preparing TV programs on this issue.

Association for the Development of Denizli’s Villages Those Children Are Our Future Denizli 86.694

Objective:

By informing the families and their children inhabit in slums of the city centre having lower income and education level, increasing the number of those attending school life; courses supporting schools promoting to success and organising various activities.

Gazi University Vocational Education Faculty

Fighting Children Labor by the Help of Education: Dealing with From Child to Child Project

Ankara 69.982

Objective:Teaching issues of children rights, children neglect and abuse as well as children labor to the target groups by using from Child to Child Approach; creating awareness among the children working under unfavourable conditions.

Contemporary Education Foundation Those Are Our Children Project İstanbul 48.241

Objective:Raising the awareness of the students and their parents on the issues of “Children Rights and Preventing Child Labor” and then “Drug Addiction” and “Family Planning”.

International Blue Crescent Relief and Development Foundation

“I Have Rights; and Also My Narratives!”: Narratives and TV Programs for Children Rights

Türkiye 37.022

Objective: Raising awareness concerning Children Rights among children especially at primary education period in Turkey.

EURODER Protecting Children’s Hands From Callous, Do not forget their rights

Adana 28.179

Objective:

Increasing the awareness of the children’s families, exposed to forced labor, in social and legal terms in the studies implemented by the method of “Facilitator Coach”; thus by orientating the children forced to labor, encouraging them to have professions credited in terms of production.

Atatürk University Education Faculty No Childeren Should Be Work in Streets Erzurum 54.180

Objective: Training families on issues of children education, hygiene, reproduction health, contraception, mouth and dental health, reading-writing.




Diyarbakır Chamber of Pharmacists

Protecting Children Living / Working in Streets From Hepatitis B Project

Diyarbakır 66.529

Objective: Protecting Children Living/ Working in Streets From Hepatitis B, ensuring public health, establishing a model both in the region and in the country.

TOTAL 1.073.447

TABLE 5.5: A5 - PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT GRANT AWARDS


Konya Association for the Protection of the Environment, Education and Research

To Prevent the Environmental Pollution, Increasing the Soil Efficiency by Means of Biological Fertilizers

Konya 43.477

Objective: To decrease environmental degradation in Konya region due to the use of mineral azote and to increase the awareness of farmers.

Anadolu Development and Education Association

Building Local Environment Networks for Sustainable Development

Elazıg 19.826

Objective: To develop civil society mechanisms for the protection of the environment and sustainable consumption of natural resources.

Association for the Protection of Nature and Environment and Outdoor Sports Association

Saving Irrigation Water and Environmental Use of Pasture

Bursa 39.028

Objective: To ensure sustainable and multi-directional agricultural and environmental use of pastures.

Association of Science and Art Voluteers

Sustainable Natural Resource Management of Gedikli Village

Adana 33.997

Objective:To ensure sustainability of the soil and water resources in Gedikly Village’s agricultural lands by adopting correct agriculture techniques. Partner: Adana Provincial Agriculture Directorate

Human and Nature Association Knowledge Web of Nature Antalya 30.494

Objective:To develop the love for the nature among children in primary education schools and to ensure knowledge sharing and cooperation between primary schools. Partner: Antalya Provincial Education Directorate




Turkish Environmental and Woodland Protection Society

Mardoga:Marmara Region Nature Conservation Cooperation Network Project

Balıkesir, Bursa, Kocaeli, Yalova

33.821

Objective: To contribute to the efficient and cooperative activities of NGOs working for the protection of environment.

Accesible Life Association Protection of Munzur Valley’s Biological Diversity Project

Tunceli 46.081

Objective: Using natural resources as a sustainable man for living and the protection of biological diversity.

Anatolian Technical Staff Association

Practicing Drip Irrigation Method for Konya Region Farmers

Konya 37.955

Objective: To raising awareness of the farmers of Cumra county about the efficient use of insufficient water resources.

Osmangazi Social Assistance, Education and Culture Volunteers Association

“Recycling Friendly School” Bursa 19.262

Objective:To increase awareness on the environment, recycling, and sustainable development at local, regional, and national level. Partner: Osmangazi Municipality

Association for the Protection of Turkey’s Nature

Sustainable Water and Soil Use in the Interaction Between Agricultural Practices and Environment

Konya 32.375

Objective: To decrease the negative effects of agricultural activities on the environment in Konya.

Karabik Environment Association

The Colection, Seperation of the House Waste Materials and Education of Citizens Project

Karabük 36.171

Objective:To decrease environmental degradation, wasting of natural resources, and to contribute to the regional and national economy through recycling of house waste. Partner: Karabük Municipality

WWF Turkey Wise Use of Waterin Egirdir and Bafa Lake

Aydın, Isparta, Mugla

41.328

Objective: To ensure rational use and sustainable management of natural resources around Egirdir and Bafa Lakes.




Nature AssociationProtection of Biodiversity of İnözü Valley via Sustainable Eco-Tourism Applications

Ankara 37.464

Objective:To establish an environmental friendly and sustainable tourism infrastructure in Beypazarı İnözü Valley with the participation of local community. Partner: Beypazari Association

Electrical Energy Quality Institute Association

Development of Efficient Electric Energy Consumption Know-How

Kayseri 25.363

Objective: To increase public awareness on the efficient use of electrical energy.

Eskişehir Anatolia Progress Association

Decomposement of Domestic Solid Waste on the Resources

Eskişehir 14.568

Objective:To increase public awareness on the impact of the decomposement of domestic solid waste on environmental protection and human health. Partner: Odunpazari Municipality

Diyarbakır Environment Volunteers Association

Environment Friendly Production Against Global Warming

Diyarbakır 39.618

Objective: To support manufacturers in Diyarbakır in using production techniques that are in line with EU environmental standards

Nature and Environment Foundation

Generalizing the Correct Use of Agriculture Chemicals in the Great Menderes River Basin

Denizli 11.133

Objective: To raise awareness of agricultural producers on the use of agricultural chemicals and to contribute to the effort for decreasing soil and water degradation.

TOTAL 541.960


TABLE 5.6: A6 - CONSOLIDATING AND PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY GRANT AWARDS


Association for the Development of Social and Cultural Life

Establishing an Anti-Poverty Network in Turkey

İstanbul 73.274

Objective:

To establish an anti-poverty network composed of social NGOs working with vulnerable groups such as children, women, elderly, disabled, Roma community, internally displaced people and institutions, research canters and independent researchers working in the field of poverty.

Partners / Associates: Bogaziçi University Social Policy Forum / Associate: European Anti Poverty Network (Belgium)

International Children’s Center Association

Building Capacities for Monitoring and Reporting of the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Ankara 84.820

Objective:To mainstream child rights and build the capacities of child rights, women’s rights and human rights NGOs and children themselves to monitor the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Partners / Associates: Ankara Bar Association and the Agenda Child.

Bahçeşehir UniversityBuilding Partnerships for Consolidating an Inclusive Culture of Human Rights in Şanlıurfa

Şanlıurfa, Istanbul / Strasbourg 110.416

Objective:

To contribute to the process of Turkey’s accession to the EU by raising awareness of the European Convention on Human Rights, focusing on implementation of human rights law in Şanlıurfa, a major town located in the south-eastern region of Turkey. To enhance the institutional capacity of the Bar Association of Şanlıurfa (ŞBA) to address human rights violations; contributing to dialogue and cooperation between major human rights actors in the province and to increase the professional development of lawyers and public administrator in the province.

Accessible Life Association Sulukule-Roma Neighbourhood Development Project

İstanbul 123.498

Objective:

Initiating a community-led neighbourhood rehabilitation process that will enable the Romany community of Sulukule to protect their human rights and to contribute to preserving the cultural diversity and cultural heritage in the Historic Peninsula of Istanbul.

Partners / Associates: Human Settlements Association

Sabancı Üniversity Advocacy for fulfilment of human rights in education through a solid knowledge base and strong civil society support

Ankara, Istanbul / Brussels

144.401

Objective: To contribute to the fulfilment of human rights in education through research, advocacy and networking.




The Economic and Social History Foundation of Turkey

Promoting Human Rights in Primary and Secondary School Textbooks II

Ankara, İstanbul 149.962

Objective:

To enhance and to contribute to the efforts to establish respect for human rights in education, including prevention of use of discriminatory references in school textbooks, by revealing and displaying achieved improvements and existing deficiencies in school textbooks in reference to the principles of human rights as well as by revaluating the degree of consciousness of and respect for human rights norms among primary and secondary school students and teachers in Turkey; to cultivate human rights and civic values among younger generations through primary and secondary school textbooks; to raise peaceful and creative generations who value diversity and respect other believes, cultures and identities and to incorporate consciousness of human rights to civil consciousness.

Association for Solidarity with the Freedom Deprived Juvenile

Strengthening Probation Application for Juvenile Justice (Pilot Project for Ankara)

Ankara 131.712

Objective: To establish effective cooperation among public authorities and entities involved in the implementation of probation mechanism in Turkey.

Partners / Associates:Ankara Bar Association (Turkey) / Associate: Ministry of Justice, DG of Prison and Detention Houses, Department Responsible from Probation and Help Services) (Turkey)

IPS Communication Foundation Rights Journalism İstanbul 146.091

Objective:To support the daily circulation of quality content (news and reports) and monitoring reports on rights and freedoms and provide insight training for journalism school graduates.

Education and Solidarity Foundation for Disabled Project on Rights of Disabled

Ankara, Kayseri, Erzurum, Malatya, Trabzon, Samsun Elazıg, Erzincan, Karaman, Konya, Ordu, Rize, Sivas, Tokat, Zonguldak Adana, Bursa, Gaziantep, İzmir

111.975

Objective:

To enhance respect for human rights in general and freedom of expression in particular of the disabled in audio visual media, to enhance regional civil society organisations’ role in monitoring and advocacy of rights of vulnerable groups (the disabled), and to implement actions to tackle discrimination of the disabled, including suggestions to improve the legal framework in general.




Partners / Associates: The Union of Local and Regional Televisions (Turkey) /Associate: T.C: Başbakanlık Aosyal Hizmetler ve Cocuk Esirgeme Kurumu (Turkey)

The Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation

Civilian Capacity Building and Democratic Consciousness Raising in Security and Human Rights

İstanbul, Ankara 134.948

Objective:

To contribute to monitoring the security sector and to defend civil, political, social and cultural rights and freedom of expression, to increase the level of citizens’ participation to policy-making and debates related to security and to the quality of democratic and participatory governance in Turkey.

Partners / Associates:Associate: Human Rights Association (Turkey), Human Rights Agenda Association (Turkey), Organisation of Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed People (Turkey)

Association for the Rehabilitation of Street Children

Building a Local System of Governance Committed to Children’s Social Inclusion: Developing Local Plan of Actions

Adana, Mersin, Urfa, Samsun, Malatya, Diyarbakır, Aydın, Van, Kayseri, İzmit

131.335

Objective:

To develop and advocate for the implementation of local action plans on social inclusion of children through a participatory process with local authorities, social, health and educational services, police representatives, local NGOs and bar associations.

Flying Broom Women 2007” TV programmes

Izmir, Bursa, Zonguldak, Ankara, Kayseri, Trabzon, Adana, Hatay, Erzurum, Gaziantep, Mugla, Eskişehir

132.783

Objective:

To produce and broadcast 13 television programmes, to create own spectators of the programmes in the targeted regions, to foster the creation of a women NGO forum on networking and coordination via provincial meetings and to promote women’s human rights via broadcasting television programs related to gender equality.

Partners / Associates: The Union of Local and Regional Televisions (Turkey)

TOTAL 1.475.215


TABLE 5.7: B2 - COMBATING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN GRANT AWARDS


Contemporary Women and Youth Foundation Violence No More Lives in This House Ankara 120.278

Objectives:Transforming violent family relations through group works and therapy as well as family counselling services in order to take women out of the spiral of violence in Mamak district of Ankara.

Partners / Associates:Association of Social Workers / Associates: Women’s Centre (KAMER), The Foundation for Solidarity with Women, Turkey Employment Institute (ISKUR)

Kadikoy Municipality Health and Social Solidarity Foundation

Mobilization against Violence against Women (Support Network in Kadikoy to combat Violence against Women)

İstanbul 123.148

Objectives:To contribute to the increase of the women’s resistance capacity and to the formation of local support network models between public and civil institutions so that the combat against abuse towards women can continue more efficiently.

Partners / Associates:

Kadıköy Municipality, Marmara University Science and Literature Faculty Sociology Department / Associates: Istanbul Bar Association Women’s Rights Commission, Maltepe University Science and Letters Faculty Psychology Department, Hürriyet Newspaper and Publishing Co., Cumhuriyet Newspaper, EKO TV Television Co., Yeditepe University Science and Letters Faculty Psychology Department, Contemporary Education Foundation, Kadıköy Municipality Health Polyclinic

Purple Roof Women’s Shelter Foundation

Empowerment of women through solidarity centres in the combat against domestic violence

İstanbul 150.000

Objectives:

Providing shelter and counseling services to women exposed to domestic violence in Istanbul, thus ensuring their life-safety, increasing their self-confidence and opportunities to reach employment, to receive training, and to develop professional skills and solidarity; raising awareness of the public opinion, mass media and public institutions on the issue of domestic violence; to enable them to understand that violence against women is a public crime; to empower women so as to make them to understand that the domestic violence is not “fate” and they can build up life alternatives without violence; and development of possibilities for cooperation, information and experience sharing between women organizations operating in this field.

Women for Women’s Human Rights New Ways Association

Women’s Solidarity Network Against Violence İstanbul 107.055




Objectives:

To contribute to the prevention of violence against women through the capacity building and improvement of services of women’s groups and Community Centres on the local levels, as well as catalysing the emergence of new women’s organisations; creating a nationwide solidarity network against violence among those, and public awareness raising.

Partners / Associates: Van Women’s Association, Canakkale Association to Promote Women’s Labor / Associate: General Directorate of Social Services

ARI Movement Social Participation and Development Association

Linking and Empowering Generations to Combat Violence against Women and Discrimination

Istanbul, Ankara, Isparta, Eskişehir, İzmir, Kocaeli

117.780

Objectives:

To contribute to the capacity building of local women’s NGOs and women’s movement, working to combat violence against women by maintaining the flow of new generations into the movement, and to contribute to the prevention of violence against women, by raising awareness of young women and men in universities on women’s problems, violence against women and discrimination.

Partners / Associates:

Women Entrepreneurs Association (KAGIDER) / Associates: Ankara university Women’s Studies Centre, Süleyman Demirel University Women’s Studies Centre, Solidarity with Women Foundation, Association for Education and Training of Women Candidates, Kırkörük Women’s Cooperative to Combat Violence against Women

Foundation for Support of Women’s Work

Public Awareness Campaign on Domestic Violence against Women in Mardin

Mardin 143.323

Objectives:

to raise public awareness of the society in Mardin, especially of men and women above 15 years, specifically husbands, mothers-in-law and wives, on domestic violence against women. Target groups are men, especially married men above 15 years, mother- in-laws and young women, especially married women between 15 -49 years of age living in Mardin.

Partners / Associates: İpekyolu Women’s Culture, Environment and Enterprise Cooperative

Foundation for Women’s Solidarity

Strengthening Probation Application for Juvenile Justice (Pilot Project for Ankara)

Ankara, Eskişehir, Kırıkkale, Nevşehir, Cankırı

146.259

Objectives:

The establishment of local women’s groups working in the field of Violence against Women in Eskişehir, Kırıkkale, Nevşehir, Cankırı provinces of Central Anatolia and to create consciousness and sensitivity towards the establishment of Women’s Counseling Centres and Shelters through awareness raising activities for staff of municipalities in those provinces.




Turkey Charitables Association (Eskişehir Branch)

Project COMBAT (Community-Based Tools) - Addressing the Underlying Issues of Violence Against Women

Eskişehir, Kütahya, Bilecik

148.320

Objectives:

Combating violence against women in general, and its underlying societal issues in particular, via a communication plan (“CommPlan”) targeting 7 key sectors namely mass media, peacekeepers, health, education, local Authorities, NGOs and justice in Eskisehir, Kutahya, and Bilecik Provinces.

Partners / Associates: Anadolu University Faculty of Communications Sciences

Contemporary Education Foundation

Establishment of a Sustainable Domestic Violence Hot-Line System”

İstanbul 145.035

Objectives:

To combat violence against women by providing legal, psychological and medical support to women exposed to abuse and domestic violence via setting up a hotline system, which will be replicable in other parts of Turkey and in other EC member states facing this very serious social issue.

Partners / Associates: Hürriyet Newspaper and Publishing Co.

KAMER-Women Centre Education Production Counseling and Solidarity Foundation

Women are Getting Organized in Districts

Gaziantep, Kilis, Igdır, Ardahan, ErzincanAgrı, Muş, Bitlis, Hakkâri, Siirt,Şırnak

125.654

Objectives:

To make contributions in changing the official and traditional practices obstructing women’s rights and freedoms towards gender equality in Southeastern and Eastern Anatolian regions with the issue violence against women being at the outset.

Van Women’s Association It is Time to Say StopMuş, Bitlis, Van, Hakkari

124.622

Objectives:To contribute to the raising of awareness concerning violence against women and enable local women to establish and/or support their own self-help groups and local organizations in Muş, Bitlis, Van and Hakkari.

Partners / Associates:Life Women Environment Culture and Enterprise Cooperative, Women for Women’s Human Rights Association, Filmmor Women Environment Culture and Enterprise Cooperative

TOTAL 1.451.474


TABLE 5.8: B3 - CIVIL SOCIETY DIALOGUE: CULTURE IN ACTION GRANT AWARDS


GSM, Youth Services Centre Tourism Education Consultancy and Organisation Limited Company

Get Information, Go in Action to Europe Ankara 84.627

Objectives: To present the EU to the Turkish youth with all its components by using effective information channels.

Partners / Associates: Lunaria (Italy), Eurodesk (Italy), AB Haber Dernegi (Turkey)

The Federation of Turkish Journalists

Bringing EU with Turkey – A network of European Journalism

İstanbul, Manisa Kocaeli, Ankara Kırıkkale, Zonguldak, Kastamonu, Erzurum, Agrı, Mardin

92.803

Objectives: To increase public awareness about the EU accession process at the local level with the support of local journalists who will be trained on EU affairs.

Partners / Associates: eRomania Gateway (Romania), European Citizen Action Service (BE)

İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts Electronic Image Dazibao İstanbul 89.756

Objectives: Intercultural dialogue through video competition, mobile screening and symposiums.

Partners / Associates: Farnham Maltings Association (UK), Museum of Modern Art (Slovenia)

GAYA Research, Organization and Dissemination of Economic and Social Issues, Training and Consultancy Commercial Limited Co.

From Prejudices to Cultural Dialogue Turkey 92.806

Objectives: To present information about Turkey to the citizens of the EU in order to prevent prejudices, to change mindsets and to improve attitudes towards Turkey.

Partners / Associates: Multikulturelles Forum (Denmark), Association of Intercultural Dialogue and Transfer (Turkey)

Lausanne Treaty Emigrants Foundation

Discussing Europe on the banks of Maritza River: Perceiving Thrace as a European Cultural Space

Edirne 87.750

Objectives: To increase awareness and capacity among social and cultural actors in Greek and Turkish Thrace on European dimensions of culture.

Partners / Associates: Research Centre on Minority Groups (Germany)

Pera Fine Arts Graduates Association

Cultural Communication: Active European Citizenship through Arts and Music

İstanbul 89.441




Objectives: To enable young people to express themselves through arts and thereby influence the perception about each other.

Partners / Associates: ESTA Bildungsverk (Denmark), MEWCAT (Germany

Black Sea Environmental Association You Have Message From Europe Black Sea Region 98.996

Objectives:

To raise awareness of students and teachers in schools in the Black Sea region of Turkey concerning the EU, its institutions, membership criteria and its implications on daily life as well as EU-Turkey relations.

Partners / Associates: Bulgarian European Community Studies Association, Institute for European Policy (Czech Republic)

İstanbul Bilgi University DirectLink: Turkey- Europe Arts Networking for Intercultural Dialogue

6 cities 96.785

Objectives:To help networking and exchange in the field of contemporary arts between artistic practitioners, arts institutions, groupings and initiatives in the cities of the vast hinterland of Turkey beyond İstanbul and similar artistic bodies, festivals, organisations in Europe.

Partners / Associates: Lafiche (France), Duncan Center (Czech Republic), Redhouse (Belgium), Anadolu Kültür (Turkey), Goethe Institute İstanbul

French Cultural Institute Street Arts İstanbul, İzmir, Ankara 92.200

Objectives:To create the first exchange and communication platform for new circus and street arts in Turkey and to start a dialogue of cultural initiatives working in this field between Turkey and Europe.

Partners / Associates: İstanbul Bilgi University, Academie Fratellini (FR), Fundatia Parada (Romania), French Cultural Inst. Ankara & İzmir, Müjdat Gezen Art Center, Marmara University / Faculty of Fine Arts

Youth Culture House Association (GENCEV) Youth San-Art Days Ankara 86.044

Objectives:To enable young artists from different European countries to perform their artistic skills and to share them with a multicultural audience as well as to encourage networking among youth organisations thus contributing to intercultural dialogue.

Partners / Associates: Gençlik Servisleri Merkezi (Turkey), Lunaria (Italy), Eurodesk (Italy), AB Haber Dernegi (Turkey)

Street Children Association of Adana ‘Flying Baloon’

Launch of European Culture Fest in Adana Project

Adana 76.317

Objectives: Launch an EU Culture Festival in Adana

Partners / Associates: AGİAD (Turkey), Assembly of Artists and Spaces (Lithuania)




Flying Broom Baby Brides Ankara 89.847

Objectives: To help raise awareness about early and forced marriages both in Turkey and in Germany.

Partners / Associates: International Film Festival Dortmund (Denmark)

Ankara Jazz Society Jazz Mix CultureAnkara, Samsun, Zonguldak 91.542

Objectives: To bring together musicians from EU countries and Turkey and have them get to know each others music and instruments in creative workshops.

Partners / Associates: Italian Cultural Institute, Goethe Institut -Ankara, July Jazz Foundation (BG), Zonguldak Karaelmas University, Leo Organizasyon (Turkey), 19 Mayıs University-Samsun

Association for the Development of Social and Cultural Life

Europe Starts Here or Over There: Theatrical Unfolding in Istanbul and Diyarbakır

İstanbul Diyarbakir 98.248

Objectives: To initiate a cultural dialogue between cultural and social bodies from France and Turkey.

Partners / Associates: Image Aigue Compagnie (France)

Anadolu Kültür Sanat Tanıtım İletişim Yayın Bilgisayar Danışmanlık Eğitim Hizmetleri A.Ş.

Citizens without BoundariesDiyabakir, İstanbul

80.415

Objectives:Planning, realizing and developing of a Swedish-Turkish multi-disciplinary civic and cultural project consisting of a series of cultural events taking place in Istanbul, Diyarbakir as well as in Malmö and Lund in Sweden.

Partners / Associates: Citizens Without Boundaries (Sweden) Consulate General of Sweden

TOTAL 1.347.579

5.1.2. (TR 06 04 01) Promotion of the Civil Society Dialogue between EU and Turkey (Civil Society Dialogue I)Four different grant programs targeting municipalities, professional organisations, universities, and youth initiatives were implemented under Civil Society Dialogue I. There are no grants awarded to CSOs within the Municipalities program. The tables of the University and the Professional Organisations grant programs include only the beneficiary CSOs announced by the CFCU, while all awardees are listed

for the Youth Initiatives grant program. The Secretariat General for EU Affairs published a compendium covering all those four programs22, however this book does not provide information on projects’ objectives and expected results. Therefore, the projects’ objectives in that table were obtained via other available online resources.

22 ABGS, 2009.


TABLE 5.9: UNIVERSITIES GRANT AWARDS


The Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV)

Economic Assessment of the REACH Regulation on the Chemicals Industry of Turkey

Ankara, İstanbul, İzmir, Mersin

319.909

Objective:To analyse the characteristics of the the Turkey’s chemical industry’s supply chain and to apply the pre-registration and registration processes required REACH with the lowest cost.

Partners / Associates: Middle East Technical University (Turkey), Economic Development Foundation (IKV) (Turkey), University of Hull (UK), Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania)

TOTAL 319908,56

TABLE 5.10: PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS GRANT AWARDS


Adıyaman Association of Journalists

News Effectiveness and Objectiveness in Press Services

Adıyaman 122.805

Partners / Associates: Annur Formacion Cultura (Spain)

Automotive Aftermarket Development Association of Turkey

Promoting the Awareness of Block Exemption Regulation in Parts Replacement Market

Ankara, İstanbul, İzmir 118.250

Partners / Associates: Gesamtverband Autoteile- Handel E.V (Germany)

Association of Chambers of Freelance Architects in Istanbul

Fragments of Living in Architecture

Turkey 185.696

Partners / Associates: Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA) (Germany)

Turkish Constructional Steelwork Association (TUCSA)

Cultural Sharing through Constructional Steel Sector

İstanbul 100.286

Partners / Associates: Romanian Association for Constructional Steelworks (Romania)

Corporate Social Responsibility Association of Turkey

Accelerating Corporate Social Responsibility in Turkey


Partners / Associates: Corporate Social Responsibility-Europe (Belgium)


TABLE 5.10: PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS GRANT AWARDS


Association of Ecological Farming Organisation

Acting Organic by Thinking Organic

Ankara, Bursa, İzmir, İstanbul, Mardin

84.832

Partners / Associates: Italian Association for Organic Agriculture (Italy) National Federation of Ecological Agriculture of Romania (Romania), Izmir Chamber of Agriculture (Turkey)

TOTAL 750.834

TABLE 5.11: YOUTH INITIATIVES FOR DIALOGUE GRANT AWARDS


Center for Youth Services Civil Active DialogueAdana, Ankara, Denizli, Eskişehir

87.870

Objective: To foster and support civil dialogue between youth NGOs in Turkey and EU and networking.

Partners / Associates: LunariaYouth Union (Italy), Eurodesk (Italy)

Youth Culture House Association

Youth Can (Youth Culture in Action)

Ankara 88.779

Objective:To ensure active participation of youth NGOs to civil society dialogue, their acknowledgement as actors of civil society dialogue and to establish sustainable relations between youth NGOs in Turkey and EU.

Partners / Associates: Red Europea De Dialogo Social (Spain)

Bursa Young Industrialists, Businessmen & Executives Association

Young Entrepreneurs Academy and Civil Society Dialogue

Bursa 78.107

Objective: To establish a model academy for youth entrepreneurship.

Partners / Associates: Association Savremie (Bulgaria)

Association of Business and Professional Women

Solution Time for Employment Problem

Ankara 78.485

Objective:To overcome the problem of employment, to establish platforms for dialogue between youth NGOs in Turkey, Greece, and other EU countries, and to encourage knowledge and information exchange.

Partners / Associates: Balkan Amfiktionia (Greece)

İçel Handicrafts and Education Foundation

Developing a Chain of Rural Youth Between Turkey and Europe

Mersin 80.332




Objective: To initiate “Rural Youth” organisations in Turkey, to identify the special needs of rural youth, and to establish networking between rural youth NGOs.

Partners / Associates: Europartners 2000 Foundation (Bulgaria)

Anatolia Development and Education Association

Developing Youth Initiatives for Sustainable Development

Elazıg 75.365

Objective: Capacity building for youth NGOs and their partnerships for sustainable development.

Partners / Associates: Centre Mediterraneen de l’environnment (France), EPO (Greece), Ohrid Tourism Union (FYROM)

Gaziantep Youth and Culture Association Power of Dialogue Gaziantep 80.420

Objective: Capacity building for youth NGOs and information exchange and partnerships between youth activists in Turkey and Italy.

Partners / Associates: NGO Accademia Psicologia Applicata (Italy)

EFEM Youth and Sports Club I Don’t Want to Be a Foreigner Here

İzmir 80.519

Objective:To create a common understanding between youth clubs in Cigli and Berlin and to experiment social work techniques to overcome problems of social integration in localities with high number of migrants.

Partners / Associates: Cigli Municipality (Turkey), Kultur Und Art Intiative (Germany)

Aksiyon Association Challenge for Prejudice Denizli 96.853

Objective: To establish relation between NGOs through cultural activities and information exchange.

Partners / Associates: Eurogems Associazione di Promozione Sociale (Italy), Rural Youth Union (Poland)

Association of Research and Development on Societal Issues

Networking Europe Kocaeli 33.218

Objective: To increase awareness among young people for a stronger EU-Turkey integration.

Partners / Associates: QUIZ, EUROGEMS, DEMA (France)

Arı Social Participation and Development Foundation Peace Leaders of the Future İstanbul 86.969

Objective: Networking between young people and to support EU-Turkey integration.

Partners / Associates: AEGEE Europe (Belgium), Pontis Foundation (Slovenia)




Young Communication Association Youth Action for Future Adana 89.821

Objective: Active citizenship and youth participation.

Partners / Associates: Obcanske Sdruzeni Hodinah (Czech Republic), Stowarzyszenie Sensu Stricto Association (Poland),

Mersin Young Businessmen Association

Young Ecological Entrepreneurs in Mersin

Mersin 77.662

Objective:To safeguard of sustainable development especially by promoting social dialogue and ecological entrepreneurship between actors such as Turkish and European NGOs.

Partners / Associates: Circolo Festambiente (Italy), Antigone (Greece)

Hisarcik Municipality Sports Turkish and European Youth Hand in Hand

Kayseri 89.492

Objective: To foster friendship and dialogue among Turkish and EU skiers.

Partners / Associates: Maribor Branik Ski Club (Slovakia), Hisarcık Municipality (Turkey)

Amasya Young Businessmen Association

European Cultural Legation of Young Turkish Entrepreneurs

Amasya, Samsun 69.977

Objective: Networking and partnership between young entrepreneurs in Turkey and EU.

Partners / Associates: Lithuania Young Businessmen and Economists Club (Lithuania), Initziativa Regional Youth Committee (Bulgaria)

GAF Global Art Foundation Art (Fellowhip) İstanbul 52.419

Objective: To establish platforms for bilateral art research, to promote the concept of EU citizenship, and capacity building for youth NGOs.

Partners / Associates: International Initiatives for Cooperation (Bulgaria), Semiha Berksoy Opera Foundation (Turkey), Development and Participation Association (Turkey)

Gören Kalpler Education Association

Starting Dialogue of Blind People via Bicycle

Ankara 88.705

Objective: To establish platforms for bilateral art research, to promote the concept of EU citizenship, and capacity building for youth NGOs.

Partners / Associates: ASD Giociria Non Vedenti (Italy)




Bafra Black Sea Education and Solidarity Association Embrace the Other İstanbul, Samsun, Trabzon 91.148

Objective: To tackle the problem of xenophobia and to develop and understanding between Turkish and German young people.

Partners / Associates: Tüdesb Bildungsinstitut (Germany)

Yurt-Yuva AssociationCascading Training of Turkish Youth on Conflict and Diversity Management

Ankara 87.036

Objective: Capacity development on the issues of diversity and conflict managements.

Partners / Associates: Tüdesb Bildungsinstitut (Germany)

Uşak Young Businessmen Association

Turkish German Young Entrepreneurs Enterprise

Uşak 93.379

Objective: Capacity development for NGOs on EU norms regarding youth and entrepreneurship.

Partners / Associates: ATIAD (Turkey)

Ege Scouting Sports and Specialisation Youth and Sports Association

Young Steps for Stronger Europe

Adana, Ankara, Bolu, Denizli, İzmir, Mardin, Trabzon, Van

99.417

Objective: To support young people’s political participation in the EU integration process.

Partners / Associates: Student Organsation from Faculty of Mechanics Craiova (Romania)

Vangölü Folk Dance, Tourism, Sports Club Association

Van International Youth and Culture Festival

Van 92.905

Objective: Intercultural dialogue through arts

Partners / Associates: Türkischer Elternvereın Lehrte und Umgeburg (Germany), Scientific Technique and Research Foundation (Turkey)

Association of Anatolia’s Young Leaders Global Citizen İstanbul 85.184

Objective:Türkiye’nin Avrupa Birligi ile bütünleşme sürecinde bugüne kadar diyalog eksikligi yüzüden gelişen sorunlar karşısında Türkiye ve Danimarka kamuoyunun farkındalıgının artırılması.

Partners / Associates: New World Foundation (Denmark)




Young Businessmen and Executives Association

Young Executive and Business People Platform

İstanbul 72.723

Objective: Networking and dialogue between young entrepreneurs in Turkey and Lituania.

Partners / Associates: Lithuania Social Democrat Youth Union (Lithuania)

Yenimahalle Youth Centre Youth and Sports Club Association

A society without Hindrance Ankara 74.468

Objective: Participation of disabled young people to social life via scouting activities and capacity building for youth activities.

Partners / Associates: Risorse Umane Europa (Italy)

TOTAL 2.031.254

TABLE 5.12: LOCAL MOBILIZATION FOR PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY GRANT AWARDS

Beneficiary Beneficiary’s Location Project Title Project

LocationsGrant Amount (Euro)

Sivas Foundation for Environmental Protection Sivas Fortune in Garbage Sivas 8.793

Kamer Association DiyarbakırWomen’s Rights are Human Rights

Diyarbakır 7.058

Denizli Association of Soroptimist Club Denizli

The Society Listen, Violence Should End

Denizli 8.433

Deveciuşağı Environmental Protection and Development Association Adana

Preventing Agricultural Pollution in Yumurtalık Lagoons

Adana 9.277

Association for Gifted and Talented Children Ankara

Corporate Sensitivity to Gifted and Talented Children

Ankara 8.927

5.1.3. (TR 06 04 05) Supporting Civil Society Development and Dialogue in TurkeyTwo grant programs were implemented under this program through direct grant awarded to Civil Society Development

Centre (STGM), which assumed the responsibility of program management. STGM conducted an impact analysis after the programs were completed; yet, information about the details of the projects awarded is not available. As a result, the following tables only lists the awardees and their projects and project budgets.





International Children’s Centre Association Ankara

Project for Establishing a Children Rights Unit in Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality

Gaziantep 8.564

Association of Amarat Village for Embellishment and Helping the Poor

Kayseri Dilligent Amarat Kayseri 8.987

First Step Cooperative İstanbul

Project for Preventing Violence Against Women Education

İstanbul 7.357

Women, Culture and Solidarity Association (Gül-Der) Sivas

Positive Discrimination towards Gender

Sivas 8.975

Stability and Social Development Association Van I Exist with My Rights Adana 7.680

Selis Women’s Association Diyarbakır

4 Steps for Gender Equality

Diyarbakır 8.208

İç Anadolu Association for Hearing Impaired People Ankara

We are Explaining the Problems of the Disabled to Ankara

Ankara 8.899

Altın Işık Education, Culture, Development, and Solidaririty Association Bingöl

Prevent Working Children for a Better Life

Bingöl 8.549

Association of Fencing Trainers Ankara

Developing Civil Society Organisation Consciousness among Young Fencers

Ankara 6.799

Uşak Association of Environment Volunteers Uşak

Project for Improving Environmental Consciousness

Uşak 8.141

Kayseri Association of Friends of the Environment Kayseri

Little Environment Detectives

Kayseri 8.619

Gündem Çocuk Association Ankara I Have a Message Ankara 8.157





Association for Social Improvement and Research Van

Van Lake Belongs to All of Us!

Van 9.999

Genç Adım Association Canakkale Let’s Manage Together Canakkale 6.341

S.S. Konya Regional Irrigation Union Association Konya

Project for Institutional Capacity Development

Konya 8.855

CANEV Adana

Increasing Awareness of the Families of Mentally Disables People

Adana 8.949

Bayburt Science-Education and Culture Association Bayburt

Storyteller Children of the Future Bayburt 8.699

Kahramanmaraş Environment and Culture Association Kahramanmaraş Don’t Let Karagöl Dry Kahramanmaraş 8.864

Bayburt Association of Poets and Writers Bayburt

Don’t Forget the Legends

Bayburt 7.812

Kahramanmaraş Agriculture, Nature, Environment and Culture Association

KahramanmaraşKumaşır Lake is Our Lake

Kahramanmaraş 7.911

Young Accumulation Association Muş

Active and Democratic Young People are Meeting in the East

Batman, Muş, Van

8.920

Association for the Protection of Environmental Values Malatya

Classification of the Domestic Solid Waste at the Source

Malatya 8.849

Hayat Okulu Association Gaziantep Magic Fingers Gaziantep 7.592

Beyaz Eğitim Sports Club Association Ankara

Sports without Hinderence Tournament

Ankara 9.129

Başkent Women’s Platform Association Ankara

More Conscious and Participating Women

Ankara 8.366





Uşak Foundation for the Education and the Protection of Mentally Disabled People

UşakLife without Hinderence

Uşak 8.915

Adana Youth Union Association Adana

Civil Society of the East Mediterranean is Becoming Conscious

Adana 8.943

Mardin Multi-purpose Community Centre Association Mardin

Rights of the Children from the Words of the Children

Mardin 8.532

Van Social Services Association Van You are not Alone Van 5.999

Karataş Women’s Solidarity Association Adana

Project for Women’s Social and Cultural Development

Adana 8.820

Foundation for Foundling and Protection of Mentally Disabled Children

AdanaThose Who Always Stay a Child

Adana 8.994

Association of Active Educators ManisaProject for Sustainable Environment in Primary Education

Manisa 8.992

Kahramanmaraş Association of Orthopedically Disabled People Kahramanmaraş

We do not Have Hinderences


Academia of Development Projects Association Adıyaman

CSOs are Getting Young

Adıyaman 8.537

Mentally Disabled People’s Families Solidarity Association Ankara

Meeting with Mentally Disabled People and Their Families

Ankara 9.476

Dr. Ahmet Kemal Köksal Foundation Sivas

Small Steps for Big Futures

Sivas 8.860

Lalezar Women Association Rize

Realise that You are not Different

Rize 8.405

Kayseri Anadolu Association of the Handicapped Kayseri

A society of Disabled People without Disability

Kayseri, Nevşehir, Sivas

9.000





Tebessüm Education-Culture,Environment and Solidarity Association

KahramanmaraşDon’t Throw the Waste, Don’t Destroy Our Future!


Hakkari Association of Educators Hakkari

Family Counselling Services House

Hakkari 9.908

Türkoğlu Association Kahramanmaraş

Not All Waste is Garbage


Gülbahar Hatun Education, Culture, Social Help and Solidarity Association

RizeWomen’s Labor from Yesterday to Today

Rize 9.226

TOTAL 399.998

TABLE 5.13: INTEGRATED APPROACH TO THE CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE PARTICIPATORY LOCAL PROJECTS GRANT AWARDS

Beneficiary Şehir Project Title Project Locations

Grant Amount (Euro)

Ahi Yaran Assembly Youth, Education, Culture, and Solidarity Association

CankırıIntroduction of Cankırı Yaran Culture Project

Cankırı 19.674

Association for Providing Employment and Profession to Disabled People

AdanaTo Defend Rights of Individual with Mental Disability

Adana 22.454

Güney İlleri Gazeteciler Derneği Gaziantep Hidden Arts at Ayıntap Houses Gaziantep 25.903

Dr . Ahmet Kemal Köksal Social Assistance Foundation

Sivas I am a Child. I Have Rights. Sivas 23.430

Sivas Foundation for Environmental Protection

SivasThe Environment is Our Future the Children are Our Everything

Sivas 29.083

Turkish Women’s Union Association - Iğdır Branch

IgdırThe Project of Protecting the Women’s Rights and Participation for the Healthy Way of Living

Igdır 23.455




Grant Amount (Euro)

Nature Association AnkaraThe Role of Women in Conservation and Protection of Environment in Turkey

Ankara 19.914

Anatolia Development and Education Association

Elazıg Elazıg is Winning with Recycling Elazıg 22.821

Bayburt Science, Education, and Culture Association

Bayburt Washing the Face of a River Bayburt 21.582

Association for Sustainment and Protection of Sultan Reeds

KayseriThe Project of Environmental Protection and Naturel Sources Management

Kayseri 15.349

Nineteen May Disabled Children Education, Protection, and Research Association

SamsunImprovement of the Participatory Local Approach for Handicapped Rights

Samsun 27.070

Rize Association for the Protection of Natural Resources and Wild Life

Rize Do not Waste Tomorrows Rize 23.016


Nigde Honeysuckle Needs Water Nigde 15.290

Association for Protecting Historical Taşpınar Carpet

AksarayStrengthening the Role of Local NGOs to Sustain Taşpınar Carpets

Aksaray 28.033

Aşiyan Education, Culture, and Solidarity Association

KırşehirWomen Together to Local Administration

Kırşehir 26.003

İstanbul Association of the Women Studies Centre

İstanbulJoint Study of Women Human Rights In Legal Procedures

İstanbul 29.931

Association for Preventing Honour Killings and Realising Women’s Potential

MardinTo Build up Public Awareness About Consuetude Murders

Mardin 24.537


5.1.4. (TR 07 03 01) Civil Society Dialogue IICivil Society Dialogue II, programmed under the IPA 2007 National Program, composed of two grant schemes on Culture and Arts and on Agriculture and Fisheries. Applications for those programs were submitted in 2010. The grant awardees of the Agriculture and Fisheries Program consists of municipalities, chambers of commerce, and cooperatives; therefore this program is not included in this Chapter. Additionally, a Micro Grant Program was also implemented under Civil Society II. This program provided funds to small scaled projects, with a total budget Euro 5.000 or below. At the end of those grant programs, MEUA published a book titled “European Union- Turkey: Dialogue with Stories” for the first two grant schemes.23 However, though the book narrates the stories of the projects, it does not provide their objectives and expected results. The objectives, and the other related sections of the projects implemented under the Culture and Arts program were obtained via internet. Since the grant amounts of the Micro Grant Program is very low, only basic information about this Program’s projects is included in the table below.

23 Forrester ve Ersoy, 2012.



Grant Amount (Euro)

Kentsel Kırsal Kalkınma ve Sosyal Hizmetler Derneği

VanProject of Conscious Mother Clean Environment

Van 25.654

Civil Society for Life Association Bingöl

To Project of Researching, Developing and Reproducing the Vanishing Local Culture

Bingöl 28.314

Friendship, Education and Solidarity Association

Samsun A Habitable Samsun Samsun 26.918

Rainbow Education and Solidarity Association Adıyaman

A Social Decision for Common Participation of Disabled People

Adıyaman 21.407

TOTAL 499.836


TABLE 5.14: CULTURE AND ARTS GRANT AWARDS


Nezih Danyal Cartoon Foundation Turkish-Greek Neighbourhood With Cartoons

Ankara, Ordu, Samsun, Athens

84.817

Objectives:To demonstrate that ‘a common sense of humour’ may serve as a platform of cooperation between Greece and Turkey and lead to a better comprehension of Turkey in other member states

Partners / Associates: The Association of Greece Caricature (Greece)

Youth Culture House Association European Youth Museum Ankara, Athens 132.255

Objectives:

Active participation of young people and young artists to intercultural dialogue through cultural activities; to construct sustainable relations between young artists in EU and Turkey; to increase the tolerance in society towards cultural differences; and to establish platforms for future initiatives, for experience exchange between young artists

Partners / Associates: Citizens in Action (Greece)

Niksar Association for Supporting Culture and Traditions E-Info About Culture in Kelkit

Gümüşhane, Tomelilla

98.293

Objectives:To establish the CULTNET culture network in the Kelkit basin and to collect and prepare updated, comprehensive, and detailed data on the cultural and artistic value of Kelkit Basin via INFOKELKIT system

Partners / Associates: Föreningen Österlens Folkhögskola (Sweden)

CRT St Blaise Turkish Traditional Performing Arts Cultural Center

Nevşehir, Paris 115.342

Objectives: Promoting cultural perspectives through folkloric performance arts which play a key role in preserving traditional arts

Partners / Associates: Cappadocia Culture and Tourism Association (Turkey)

Altınoluk Association for Saving, Protecting and Supporting Historical City of Antandros

Anatolia Europe Mythological-Historical Connection: Castro & Antandros

Balıkesir, Brindisi, İzmir, Lecce, Rome, Taranto

93.864

Objectives:

To develop dialogue and to establish long-term cooperation and partnership between NGOs working on cultural issues in Turkey and Italy; to establish a network between similar NGOs working on cultural issues in Turkey and EU countries, and to foster cultural dialogue through artistic activities

Partners / Associates: Pro Loco Castro (Italy)

Association of Balkan Turks European Cultural Corridor Corlu-Sakar

Tekirdag, Topolovgrad

83.883




Objectives:To increase the awareness of Turkish and Bulgarian societies on European values through culture, history, and traditions; to foster cultural dialogue and to establish a network between Turkish and Bulgarian NGOs

Partners / Associates: Chitalishte St Kiril and Methodius Town of Topolovgrad- (Bulgaria), Tokatlılar Culture and Solidarity Association (Turkey)

Turkish Freelance Architects Association

Rereading Architecture As Cultural Transformation

Ankara, Berlin 136.174

Objectives:

To construct cooperation and dialogue between institutions working on architecture in Turkey, pre-accession countries, and EU countries; to create a common understanding and to stimulate information exchange on the common architectural heritage of Turkey and EU; and to establish a sustainable network through the foundation of the first Architectural Museum and Culture Center in Turkey

Partners / Associates: Bund Deutscher Architekten (Germany), Amsterdam Center for Architecture (Netherlands)

Black Sea Environment Association Together Different Colors Project

Artvin, Bayburt, Catalonia, Giresun, Gümüşhane, Rize, Trabzon

145.590

Objectives: To develop dialogue and increase tolerance through folk dance and to promote European values and citizenship through cultural activities

Partners / Associates: FUSIC-Fundacio Societat I Cultura (Spain)

Friends of the Cultural Heritage Association Experience For Change Within The

Cultural Heritage SectorKocaeli, Rome 125.036

Objectives:

To create concrete and effective solutions for higher education related to the protection of artistic works including restoration and audio-visual materials; to increase the professional capacity of NGOs and universities working in those areas; to establish long-term partnerships between national and international actors working in those areas

Partners / Associates: World Association for the Protection of the Tangible and Intengible Cultural Heritage in Times of Armed Conflict (Italy)

Kayseri Aşık Meydanı Culture and Arts Foundation

Folk Music Bridges Turkey and Europe

Kayseri, Paris 98.658




Objectives:

Kayseri Aşık Meydani Kültür ve Sanat Vakfı (Türkiye), Centre Culturel Anatolie (Fransa) & Conservatorio superior de Musica Malaga’nın (İspanya) işbirligiyle Türkiye ve Avrupa’daki kültür ve sanat alanında faaliyet gösteren sivil toplum örgütleri arasında sürdürülebilir işbirliginin temelinin oluşturulması, halk müzik sanatçılarının ülkelerarası hareketliligi sayesinde geleneksel halk müziginin zenginliginin hem yerel hem de ülkeler düzeyinde kolay bir şekilde ulaşılabilir hale getirilmesi, halk müziginin degerlerinin kayıt altına alınma ve egitim yoluyla muhafaza altına alınması hedeflenmektedir

Partners / Associates: Centre Culturel Anatolie (France)

K2 Contemporary Art Association Tobacco Adventure: France to Turkey, Reji to Tekel

Felletin, İzmir 108.867

Objectives:To foster cultural dialogue through cultural and artistic productions related to the economic and historical impact of tobacco and the effect of French regie system on the civil life of İzmir

Partners / Associates: Quartier Rouge – Felletin (France)

METU Alumni Association Folklore As a Means of Dialogue Ankara, Rousse 140.040

Objectives: To establish a communication network to foster cooperation and dialogue between NGOs in Turkey working on folklore

Partners / Associates: Open Society Club Ruse (Bulgaria)

İzmir Development of Culture and Art Association İzmir Art and Culture Project

İzmir, Kastoria, Râmnicu Vâlcea

133.457

Objectives:To introduce traditional folk stories of different communities in project countries; to develop networking, dialogue, and partnerships between Turkish, Romanian, and Greek cultural operators

Partners / Associates: Pro Xpert Dernegi (Romania), Women Lyceum of Drama (Greece)

European Cultural Association Arts and Culture As a Catalyser for Urban Development

Sinop 126.738

Objectives:

To promote civic participation to urban development through culture and arts; to present models and methods for inter-sectoral cooperations; to demonstrate the citizens how arts and culture can play an effective role in revitalising urban life

Partners / Associates: Felix Meritis Vakfı (Netherlands), Altart Foundation (Romania), Collabor (Austria)

RC Adıyaman Nemrut Association Nemrut In The World, World In Nemrut

Adıyaman, Budapest, Crotone, Gaziantep

117.101




Objectives: To rise the importance given to culture and to promote the intercultural dialogue between Turkey and the EU

Partners / Associates: The Turkish Compass to Europe Foundation (Turkey); RC Santa Severina Association (Italy)

Nilüfer Municipality Sports Club Association If I Were in Your Shoes

Agrigento, Bursa, Vilnius

119.469

Objectives:

To foster dialogue, cooperation, and information exchange between organisations related to folk dancee in Turkey and EU countries; on-the site research on the importance given to fol dances and best practices; to stimulate intercultural dialogue between young people; to increase awareness on European citizenship

Partners / Associates: 1 Akragas Folk Dance Group (Italy), Asociacija Vingieciai (Lithuania), Kay1 Boyu Folk Dance and Youth Sports Club Association (Turkey)

Ordu Culture, Social Training, and Conservatory Services Support and Empowerment Association

Moving Cultures Ordu, Valkeakoski 148.070

Objectives: Intercultural dialogue and to establish networks and dialogue between NGOs in Turkey and Finland

Partners / Associates: Ritvala Youth Association (Finland)

Femin & Art Trabzon Women Artists Association From Nature to Art Essen, Trabzon 112.488

Objectives: Cooperation in cultural and artistic activities

Partners / Associates: ATAVUS EV (Germany)

Balkan Turks Association European Cultural Corridor: Corlu - Sakar Project

Essen, Trabzon 83.883

Objective:

By establishing a European Cultural Croridor, allowing Bulgarian and Turkish people to develop a common understanding and to get informed about European values through culture, history, and tradition. Parallel to EU’s “Unity in Diversity” policy, developing cultural dialogue and cooperation between Bulgarian and Turkish civil societies. Establishing a a long-term and sustainable communication network of culture between CSOs in Corlu, Turkey and Sakar Mountain, Bulgaria.

Partners / Associates: Chitalishte St. Kiril and Methodius Town of Topolovgrad (Bulgaristan), Tokatlılar Kültür ve Dayanışma Dernegi (Turkey)

TOTAL 2.110.161


TABLE 5.15: MICRO GRANT AWARDS

Beneficiary Project Title Project LocationsGrant Amount (Euro)

Civil Society and Development Institutes

Supporting The CSOs for International Cooperation

Eskişehir, İstanbul 4.690

Association for the Prevention of Honour Killings and Using Women’s Potential

Women Hand in HandMardin, Hollanda 4.956

Ankara Business Women Entrepreneurs and Enhancement Organisation

1 Does Not Count ½ Ankara 5.000

THY Technicians Association European Aviation Security Agency Rulemaking Seminar

Türkiye, Almanya 3.147

Mamak Association for Research, Culture, Youth, and Sports

Workshop For Developing International Network

Ankara 3.550

S&G System and Generation Association

AKA Bridge Of Dialogue Youth Caravan On The Road To Greece With 12 Stars Young Neighbors

Atina, Kırıkkale, Ankara 5.000

Çağlayan Association for Science, Culture and Art

Understanding EU Experiences In Conserving And Use Of Succulent Plant Diversity

Erzurum, İngiltere 4.975

Abant Society of Culture and Arts Lets Come Together Bolu, Budapeşte 5.000

The Economists’ Platform International Migration And Its Economic Implications

Paris, Amsterdam 4.930

Economic and Social Development Association Promoting At Young Entrepreneurship Palermo 4.875

European Economic and Social Studies Association One Hand Is Nothing Civil Society Has

EverythingSamsun 4.941

Muğla Association for Energy Efficiency and Environment Protection

Importance of Using Bicycle Inside City Transportation, Energy Efficiency and Environmental Protection

Mugla, Cenevre, Paris 5.000

BES-DER Bolu Association of Education Supporters

Creating and Disseminating Inter Cultural Relations Between NGOs in Bolu And EU Countries

Bolu, İtalya, Malta 4.746




Association for Urban and Public Health Experience Sharing & Strengthening Of

Cooperation With BENAAydın 4.986

Association of Active Football Supporters It is Time for Action

Canakkale, Ankara, İstanbul, İzmir, Bursa

5.000

Oltu Basin Aşıklar Culture and Solidarity Association Culture Bridge From Turkey to Holland Erzurum, Hollanda 4.970

Academic Association for Public Administration First Step Ankara, Marmaris 4.900

Turkish-Greek Friendship Association Turkish Greek Friendship in Aegean

Regionİzmir 5.000

Aydın Association for Businesswomen Gender Equality in the Administration in

the Way EUAydın 5.000

Turkish Association of Sport Fishings with Fishing Rods Turkey Sportive Fishery Workshop Uşak 4.600

Tepecik District ESCS Activities Association Establishing Dialogue for Cultural and

Rural Tourism in AydınAydın, İtalya 4.900

Association of Provincial Planning Experts We Did not Know Turkey Like That

Ankara, Bolu, Venedik 5.000

Tuzla EU and Youth Platform Association Never Ending Migration İstanbul 4.960

Young Culture Association Diversity is a Union Batman 5.000

Turkish IT Association Eskişehir Branch ICT and SMEs Eskişehir 4.968




Mardin Association for Education and Culture Civil Bridges: Meeting Mardin 4.937

Antalya Association of Journalists EU&Turkey Through Press Eyes Antalya 4.962

GAP Culture, Research, and Development Association Reanimatıon of Farrıery, a Lost

Profession Şanlıurfa 4.600

Başkent Association for Youth Sports and Education for the Hearing Impaired

Partnership Between Turkish and German Handicapped Associations & European Union Policies

Ankara, Almanya 4.936

Mardin Association for the Youth and Sports The Hand that Reaches out to Germany

GermanyMardin, Almanya 5.000

Başkent Association for the Graduates and Practitioners of Vocational Education

Examination of Presenting Defansive Rehabilitation of Career And Direction in the Service Model under the Risk Direction to Their Children’s and Family in Europe

Ankara , Düsseldorf 4.946

Mezitli Agriculture and Nature Association

From Field to the Table, the Chain of the Processes of the Product

Mersin, Bolonya 4.995

Kilis Women Development and Capacity Building Association Women are getting Strong Kilis, Rezekne 4.959

Silk Road Disease and Healthy Life Association I’m Ill, but Healty

Aksaray İtalya 4.980

Mardin Atatürk Primary School Youth and Sports Club Disability Without Borders Mardin, Varna 5.000

Association for Development Studies

Innovative Approches and Network for Sustainable Development

Ankara, Hannover, Graz 4.970

Media and Culture Research Association

The Project for Understanding and Transferring EU Experiences in Media Literacy e-Education Initiatives

Kayseri, İtalya 4.940




Adana Sustainable Development, Environment, Consumer Protection, and Culture Association

Environment Education as a Multidisciplinary Learning

Adana, İtalya 4.904

Adana Kardelen Disabled Association

Eastern Mediterranean Civil Societies are Eliminating the Obstacles

Adana 4.860

DOM Culture Research and Development, Social Aid, and Mutual Benefit Association

Dom European Way Of Saying We Are Here

Hatay, Macaristan 4.946

Association for Uşak Civil Track Uşak 5.000

Elmalı Village Youth and Mutual Aid Association

The Brotherhood of Ecological Life Project

Tekirdag, Bulgaristan 4.952

Association of Social Policies Centre

The Image of Turkey through the eyes of young Europeans

Bursa 4.660

Social Development of Youth Association Different Languages the Same Goals

Balıkesir, Londra 4.991

Çağlayan Trainers Association Turkish Culture with Photos Afyon, Prag 5.000

Tosya Youth Agenda Association Building Bridges Kastamonu, Erfurt 4.877

Young Steps Association Where are we the NGOs during the process of the EU Integration Reforms?

Muş 4.370

European Union Policies Institte EU CSOs Cooperation Workshop Yalova 4.570

The Society for Infrastructure and Trenchless Technologies

Project on Infrastructure Systems and Trenches Technology

İstanbul, İngiltere, Almanya 4.863

Antalya Association of Volunteers

Living with Disability in the EU and Turkey

Antalya 4.961

Association of Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs

Develop Network between CSOs and Business Community

Antalya 4.984

Kastamonu Association of Culture and Art

Drum Artist from Kastamonu Mahir Daglı (Karayılan)

Kastamonu, Sicilya 5.000

Norm Education Consultancy Association European Culture Project Ankara, İtalya 5.000




Sakarya Association for the Protection of the Environment and Animals

Workshop on Rehabilitation of Street Animals and Animal Shelter in Sakarya

Berlin 4.500

Sinop Association of Young Businessmen

The Role of Access, Participation, and Responsibility of Civil Society

Sinop 4.860

Uşak Association of Businesswomen and Entrepreneurs

Friendship and Cooperation Bridge Uşak 4.965

TOTAL 271.582

5.1.5. (TR080303) İstanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Grant AwardsThis grant program was specifically designed as a part of the activities related to Istanbul 2010, European Capital of

Culture. Under this program, six projects were carried out by CSOs from the EU, while 5 projects were implemented by CSOs form Turkey.24

24 İstanbul 2010 Avrupa Kültür Başkenti Hibe Programı Ofisi, 2010.

TABLE 5.16: İSTANBUL 2010 EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE GRANT AWARDS


Young Volunteers Association

Child-Friendly Istanbul:Children and Youth Participation in Discovering, Communicating Children’s Geographies for Planning and Designing a Child-Friendly City

İstanbul 134.644

Objective:

Creating a liveable Istanbul where the public realm such as streets, squares, parks, playgrounds, shopping malls, industrial and historic landscapes, waterfronts and forested lands—meet the needs of its children regardless of their ethnic, social, economic, and cultural background, and in turn, becomes a good city for all residents.

Partners / Associates: SOLAR Centre in the University of the West of England

Nisi Masa Istanbul Express: Exploring Multilingualism Across Europe

İstanbul, Paris 145.056

Objective:To explore common issues about languages. Participants aged 18 – 30 will meet locals from provincial cities, travellers in the train and see the cultural differences with their own eyes during these long trips.




Partners / Associates: Ankara Cinema Association

Pro Materia Asbl Arts&Theatre Organization Human Cities:Brussels-Istanbul,2010 İstanbul, Brüksel 143.739

Objective: Encouraging an interdisciplinary exchange between Istanbul and Brussels about urban design and culture and their interactions with public spaces.

Partners / Associates: ISTAV-Istanbul Art, Promotion and Research Foundation Recylart

Galata Association Istanbul-Pori Music Networking İstanbul 133.501

Objective:To initiate activities that will address the musical dimensions of cultural policy of Istanbul and action and as a capacity building process to develop consciousness and mutual understanding with EU counterparts.

Partners / Associates: Pori Jazz 66, IKSV-Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts

Çekul Foundation Istanbul-Marseille: The Industrial Architectural Heritage Developing Awareness and Visibility

İstanbul 135.450

Objective:

To create awareness on preservation of industrial heritage in urban context and to strengthen cultural and academic collaboration between both cities while promoting the potential social, cultural and educational significance of industrial heritage in re-use, urban regeneration and revitalisation projects.

Partners / Associates: Bureau des competences et desires

Association of Archaeologists Participatory Protection of Cultural Heritage

as a Modelİstanbul 125.249

Objective:

To promote an efficient and effective cultural heritage management by developing a participatory model in the Üsküdar district of Istanbul for endangered local historical and cultural properties, based on awareness raising of district inhabitants, proactive and reactive monitoring by neighbourhood volunteers, communicating claim notifications to authorities and relevant institutions and tracking results, sharing experience and information, including sharing and implementing EU best practices in cooperation with project partners.

Partners / Associates: ABN A&B Network Sociale ANTIGONE - Information and Documentation Centre on Racism, Ecology, Peace and Non Violence

İstanbul Association of Contemporary Art Utopias Istanbul -Europe Express 2010 İstanbul 143.040




Objective: To fertilise the performing art’s sector potential to contribute to Istanbul’s sustainable development and to its interconnection with the European Union.

Partners / Associates: IETM, International Network For Contemporary Performing Arts Relais Culture Europe Festival D’ Avignon Theatre Institute Netherlands Bunker

International Centre for Art and New Technologies Global Gateway İstanbul, Prag 149.092

Objective:To foster Istanbul’s role as a cultural catalyst within emerging creative domains such as experimentation with new media interfaces and techniques as well as art/science collaborative practices.

Partners / Associates: BIS - Body-Process Arts Association ARTos - Cultural and Research Foundation URIAC - University Research Institute of Applied Communication Persona - Asociatia pentru educatie creativa

Associazione Adrianico Mediterraw

MedinMusic:Identities in Music Trough Marche And Turkey

İstanbul, Ancona 113.043

Objective:

To achieve a stronger cooperation and dialogue among the cultural operators from Marche Region and Istanbul through cultural events focusing on intercultural dialogue, exchange and share of good practices, creation of an enduring communication network about innovative and experimental culture-arts activities.

Partners / Associates: Bogazici Culture & Art Association

Hungarian Juggling Association (Magyar Zsonglor Egyesment)

Creative Streets for Dialogue-from Pecs to Istanbul Connecting Two Cultural Capitals

İstanbul, Budapeşte 147.946

Objective:Connecting these two cities of the year, using the energy within the art, bringing innovative forms of art, especially of Street-, Circus- and interactive Public Arts, to Turkey and Hungary.

Partners / Associates: Pera Fine Arts Association

Euphonia (“Radio Grenouille”)

Sound_Shift:Marseilles-Istanbul,Culture on the Edge

İstanbul, Marsilya 148.838

Objective: To deepen and extend in time and space the echo of Istanbul 2010, and demonstrate its cultural legacy and its cultural capacity in building up the metropolis’ future.

Partners / Associates: Lokomotif Culture and Art Foundation

TOTAL 1.519.597


5.1.6. (TR080302) EU - Turkey Intercultural DialogueUnder EU-Turkey Intercultural Dialogue, two grant programs titled “Culture and Arts” and Museums” were implemented.

While the table for the former program includes all beneficiaries and projects, the table for the Museums program presents only projects implemented by CSOs. Since there is no online resource available for those programs, the tables are prepared by using the information obtained via internet.



Association of Protecting, Keeping Alive and Introducing the Concrete and Non- Concrete Cultural Heritage

Cultural Reflections From Local To Global

Gaziantep, Paris 105.364

Objectives: To introduce kutnu fabric to the world.

Turkish-Greek Friendship Association

Art As A Tool For Cultural Cooperation In Neighbours

Ankara, Athens, Edirne, İzmir, Komotini, Thessaloniki

107.677

Objectives:

Increasing knowledge and experience of professionals in terms of cultural and artistic issues and competencies; Awareness raising in culture and arts by means of common events,projects and studies; Institutional Capacity building of the NGOs; Organizing cultural, artistic events sto promote dialogue between civil societies; Encouragement of exchange of knowledge and best practices on planning and implementation of cultural policies.

Art Institution Association Networks Through Scenes Ankara, Berlin 84477,96

Uçaneller Culture and Arts Association

Theatrical Dialogue For Mutual Understanding

Kirklareli, Smolyan 83445,16

Partners / Associations: Pro Rodopi Foundation (Bulgaria)

Flying Broom Who Left/What Behind? Ankara, Pleven 109663,87

Objectives:Gender mainstreaming in contemporary arts and to demonstrate the experiences of women artists; to establish a common understanding on contemporary arts through cultural exchanges; to create opportunities for partnerships.

Partners / Associations: Community Centre Chistalishte LIK (Bulgaria)

Isparta Young Businessmen Association

Harmonization of Culture and Arts Between Austria and Turkey

Isparta, Vienna 119278,39

Objectives:

To encourage people to people contacts and to building cross boarder bridges of dialogue and understanding; to overcome cultural reservations and inspire new business relations; to increase cooperation and networking among institutions and business.

Partners / Associations: IDEA Society (Austria), UGEV (Turkey)




GAF Global Art Association Dialogue In The Art Village Antalya, Maribor, Slovenia 115.240

Objectives: To establish a permanent “Art Village” in Gazipaşa; to increase young people’s interest in arts and cultural exchanges; to strengthen cooperation and partnerships.

Partners / Associations: EPeKa (Slovenia)

Eyüp Music Foundation Music For The One Godİstanbul, Thessaloniki, Völklingen

119.721

Partners / Associations: Völklinger Energiestiftung (Germany)

İzdüşün Culture and Arts Association

The Art Teaches The Life What It Needs

Detmold, İzmir, Torino 116.771

Cafer Sadık Abalıoğlu Education and Culture Foundation

Intercultural Painting Camp Denizli, Rome 97.637

Partners / Associations: Associazione di Promozione Sociale Lunaria (Italy)

Knowledge, Communication, Arts, Education, and Culture Youth Club Association

Cultural Bridge Throwing Through Traditional Child Games

Granada, K.Maraş 66.965

İstanbul Digital Culture and Arts Foundation

North Aegean Narratives: Reconnecting With The Other Side

Athens, Mytilene İstanbul, Balikesir, Canakkale, Eskişehir,

119.758

Objectives:

To contribute to the fostering of mutual understanding between Turkey and Greece, and to interconnect two communities at a local level through collaborative works of Turkish and Greek media creators seeking to offer new artistic expressions to enhance multi-cultural dialogue and to overcome misunderstandings and prejudices.

Partners / Associations: AEOLIS (Greece)

Associazione Musicale Teatrale Settima Diminuita Cultures and Water Carriers Lumio, Rome, Tekirdag 113.228

Objectives: Creating educational and cultural exchanges taking as inspiration the theme of water as a common meeting ground between different cultures

Partners / Associations: Artemis International Culture and Arts Foundation (Turkey)

TOTAL 1.359.226


5.1.7. (TR2010/0135.01) Civil Society Dialogue IIIThough Civil Society Dialogue III was programmed under the 2010 National Program, projects took start in 2014 Fall and they were still being implemented when this report was prepared. Two grant programs titled “Political Criteria” and “Media” were launched under Civil Society Dialogue III. The table on the Political Criteria Program includes all beneficiaries and consequent projects, while the table for the Media Program consists of only beneficiary CSOs. Both tables were prepared by accessing information through the web site prepared by the MEUA.

TABLE 5.18: MUSEUMS GRANT AWARDS


Grant Amount (Euro)

Yıldız Palace Foundation İstanbulYıldız Palace of Ottoman Empire Reveals Its Treasures

İstanbul, İsveç

77.014

Free Education, Culture, and Arts Foundation of Turkey İstanbul

Museums For Life Skills Based Education

İstanbul, İngiltere

94.921

Princess Islands Foundation İstanbulIntroduction of City Museum Concept in Turkey

Adalar - İstanbul, Stockholm - İsveç

105.804

TOTAL 277.740

TABLE 5.19: POLITICAL CRITERIA GRANT AWARDS


Başak Culture and Arts Foundation

Empowering Vulnerable Children Through Human Rights & Film Making Workshops and Strengthening Local Support Mechanisms

İstanbul, Siirt, Mersin, Bitlis, Tunceli, Erzurum, Adana, Van, Ordu, Düzce, Hatay, İzmir, Amsterdam (Holland

132.366

Objective:To contribute to a better self expression of the children in protection through raising their awareness on children’s rights and to improve the institutional capacities of the NGOs for better juridical support to these children

Partners Stichting DW- RS Producties (Holland), Van Barosu (Turkey)

Association for Harmonisation with EU, Development, Culture, and Contemporary Life

Human Being with Women’s Rights Adana (Turkey), Austria (AT) 93.761

Objective: To inform men and women living in the Yüregir district of Adana about women’s rights and to increase the capacity of the NGOs working on the field of women




Partners Simultania Liechtenstein - Verein zur Förderung von Menchen mit Behinderungen und deren Umfeld

Mardin History, Culture, Education, and Arts Foundation

Child Rights Are Rising! Mardin 97.681

Objective: To provide experience sharing on children’s rights issues and to increase the awareness on children’s rights through regional meetings

Partners HochVier (Germany)

Human Resource Development Foundation

Maximizing Refugees and Asylum Seekers Access to Services in 5 Satellite Cities in Turkey - From West to East

Kütahya, Eskişehir, Düzce, İstanbul, Agrı, Bilecik (Turkey), Athens (Greece),Bucharest (Romania)

140.306

Objective: To develop the protection and information mechanisms for refugees and asylum seekers

Partners Assocition Pro Refugia (Romania), Human Rights Defense Center -KEPAD (Greece)

Collective Conscious Association

The Project of Innovative Methods and Experience Sharing for Human Rights Violations

Karabaglar, İzmir, (Turkey); Enfield, London (United Kingdom)

105.216

Objective:To improve the capacities of NGOs working on the field of human rights through the analysis of the best practices in EU Member States and to contribute to the establishment of a sustainable cooperation and communication ground between the NGOs in Turkey and EU

Partners Balik Arts (United Kingdom)

Stichting Transnationals Information Exchange

Human Rights at Work Safeguarding EU Core Standards Regarding Labour Rights and Corporate Accountability in Multinational Companies in Turkey

İstanbul (Turkey), Amsterdam (Holland)

150.000

Objective: To provide effective implementation of EU legislation on labour standards and corporate accountability on international companies operating in Turkey

Partners Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) (Holland), United Metalworkers’ Union

Yör-Türk FoundationRaising the Rights of Elderly People and Elderly Care Services to the EU Standards

Ankara (Turkey), Palermo (Italy), Tenerife (Spain), Germany

140.078

Objective: To defend the rights of elderly who are in need of social protection and to make the EU standards on elderly care services dominant in Turkey




Partners CESIE- Centro Studi ed Iniziative Europeo (Italy), DESSOO- Asociacion Desarrollo y Soluciones Sociales (Spain)

Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation

Promoting Dialogue and Solution: What European Legislators Think of Turkey?

Brussels (Belgium), Paris (France), Berlin (Germany),Ankara (Turkey)

92.539

Objective: To identify the biases of EU decision-makers on the issue of Turkey’s membership and to contribute to a more effective participation process of our country

Partners Young Friends of Turkey (Austria)

Bürgerhaus Bennohaus Arbeitskreis Ostviertel eV

Citizens Media for Intercultural and Political Dialogue

İstanbul (Turkey), Münster (Germany)

131.313

Objective: To provide training to NGOs, youth workers, and organizations implementing cultural activities on the fields of politics and culture and to improve their capacities in media work

Partners Youthart Youth, Arts, Research and Education Association(Turkey),European Youth4Media Network eV (Germany

Spastic Childrens’s Foundation of Turkey

Creating Educational Programs on Anti-Discrimination on a Par with EU Standards

Istanbul (Turkey), Palermo (Italy)

136.794

Objective: To identify the differences and commonalities between Turkey and Italy on the fight against discrimination and to raise awareness on anti-discrimination

Partners Centro Studi ed Iniziative Europero Onlus (Italy)

CRT-St Blaise Contemplations

Paris, Orleans, Toulouse, Marseille, Nice (France), İstanbul, Ankara, Nevşehir (Turkey)

147.463

Objective: To strengthen the dialogue and tolerance between religions through culture and art

Partners Visual Arts Center Association (Turkey)

Foundation of Yeniköy Panayia Greek Church and School

Social Media Freedom and Non-Muslim Minorities

Turkey, Greece 136.789

Objective: To contribute to the strengthening of freedom of expression in publishing field and to raise the awareness on EU policies related to freedom of expression

Partners Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) (Greece), İstanbul Bilgi University Human Rights Law Center (Turkey)




Foundation for Children with Leukemia Cancer Will Not Be Our Fate

Ankara, İstanbul, İzmir, Bursa, Antalya, Adana, Erzurum, Eskişehir, Konya, Elazıg, Zonguldak, Kayseri, Mugla, Bolu, Edirne(Turkey), Zagreb (Croatia)

112.547

Objective: To improve the legislation and implementations on the rights of cancer patients and their families and to raise awareness

Partners Ljubav na djelu, Udruga Roditelja Djece Oboljele od Malignih Bolesti (Croatia)

Turkish Education and Solidarity Foundation for Disabled Persons

Empowering the Capacity of NGOs Through ‘Monitoring Verification and Reporting’ Technique in Fight Against Discrimination to People with Disabilities in Turkey

Ankara, İstanbul (Turkey), Madrid (Spain)

131.747

Objective:To increase the capacities of NGOs working in the field of monitoring, researching and reporting on disability rights and problems and to raise awareness on fight against disability discrimination

Partners Asosiacion de paraplejicos y personas con gran discapacidad fisica de la comunidad de Madrid ASPAYM- MADRİD (Spain), Turkey Spinal Cord Paralytics Association (TOFD) (Turkey)

System and Generation Association

Triangle Net Tools for Fair Non-Discriminated Healthcare of Elderly People

Germany (DE), Turkey (Turkey), United Kingdom (GB)

107.597

Objective:To support providers of elderly care services, to prevent elder abuse, to increase the awareness on that issue, and to provide the transfer of successful implementations in EU to Turkey

Partners IMECE Women’s Centre (United Kingdom),Bonner Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelles Lernen eV (Germany)

Arı Movement Social Participation and Development Association

Open Platform for Discussing Media Ethics

İstanbul (Turkey), Stockholm (SE)

101.982

Objective: To develop regulatory mechanisms for the field of professional ethics

Partners Reportar Utan Granser (Sweden)

European Network on Independent Living

Independent Living Network: Promoting the Right to Independent Living of People with Disabilities in Turkey

Dublin (Ireland), İstanbul(Turkey), Sofia (Bulgaria)

133.845

Objective: To increase the awareness about NGOs working in the field of disability, social inclusion and the right to live independently, and to improve the cooperation between these NGOs




Partners Human Rights in Mental Health Institute(RUSİHAK) (Turkey), Centre For Independent Living - Sofia (Bulgaria)

Association of Youth Union of Turkey All for Rights, Rights for All

Ankara (Turkey),Bucharest (Romania)

117.942

Objective: To strengthen the human rights based cooperation and communication on disability between NGOs working in the field of disabled and the ones in the youth field

Partners Partners Foundation for Local Development (FPDL), (Romania), Anadolu University European Union Research, Practise and Documentation Center (ADOM) (Turkey)

Turkey Spinal Cord Paralytics Association

Working Without Obstacles: Analysing the Policies of EU and Turkey Concerning Rights of Employees with Disabilities

Istanbul (Turkey), Bucharest (Romania), Birmingham (United Kingdom)

135.725

Objective:To increase the capacities of NGOs to contribute to the improvement of political reforms on the employment rights of disabled citizens and to establish sustainable communication networks

Partners The Romanian Spinal Cord Society (Romania), Praxis Europe (United Kingdom), Saglık-Sen (Turkey)

Tüvana Foundation for Children Eager for Education

I Am Free

İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Denizli, Eskişehir (Turkey),London (United Kingdom)

133.650

Objective: To provide a better future for children between 0-6 years whose mothers are in prison

Partners Wordview Impact Foundation (United Kingdom)

Denizli Association of Foster Families

Each Child Has the Right to Grow in a Loving and Caring Family

Denizli, Kayseri, İzmir, Hatay, Balıkesir, Hatay (Turkey); Leiden (Holland)

145.445

Objective: To establish a sustainable cooperation between NGOs and public institutions operating in the field of protection of traumatised children

Partners International Child Development Initiatives (Holland);Denizli Barosu, Pamukkale IRC (Turkey)

Hrant Dink Foundation Revealing and Advocating the Multi-Cultural Heritage of Anatolia

İstanbul and another selected pilot province (Turkey)

136.919

Objective: To reveal the cultural wealth of Anatolia through gathering information about the cultural heritage of non-Muslims and compilation of this information

Partners Europa Nostra (Holland)




KAMER Foundation Swedish Model in Turkey: Getting Strong Through Partnership

Adıyaman, Batman, Diyarbakır, Gaziantep, Kilis, Mardin, Siirt, Şanlıurfa, Şırnak, Agrı, Ardahan, Bitlis, Bingöl, Elazıg, Erzincan, Erzurum, Hakkari, Igdır, Kars, Malatya, Muş, Tunceli, Van (Turkey) / Stockholm, Gothenburg (Sweden)

80.909

Objective:

To make the system operating in Sweden on gender discrimination and prevention of the violence better recognized in Turkey and to contribute to the institutional capacity development of the NGOs working in the field of womens rights for implementation and enhancement of the political reforms

Partners Winnet Sverige (Sweden)

Turkish Publishers Association

Awareness Raising for Freedom to Publish on the way to EU Accession

İstanbul, Ankara, Antalya, Adana, Bursa, İzmir, Trabzon, Van, Diyarbakır (Turkey), Brussels (Belgium); Stockholm (Sweden)

136.669

Objective: To contribute to the strengthening of freedom of expression in publishing field and to raise the awareness on EU policies related to freedom of expression

Partners Svenska Förlaggareföreningen (Sweden)

NOTUS WAVE: Women Against Violence Engagement

Rome (Italy), Barcelona (Spain), Ankara (Turkey)

123.991

Objective: To support women exposed to violence through increasing the cooperation and dialogue between NGOs in Turkey and Europe

Partners Association of Social Sciences (Turkey), Women’s Solidarity Foundation (Turkey), Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini (Italy), SURT (Spain)

Agora Platform Unlock the TreasuresSofia (Bulgaria),Tekirdag (Turkey)

97.447

Objective: To transfer the EU experience of Bulgaria on political criteria to Turkey

Partners Association of Balkan Turks (Turkey)

Black Sea Environment Association

European Dialogue Project to Strengthen the Culture of Democracy and the Rule of Law

Vidzeme (Latvia),Berlin (Germany),Black Sea Region (Turkey)

149.941




Objective: To strengthen the civil society dialogue between Turkey and EU in scope of the principles of democracy and the rule of law

Partners Civic Alliance (Latvia), Ass Of German Educational organizations (Germany), Association of Women’s Movements in Rural Areas (Turkey)

Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini

FLOWER-Fostering Local Opportunities for Women’s Effective Participation

Ankara, Hatay (Turkey), Rome (Italy)

136.808

Objective: To establish the mechanisms of sustainable participatory democracy and to improve the capacities of NGOs for increasing the rates of women participating in the political sphere

Partners Association of Gender Studies, Social Solidarity and Assistance Association of YeşilpınarWomen(Turkey), Associazione “Comitato Pari o Dispare” (Italy)

Association of the Commisioners of Audits

More Transparent Turkey with Ethic Leaders

İstanbul, Ankara, (Turkey), Denmark, Ireland, Italy

149.873

Objective:To contribute to the realisation of political reforms through establishment of successful implementation mechanisms on transparency and accountability in the fight against corruption

Partners Transparency International (Danimarka), Transparency International (Ireland), Transparency International (Turkey)

Civil Society Development Center

Disseminating Best Practices of Advocacy and Lobbying from Turkey and Europe for Enhancement of Democratic Participation

Ankara (Turkey), Brussels (Belgium)

147.007

Objective:To ensure NGOs in Turkey participate in decision making processes more actively, to improve their capacities of lobbying, and establishment of a cooperation between the NGOs operating in different fields

Partners European Citizen Action Service – ECAS (Belgium)

Flying Broom Watch Your ShadowAnkara (Turkey),Sofia (Bulgaria)

116.576

Objective: To increase the participation of women in local politics

Partners Center for Women’s Studies and Policies (Bulgaria), Ankara University European Union Research, Practise and Documentation Center (Turkey)

Aktif Adalet Youth and Education Foundation

Sharing Knowledge on Juvenile Justice Systems

Van (Turkey), London (United Kingdom)

121.392




Objective:

To use analyse of good practices in EU Member States on the issues of juvenile justice system and decrease of child crime rates to improve the corporate capacities of NGOs working in that field To share the alternative models and good practices to improve the approaches of lawyers on the issue of juvenile justice system

Partners Van Bar Association (Turkey), Penal Reform İnternational (Holland)

Stichting Turkije Instituut Leiden

Enhancing Civic Participation and Confidence Building in the Judicial Reform Process

İstanbul, Konya, Trabzon-(Turkey), Lieden and Amsterdam (Holland)

121.139

Objective: To increase the contribution of NGOs in the process of juridical reform through supporting the access to justice on selected themes:women, minorities and environmental legislation

Partners Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation

Transparency International - Turkey

Strengthening Cooperation and Advocacy for Transparency and Accountability Political Life

Ankara, İstanbul (Turkey) 112.619

Objective: To contribute to the democratic political sphere through strengthening the transparency and accountability in political funding

Partners Partners and Countries Transparency International Bulgaria (Bulgaria), GONG(Croatia)

Association of Youth Services Center

Together Enhancing Youth and CSOs Political Culture and Democratic Participation

Ankara (Turkey), Rome (Italy) 126.711

Objective:To improve the capacities of NGOs working in the field of youth, to increase the knowledge on EU issues and to increase the cooperation opportunities between the youth NGOs in Turkey and EU member states

Partners LUNARIA (Italy)

World Academy for Local Government and Democracy Collaboration for Participation of Youth

İstanbul (Turkey), London (United Kingdom), Rome (Italy), Brussels (Belgium

134.961

Objective: To increase the knowledge level and awareness of Turkish NGOs and local governments on EU policies made for the active participation of youth in decision-making processes

Partners The İntercultural Communication and Leadership School (Italy), Zeytinburnu Municipality, Bagcılar Municipality (Turkey)

Turkey-Europe Foundation Active Civil Society Participation in EU Accession Talks

Ankara, İstanbul (Turkey), Brüksel (Belgium)

149.745




Objective:To ensure the transparency, accountability and civil participation in all steps of the negotiation process, to strengthen the capacities of NGOs for increasing their role of in accession negotiations and development of the mechanisms needed for these objectives

Partners European Network of National Civil Society Associations (Belgium)

Women and Democracy Association

EU-TR Civil Network for Women in Politics

Brussels (Belgium) Strazburg (France), İstanbul (Turkey)

138.252

Objective:To improve the capacities of Turkish NGOs for more active participation to EU decision making and policy making mechanisms, and to contribute to the establishment of a sustainable communication network between the NGOs in Turkey and EU

Partners Conseil pour la Justice, Egalite et Paix- COJEP (France), Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student organizations-FEMYSO (Belgium)

SINDNOVA Istituto per lo Studio dell’Innovazione e delle Transformazioni Produttive e del Lavoro Via Calabria 56, 00187 -

Strengthening the Mutual Cooperation of Italian and Turkish CSOs in the Field of Occupational Equal Opportunities and Women’s Access to Managerial Positions

İstanbul (Turkey), Rome (Italy)

105.293

Objective: To increase the level of knowledge of the NGOs in Italy and Turkey on EU policies on gender equality and equal employment opportunities and to identify the good examples

Partners Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey (KAGİDER) (Turkey), Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini ve Associazione Imprenditrici E Donne Dirigenti D’Azineda (AIDDA) (Italy)

TOTAL 4.911.037

TABLE 5.20: MEDIA GRANT AWARDS


Foundation for Research on Mass Communication

Media for Environment: Network of Media News Reporters

Artvin, Bartın, Ordu, Rize, Samsun, Trabzon, Zonguldak

145.206

Objective:

To increase the level of knowledge and sensitivity through highlighting environmental problems, and increase the media news on environmental problems, as well as establishment of a constructive network for experience and knowledge sharing between NGOs related with media in EU and Turke

Partners / Associates: Kultur und Art Initiative Detmold e.v (Germany)


TABLE 5.20: MEDIA GRANT AWARDS


Federation of Communications and Media Rebirth of Turkish Local Media with EU

Ankara, Karaman, Brüksel

126.520

Objective: To establish a sustainable dialogue and cooperation between the media organs in Turkey and Belgium and to improve the human resources capacities of local televisions in Turkey.

Partners / Associates: Karaman Yerel Radyo ve Televizyonlar İletişim Dernegi (Turkey), TWIST Cluster a.s.b.i (Belgium)

Antalya Journalists’ Association Media Bridges

Antalya, Burdur, Almanya, Isparta

142.183

Objective:

To improve the professional capacities of media employees through the establishment of regional cooperation between the NGOs working on the field of media; To inform the 50 media employees in the region through the trainings on EU issues; To provide the establishment of a Professional network between the media employees in West Mediterranean and Baviera regions.

Partners / Associates: Pressclub Nürnberg e.V. (Germany)

Association of Documentary Filmmakers

Copyright Distribution for Turkish Film Industry and Online Broadcasting

İstanbul 144.150

Objective: To facilitate the distribution and promotion of visual archive materials of Turkey and to establish a sustainable network between the actors from EU member states and Turkey.

Partners / Associates: AG DOK – Alman Belgesel Sinemacılar Birligi(Germany)

Giresun Journalists’ Association

News Coverage on Turkish Media Landscape

Giresun, Stockholm

95.318

Objective:To raise awareness on the issue of media monopolization and to debate the issue with media corporations in Turkey, Sweden and EU and regulatory authorities on media issues.

Partners / Associates: Reportrar Utan Granser (Sweden)

Mudanya Journalists’ Association

Adaptation of Turkish Local Media to the European Union

Bursa, Sofya

84.360

Objective: To improve the capacities of local media associations and media actors from 5 districts of Bursa and to get informed about the legislative regulations, ethics and occupational standards of EU on the field of media.

Partners / Associates: Sofia Journalists Association (Bulgaria) (co-beneficiary),Mudanya Turizm İşletmecileri ve Oteller Birligi Dernegi (Party),Türkiye Gazeteciler Cemiyeti (Party) (Turkey)

TOTAL 737.736


5.2. OTHER GRANT PROGRAMSThis section covers all other remaining grant programs implemented during 2005-2014. The tables below include

only the grants received by CSOs from Turkey and the corresponding projects and were prepared by using the CFCU grant database.

TABLE 5.21: OTHER GRANT PROGRAMS AND AWARDED PROJECTS OF CSOS


Grant Amount (Euro)

Turkey-Bulgaria Cross-Border Cooperation: Joint Small Projects Fund 2005

Demirköy Association for Protection of Nature and Culture

Kırklareli

Capacity Building Project for Tourism Sector Personnel in the Border Region Between Turkey and Bulgaria

Burgaz, Kırklareli 24.989

Total 24.989

Regional Development in TR 90 (Artvin, Giresun, Gümüşhane, Ordu, Rize and Trabzon) NUTS II Region Local Development Initiatives

Ordu - Ünye Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation

OrduApplied Ready Made Clothing Training

Ordu 87.169

Culture and Solidarity Association of Rize People

RizePersonnel Education for Shipyards

Rize 81.935

Ordu İli Rahvan Riding Sport Association Ordu Urdu Province On Horse Ordu 86.708

Giresun Association of Educators Giresun

Natural Gas Plumbing Vocational Education

Giresun 58.220

Turkish Women Union Association Gümüşhane Branch

Gümüşhane Cognisant Hands Gümüşhane 61.225

Gümüşhane Kelkit Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation

Gümüşhane Zilli Rug Promotion Project Gümüşhane 48.837

Trabzon Şalpazarı Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation

TrabzonReinvention of Local Agasar Clothes

Trabzon 87.118

Black Sea Young Businessmen Association Trabzon

Labor Force and SME Development Project

Trabzon 45.039

Ordu Businessmen Association Ordu

Labor Force and SME Development Project

Ordu 45.039




Grant Amount (Euro)

Anatolia Solidarity Foundation of Diabled People

Giresun

Giresun Physically Handicapped E-Trade Training and Motivation Project

Giresun 50.269

Total 651.558

MEDA 2005

Tourism and Folk Dance Research Institute Foundation

AnkaraLet’s Share Our Traditional Wedding Ceremonies

Ankara 35.732

Young Development Association Ankara Reunited Ankara 25.432

Association of Public Servants Not available 38.000

Aksaray Association of Educators Not available 31.845

Balıkesir Hourglass Education, Youth, Women, and Social Aid Association

Not available 28.268

Manisa Swimming, Water Sports, and Youyh Club Asociation Yüzme


Young Communication Association Not available 25.310

Marmara Youth, Education, Culture, and Social Aid Asociation


Union for the Protection of Consumers and Solidarity Association


Ankara Culture and Arts Club Not available 31.055

Total 317.075




Grant Amount (Euro)

Active Labour Market Measures - 2008

Kadıköy Municipality Health and Social Solidarity Foundation

İstanbul NEW HOPES 2 IN KADIKOY İstanbul 175.519

Gürün Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation Sivas

TO RAISE QUALIFIED STAFF TO THE SERVICE SECTOR BY BEING POTENTIAL SECTOR

Sivas 136.064

TÜTEV Çorum Branch Corum

EMPLOYMENT BASİS CNC PROGRAMMES AND OPERATOR TRAINING PROJECT

Corum 128.772

Association of Young Industrialists and Businessmen

Bursa

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING WHICH IS INTENDED FOR DEVELOPING OF KNOWLEDGE AND TALENTS OF THE PARTICIPANS’ ELECTRIC ELECTRONIC MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR ON INDUSTRIAL SECTOR

Bursa 89.470

Sivas Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation Sivas

TASTE COMING FROM MILK IS FERTILITY TO HOMES

Sivas 111.155


NATURAL GAS INSTALLER AND WELDER RAISING PROJECT

Sivas 101.443

Sivas Social Service Foundation Sivas

SECRETARY TRAINING PROJECT

Sivas 102.001

Özvatan Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation

Kayseri

EDUCATION BEEKEEPING AND HONEYPRODUCTION FOR MAKING BETTER USE OF NATURAL FLORAY

Kayseri 138.131

Bursa Uludağ Association of Industrialists and Businessmen Bursa

TRAINING AND JOB PLACEMENT FOR UNEMPLOYED YOUTH IN THE PLASTIC SECTOR

Bursa 86.540




Grant Amount (Euro)

Hatay Association of Industrialists and Businessmen Hatay

PROJECT OF PROFFESSIONAL SKILL EDUCATION PROGRAM IN METAL SECTOR

Hatay 300.649

Bursa Çoşkunöz Education Foundation Bursa HERE İS THE OPPURTUNITY Bursa 176.766

Association of Outdoor Advertisers İstanbul

EMPLOYMENT GROWING BY THE SECTOR!

Bursa, İstanbul, Kocaeli, Sakarya, Tekirdag

125.074

Adana Sanayici ve İşadamlar Derneği Adana

YOUNG DREAMS ON VOCATION WAY

Adana 188.297

KOBİDER İzmirCNC MACHINING CENTRES PROGRAMING AND OPERATOR TRAINING

İzmir 68.418

TOSYÖV Ankara

TRAINING QUALIFICATIONM ANDEMPLOYMENT OF NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING OPERATORS

Ankara 225.978

TAYSAD Kocaeli

QUALIFYING AND EMPLOYING OF MAINTANANCE TECHNICIANS FOR SUBSIDIARY INDUSTRY

Kocaeli 195.328

İzmir Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation İzmir

A PROJECT TO EDUCATE STAFF WHO WILL BE EMPLOYED ON DAY CARE CENTERS ON SOCIAL CARE AND ACTIVITIES

İzmir 118.547

Ege Plastic Industrialists Solidarity Association İzmir

REGIONAL PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT PROJECT IN PLASTIC SECTOR

İzmir 107.368

Blacks Federation of Industrialists and Businessmen Associations

SamsunTRAININGS ON FOREIGN TRADE EXPERT AND PROJECT EXPERT

Samsun, Trabzon 213.481




Grant Amount (Euro)

TAGİD Tekirdag

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION FOR THE YOUNG IN PRINTING, RAM AND PAINT OPERATOR

Tekirdag 215.986

Türkey Foundation of Technical Personnel Ankara

GOLDEN BRACELETT TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROJECT

Ankara 229.242

Adana Association for Steet Children Adana

SUPPORTING UNEMPLOYED YOUNG PEOPLE AND WOMEN LIVING IN ADANA THROUGH VOCATIONAL AND WORK ADAPTATION TRAININGS

Adana 170.289

Sungurlu Association for Professional and Technological Development

CorumSUNGURLU VOCATIONAL TRAINING PROJECT-2 (SUNMEP-2)

Corum 126.710

Total 3.531.230

Turkey-Bulgaria Cross-Border Cooperation Joint Small Projects Fund 2006

Tikveşli Culture, Folk Dance and Sports Club Association

Kırklareli

“COMMUNITIES” TRADITIONS AND HERITAGE- A GROUND FOR DEVELOPMENT OF COMMON ALTERNATIVE TOURISM STRATEGIES

Kırklareli, Burgaz 47.504

Edirne Association of Young Businessmen Edirne LET’S WORK TOGETHER! Yambol, Edirne 28.620

Anatolia Folk Dance Foundation Edirne Branch

Edirne

FOSTERING CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION- TURKS AND BULGARIANS DANCE AROUND THE FENCE

Yambol, Edirne 41.370

Total 117.494

Promoting Registered Employment through Innovative Measures

Southeast Association of Industrialists and Businessmen

DiyarbakırSoutheast Instituationalization Effort

Diyarbakır, Mardin, Siirt, Şanlıurfa, Şırnak

358.965




Grant Amount (Euro)

Foundation of Technical Samsun

Vocational Training Project To Encourage Registered Employment And Creating Awareness

Samsun 276.333

Foundation for Scientific and Technical Research Ankara

Disputing With The informal Employment

Bitlis, Hakkari, Muş

170.035

Kayseri Association of Financial Advisors and Accountants

KayseriAgainst Disasters, Under Umbrella

Kayseri 254.407

Karadeniz Association of Industrialists and Businessmen Associations

Samsun SME Consultancy Project Samsun 263.771

Association of Food Industrialists and Businessmen

AnkaraMoving To Formal Employment In Mass Catering Sector

Kayseri 331.128

Karadeniz Industrialists and Businessmen Association

SamsunProject Of Promoting Registered Employment In Smes

Samsun 153.281

Karadeniz Federation of Industrialists and Businessmen Associations

SamsunTR 83 ve TR 90 Bölgelerinde Kayıtlı İstihdamın Teşviki

Amasya, Artvin, Corum, Giresun, Gümüşhane, Ordu, Rize, Samsun, Tokat, Trabzon

324.772

Bayburt Science, Education, and Culture Association

Bayburt Social Gate To The Security Bayburt 190.760

MÜSİAD İstanbul Trabzon Initiative (Trab.in) Trabzon 303.183

Total 2.626.635

Promoting Women’s Employment

White Pearl Women Education and Culture Association

SamsunProject Of Child Nursing Vocational Course

Samsun 126.033

Bingöl Bahar Education, Culture, Social Aid and Solidarity Association

BingölEducating And Guiding Child Caretakers

Bingöl 200.263




Grant Amount (Euro)

BİRSİAD HatayTravel Operators To Hatay Tourism And Tourism Guide Training Project

Hatay 243.273

Bitlis Development Foundation İstanbul Honeysuckle Bitlis 189.677

Çerkeş Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation Cankırı

Cerkeş Promoting Women’s Employment Project

Cankırı 126.308

Derepazarı Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation

RizeInformation Society and Employment

Rize 210.728

Develi Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation Kayseri Dexterous Hands Kayseri 151.165

Friendship Education, Culture and Social Aid Association

Samsun Employment Step by Step Samsun 126.135

Dr. Ahmet Kemal Köksal Socail Service Foundation

SivasOur Job Needs Service, Our Home Needs Food

Sivas 120.462

Erzincan Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation

Erzincan Second Spring In Erzincan Erzincan 320.522

Association for the Elderly Living in Erzincan

ErzincanAt Home, Elderly, Patient Sick And Child Care Staff Training

Erzincan 160.214

Southeast Federation for Social and Economic Development

GaziantepIncreasing Employment In The Disabled Care

Gaziantep 194.980

Gürün Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation Sivas

Designing, Producing, Selling

Sivas 102.871

Hacılar Honey Producer Entrepreneur Women Of Kars

Kayseri Childcare Staff Training Kayseri 120.872

Hitit Academia Association Corum

Promotion Of Women Entrepreneurship In Rural Areas

Corum 86.096




Grant Amount (Euro)

Blacksea Federation of Industrialists and Businessmen Associations

Samsun

Project for Supporting the Employment of Women in Samsun, Tokat, Corum, Amasya

Amasya, Corum, Samsun, Tokat

336.352

Marmara Group Strategic and Social Research Foundation

İstanbulHoney Producer Entrepreneur Women Of Kars

Kars 138.342

Melizkgazi Honey Producer Entrepreneur Women Of Kars

Kayseri Compassionate Hands Kayseri 119.907

Association of Health Workers Malatya

Project for Education Qualified Assistant Health Personnel

Malatya 224.620

Sarıoğlan Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation

KayseriThe Birth Of The Solar Project, Sarıoglan District

Kayseri 161.697


The Patient And The Old Caring And Attendant Training Project

Sivas 87.416

Suluova Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation

Amasya Angles With Pink Collar Amasya 184.077

Sungurlu Development Association Corum

Project for Employment and Entrepreneurship Education

Corum 257.107

Association for Sustainable Rural and Urban Development

Ankara

Ensuring Woman Employment And Promoting Women Entrepreneurs Through Traditional Goose

Ardahan 175.627

Association for Empowering and Supporting Şanlıurfa Women

Şanlıurfa While Children Play Şanlıurfa 209.180

Şarkışla Businessmen Association Sivas

Şarkışla Training Center Project Implementation

Sivas 336.414

Taşova Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation Amasya

Rises The Sun For Women In Greenhouses

Amasya 101.081




Grant Amount (Euro)

TOKADER TrabzonWomen Are Participating In Employment And Strengtening

Trabzon 108.135

TÖRKAD Mardin

Women In Every Where, Women In Every Job

Mardin 349.592

Trabzon Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation

TrabzonCandle In Candle Trabzon History

Trabzon 88.666

Foundation for Research on Economic Policies Ankara

Promoting Women’s Employment In Amasya

Amasya 305.095

Ünye Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation Ordu

Project On Women Entrepreneurs In Textile And Their Employment

Ordu 191.485

Van Association of Industrialists and Businessmen

VanWomen Employment Project Through Traditional Sock Sewing

Van 124.468

Yaşamevi Women’s Solidarity Association Şanlıurfa Woman Cellar Şanlıurfa 159.045

Total 6.137.903

Promotion of Life Long Learning

Binmarifet Foundation Not available 90.194

Foundation for the Training and Protection of Mentally Handicapped Children Kayseri Branch


Hakkari Science, Health, Culture, and Research Foundation


Bulancak Ab-ı Hayat Environment, Education, Culture, and Solidarity Association


Lifelong Learning Personal Development Association





Grant Amount (Euro)

Foundation for Technical Education Not available 109.382

Giresun Association of Educators Not available 53.841

Total 586.912

Promoting Youth Employment

Suşehri Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation Sivas

Suşehri Education and Employment Centre

Sivas 309.155


“The Equipment I Got Is Benefit To My Country” Project

Sivas 150.738

Sivas Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation Sivas Outside Place Pipe Welding Sivas 163.941


Recep Abi (Front Office, Receptionist Trainee Project)

Sivas 160.589


Work of Employee is Aesthetic of My House

Sivas 260.428

Anatolia Busineswomen Association Adıyaman

The Destiny of Adıyaman’s Employment Structure is Changing With AIKAD

Adıyaman 255.057

Foundation of Technical Personnel Kayseri Branch

Kayseri

Ubringing Youth Unemployment as a Specialist and Operator on CNC

Kayseri 153.984

Federation of Cook Chefs Ankara8th Art Kitchen Vocational Education Project

Hatay 184.291

Six Dot Foundation for the Blinds İstanbul

Gaining Visibility With Computer

Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Gaziantep, Kilis, Şanlıurfa

223.541

Development Centre Association Diyarbakır

Local Informatics Experts Project

Diyarbakır 211.074

Diyarbakır Association of Diyarbakır Organised Industry Businessmen

DiyarbakırDiyarbakir Marble Sector is Solving Its Problem That Need of Vocational Worker

Diyarbakır 208.562




Grant Amount (Euro)

World Turkish Businessmen Foundation Ankara

Professional Office Employees of the Future

Giresun Ordu 166.518

Hacettepe Education, Research and Service Foundation

AnkaraSupport Health Occupation to Youth

Diyarbakır, Gaziantep, Kayseri, Şanlıurfa

156.687

Foundation for Supporting Vocational Education and Small Businesses

Ankara Elevator

Diyarbakır, Gaziantep, Osmaniye, Şanlıurfa

392.417

Erzincan Asociation of Young Businessmen Erzincan

Technical And Professional Training Center

Erzincan 278.910

Güneysu Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation

Rize Effort Means Future Rize 207.685

Erzurum Ecomomic and Social Research and Aid Foundation

AnkaraOrganization Staff with Guaranteed Employment Project

Erzurum 260.643

Association of Turkish Sanitary Engineers Ankara

Training Youth and Promoting Youth Employment on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (Training Youth for Green Jobs)

Erzurum, Kayseri , Samsun

176.999

Informatics Association of Turkey Istanbul Branch

İstanbulInternet Entrepreneurship and E-Commerce Workshop “The Stars Of The East”

Erzurum 226.871

Hatay Association of Industrialists and Businessmen Hatay Way to Employment Hatay 256.004

Fourth of September Culture and Solidarity Association

SivasIncreasing Employment and Giving Profession Project

Sivas 327.213

Social Services Research, Recording, Documentation and Education Foundation

AnkaraYouth Entrepreneurship, Education and Employment

Kastamonu 126.555




Grant Amount (Euro)

Reyhanlı Ufuk Education Association Hatay

The Young People in Reyhanlı are Preparing Themselves for Logistics Sector

Hatay 240.791

Southeast Federation of Industrialists and Businessmen Gaziantep

Project of Supporting Youth Employment in Gaziantep

Gaziantep 140.739

Bafra Association of Industrialists and Businessmen Samsun

Computerized Accounting and Computer Operator Vocational Training Project

Samsun 252.426

Tokat Association Active of Industrialists and Businessmen Tokat

Sales and Marketing Personnel Training Course

Tokat 249.460

BİRSİAD HatayEmployment of Young Women as Sales Person in Automotive Sector

Hatay 219.460

Yeşilırmak Association of Industrialists and Businessmen Amasya

Sales and Marketing Personnel Training Course

Amasya 309.621

Blacksea Federation of Industrialists and Businessmen Associations

SamsunProject of Supporting Youth Employment in Samsun

Samsun 158.722

Foundation of Technical Personnel Samsun Branch

SamsunUnder-gas Welder Training Project

Samsun 139.076

19 Mayıs Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation

Samsun

Support Project For The Employment Of Young People In Ready-Made Clothing

Samsun 230.930

Giresun Business Life Solidarity Association Giresun

Project of Supporting Employment of Youth in Giresun

Giresun 136.180




Grant Amount (Euro)

Merzifon Association of Industrialists and Businessmen Amasya

CNC Machine Operator Training Project

Amasya 191.539

Ordu Journalists’ Association Ordu Let Our News Be Yours Ordu 264.294

Total 1.949.016

Increasing School Enrolment Rates Especially For Girls

Birecik Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation Şanlıurfa

We Are Moving Our Girls Into The Future

Şanlıurfa 91.903


Children Whose Spirits Are Good And Who Are Special

Sivas 120.876

Van Association of Industrialists and Businessmen Van

Profession School Teachers E-Capacity Program

Van 86.574

Association of Turkish University Women İstanbul I Am The Future İstanbul 138.739

Suşehri Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation Sivas Susehri Study Center Sivas 133.250

Association of General Educational Volunteers Şanlıurfa

Providing Bozova’s Girls Attendance To School And Education

Şanlıurfa 131.223

Turkish Women Enterpreneurs Association

İstanbul Girls In Kars Move Ahead İstanbul 119.595

Diyarbakır Association of Educators Diyarbakır

Parents And Girls Are Meeting At Reading Hall

Diyarbakır 102.762

SS Life, Woman, Environment, Culture and Business Cooperative

VanSupporting Young Girls for Van’s Future

Van 80.188

Hakkari Association of Educators Hakkari

Supporting Of Schooling Of Girls In Hakkari

Hakkari 116.114

Adıyaman Sebil Educational Volunteers Association

Adıyaman School Enrolment For Girls Adıyaman 132.668




Grant Amount (Euro)

Gaziantep Association of Tourism Ambassadors Gaziantep

Young Girls are Choosing Their Profession

Gaziantep 132.085

Sivas Association of Educators Sivas Haydi Kızlar Okula Sivas 143.219

Association of Şanlıurfa Laborers Şanlıurfa Come On Girls To School Şanlıurfa 59.652

Van Lake Folk Dance, Tourism, Sports Association

Van To Study Is My Privilege,Too Van 118.778

Civil Society for Life Association Bingöl

Education For Everyone Right Now

Bingöl 148.347

Association of Social Improvement and Research

Van Study Room For Girls Van 93.044

Total 1.949.016

Strengthening Pre-School Education

Turkey Hearing and Speaking Rehabilitation Foundation İstanbul

Sessizligime Kulak Ver: Okul Öncesi Egitimin Güçlendirilmesi

İstanbul 57.816

AÇEV İstanbulSupport Of Early Childhood Education In The Rural Areas Project

Konya 70.631

Çifteler Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation Eskişehir Wild Flowers Eskişehir 69.646

Tohum Autism Foundation İstanbul

Increasing The Number Of Autistic Children Attended To The Pre-School Education By Creating An E-Learning Portal For Parents

Antalya, Bursa, Denizli, Edirne, Erzurum, Eskişehir, Gaziantep, İstanbul, Kayseri, Samsun, Trabzon, Van

76.857

Niğde Association of Educational Volunteers Nigde

Strengthening Pre-School Education in Nigde

Nigde 79.550




Grant Amount (Euro)

Association for Solidarity for Women Health Workers İstanbul Don’t Be Late For School İstanbul 69.438

KEDEV İstanbul

Project For Disseminating Early Child Education Services In Mardin

Mardin 72.000

İsmail Ebul-iz Education, Culture, and Social Aid sociation

Şırnak Compassion Home Şırnak 71.942

Development Projects Academy Association Adıyaman

Education Is Spread By Support

Adıyaman 78.852

Total 646.732

Empowerment of Women and Women NGOs in the Least Developed Regions of Turkey

Association for Supporting Regional Development Activities

GümüşhaneProject for Increasing the Social and Economic Role of Women in Gümüşhane

Gümüşhane 72.284

Golden Light Education, Culture, Development, and Solidarity Association

BingölLet’s Walk to the Future with Conscious Women

Bingöl 87.965

Association of Hope Women Agrı E-Women Agrı 74.291

Association of Turkish Women Union Gümüşhane Branch Gümüşhane

Woman-Friendly City of Gümüşhane

Gümüşhane 94.524

Seza Hanımlar Culture, Communication, Solidarity and Social Aid Association

Trabzon Trabzon is Recovering Trabzon 41.899

Social Aid and Solidarity Foundation of Bayburt Women

Bayburt Small City’s Great Ladies Bayburt 96.171




Grant Amount (Euro)

Association of Women and Youth Platform Ankara

Adı.Riz.Ela Women Force Unity

Adıyaman, Elazıg, Rize

87.494

Association for Protection, and Development of Melekli Women

IgdırThe Socio-Economic Status of Women in Melekli Upgrade

Igdır 83.134

Ümit Aras Ağrı Foundation of Educational Volunteers

AgrıOne Woman,Thousand Hope

Agrı 78.748

TOKADER Trabzon

Women are Getting Organised, the Society is Growing Stronger

Trabzon 76.501

Starfish Culture and Social Aid Association Giresun

Strong Women is Building a New Giresun

Giresun 87.004

Raman Kadın Derneği Batman

Strong Women Strong Society Batman 86.030

Mardin Association for Supporting Women, Education and Employment

Mardin

Integrating Women of Mardin to Social Life While Producing Income

Mardin 72.273

AÇEV İstanbul

Empowering Women and NGO Work in Rural Areas

Van 96.612

Batman Social Development Association Batman Smiley Faces Batman 28.876

Middle East Association for Developing Pre-School Education

Mardin Opening a Place for Women in the Active Part of Life

Mardin 91.157

Cappadocia Women Solidarity Association Nevşehir

Promoting the Gender Equality and Defending the Rights of Women in Trabzon and Mardin

Trabzon 98.427

Lale Women Association Muş Women in Right Initiative Muş 29.481




Grant Amount (Euro)

Cooperation Education, Culture, Solidarity and Development Association

ŞanlıurfaStrong Women, Strong NGO, Strong Society Şanlıurfa 98.224

Association for Supporting Women Entrepreneurs Gaziantep

Empowerment of Women in South Eastern Anatolia

Gaziantep 76.558

SS Life, Woman, Environment, Culture and Business Cooperative

VanHome-Based Working Women are Organizing Van 98.674

Van Women Association VanPowerful Organizations, Powerful Women

Van 99.565

Social Change and Women Association Batman Urbanized Women Batman 91.113

Association of Turkish Women Union Iğdır Branch Igdır

Women’s Solidarity in the EU-Turkey

Igdır 65.172

Hizan Partner Women Cooperation Association Bitlis

Women are Getting Stronger in Hizan

Bitlis 94.219

Active Citizenship Association Batman Gercüş Equality Centre Batman 96.751

KEDEV İstanbulWomen Cooperatives Capacity Building and Participation Empowering

Mardin 98.269

Sacayak Social Equality Association Giresun

Strengthening Organization and Capacity of Women’s Associations in The Eastern Blacksea Region

Giresun 97.175

Muş Association for Muş

We Could Stop the Violence Together

Muş 81.459

Association for Profession and Education Erzurum

Erzurum through the Eyes of Women

Erzurum 80.860




Grant Amount (Euro)

Life House Women’ Solidarity Organisation Şanlıurfa

Strong Women, Strong Society

Şanlıurfa 82.465

Space Culture and Arts Foundation Van

By Education the Women, By Women the Society is Strengthening and Developing

Van 76.378

Association of Active Businesswomen Kars Branch

Kars

Woman’s Attendance in to Social Life Through Activities of NGOs

Kars 93.954

Kelkit Women’ Counselling and solidarity Association

GümüşhaneKelkit’s Women Learning Women Rights

Gümüşhane 59.826

Development Projects Academy Association Adıyaman

Toward an Egalitarian Culture

Adıyaman 78.823

Association for Preventing Honour Killing and Realising Women’ Potential

MardinWomen Decision Makers, Decisive Steps

Mardin 99.548

Total 2.951.902

VOC-Test Centres

Association of Mediterranean Hotel and Business Managers

Antalya

Four Steps To National Tourism/Accommodation Qualifications Framework (NTAQF)

Antalya 212.292

TÜBİDER İstanbul

Establishment Of VOC-Test Center In The 8.4 Numbered Sub-Sector Of The IT Technology (Italy)

İstanbul, Bursa, Ankara, Konya, Kayseri, İzmir, Antalya, Adana, Gaziantep

299.728

İzoder İstanbulQualification Based Certification In Insulation Sector

İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir

245.484




Grant Amount (Euro)

Association of Turkey Natural Gas Distributor Union Ankara

Establishment Of Examination And Certification Center For Natural Gas Sector Professions

İstanbul 299.531

Association of Turkey Port Managers İstanbul

TÜRKLİM Kariyer - Port Center :”Establishing A Model National Qualifications And Personnel Certifications Centre Project”

Antalya, Bursa, İstanbul, İzmir

229.966

Foundation for Developing Turkish Railways and Solidarity with Turkish Railways Staff

AnkaraEstablishing NQS And VOC-Test Center In Railway Transportation

Ankara 277.458

Foundation for Turkish Plastic Industrialists Research, Development, and Education Foundation

İstanbulThe Employees With Professional Competences In Plastic Sector

İstanbul 194.927

Association of Machine Tools Industrialists and Businesman

İstanbul

Establishing and Operating Machine Tools VOC-Test Centre

İstanbul 277.155

Total 2.036.541

Empowering Civil Participation at the Local Level

Association for Protecting Nature Gaziantep

Increasing Environmental Awareness in Şehit Kamil

Gaziantep 7.768


Nigde Union Empowers Nigde 8.977

Youth Re-autonomy Foundation of Turkey İstanbul

Campaign for Living Rights and Information

İstanbul 9.416

Association for Ecologic Life Bursa

Civil Participation to Bursa’s Environmental Problems’ Solution

Bursa 8.037




Grant Amount (Euro)

Söğütlü Association TrabzonHuman Rights Project of Sögütlü

Trabzon 9.990

Elmalı Village Youth and Solidarity Association Tekirdag

First Step for Being an Eco Village

Tekirdag 6.606

Mudanya Asociation of Lausanne Treaty Emigrants

BursaI am a Grandson of Exchanged Immigrant

Bursa 7.881

Uygar Association for Visually Impaired People Bursa

Disable People are in Daily Life

Bursa 7.771

Zero Discrimination Association İstanbul

Workshop Of Roman’s Accession to Citizenship Rights

İstanbul 8.401

Gaziantep Sportive Handline Fishing and Protection of Water Life Association

Gaziantep Don’t Sell the Future Gaziantep 8.018

Social Policy Centre Association Bursa

Do not Let the City Disable Us

Bursa 7.828

KADER Bursa Branch BursaSince We are Equal We are Powerful

Bursa 8.127

Deveciuşağı Association for the Protection of Environment and Development Association

AdanaStrong Civil Society Sustainable Cukurova River Basin

Adana 8.190

Kilyos (Kumköy) Association for Protecting Natural Environment and Developing Environmental Culture

İstanbulProtection of Sand Lily of Sarıyer

İstanbul 7.829

Doğader BursaConservation Atlas of Environmentalist Bursa

Bursa 9.337

Black Pink Triangle İzmir Branch İzmir

Civil Dialogue for Equality in Gender

İzmir 9.824

Life without Hindrance Association Şırnak

Awareness Rising for People With Disabilities Living at Rural Regions

Şırnak 9.567




Grant Amount (Euro)

Knowledge, Communication, Arts, Education, and Culture Youth Club

KahramanmaraşEnvironmental Platform For Kahramanmaraş


Blacksea Federation for Environmental Protection Karadeniz Doğa Koruma Federasyonu

GiresunEmpowering Natural Preservation Organizations in Blacksea Region

Giresun 8.495

Association for the Status of Women Bursa

Combating against Violence to Women

Bursa 8.563

Çankırı Women’s Counseling and Solidarity Association

CankırıGender Equality and Healthy Women Provide Better Future for Society

Cankırı 9.315

Association for Energy Productivity and the Protection of Environment

MuglaPeople of Mugla Drive in Bicycle Roads

Mugla 10.000

Association of Agean Research and Protection of Caves

İzmirDeveloping Cooperation to Protect Caves and Cave Environment

İzmir 9.793

Total 199.576

Developing Civil Dialogue among NGO’s

Culture and Solidarity Association of the Staff and Graduates of Reformatories and Orphans

AnkaraBreaking The Silence: Violence Against Women And Girls With Disabilities

Ankara, Sofya 36.579

Association for Human Rights Research Ankara

The Role Of Civil Society In Creating A Peace Culture

Ankara, Hatay, Kayseri, Mardin, Samsun

37.275

Six Dots Association for the Blind Antalya Branch Antalya

Recognition And More Accessibility For Blinds

Antalya, İstanbul 29.288

Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation

İstanbulWomen Assemblies Train Each Other

Ankara, Aydın, Bursa, İstanbul, Sakarya, Şanlıurfa

32.333




Grant Amount (Euro)

Association of Visually Impaired People İstanbul

The Platform For Improving, Monitoring And Advocating Disability Rights

İstanbul 34.770

Muscular Diseases Association of Turkey İstanbul

Unimpeded Opportunity Schools Project

İstanbul 39.990

Association for Providing Jobs and Professions for Disabled People

AdanaFrom Adana To The Assembly, From Disabled To The Deputy

Adana 35.631

Association of Women with Jobs and Professions

AnkaraCivil Initiative Strategic Research Center

Ankara 36.990

Youth Re-Autonomy Foundation of Turkey İstanbul

Child Justice System In Turkey Through The Eyes Of Civil Society Project



NigdeCappadocia Women Platform

Nevşehir 27.119

Federation of Kafkas Associations Ankara

We Want To Exist With Our Differences


Association for Solidarity with Freedom-Deprived Juvenile

Ankara OtheringAnkara, İzmir, Malatya, Mersin, Samsun

38.214

Six Dot Foundation for the Blinds Afyon Branch Afyon

Unimpeded Is Removing The Barriers

Afyon 35.775

Young Life Foundation İstanbulPrevention Of Domestic Violence Against Children

İstanbul 35.183


AnkaraI Know My Rıghts, I Want You To Know Them, Too” Asylum -Seekers Refugees

Ankara, Gaziantep, İstanbul, Kayseri, Konya

39.460

Kırşehir Association of Spastic and Mentally Disabled People

Kırşehir The Handicaps Of Kırşehir Kırşehir 39.094

Aksaray Eğitimciler Derneği Aksaray First, Children Rights Aksaray 27.811




Grant Amount (Euro)

Başak Culture and Arts Foundation İstanbul

Am I Guilty? Are We Guilty ? Are They Guilty?

Diyarbakır, İstanbul

25.524

Spinal Parallel Cords Paralytics Association of Turkey Beykoz Branch

İstanbulFree Heaven, Barrier- Free Earth

İstanbul 35.286

Flying Balloon AdanaShots Out Of Frame: Stop To Child Violence And Delinquency

Adana 39.386

Denizli Association of Soroptimist Club Denizli

Children Are A Hand Full Of Seeds For Our Future

Denizli 37.517

Association for Solidarity with Refugees İzmir

Act Together:Ngos Promotıng Refugee Rights In Detention

İstanbul, İzmir 35.258

Social Policy Centre Association Bursa You Can Be Unimpeded Bursa 24.895

Total 797.508

Lifelong Learning II

Association for Lifelong Learning and Personal Development Association Giresun

Educational and Instructional Activities

Giresun 118.116

Giresun Association for Job Life Solidarity Giresun

Computer-Aided Machinery and Furniture Designing and Prototyping

Giresun 63.342

Foundation for Technical Education Ankara

Vocational Guidance and Career Counselling System

Kayseri, Yozgat 128.685

Thousand Skills Foundation Bingöl Modern Education for Bingöl Bingöl 106.110

Foundation for Raising and Protecting MentallyDeficient Children Kayseri Branch

KayseriProgram for Mentally Disabled Individuals to Learn a Profession

Kayseri 106.361

Hakkari Science, Health, Culture, and Research Foundation

HakkariCareer Development Culture and Entrepreneurship Center

Hakkari 84.813




Grant Amount (Euro)

Bulancak Ab-ı Hayat Environment, Education, Culture, and Solidarity Association

GiresunContemporary Education for Contemporary Bazaars

Giresun 83.058

Trabzon Akçaabat Sailing Club Trabzon Sail Open It Trabzon 95.239

Total 785.724

Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education

Foundation for Strategic Thinking and Research Ankara

Awareness on Social Peace and Cultural Tolerans in School

Ankara, Batman, Bursa, Kütahya

86.902

Foundation for Promoting Counselling in Higher Education and Educating Counsellors

İstanbul

From Peaceful School to Peaceful Community - Democratic Citizenship Education

İstanbul, Konya, Samsun

83.074

Çelikel Education Foundation İstanbul Youth Friendly High Schools İstanbul 92.186

Migration and Humanitarian Aid Foundation

Diyarbakır It is not Game Diyarbakır 77.130

Association for Lifelong Learning Ankara

Fellow Turks, Aware of our Responsibilities

Ankara, Balıkesir 97.021

Association of Private Pre-School and Study Education Institutions Union

Ankara Children Citizens Ankara, Almanya 86.011

Flying Broom Ankara My Madame Curie! Ankara 99.767

Seven Colors Art Foundation İstanbul Demo Puppet İstanbul 87.227

Kocaeli Federation of the Associations of the Roma Kocaeli

Integration of Romani Children to the Education Life in Kocaeli

Kocaeli 96.784




Grant Amount (Euro)

Türkiye Foundation of Educational Volunteers İstanbul

Empowerment Workshops for Volunteers

Adana, Afyonkarahisar, Ankara, Antalya

95.856

Twenty-first Century Education and Culture Foundation

İstanbulI was Here, I am Here and I will be Here for Democracy and My Rights

İstanbul 87.840

Total 989.796

Improved Integration of Disabled Persons into Society

International Spinal Parallel Cords Paralytics Association

Ankara

To Raise Awareness of Physical Potential Among Orthopedically Disabled People

Ankara 99.073

Confederation of the Disabled Ankara

Argument/Defence, Monitoring and Combating Discrimination for the Disabled People

Ankara 86.352

Association of the Handicapped Ankara Branch

Ankara

Accessible Parks for All Within Social Integration Process: A Participatory Revision Model

Ankara 95.384

Foundation of Physically Disabled People İstanbul

Sportive Skills and Coordination Trainings (SBK) for Handicapped Children

Gaziantep 86.200

Zile Association for Providing Occupations and Solidarity with Disabled People

Tokat Non-Disabled Youth Center Tokat 69.968

Tohum Autism Foundation İstanbul

Give Way to My Independence

İstanbul 84.698

Yüksekova Education, Culture, and Environment Association

HakkariI Am Overcoming All Handicaps By My Cultural, Art and Sports Center

Hakkari 93.399

Reyyan Association for Reaching and Solidarity for the Disabled and Poor People

ZonguldakOvercoming Disabilities With Flowers

Zonguldak 82.556




Grant Amount (Euro)

Association of the Handicapped Antalya Branch

Antalya A Trip To AwarenessAntalya , Burdur, Isparta

87.450

Turkish Psychologists Association Ankara

Psychology for Equal Accessibility

Ankara, Bursa, İstanbul, İzmir, Mersin, Trabzon

85.049

Asociation of Young Businessmen of Turkey İstanbul

112ID - “Turkey Without Handicaps” For Emergency Medical Services

İstanbul 86.068

Ankara Yenimahalle Municipality Youth and Sports Club Association

AnkaraSport Will Not Be Disabled in Ankara

Ankara 98.928

Association for Supporting All Disabled People

İstanbul Hope of the Bee İstanbul 64.942

Gökçeada Sports Club Association Canakkale

Freely Diving to Freedom in Imbros

Canakkale 91.492

Adana Science and Technology Association Adana

Life Without Handicaps in Adana

Adana 90.043

Sinop Association of Spastic Children Sinop

Empowering the Capacity of NGO’s on Lobbying and Rights-based Approaches

Sinop, Ankara, İstanbul, Mugla , Diyarbakır, Hatay

96.993

Küre Mountains Eco Tourism Association Kastamonu

Disability Friendly National Park: Küre Mountains

Kastamonu 89.421

Mustafakemalpaşa Municipality Sport Club Association

BursaSport of Orienteering Does Not Accept Obstacle

Bursa 45.968

Adana Social Services Foundation Adana No Barriers To Smile

Adana, Mersin, Nigde, Hatay Osmaniye, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş, Şanlıurfa Malatya

72.598




Grant Amount (Euro)

Anatolia Education and Culture Foundation İstanbul

Enhancement of Public Entegration with Implementing “Unburdened Life Societies Educational Model” in Mainstream Schools

İstanbul 76.849

Association for Protecting and Guiding Autistic Children

İzmir Dancing with Autism İzmir 78.886

Total 1.762.318

Strengthening Capacity of National and Local NGOs on Combating Violence Against Women

KAMER Gaziantep Branch Gaziantep

Women’s Rights are Human’s Rights

Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa, Erzurum, Trabzon, Nevşehir, Kırşehir

175.000

Nevşehir Association for Ecology and Developing Social Life

NevşehirWomen Counselling Center and Violence Database Nevşehir 57.237

Youth Re-autonomy Foundation of Turkey İstanbul The Purple Dove

Adana, Denizli, Eskişehir, Ankara

135.920

Purple Roof Women Shelter Foundation İstanbul

Empowerment of the Shelters and Solidarity Centers in Together Against Violence Against Women

İstanbul, Mersin 193.242

Cappadocia Women’s Solidarity Association Nevşehir

Expert Bridges for the Struggle Against Gender Violence Bridges of Expertise to Fight Gender Based Violence

Nevşehir, Kırşehir, Zonguldak, İtalya, Slovenya, Fransa,

115.996

Contemporary Family Association Konya

Women in Anger Violence Dialectic

Konya 194.784

Hazar Education, Culture, and Solidarity Association

İstanbul Wo/Men for Women İstanbul 151.242




Grant Amount (Euro)

Mardin Association for Women’s Cooperation Mardin

Towards Effective and Sustainable Models in Combating Violence Against Women: Establishing Local Cooperations

Mardin Trabzon Nevşehir

130.563

Foundation for Women’s Solidarity Ankara

Strengthening the Mechanisms of Combating Violence Through Local Cooperations

Ankara, İzmir, Canakkale

138.155

Association of Social Workers Kocaeli Branch Kocaeli

There is a Safe Life

Düzce, Kocaeli, Sakarya

129.429

Sociology Association Ankara Scream of Quietness Ankara 128.053

Seahorse Women’s Solidarity Association Düzce

KadınaYönelik Şiddet Hakkında Dayanışma ve Farkındalık Arttırma Projesi

Düzce 129.319

AÇEV İstanbulIncreasıng the Capacity of the Communities to Prevent Violence Against Women

Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Canakkale, Denizli, Eskişehir, İzmir, Konya, Manisa

169.876

Turkish Genealogy and Obstetric Association Ankara Safe in Secure İstanbul 143.940

S. S. Toros Women’s Initiative Employment, Environment, Culture, and Busines Cooperative

Adana

Innovative Approaches in the Prevention of Violence and Discrimination Against Women

Adana 125.807

Türkiye Soroptimist Kulüpleri Federasyonu İstanbul Evolution Workshop

Ankara, İstanbul, İzmir, Adana, Gaziantep, Kocaeli, Mersin

161.404

International Blue Crescent Aid and Development Foundation Uluslararası Mavi Hilal İnsani Yardım ve Kalkınma Vakfı

İstanbul

İstanbul Gaziosmanpaşa and Sultanbeyli Counties Combating Violence Against Women and People At Risk-for a World Free of Violence Against Women

İstanbul 184.003




Grant Amount (Euro)

Samsun Soroptimist Women Samsun

A Non-Violent Community is Our Right

Samsun 112.122

Association for Leadership Creating Participants

İzmir 4 Women İzmir, İtalya 199.100

Total 2.775.190

Developing Civil Dialogue among CSOs

Federation of Mentally Disabled Ankara

In Advocating the Rights of Mental Disabled, the Dialogue of NGOs and Local Administrations

Agrı, Ankara, Edirne, Mersin

37.798

Kaçed Association Rize

To Develop and Protect the Human Rights of Women and Girls

Artvin, Rize 49.873

Active Disabled People Youth and Sports Club Association Aktif Engelliler Gençlik ve Spor Kulübü Derneği

Antalya No Barriers for Children Antalya 36.584

Association for Protecting Turkey’s Nature

Ankara

Active Participation of the Central Anatolia Regional Environmental NGOs’ Platform for Solution of the Environmental Problems in the Region

Ankara, Nigde 33.720

Cafer Sadık Abalıoğlu Education and Culture Foundation

Denizli Art for Civil Society DialogueDenizli, İstanbul, İtalya

49.396

Foundation of Lausanne Treaty Emigrants İstanbul

“Population Exchange” Refugees: Their Shared Lot was to be “Twice a Stranger”

İstanbul, Yunanistan

48.639

Neighbourhood Disaster Relief Volunteers Association

İstanbul

Instigating a Disaster Information System for Common Use of Civil Society Organizations Active in Disasters

Türkiye 43.416




Grant Amount (Euro)

Adıge Language Association Konya

Customizing Adıge Language to Latin Language Taking under Record and Preparation of Versatile Language Teaching Materials

Konya 40.073

AKUT İstanbulI Know My Rights, Growing Up Knowing It

İstanbul 48.993

Youth Re-autonomy Foundation of Turkey İstanbul The Outer Child İstanbul, Kocaeli 49.332

Transparency International Turkey İstanbul

Turkey Map of Environmental Violations

Türkiye 36.562

Adana Solidarity and Culture Association of Şanlıurfa People

AdanaHand in Hand to Prevent Child Labour, to Improve Children’s Rights

Adana 41.585

Social Solidarity and Culture Associaton of Migrants

İstanbul With IDPs for IDPsBursa, İstanbul, Kocaeli, Tekirdag, Yalova

41.765

Of Association of Women Movement Trabzon

Cooperation Time for Strong Future

Mardin, Trabzon 41.337

S.S. Life, Woman, Environment, and Business Cooperative

VanWe are Organized, We are Powerful

Van 48.371

Edirne Association of Young Businessmen Edirne

O Kafdagı I Said Apple Why did You not Come in Sight?

Edirne 46.239

Association of Social Equality Trabzon

Common Problems Common Solutions

Şanlıurfa, Trabzon 40.810


Ankara

Dialogue for Suspended Lives (NGO Dialogues for Asylum Seekers and Refugees)

Giresun, Gümüşhane, Karabük, Samsun, Trabzon

49.498

Social Development Centre Education and Social Solidarity Association

İstanbul Clean Class Healthy Future İstanbul, Siirt 48.749




Grant Amount (Euro)

Association of Young Entrepreneurs İstanbul Civil Society and Youth Land Türkiye 42.988

KEDEV İstanbulEnhancing Early Childhood Private Education Services

Canakkale, Diyarbakır, Düzce, İstanbul, İzmir, Mardin

42.939

Black Pink Triangle İzmir Branch İzmir

Network for Civil Dialogue and Struggle for Legal Equality

Ankara, Antalya, Diyarbakır, İstanbul, İzmir, Trabzon, Van

45.190

Flying Balloon Association Adana

Children Rights and Democracy Workshop

Adana 42.756

Foundation for Struggle with Erosion, Afforestation and Protecting Natural Resources

İstanbul

Project for Increasing Participation of Civil Society To Climate Change Policy Making in Turkey

Türkiye 42.372

Hennaed Hands Women Association Diyarbakır

We are Aware of Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

Diyarbakır 43.132

Association of the Lovers of Anatolia Kilis

Learn Your Rights, End the Violence

Kilis 36.761

Association of Women Working form Home and Solidarity

DiyarbakırImproving the Social Rights of the Women Working from Home

Diyarbakır 38.433

Blacks New Horizons Association Samsun

Hand in Hand for a Life without Violence

Samsun, Amasya, Corum, Tokat

43.268

TOTAL 1.210.578


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APPENDIX


TABLE I: PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED BY PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS UNDER THE CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION 2005-2013

Main Beneficiary Project Title Total Cost (Euro)


Prime Ministry Sub-total 86.715.450 39.050.405

TR 05 02 08 Small Entreprise Loan Programme, 2nd phase (SELP II)

65.800.000 20.000.000

TR 06 01 08 Ethics for the Prevention of Corruption in Turkey

1.500.000 1.350.000

TR 06 03 06 Introducing Regulatory Impact Analysis into the Turkish Legal Framework

1.000.000 1.000.000

TR 07 02 12 Support to the Strengthening of the Quality Infrastructure in Turkey

5.555.000 5.555.000

TR080207 Strengthening the Capital Markets Board 4.760.450 4.110.405


1.500.000 1.200.000

TR2009/013606 Coordination of Anti-Corruption Policies

1.600.000 1.360.000


2.500.000 2.250.000


2.500.000 2.225.000

Ministry of Culture and Tourism Sub-total 9.188.900 8.120.000

TR2011/0136.05 Common Cultural Heritage: Preservation and Dialogue between Turkey and the EU

3.000.000 2.700.000


6.188.900 5.420.000

Ministry of Customs and Trade Sub-total 58.794.707 50.398.354

TR 06 03 07 Modernisation of the Turkish Customs Administration

19.027.139 16.532.854

TR 07 02 03 Modernisation of Turkish Customs Administration -IV

4.950.000 3.775.000

TR080220 Modernisation of Turkish Customs Administration

3.870.000 2.900.000





TR2009/032901 Turkish Customs Administration 15.600.000 13.340.000

TR2009/032902 Turkish Customs Administration - Risk management

1.000.000 950.000

TR2010/0329.01 Modernisation of the Turkish Customs Administration VII

505.000 505.000

TR2012/0329.06 Modernization of Turkish Customs Administration VIII

11.842.568 10.495.500

2013/1.2.3.2. Improving the Maritime Customs Surveillance Capacity and Operational Procedures of TCA

2.000.000 1.900.000

Ministry of Development Sub-total 111.377.810 92.686.019

TR 05 03 16 Upgrading the Statistical System of Turkey – Phase II

11.237.300 10.361.750


19.500.000 18.500.000


24.000.000 18.000.000

TR 05 02 04 CBC with Bulgaria: Joint Small Project Fund

500.000 500.000

TR 05 02 05 Interreg III/A Greece-Turkey Programme 4.355.000 3.509.000

TR 05 03 03 Reinforcement of Institutional Capacity of the Directorate General for State Aids in the Undersecretariat of State Planning Organisation

1.000.000 1.000.000

TR 06 02 08 Industrial Restructuring of Sanlìurfa 21.580.000 15.513.000

TR 06 02 13 TA for the mgt of the Ekmekcizade Caravanserai in Edirne

160.000 157.500

TR 06 02 14 Ugrading of Kirklareli-Derekoy-Aziziye TK-BG Border State Road Project

5.349.000 4.000.000

TR 06 02 15 Flood Forecasting 4.080.000 3.255.000

TR 06 02 17 Joint Small Project Fund 765.100 700.000





TR 07 01 04 Empowerment of Women and Women NGOs in the Least Developed Regions of Turkey

5.000.000 5.000.000

TR2009/031801 Statistical System of Turkey Programme

3.016.410 2.714.769

TR2009/032201 Economic and Social Cohesion Policy 2.000.000 1.800.000

TR2010/013601 Geliştirilmiş Stratejik Yönetim Kapasitesi

2.600.000 2.330.000

TR2011/031818 TÜİK’in Bilgi ve İletişim Teknoloji Hizmetlerinin Yenilenmesi

6.235.000 5.345.000

Ministry of Economy Sub-total 7.500.000 7.500.000

Dış Ticaret Müsteşarlığı (2005)

TR 05 02 07 Development of a Clustering Policy in Turkey 6.000.000 6.000.000

Dış Ticaret Müsteşarlığı (2005)

TR 05 03 01 Reinforcement of Institutional Capacity for Establishing a Product Safety System in Turkey

1.500.000 1.500.000


Sub-total 59.385.988 58.910.328


1.070.000 1.040.000

TR 06 03 03 Improvement of the Conditions for Cross Border Electricity Trade in Turkey in Compliance with the Best Practice in EU

1.380.000 1.380.000

TR 07 02 05 Rehabilitation of the Frequency Control Performance of Turkish Power System for Synchronous Operation with UCTE

2.500.000 2.500.000

TR2009/031501 Turkish Electricity Transmission 2.005.500 1.804.950

TR2010/0315.01 Harmonisation of Transmission System for Electricity

1.500.000 1.350.000

2013/5.1 Energy Efficiency 11.800.000 11.800.000

2013/5.2 Renewable Energy 14.750.378 14.750.378

2013/5.3 Electricity and Gas Market Development 14.429.378 14.429.378






1.703.654 1.703.654

2013/5.4 Long-term Energy Scenarios, Capacity Building and Establishment of an Energy Electronic Data Centre

5.298.854 5.298.854

2013/5.5 Improvement of Nuclear Safety Regulatory Infrastructure

1.902.192 1.807.082

2013/5.6 Awareness Raising among all Relevant Stakeholders

1.046.032 1.046.032


Sub-total 133.058.500 113.597.250


11.500.000 9.875.000

TR 06 02 10 Amasya Solid Wate Management Project 24.000.000 18.000.000

TR 06 02 12 Bitlis Solid Waste Management Project 19.500.000 15.500.000


7.080.000 5.785.000

07 02 08 Capacity Building in the Field of Environment 3.000.000 3.000.000

TR08 02 02 The REACH Chemicals Project 2.500.000 2.250.000

TR08 02 03 Improving Emissions Control 2.050.000 1.910.000

TR08 02 04 IPPC-Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control

2.500.000 2.325.000

TR08 02 05 Mining Waste Management 4.600.000 4.085.000

TR2009/032701 Control of Industrial Volatile Organic Compound Emissions

2.850.000 2.625.000


4.000.000 3.650.000

TR2009/032703 Environmental Noise Directive 6.180.000 5.557.500


3.000.000 2.700.000





TR/2009032705 Institutional Capacity on Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Implementations

1.425.000 1.318.750


1.150.000 1.035.000


1.000.000 900.000


1.000.000 900.000

TR2011/0315.20 Improving Energy Efficiency in Buildings

3.333.500 3.000.000


3.000.000 2.700.000


2.500.000 2.250.000


1.000.000 950.000


2.500.000 2.250.000


5.480.000 4.932.000


15.500.000 13.950.000


2.410.000 2.149.000

Ministry of Family and Social Policies Sub-total 11.438.180 10.953.180

TR 05 01.06 Promoting Gender Equality 5.838.180 5.838.180

TR08 01 04 Promoting Services for People with Disabilities

2.000.000 1.900.000






3.600.000 3.215.000

Ministry of Finance Sub-total 15.220.940 14.301.550

TR 05 03 15 Capacity Building for the Compilation of Accounting Data in all Institutions and Agencies within General Government Sector in the Context of E-government

2.000.000 2.000.000

TR 07 02 04 Introduction of Quality Management in the Revenue Administration

1.184.300 1.184.300

TR 07 02 09 Strengthening the Public Financial Management and Control System in Turkey

1.800.000 1.800.000

TR08 02 06 Decision Making and Performance Management in Public Finance

2.390.000 2.176.000

TR08 02 19 Improving Data Quality in Public Accounts 1.875.000 1.721.250


1.758.000 1.670.000


4.213.610 3.750.000

Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock

Sub-total 314.830.650 259.535.370

TR 05 03 04 Establishment of National Food Reference Laboratory

6.399.000 4.849.000


5.199.000 4.249.000

TR 05 03 06 Control of Rabies Disease in Turkey 11.884.500 9.103.750

TR 05 03 07 Establishing New Border Inspection Posts (BIPs ) in theRepublic of Turkey

13.250.000 10.000.000

TR 06 03 01 Establishment of a Pilot Turkish Farm Accountancy Data Network

1.240.000 1.080.000

TR 06 03 02 Control of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in Turkey

65.437.800 49.078.350

TR 06 03 09 Development of the Seed Sector in Turkey and Alignment to the EU

2.335.000 2.020.000





Project for Bird Flu Epidemic in Turkey 10.400.000 8.350.000

TR 07 02 01 Plant Passport System and Registration of Operators

1.140.000 1.105.000


2.200.000 2.200.000

TR 07 02 06 Implementation of Nitrate Directive 6.765.000 5.823.750

TR 07 02 25 Strengthening the Statistical Capacity of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs

1.150.150 1.100.150

TR 08 02 01 Environment and Countryside under IPARD

1.400.000 1.055.000

TR 08 02 08 Tagging and Vaccination of Sheep and Goats

44.600.000 34.530.000

TR2009/031101 Pilot Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) Project

3.587.200 3.257.620

TR2010/0311.01 Digitisation of Land Parcel Identification System

46.200.000 39.270.000

TR2010/0312.01 Oral Vaccination Against Rabies 2.200.000 1.870.000

TR2010/0312.02 Control of Foot and Mouth Disease- Phase 2

38.375.000 32.618.750

TR2011/0311.25 Training Staff on IACS Procedures 1.500.000 1.350.000

TR2012/0312.13 Electronic Identification and Registration System for Sheep and Goats

34.100.000 34.100.000

2013.8.1 Agriculture and Rural Development; Food and Feed Safety, Fisheries

15.468.000 12.525.000

Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs Sub-total 24.266.000 22.101.600


2.050.000 1.862.500

TR 06 03 04 Capacity Building Support to Turkey for the water sector

2.500.000 2.375.000





TR2010/0327.05 Capacity Building to implement the Flood Directive

1.800.000 1.710.000

TR2011/0327.21 Environment and Climate Measure 6.600.000 6.005.000


6.816.000 6.099.100


4.500.000 4.050.000

Ministry of Health Sub-total 38.497.950 33.425.620

TR 05 03 02 Support to the Market Surveillance Laboratories for the Implementation of EC Directives in the areas of New Hot Boilers, Gas Appliances, Cosmetics, IVD, Veterinary Pharmacy, ATEX

3.298.500 2.473.875

TR 05 03 13 Strengthening of the Epidemiological Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases System (ESCCDS) in Turkey - II

6.993.100 5.507.325

TR 07 02 10 Establishment of an Accredited Calibration Laboratory

1.130.000 1.035.000

TR 08 01 04 Promoting Services for People with Disabilities

2.000.000 1.900.000

TR 08 02 15 Strengthening the Blood Supply System 3.217.000 2.776.800

TR 08 02 16 Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases

4.500.000 4.050.000

TR2009/030101 Control Tests for Human Vaccines and Sera

3.587.200 3.257.620

TR2009/032801 Alignment in Organ Donation 3.700.000 3.300.000

TR2009/032802 Alignment in Human Tissues and Cells

3.000.000 2.700.000


1.500.000 1.425.000

TR2010/0328.01 Recruitment of Future Blood Donors 2.500.000 2.250.000






3.072.150 2.750.000

Ministry of Interior Sub-total 410.371.944 328.543.387

TR 05 01.05 An Independent Police Complaints Commission and Complaints System for the Turkish National Police and Gendarmerie

1.600.000 1.600.000

TR 06 01 01 Support to the Set up an Asylum and Country of Origin and Information (COI) System

12.051.000 9.793.250

TR 06 01 02 Civilian Oversight of Internal Security Sector

3.000.000 3.000.000

TR 06 01 05 Shelters for Women Subject to Violence 10.360.000 8.110.000

TR 06 01 06 Strengthening the Capacity of TK on the Struggle against Drug Trafficking

3.450.000 3.232.500


4.000.000 4.000.000

TR 06 01 03 Training of Gendarmerie Officers on European Human Rights Standards

1.947.500 1.773.125

TR 06 01 06 Strengthening the Capacity of TK on the Struggle against Drug Trafficking

3.450.000 3.232.500

TR 06 01 07 Combatting Human Trafficking 3.000.000 3.000.000

TR 06 03 08 Support to the Turkish Police in Enforcement of Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights

1.510.000 1.332.500


10.963.000 9.834.750


19.433.333 15.000.000


62.400.000 47.100.000


1.923.000 1.886.750





TR080107 Participatory Strategic Governance at Local Level

3.333.333 3.000.000


28.800.000 21.880.000

TR 08 02 11 Improving the Skills of Forensic Experts 2.111.300 2.005.735

TR 080 2 12 Strengthening the Investigation Capacity of Turkish National Police and Gendarmerie Against Organised Crime

8.000.000 6.300.000

TR 08 02 13 Training of Border Police 1.200.000 1.140.000

TR 08 02 14 Strengthening Forensic Capacity of Turkey 26.600.000 19.950.000

TR2009/013602 Women’s Shelters for Combating Domestic Violence

10.150.000 9.135.000

TR2009/013607 Disproportionate Use of force in Turkish Police

2.000.000 1.900.000

TR2009/032401 Strengthening Capacity against Cybercrime

1.400.000 1.330.000


3.100.000 2.790.000

TR2010/0136.11 Strengthening Witness Protection Capacities

1.000.000 950.000


11.500.000 9.775.000

TR2011/0324.01 Protecting Victims of Human Trafficking

1.900.000 1.710.000


3.800.000 3.420.000

TR2011/0324.02 Improvement of Civilian Oversight in Turkey – Phase II

3.800.000 3.800.000


2.000.000 1.800.000






26.225.000 19.725.000

TR2011/0124.11 Witness Protection Capacities Phase II

1.764.800 1.500.000

TR2011/0124.12 Forensic Capacity 10.667.000 8.000.000

TR2012/0124.04 Socioeconomic Development through Demining and Increasing the Border Surveillance Capacity at the Easter Borders of Turkey - Phase II

53.500.000 40.000.000

2013/1.1.5.1 Strengthening the Institutional Capacity of Turkish National Police regarding Public Order Management and Crowd

7.131.193 5.748.395

2013/1.1.5.2: Strengthening the Institutional Capacity of Gendarmerie General Command regarding Public Order Management and Crowd

3.124.635 2.608.403


2.000.000 1.900.000


4.000.000 3.400.000

2013/1.2.1.1 Reinforcement of Turkey’s National Asylum System

5.500.000 4.950.000

2013/1.2.1.2 Supporting Turkey’s Efforts to Manage Migration

5.500.000 4.950.000

2013/1.2.1.3 Supporting Migration Policy Development in Turkey

1.527.100 1.374.390


5.898.720 5.013.912


1.705.000 1.534.500


29.046.030 22.057.677






3.000.000 2.000.000

Ministry of Justice Sub-total 91.996.205 78.997.340

TR 05 01.01 Better Access to Justice in Turkey 4.400.000 3.585.000

TR 05 01 03 Training Programme on the Istanbul Protocol: Enhancing the Knowledge Level of Non-Forensic Expert Physicians, Judges and Prosecutors

3.000.000 2.925.000

TR 05 01.07 Support to the Establishment of Courts of Appeal in Turkey

30.000.000 22.500.000

TR 06 01 04 Support to the Court Management System

3.300.000 3.300.000


2.000.000 1.947.500


7.000.000 6.000.000

TR 08 01 01 Strengthening Supreme Judicial Authorities in respect of European standards

3.172.500 3.000.000

TR 08 01 02 Strengthening the Court Management System

5.263.500 5.000.000

TR2009/013603 Mental Health Care and Drug Addiction Treatment Services in Prisons

1.500.000 1.350.000

TR2009/013604 Efficiency of Turkish Criminal Justice System

4.000.000 3.400.000

TR2009/013608 Capacity of Civil Enforcement Offices 1.800.000 1.710.000

TR2010/0136.08 Justice for Children 3.750.000 3.345.000

TR2010/0136.09 Towards an Effective and Professional Justice Academy

2.120.000 1.942.000


5.500.000 4.970.000


1.000.000 950.000





TR2010/0136.12 Improved Relations Between Mass Media and Judiciary

1.700.000 1.615.000

TR2010/0136.13 Improved Court Expert System 1.500.000 1.425.000

TR2011/0123.13 Support to Better Introduction of the Data Protection System

2.134.550 2.000.000


3.340.000 3.000.000


2.000.000 1.800.000

2013/1.1.1. Strengthening the Legal Aid Service in Turkey

1.375.000 1.306.250


2.140.655 1.926.590

Ministry of Labour and Social Security Sub-total 51.385.000 45.427.000


3.000.000 2.250.000


20.000.000 16.000.000

TR 06 03 10 Improving Labour Inspection System 1.300.000 1.300.000

TR 07 02 11 Establishment of a Market Surveillance Support Laboratory for Personal Protective Equipment

1.200.000 1.050.000


10.900.000 10.700.000


4.075.000 3.932.000

TR 07 02 21 Development of Regional Laboratories of Occupational Health Safety Centre

1.800.000 1.800.000


1.110.000 1.095.000





TR 07 02 24 Strengthening the Statistical Capacity of Ministry of Labour and Social Security

1.000.000 950.000

TR 08 02 18 Promoting Gender Equality in Working Life

1.000.000 950.000

TR2011/0319.22 Strengthening Institutional Capacity of Centre for Labour and Social Security Training and Research

2.500.000 2.250.000

2013/1.3 Improving Social Dialogue in Working Life 3.500.000 3.150.000

Ministry of National Defence Sub-total 1.000.000 1.000.000


1.000.000 1.000.000

Ministry of National Education Sub-total 70.814.920 61.410.920


15.480.920 12.980.920


3.700.000 3.700.000

TR 07 02 23 Strengthening the Statistics of Ministry of National Education

2.050.000 2.000.000

TR 08 01 05 Strengthening Special Education 7.000.000 6.150.000

TR 08 01 06 Strengthening Pre-School Education 16.750.000 13.900.000

TR013601 Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education

9.100.000 7.650.000

TR2010/0136.04 Promoting Gender Equality in Education

3.600.000 3.240.000

TR2010/0136.05 Increasing Primary School Attendance Rate of Children

3.200.000 2.880.000

TR2010/0136.07 Fight Against Violence Towards Children

3.000.000 2.700.000


3.600.000 3.210.000





TR2012/0328.12 Preventing and combating selected Risk Factors for Health in school

3.334.000 3.000.000

Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology

Sub-total 13.280.000 12.406.000

07 02 14 Supporting Turkey for Enhancing Implementation and Enforcement of Industrial Property Rights

1.260.000 1.200.000

TR 08 02 09 Improving Chemical and Ionizing Radiations Metrology

3.930.000 3.930.000

TR080217 Strengthening Research & Development Capacity

2.250.000 2.010.000

TR2009/030102 Supply of Chemical Metrology Equipment to TUBITAK UME

3.000.000 2.550.000

TR2009/032001 Administrative Capacity of Ministry of Industry and Trade in industrial strategy

1.240.000 1.116.000

TR2010/0301.02 Improving Chemical and Ionising Radiation Metrology II

1.600.000 1.600.000

Ministry of Transport, Maritime and Communication

Sub-total 73.940.000 61.459.500

TR 05 03 10 Technical Assistance for the Improvement of Access Regime in the Turkish Telecommunications Market

1.200.000 1.200.000

TR 05 03 09 Enhancement of Traffic Management and Environmental Safety in Turkish Ports and Coastal Areas

1.590.000 1.427.500

TR 06 02 09 Improvement of Road Safety in Turkey 27.300.000 20.475.000


3.050.000 2.350.000

TR 07 02 27 Reform of the Turkish Railways 3.600.000 3.600.000

TR2009/031401 Weight and Dimension Controls of Commercial Vehicles

11.600.000 9.910.000

TR2009/031402 Intermodal Transport in Turkey 1.000.000 950.000





TR2010/0301.01 Strengthened Market Surveillance System For ICT sector

2.850.000 2.497.500

TR2010/0310.01 Prevention of Anti-Competitive Behaviors in the Electronic Communications Sector

1.000.000 900.000

TR2010/0314.01 Improved Maritime Education and Training

1.300.000 1.235.000

TR2010/0314.02 Control of Ship- Sourced Emissions 1.650.000 1.519.500


2.000.000 1.840.000

TR2012/0314.09 Capacity Building on Safety and Security Training Requirements of the Turkish Civil Aviation

15.800.000 13.555.000

Ministry of Youth and Sports Sub-total 6.560.000 3.870.000


2.300.000 2.070.000

TR 07 02 27 Reform of the Turkish Railways 4.260.000 1.800.000

Council of Higher Education Sub-total 4.750.000 4.250.000


5.000.000 4.250.000

Grand National Assembly of Turkey Sub-total 5.676.650 5.252.825


1.042.100 1.002.825

TR080301 Civil Society Facility - Parliamentary Exchange and Dialogue

2.500.000 2.250.000

TR2011/0123.14 Support to Establishment of Ombudsman Institution in Turkey

2.134.550 2.000.000

Turkish General Staff Sub-total 60.725.000 47.675.000

TR 07 01 02 Civic Training for Mehmetçik (Conscripts) 15.300.000 12.700.000






1.000.000 1.000.000

TR080103 Civic Training For Mehmetçik 18.200.000 14.250.000


26.225.000 19.725.000

Constitutional Court 6.382.228 4.082.228


6.382.228 4.082.228

(*) For projects with more than one main beneficiaries, the total costs and grant amounts are divided equally. between beneficiaries.

(***) Calculated according to the number pf projects accessed.

(*) For projects with more than one main beneficiaries, the total costs and grant amounts are divided equally. between beneficiaries(***) Calculated according to the number pf projects accessed.


TABLE II: PUBLIC SECTOR PROJECTS ACCORDING TO RELEVANT DISADVANTAGED GROUPS

Project Title Local Community(ies) Women Children Youth Disabled

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TR 05 01.06 Promoting Gender Equality



TR 05 02 03 Support to the Solution of Economic and Social Integration Problems in Urban Areas as Major In-Migrant Destinations in Priority Nuts II Regions



TR 05 03 11 Canakkale Regional Solid Waste Management Project


TR 06 01 01 Support to the set up an Asylum and Country of Origin and Information (COI) System

TR 06 01 05 Shelters for Women Subject to Violence






TR 06 02 01 Nevşehir Wastewater Treatment Plant Project

TR 06 02 02 Tokat Wastewater Treatment Plant Project








07 01 02 Civic Training for Mehmetcik (Conscripts)





TR 07 01 04 Empowerment of Women and Women NGOs in the Least Developed Regions of Turkey (Eastern, Southeastern, and Eastern Black Sea Regions)




TR 07 02 17 Establishment of a Reception, Screening and Accommodation System (Centres) for asylum seekers and refugees

TR 08 01 03 Civic Training For Mehmetçik

TR 08 01 04 Promoting Services for People with Disabilities

TR 08 01 05 Strengthening Special Education

TR 08 01 07 Participatory Strategic Governance at Local Level







TR 08 02 13 Training of Border Police


TR 080 3 01 Civil Society Facility - Parliamentary Exchange and Dialogue









TR2010/0136.08 Justice for Children







TR2011/0324.01 Protecting Victims of Human tTafficking

TR2011/0136.03 Economic and Social integration of Internally Displaced Persons in Van Province



TR20110124.10 Socioeconomic Development through Demining and increasing the Border Surveillance Capacity at the Eastern Borders of Turkey

TR2011/0135.16 Dialogue between Trade Union Organisations in Turkey and the European Union with a Focus on Young Workers

TR2011/0336.23 Supporting Social Inclusion through Sports Education – phase II

TR2011/022985.21 Conversion of River Basin Action Plans into River Basin Management Plans





TR2012/0124.04 Socioeconomic Development through Demining and increasing the Border Surveillance Capacity at the Easter Borders of Turkey - Phase II

TR2012/0328.12 Preventing and Combating selected Risk Factors for Health in school

2013/1.4 Enhancement of Participatory Democracy in Turkey: Monitoring Gender Equality

2013/1.2.1 Reinforcement of Turkey’s National Asylum System

2013/1.2.2 Supporting Turkey’s Efforts to Manage Migration

2013/1.2.3 Supporting Migration Policy Development in Turkey










TABLO III: PARTICIPATION OF CSOS IN PUBLIC SECTOR PROJECTS (2005-2013)

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TR 05 01.01 Better Access to Justice in Turkey (Union of Turkish Bars and Ankara Bar Association)

TR 05 01 03 Training Programme on the Istanbul Protocol

TR 05 01.04 Cascaded Training of Turkish lawyers on ECHR

TR 05 01.05 An Independent Police Complaints Commission & Complaints System for the Turkish National Police and Gendarmerie

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TR 05 01.07 Support to the Establishment of Courts of Appeal in Turkey




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TR 05 02 03 Support to the Solution of Economic and Social Integration Problems in Urban Areas as Major In-Migrant Destinations in Priority Nuts II Regions



TR 05 03 11 Canakkale Regional Solid Waste Management Project



TR 05 03 16 Upgrading the Statistical System of Turkey – Phase II

TR 06 01 01 Support to the Set up an Asylum and Country of Origin and Information (COI) System

TR 06 01 02 Civilian Oversight of Internal Security Sector

TR 06 01 05 Shelters for Women Subject to Violence




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TR 06 02 01 Nevşehir Wastewater Treatment Plant Project

TR 06 02 02 Tokat Wastewater Treatment Plant Project






TR 06 03 04 Capacity Building Support to Turkey for the water sector


TR 06 03 10 Improving Labour Inspection System




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TR 06 04 04 Civil Society Dialogue – Bringing together workers from Turkey and European Union through a “shared culture of work”


TR 07 01 02 Civic Training for Mehmetcik (Conscripts)

TR 07 01 04 Empowerment of Women and Women NGOs in the Least Developed Regions of Turkey (Eastern, Southeastern, and Eastern Black Sea Regions)




07 02 08 Capacity Building in the Field of Environment




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TR 08 01 07 Participatory Strategic Governance at Local Level

TR 08 01 08 Civil Society Facility-Civil Society Development for Active Participation


TR 08 02 03 Improving Emissions Control

TR 08 02 04 IPPC-Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control




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TR 08 02 17 Strengthening Research & Development Capacity


TR 08 03 01 Civil Society Facility - Parliamentary Exchange and Dialogue


TR2009/013601 Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education


TR2009/013607 Disproportionate Use of Force in Turkish Police

TR2009/031402 Intermodal Transport in Turkey

TR2009/032001 Administrative Capacity of Ministry of Industry and Trade in Industrial Strategy

TR2009/032201 Economic and Social Cohesion Policy



TR2009/032703 Environmental Noise Directive




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TR2009/032705 Institutional Capacity on Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Implementations

TR2009/032801 Alignment in Organ Donation


TR2010/0136.01 Improved Strategic Management







TR2010/0136.08 Justice for Children


TR2010/0136.12 Improved Relations Between Mass Media and Judiciary




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TR2010/0327.05 Capacity Building to implement the Flood Directive


TR2011/0324.01 Protecting victims of human trafficking


TR2011/0324.02 Improvement of Civilian Oversight in Turkey – Phase II


TR2011/0136.05 Common Cultural Heritage: Preservation and Dialogue between Turkey and the EU





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TR20110124.10 Socioeconomic Development through Demining and increasing the Border Surveillance Capacity at the Eastern Borders of Turkey

TR2011/0123.13 Support to Better Introduction of the Data Protection System

TR2011/0123.14 Support to Establishment of Ombudsman Institution in Turkey

TR2011/0336.23 Supporting Social Inclusion Through Sports and Education – phase II


TR2011/0311.25 Training staff on IACS procedures






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TR2011/0327.01 Capacity building on Marine Strategy Framework Directive in Turkey

TR2011/0327.01 Support to Mechanism for Monitoring Turkey’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions

TR2011/022985.21 Conversion of River Basin Action Plans into River Basin Management Plans

TR2011/0627.01 Strengthening the National Nature Protection System for implementation of Natura 2000 Requirements







2013/1.1.1 Strengthening the Legal Aid Service in Turkey




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2013/1.1.4 Enhancement of Participatory Democracy in Turkey: Monitoring Gender Equality

2013/1.1.5.1 Strengthening the Institutional Capacity of Turkish National Police regarding Public Order Management and Crowd

2013/1.1.5.2 Strengthening the Institutional Capacity of Gendarmerie General Command regarding Public Order Management and Crowd



2013/1.2.1 Reinforcement of Turkey’s National Asylum System

2013/1.2.2 Supporting Turkey’s Efforts to Manage Migration

2013/1.3 Improving Social Dialogue in Working Life

2013/5.6 Awareness Raising Among All Relevant Stakeholders




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2013.8.1 Agriculture and Rural Development; Food and Feed Safety, Fisheries

Noted in project fiche

Through already established mechanisms within Ministries

Through IPA Sectoral Committees

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