Capacity building

The general purpose of this project was to promote an effective implementation of the EU financial assistance for rural development under the Rural Development Sector Programme and prepared the Turkish Cypriot community for the future implementation of the acquis communautaire.

The project aims to improve the hygiene and sustainability of livestock production through a combination of activities to strengthen both the provision of animal husbandry farm advisory services and veterinary services, as well as to inform and guide stakeholders.

Under the GAP Rural Development Programme funded by the EC, a grant of 20 million Euro was allocated for the Rural Development component of the program. This grant was disbursed to a wide rage of sub-projects to be implemented by various stakeholders in the GAP region. The implementation of various activities within the framework of the Rural Development project helped to alleviate poverty and trigger a sustainable development process in the region by: diversification of non-farm activities; creating/maintaining employment; improving the income of beneficiary farmers and rural SMEs; improved usage of production factors; reorientation of farming and rural SME activities; improving the quality of farm and agro-industry products through improved processing and marketing; promoting handicraft activities; facilitating environmentally friendly farming and agro-industrial activities, improving infrastructure connected with the development of agriculture and institutional strengthening in the region. Project activities covered nine provinces, namely Adıyaman, Batman, Diyarbakır, Gaziantep, Kilis, Mardin, Siirt, Şanlıurfa and Şırnak.

The purpose of this project is to “serve the long term and large scale protection of biodiversity Yildiz Mountains (Istranca forest) on the Turkish side of the region by carrying out inventories and mapping, designing zonation, developing management plans and implementing management within the established UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve”, inventory and planning of the Yildiz Mountains as a BR; forming cooperation between Turkish and Bulgarian institutions; training and awareness raising activities and renovation of a training centre.

Agrin provided co-management of this study, as well as expertise on public relations, stakeholder analysis, communication, environmental education, environmental awareness and biodiversity.

Technical Assistance for Regional Industrial CThe overall objective of the project is to contribute to the competiveness of the Turkey’s Textile Industry. The project objectives have been designed to (1) establish a system that will improve the quality standards of the cotton ginners in the targeted regions in South East Anatolia and (2) improve the collaboration between enterprises. ollaboration in Cotton Fibre Manufacturing