The United Nations Volunteers Programme invites civil society organizations from Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa, Mardin and Kilis to apply for funding for projects, under the Small-scale initiative call. Through this call, UNV supports projects that aims at: Strengthening the capacity of NGOs and community centers working with...

Biodiversity assessments were done through field research in Forestry Directorates of Köyceğiz, Gazipaşa, Gülnar, Pos, Andırın, which are the pilot sites of Integrated Forest Management Project. The project is being implemented by General Directorate of Forestry with financial support of GEF (Global Environment...

In Turkey 30-35% of total electricity consumption is represented by industry. It is estimated that 70% of energy consumption in industry is by electric motor-driven systems. Large amount of electric motors used in Turkish industry is energy inefficient and there are 15 million working electric motors in the market,...

Financed by the EU, implemented by the UNDP and with the Ministry of Development as the final beneficiary “Support to Development of a Policy Framework for Total Factor Productivity in Turkey Project” is coming to an end regarding the company visits and surveys. Company visits and surveys are about to be...

An on-line education system for students is created in the context of Integrated Forest Management Project which is being implemented by General Directorate of Forestry with financial support of GEF (Global Environment Facility) and in cooperation with UNDP. On-line educations system consists of education cards...

A socio-economic survey is started to identify the socio-demographic profiles of forest villagers who live within the borders of forestry directorates of the pilot sites of Integrated Forest Management Project, as well as to conduct clustering analyses for these villages and finally contribute to forestry policies...

  The project on Organic Agriculture Cluster in the Southeast Anatolia Region (GAP Region) participated to BIOFACH Fair, which was organized in Nurnberg, Germany on 14-18 February 2017. The project has been attending to BIOFACH Fair for four years with its stakeholders from the region. Stakeholders like...

A school complex, which belongs to Ministry of National Education is constructed in line with the principles of integrated building design approach as a part of the project on Promoting Energy Efficiency in Buildings in Turkey and will be a model for public sector. Cezeri Green Technology Technical and Industrial...

Harran University Computer Engineering students participated to the Innocampus Hackaton, a collaborative project providing and innovation and entrepreneurship experience, with the support of the “Strenghtening Social Stability in Southeastern Anatolia Project”, run by the cooperation of UNDP Turkey and GAP Regional Development Administration.Harran University students, have joined to the Hackathon with a promising project called “E-Refugee”, a multilingual and video-rich website developed for facilitating the access to the healthcare and education for refugees.

Company visits continued in January within the context of the project, in which the obstacles leading to productivity problems in the manufacturing industry are spotted and a policy framework is being developed to resolve these problems. 87 out of 100 large-scaled manufacturer companies were reached for...

Within the context of Turkey’s Engineer Girls (TEG) Project, a partnership with Middle East Technical University’s Interdisciplinary Design Studio has been started to design a campaign for high school students to encourage them to select engineering departments in university. METU Design Studio brought together...

GAP Organic Agriculture Cluster Project is being executed by GAP Regional Development Administration with the technical assistance of UNDP since 2009. Several pilot projects in different locations with various product patterns are being implemented in the region to contribute to the aim of creating scalable and...

8th National Energy Efficiency Fair was held in İstanbul on 11-12 January 2017. Fair, which was organized by Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, General Directorate of Renewable Energy, is conducted on the second week of January every year, on the “Energy Efficiency Week”. Concrete results of Promoting...

Izmit Waste and Residue Treatment, Incineration and Recycling Co Inc. (İZAYDAŞ) is the first and one of the biggest hazardous waste incineration facility with 35.000 t/y capacity in Turkey. Within POPs Legacy Elimination and POPs Release Reduction Project implemented by UNDP and Ministry of Environement and...