511 mine fields which are located in the Eastern border of Turkey with Armenia, Iran and Nakhichevan, had been laid for border security concerns in the early 1990’s and are currently being demined; financed by the European Commission in cooperation with Turkish Mine Action Center, Ministry of National Defense, Ministry of Interior and UNDP.

The 10th anniversary was celebrated for “Future Lies in Tourism” project launched a decade ago in order to identify the tourism potential in Turkey, increase job opportunities in tourism, and promote local development through sustainable tourism projects.

Ardahan Kars Artvin Development Project (AKADP) -which was signed on the April of 2010- will begin supporting agriculture and livestock farming at Artvin with 12 sub projects this year.

The project of “Effective urban waste management for host communities”, funded by the United States and implemented by the UNDP, has been supporting the construction of a waste transfer station in Fevzipaşa, Gaziantep. The inauguration ceremony of the station on 20 March 2017, was held with the participation of Mr. Deniz Köken, General Secretary of Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality, Mr. Ramazan Yıldırım, Islahiye District Governor, Mr. Kemal Vural, Islahiye District Mayor, Linda Specht, Principal Officer at U.S. Adana Consulate and Mr. Claudio Tomasi, UNDP Country Director.

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.