TURKEY Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project

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TURKEYAnatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project

• Halil AGAH
• Sr Rural Development Specialist

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Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project

• The objective of the project is to support
  sustainable natural resource management and
  poverty reduction in degraded watersheds in the
  2 river basins and the Black Sea Coast.

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Project Objectives
Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project

• a) improve framework for the overall river basin
  planning management,
• b) Introduce communities to more
  environmentally-friendly farming and forestry
  production practices to raise and improve
  household incomes,
• c) encourage local communities to take
  responsibility for planning and implementing
  an integrated,

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Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project

• d) increasing the use of good agricultural
  practices for reducing nutrient discharge
  particularly from agricultural sources to the
  Black Sea,
• e) strengthen institutional capacity to promote
  sustainable natural resource management and to
  raise public awareness about resource degradation
  issue.

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Strategic Partnership Arrangements (2005-11)
Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project

• Watershed Management
• (USD 20 million)
• Agricultural Pollution Control
• (USD 7 million)

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AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION CONTROL
Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project

• Manure Management
• Nutrient Management
• Water Quality Monitoring
• Organic Farming / GAPs
• Implementation of Nitrate Directive

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AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION CONTROL
Anatolia Waterdshed Rehabilitation Project

• Results of implementation
• established ownership of the rural communities
  for operation of the manure management
  infrastructures and equipments (3 central storage
  and handling facilities, 117 farm and 45
  household type manure stores),

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AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION CONTROL
Anatolia Waterdshed Rehabilitation Project

• created good partnership at the regional level
  with the line ministries and agencies for the
  collection and analysis of water quality samples,

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AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION CONTROL
Anatolia Waterdshed Rehabilitation Project

• increased the institutional capacity of MARA and
  MoEF at central and provincial levels
  (Training-MARA MoEF staff and farmers,
  demonstrations, lab hand books, etc.),

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AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION CONTROL
Anatolia Waterdshed Rehabilitation Project

• developed the public awareness on the nutrient
  pollution and manure management on the project
  sites (Community meetings, training programs,
  short visit tours, etc.),

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AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION CONTROL
Anatolia Waterdshed Rehabilitation Project

• strengthened the policy and regulatory capacity
  towards meeting EU standards (application of the
  EU Nitrates Directive and development of a Code
  of Good Agricultural Practices).

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AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION CONTROL
Anatolia Waterdshed Rehabilitation Project

• to increase the public awareness about APC at the
  national level,
• to share the manure management practices,
• to use similar methodology for sampling and
  analysis,
• to establish a partnership with the local
  beneficiaries for the new investments,
• to transfer GAPs experience at the national
  level,
• to create integration with watershed management
  APC.