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Early Project Themes
The DPC has assisted local community organizations in the planning and mobilization of funds for enterprises, cultural, health, and youth development projects, such as: |
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Enterprise and cultural projects in Kirklareli in cross-border cooperation with Bulgaria; |
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Reproductive health projects for the Afyon Chamber of Medical Doctors, the Muþ Association of Physically Disabled and the provincial governorates in Afyon and Muþ; |
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Regional development projects: youth program in Southeastern Anatolia (GAP) and livelihood projects in the Samson, Kastamonu and Erzurum NUTS II Region | |
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New Directions
DPC will henceforth focus on technical assistance projects on sustainable development themes, particularly those that converge with Turkey’s National Program for the Adoption of the Acquis (NPAA). This is a priority program that will prepare the country to assume the obligations of membership to the European Union. These key selected subjects are: |
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Regional Policy |
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Environment |
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Social Policy and Employment |
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Small and Medium Enterprises |
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Education and Training |
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Justice and Home Affairs |
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Common Agricultural Policy | |
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Project Interests
Within the themes of Sustainable Development and NPAA, DPC will be working towards addressing any of the following concerns through these corresponding project solutions:
Economic Growth |
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Regional development/ Integrated area-based projects to increase the access of disadvantaged communities to technical, financial, and market services and to reduce spatial inequality |
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Support to small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) to expand employment and business opportunities, especially of the green type | |
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Social Equity
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Vocational skills training to improve access to employment, productivity and competitiveness |
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Health and education for breaking the cycle of (relative) poverty through the reduction of capability constraints of disadvantaged groups |
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Rehabilitation of children working/living in the streets to bring about a more inclusive development and healthy social environment in a fast-paced urbanization | |
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Environment
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Grassroots involvement in solid waste management through the application of the concept of hierarchy of wastes: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle |
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Market development, triggering increase in the supply of and demand for “green” products and services |
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Integration of clean production processes among SMEs to improve efficiency in the use of resources within this large economic sector |
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Urban greening to balance the organization of green areas and built spaces, thereby improving the quality of urban living | |
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Participation
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Development of institutional capacities to promote human rights, social integration, and democratic space, thus enabling the free and open participation of citizens in the development processes as part of their shared responsibility in good governance |
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Application of a rights-based perspective in development activities as mandated by international conventions and summits to secure the welfare of vulnerable groups |
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Application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the Geographic Information System (GIS) in projects to increase the citizens’ levels of knowledge and involvement in measuring their development performance | |
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