TURKEY Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project Halil AGAH Sr

TURKEY Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project Halil AGAH Sr Rural Development Specialist 1

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. 2

Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project Objectives a) improve framework for the overall river basin planning & management, b) Introduce communities to more environmentallyfriendly farming and forestry production practices to raise and improve household incomes, c) encourage local communities to take responsibility for planning and implementing an integrated, 3

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. 4

Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project Strategic Partnership Arrangements (2005 -11) Watershed Management (USD 20 million) Agricultural Pollution Control (USD 7 million) 5

Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION CONTROL • • • Manure Management Nutrient Management Water Quality Monitoring Organic Farming / GAPs Implementation of Nitrate Directive 6

Anatolia Waterdshed Rehabilitation Project AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION CONTROL 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), 7

Anatolia Waterdshed Rehabilitation Project AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION CONTROL • created good partnership at the regional level with the line ministries and agencies for the collection and analysis of water quality samples, 8

Anatolia Waterdshed Rehabilitation Project AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION CONTROL • increased the institutional capacity of MARA and Mo. EF at central and provincial levels (Training-MARA & Mo. EF staff and farmers, demonstrations, lab hand books, etc. ), 9

Anatolia Waterdshed Rehabilitation Project AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION CONTROL • developed the public awareness on the nutrient pollution and manure management on the project sites (Community meetings, training programs, short visit tours, etc. ), 10

Anatolia Waterdshed Rehabilitation Project AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION CONTROL • 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). 11

Anatolia Waterdshed Rehabilitation Project AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION CONTROL • 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. 12