Issue: 67
The summit brought together over 200 participants from the UN system and national partners in Al Jadida, Morocco in 19-22 June, 2011.
The “Regional Workshop for Africa, Arab States, Asia and Eastern Europe” allowed participants to exchange valuable experience in the implementation of joint programmes, share their progress and achievements of key results.
Furthermore it provided a space to identify successful approaches, share good practices, and make available tools in Monitoring &Evaluation (M&E) and Communication &Advocacy (C&A) in support of the achievement of programme’s results.
The participants of the workshop were UN Resident Coordinators, Government Representatives, Joint Programme coordinators, Coordination Officers and selected M&E, C&A specialists supporting the joint programmes.
Mr. Mahmut Arslan (State Planing Organization), Mr. Yavuz Eren Ataman (Ministry of Culture and Tourism), Ms. Kader Tuğan (Ministry of Environment and Forestry), Ms Halide Çaylan (Coordination Officer), Ms. Neşe Çakır (JP Manager, Alliances for Culture Tourism in Eastern Anatolia), Ms. Özlem Altuğ (JP Manager, “Growth with Decent Work for All: National Youth Employment Programme and Pilot Implementation in Antalya), Ms. İnci Ataç (JP Manager, Harnessing Sustainable Linkages for SMEs in Turkey’s Textile Sector), Mr. Atila Uras (JP Manager, Enhancing the Capacity of Turkey to Adapt to Climate Change), Mr. Alper Acar (Regional Project Coordinator, Enhancing the Capacity of Turkey to Adapt to Climate Change) and Ms. Ayşegül Oğuz (C&A Specialist, Alliances for Culture Tourism in Eastern Anatolia / “Growth with Decent Work for All: National Youth Employment Programme and Pilot Implementation in Antalya) represented Turkey.
Workshop lasted for three days
The first day of the workshop Resident Coordinators, M&E and C&A specialists’ sessions took place. During the one-day meeting with the UN Resident Coordinators, the MDG-F Secretariat aimed to stimulate discussions and debates between the participants.
In the M&E session extracted and consolidated monitoring and evaluation (M&E) experiences of MDG-F joint programmes, with the purpose of developing guidelines and good operating practices were shared.
During the C&A session the aim was to facilitate a process of collective reflection to consolidate successful experiences on communication, advocacy and citizen participation using them to develop clear guidelines for the continuation and expansion of this policy work within the Fund and beyond. Conclusions of these three sessions presented in the wrap up session on the third day.
Second day of the workshop started with the welcome remarks by Bruno Pouezat, (UN Resident Coordinator, Morocco) Nouza Skalli (Minister of Social Development, Morocco), Alberto José Navarro González (Spanish Ambassador) and Sophie de Caen (MDG-F Director). Also Stephen Lewis from (Co-founder of Aids Free World) gave an inspiring speech on gender sensitivity, development and aid.
Best video award goes to the Seyhan Basin
After the speeches the sessions for the government representatives, joint programme coordinators and coordination officers were realized. National ownership, UN reform, MDGs and country classification were the main issues that were discussed.
Atila Uras and Alper Acar from Enhancing the Capacity of Turkey to Adapt to Climate Change Joint Programme made a presentation titled “Middle income countries and Inequalities, Accountability” about the four Joint Programmes in Turkey.
On the last day of the workshop the results of the all sessions have been shared with all participants. The last item on the agenda was the visual material contestts. When the results were announced Turkey team was really proud.
Because “Girls Let's Take Picture, part of Journey to the Seyhan River Basin documentary” of Enhancing the Capacity of Turkey to Adapt to Climate Change Joint Programme was awarded with the 1st Prize for Excellence in Communication through Video.
To view awarded documentary please click here.
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Academy, at the same time, is Social Responsibility Support Institution of Corporate Games.
In Corporate Games organization, together with volunteers students from Dreams Academy competed in four branches (swimming, cycling, chess and track).
As students received two medals in mountain biking and one medal in individual swimming, they got second place in the swimming relay, fourth place in the chess competition.
Students also represented Dreams Academy in track race successfully.
Photo exhibition
Besides, Dreams Academy organized a photo exhibition which name was “A Starfish Towards Dreams”.
First exhibition held on May 7-13, 2011 at İFSAK (İstanbul Photograph and Cinema Amateurs Association).
Second exhibition met with visitors between 25 May and 15 June, 2011 at Ortaköy Art Gallery.
Photographs in which Dreams Academy students took place was taken by Naci Demiral.
Dreams Academy 'Painted the Stars'
In the context of “Stars of İstanbul” Project, Dreams Academy students along with volunteers and artists “painted the stars”.
“Stars of İstanbul” is Turkey’s greatest multi-purpose outdoor art event on behalf of UNICEF Turkey.
The event is a social responsibility project aims at providing children with a “bright future”..
Graphical and artistic applications inspired by the culture and history of İstanbul are performed on huge 3D stars within this scope.
The event is supported by Vodafone, the private sector stakeholder of UNDP’s Dreams Academy Project.
The special event took place on 17 July, 2011 in the yard of Dream Academy’s building in Ataşehir. .
Students and artists including Tuğba Büyüküstün attended to the event.
Dreams Academy swam to Turkey from Greece
Dreams Academy Swimming Volunteers swam to Kaş from Greek island of Meis in a traditional swimming race.
Involving participants from different countries Seventh Meis-Kaş Swimming Race held on 26 June, 2011.
The race organized within the scope of Kaş Culture and Art Festival.
From Meis Island to Kaş, volunteer swimmers swam a total of 15.000 kilometers.
Dreams Academy volunteer swimmers aim at producing resources for disabled and socially disadvantaged youth to help them take the advantage of free sports, vacation, and education through participating to Alternative Camp.
Alternative Camp centres are in Artvin, Bodrum, İzmir, Kaş, Sinop and Van.
Voluntarism-based camps bring together different disable groups, different ages and gender, different cultures.
In these camps as youth meet with underworld, improve their skills in workshops, enable self development through cultural activities, they create a barrier-free living space.
Since 2002 hosting more than 8.000 disabled individual, the alternative camp holds the chance of welcoming much more youth through the efforts of volunteer swimmers.
With leadership of Kamil Resa Alsaran, the team captain, participation to “Düşler Yüzüyor” increases day by day.
To get more information about Düşler Yüzüyor: www.dusleryuzuyor.org
About Dreams Academy
Dreams academy produces voluntary and free services for full and equal participation of disabled and socially disadvantaged individuals to communal living by means of art and sports.
The academy through these activities aims to give the message that art and sports know no obstacles.
Dreams Academy Project is being implemented in collaboration with UNDP, Vodafone Turkey Foundation, AYDER and State Planning Organisation since 2008.
There are workshops on vocal, rhythm, dance, movie, photograph, DJ, instrument, drawing and design in Dreams Academy.
Vieira da Silva, known to her fans as Marta, is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Marta is also part of an international campaign mounting around the world’s top women's football event taking place June 26 to July 17 in cities across Germany.
The UNDP campaign aims to raise awareness and support for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight internationally agreed targets set 10 years ago and aimed at reducing poverty, hunger, maternal and child deaths, disease, inadequate shelter, gender inequality and environmental degradation by 2015.
Despite high profile advances, women still make up only 19 percent of legislators and less than 10 percent of world leaders. They continue to earn less than men when they do the same work and, in many countries, have unequal access to land and inheritance rights.
“The strength, industry and wisdom of women remain humanity’s greatest untapped resource,” says Marta in an advertisement delivered in international media. “Only through women’s full and equal participation in public and private life can we hope to break poverty cycles and achieve the MDGs.”
Marta, winner of FIFA’s annual Women’s World Player award for the five years between 2006 and 2010, will also reach out to individuals and communities around the world through UNDP Twitter and Facebook networks to call for advances in women’s empowerment.
Born and raised in a poor neighborhood of a town near Dois Riachos, Brazil, Marta was appointed a UNDP goodwill ambassador in October 2010 to promote the MDGs with a special emphasis on the gender dimension of poverty.
She joined an elite group of UNDP Goodwill Ambassadors, which includes soccer stars Ronaldo, Zidane and Didier Drogba, Japanese actress Misako Konno, Crown Prince Haakon Magnus of Norway, Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova, Spanish football goalkeeper Iker Casillas, and Spanish actor Antonio Banderas.
With a non-profit formation established by Vestas, Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC), United Nations Global Compact, Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), Lego and Bloomberg, a Windmade label will be offered to companies which obtain at least 25% of their energy from wind power plants.
In an introductory meeting held in Turkey, Nuri Özbağdatlı from UNDP Environment and Sustainable Development Programme explained the obligations of the business world in the context of the UN Global Compact, the mode of work between UNDP and the business world and the approaches for green growth for transitioning to a low-carbon economy.
The CEO of Vestas Turkey Mr. Ali Neyzi answered the questions on Windmade for New Horizons.
UNDP Turkey: What is Windmade? How is it developed?
A.N.: Windmade is a global consumer label for companies and products which show that some ratio of their electricity consumption is sourced from wind energy. This label is the first global renewable energy label for companies and products. Windmade label, which is managed through an independent non-profit organization, helps companies to announce their wind energy investments to their stakeholders and accelerates the internalization of using renewable energy amongst companies. Windmade will achieve this through increasing the transparency in the area of companies’ wind energy investments, raising awareness amongst citizens on the effects of using different energy resources, and helping consumers to choose the products of the companies that really supports the wind energy.
UNDP Turkey: Why there is a need for this kind of a standard?
A.N.: A global survey of 25,000 consumers across 20 markets show that 76% of consumers feel Windmade would be a relevant label for sustainability. The same survey reveals that %90 of CEOs believe that sustainability is critical to future success. In this context Windmade label builds a bridge between consumers and companies which are dedicated themselves to clean energy. “Why wind “is the one of the frequently asked questions. When you compare with other renewable energy resources, wind energy consumes less water during the production of electricity and has no CO2 emissions. For this reason, wind is one of the cleanest energy sources amongst others.
UNDP Turkey: Can we call this as a certification system?
A.N.: Yes, Windmade is absolutely a certification system. In this certification system there will be two Windmade labels. One for institutional and regional level which outlines the ratio of the electricity produced from wind energy to total electricity consumption. Theother one is for products and it ensures companies to use Windmade label on their products and gives an opportunity to consumers to choose the product produced with wind energy.
UNDP Turkey: Who is behind Windmade? What is the role of Vestas?
A.N.: Wind made has brought together the pioneer institutions from different sectors. In this point of view we can say that Windmade is the first global initiative. The founding partners supporting WindMade are Vestas Wind Systems, WWF, Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), United Nations Global Compact, Bloomberg, The LEGO Group and Pricewaterhouse-Coopers (PwC). The leader of wind energy sector, Vestas is the company who developed the idea lies behind the Windmade label and Vestas is the main sponsor of this initiation. The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) works to make wind energy to become one of the leading energy resources globally by ensuring environmental and economic benefits and hosts the WindMade organization and thereby represents the global wind industry. The mission of WWF, one of the most credible and independent conservation organizations, is to ensure that the WindMade criteria will have positive impacts to nature. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is the lead advisor on the standard and verification procedures for the consumer label. Bloomberg is the official data provider to WindMade. UN Global Compact’s role is to ensure that this initiation is appropriate in term s of environmental principles of Global Compact. The one of the leader toy manufacturer LEGO supports Windmade standard in terms of sustainability and global consumer brand point of view.
UNDP Turkey: Who can use Windmade labels? What are the conditions to use the logo?
A.N.: There are two certification: one for companies and one for products. Windmade standard for companies has launched in 15 June World Wind Day in İstanbul and in parallel event in New York. In order to qualify to use the WindMade label a company must source a minimum of 25% of its electricity consumption from Wind Energy.Companies will start to use this label in September 2011.Windmade label standards for products will define in October 2011 and first Windmade labeled products will launch in 2012 in Davos during World Economic Forum.
UNDP Turkey: When we look at Windmade from consumer’s point of view, do you think that the demand of consumers can change?
A.N.: According to the mentioned global survey, 92% of consumers see renewable energy as a key solution to combat climate change, 82% of consumers state that consumer labels are important for guidance, and 79% of consumers indicate that they would pay more for Windmade products. The idea of Windmade is stemmed and developed from these results.
UNDP Turkey: How this standard will support the sustainable development and green growth?
A.N.: The baseline of this initiative is sustainability. The aim is to make more aware consumers and environment friendly companies and to spread the message to all level of the society. This is a supply and demand balance. More renewable energy demand will bring more investment. And this means the development of wind energy sector both in the world and in Turkey. Until today, the feedbacks I gathered from the individuals and investors show that this initiative will be successful. As Vestas I’m proud of leading this initiative and promoting this label in Turkey, one of the fast growing markets.
UNDP Turkey: Could you briefly evaluate the wind energy potential in the world and in Turkey?
A.N.: According to the Turkey Wind Energy Potential Atlas published in 2007 by the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Turkey possesses a total of 48 GW wind capacity in medium and high efficiency areas. Making good use of this potential depends both on the public and private sector. The Law Pertaining to the Amendment of the Law for Using Renewable Energy Resources for the Production of Electrical Energy that went into effect in January 2011 is an important step for the sector even though the guarantee of purchase is not very appealing for investors. The licenses for transformer capacity over 8 GW were identified in the license applications made four years ago. This process is ongoing. According to the “World Market Update 2010” of BTM Consult Turkey has come a consistent way and has reached a wind power capacity of 1.512 MW by the end of 2010. Turkey is one of the few countries that has shown a consistent development when compared with other countries. In this context the target of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources for reaching 20,000 MW by the year 2023 does not seem difficult.
Since 2005, the "Life Plus" Youth Program, conducted through a partnership between the Coca-Cola Life Plus Foundation, the YADA Foundation and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has supported 52 youth-led environmental projects.
In its 7th term, Life Plus Youth Program has gathered 30 young project leaders from all corners of Turkey in Life Plus Istanbul Meeting.
The project teams presented their project ideas which tackled a range of issues including ensuring the sustainable management and effective use of water resources and wetlands, achieving the wider implementation of agricultural irrigation methods that protect water resources and ensuring the sustainable use and protection of forest resources.
During the meeting, the project teams participated in Project Design and Project Management Cycle (PCM) Workshops. Projects were evaluated and redesigned in these workshops through problem, stakeholder and target group analysis, through activity design and planning of outcomes, results and sustainability of each project.
Life Plus Istanbul Meeting will be followed by the final application procedure of the Program. Project teams will prepare and send their project applications to "Life Plus" until 1th of August and after the evaluation of the projects by the evaluation committee the selected projects will receive financial support for implementation.
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Various trainings, meetings and workshops are being organized within the scope of the project entitled “Enabling Activities for the Preparation of Turkey’s Second National Communicatıon to the UNFCCC” which is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
The first training on the "Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory Preparation" was held on 10 May, 2011 in Ankara, by international project expert Christo Christov. Sectoral inventory experts participated in the training that was held unde the Turkey’s Second National Communication to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change project.
Issues on strengthening the national inventory system regarding the quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) plan and uncertainty calculations were discussed during the training. Quality control and quality assurance system is an important part of the greenhouse gas inventory.
During the training, general issues regarding the QA/QC system and examples from international applications were discussed.
Additionally, the national QA/QC system that was prepared by the international project expert was introduced to the participants.
Methods used in calculations
Another issue that was discussed during the training was the uncertainty calculations. The methods used in the uncertainty calculations were explained to the participants providing examples.
Another training on this issue, entitled "The Calculation Methods for Sectoral Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory Calculations” was held on 30 May 2011 with the participation of experts from relevant sectors.
The National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report (NIR) of Turkey is prepared by TurkStat annually. NIR report provides inventory data for energy, industrial processes, chemical and other product use, agriculture, waste, land use- land-use change and forestry sectors for each green house gases, i.e., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and secondary GHGs.
A meeting on “Climate Change Eduation, Training and Public Awareness” was held on 16 May 2011 in Ankara. Research, projects, campaigns held on this issue since the submission of the Turkey’s First National Communication in 2007 were presented during the meeting.
During the meeting, studies carried out by public institutions and organizations, the private sector, NGOs and international organizations on climate change education, training and public awareness were discussed.
“The Research and Systematic Observation on Climate Change” meeting was held on 22 June 2001. During the meeting, national research policies, research projects on climate change and needs in these areas were discussed.
Meetings. workshops and trainings will continue under the Turkey’s Second National Communication to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change project. Turkey aims to submit her Second National Communication to the UNFCCC by the end of 2011.
To view PowerPoint presentation, please click here.
The event acted as a platform to discuss the crucial role of private sector for society and NGOs.
For celebrating its centennial, IBM announced that it acknowledged 2011 as the Celebration of Service - a volunteering initiative to help communities overcome challenges and engage with them worldwide.
IBM has dedicated volunteering programs and one of these is a cross boarder model of international corporate volunteering, Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program, which is implemented around the world in partnership with NGOs.
As an example of the dynamic role of the private sector in contributing to the development endeavors and in attaining Millennium Development Goals, IBM CSC Program in Turkey is carried out in partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT), Turkey State Planning Organization (SPO) and Corporate Volunteers Association (OSGD).
CSC Program deploys multinational teams of IBM employees to emerging markets to provide pro-bono consulting and advisory services for global communities abroad in functional areas ranging from strategic planning to project management and IT.
In Turkey the program was implemented for the sixth time during the month of April with a volunteer team consisting of IBM experts from eight different countries.
The IBM CSC Turkey Team Six involved 12 IBM experts from USA, Korea, India (2), Australia, Columbia, Japan (3), China and Malaysia and consisted of many patent holders and experienced professionals.
Kayseri selected as the implementation city
With the local support and coordination of Middle Anatolia (ORAN) Development Agency the IBM CSC Turkey Team Six worked on supporting young entrepreneurship and offered strategic plans for the development of health tourism in the Middle Anatolia Region (Kayseri, Yozgat and Sivas) in April.
The Sixth Corporate Service Corps Turkey Team was divided into two sub-teams of six people to focus on two project assignments and worked with ORAN Development Agency and Kayseri Young Entrepreneurs Council.
The first sub-team focused on developing a strategy for supporting the youth entrepreneurship in Kayseri and its surrounding region.
They provided recommendations about enhancing the skills and professional development of the entrepreneurs via training, coaching and mentoring, how to increase their access to information, the partnerships and collaboration needed to strengthen youth entrepreneurship, and also an analysis of financial issues, information resources, social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility and innovative technology-based industries to support young entrepreneurship in the region.
The team also provided strategic recommendations for developing the institutional capacities of the Kayseri Young Entrepreneurs Council and its activities.
The second sub-team directed their efforts to the development of health tourism in Kayseri and the region and prepared a strategy for the health tourism development along with an action plan for the project beneficiary and local partner ORAN Development Agency to put the health tourism strategy into action.
IBM team also created a high level framework with recommendations for the health tourism web portal aiming to contribute to the marketing and promotion of the region’s tourism.
“An exemplary implementation”
Having received the "Most Successful Volunteer Project of 2010" award from the Corporate Volunteers Association of Turkey in December 2010, IBM Corporate Service Corps Program is among the acknowledged volunteer programs implemented in Turkey.
“CSC Program with such a partnership is a fine example of the engagement of the private sector into development efforts and includes innovations which can be good examples for many enterprises” said Mr. Shahid Najam, UNDP Resident Representative in Turkey.
ORAN Development Agency’s Secretery General, Dr. H. Mustafa Palancioglu highlighted the local goals and priorities which the sub-team assignments were based on.
Dr Palancioglu further added that ORAN Development Agency will continue to support such social projects.
IBM Turk, Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs Manager, Ms. Burçak Semerci pointed out that through these projects IBM has allocated 30 million dollars until now and aims to help add value by providing specific and vital initiatives such as education in countries and cities, developing social economies and health services.
Calling attention to the structure of the program, the Vice President of Digital Opportunity Trust, Ms. Jane Jamieson added that this program focuses on creative solutions that intersect technology, business and society.
Conference started with Prof. Pere Reira’s, from Barcelona University, presentation on “Valuing Forest Externalities, Challenges and applications”, and continued with Dr. Güven Kaya, from Central Anatolia Forestry Research Institute, presentation entitled “A general review of valuation studies in Turkey”.
In “Case Studies” section of the Conference, two case studies were presented as a result of two different GEF funded projects implemented by UNDP.
First case study was on “Küre Mountains National Park Economic Valuation” conducted under “Enhancing Forest Protected Areas Management System in Turkey” project. The second one was “Economic Valuation of Posidonia oceanica” carried out within the framework of “Strengthening the system of Marine and Coastal Protected Areas of Turkey” project.
First case study was on “Küre Mountains National Park Economic Valuation” conducted under “Enhancing Forest Protected Areas Management System in Turkey” project. The second one was “Economic Valuation of Posidonia oceanica” carried out within the framework of “Strengthening the system of Marine and Coastal Protected Areas of Turkey” project.
The expert workshop, organized after the conference, resulted with a roadmap on how to improve Turkey’s national capacity on forest and ecosystem services valuation, and how to use this capacity for implementation.
Approximately 60 experts from public institutions such as the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and its provincial directorates, State Planning Organization, Prime Ministry Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the General Directorate of Women’s Status as well as from universities and non-governmental organizations such as Turkish Women’s Union and Women’s Act participated to the training workshop organized in the context of the United Nations Joint Programme on “Enhancing the Capacity of Turkey to Adapt to Climate Change”.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Democratic Governance Programme Manager Dr. Leyla Şen who highlighted the importance of ensuring gender equality stressed that women’s rights are human rights and explained United Nation’s global efforts in this context.
United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Climate Change Adaptation Expert Dr. Nuran Talu on the other hand explained the strong link between gender mainstreaming, environment and climate change.
Talu who stated that the solution of environmental problems lie within human-nature relations stressed that the human component in this relation can only be ensured through gender equality.
Officials participating from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs General Directorate of Organization and Support Department of Women Farmers Pervin Karahocagil (Head of Department) and Nimet Kaleli (Head of Division) addressed the roles of women in agriculture and shared the initiatives and the experiences of the Ministry for empowering the status of women in this context.
Shared experiences about climate change discussed
Following the experiences of Turkey, Ilaria Sisto from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Italy shared the experiences of countries such as India, China and Bangladesh and stated explained the vulnerabilities of women affected by natural disasters induced by climate change. Finally Gökçe Yörükoğlu from the Un Joint Programme provided examples of successful projects focusing on climate change and gender mainstreaming implemented at the local level in the Seyhan River Basin.
During the training meeting in which group work were also conducted issues such as the needs of women for climate change adaptation, the challenges and barriers they face, current and potential methods and tools used to overcome these challenges and project ideas were discussed.
During these discussions; the need for training and awareness raising, identifying target groups according to age groups, the importance of women organizations, inclusion of women into decision-making mechanisms and spreading social securities were the issues that received more focus.
Through this training workshop the relation between climate change and women were put forth in a stronger way and project ideas and potential future partnerships were identifying. More importantly, the outcomes of these group works will constitute the basis of training programmes that will be prepared.
The plan designed with the participation of İDEP and relevant ministries, public institutions, civil society organizations, private sector, academicians and international organizations.
With İDEP, precautions determined to combat the effects of climate change under the topics of energy, buildings, transportation, industry, waste, agriculture, land use and forestry.
Determined targets are as follow:
The action plan aims to reduce annul energy consumption of buildings and facilities of public institutions till 2015 by 10 percent and till 2023 by 20 percent.
In the plan, the aim of providing renewable energy resources for the energy requirements of new buildings from 2017 and at least by 20 percent also took place.
Concentrating on railway and seaway
With action plan, it is decided to increase 5 percent ratio of railways in freight transportation in 2009 to 15 percent, to increase 2 percent ratio in passenger transportation to 10 percent by 2023.
The ratio of seaways in freight transportation is also intended to increase to 10 percent and in passenger transportation to 72 percent by 2023.
In the action plan, the ratio of highways in freight transportation decided to reduce fewer than 60 percent, in passenger transportation to 72 percent by 2023.
Garbage disposal
In the plan, the aim of determining risks of climate change related-natural disasters such as flood, avalanche, and landslide also takes place.
In the intervention of climate change-related natural disasters, it is aimed to strengthen the capacity of provincial organizations and to get them to reach the level of making exercises.
The action plan also includes, establishment of garbage disposal facilities across the Turkey and disposal of all garbage in these facilities, closure of all uncontrolled disposal space of waste and transformation of these spaces to green areas till the end of the 2023.
In this part, we are going to talk about a caravan, which turned into reality from a dream. How would it be to go on vacation with a caravan that produces the energy it needs on its own?
UNDP Turkey: Hello, this is the New Horizons Podcast of United Nations Development Programme Turkey. UNDP, which works for a more productive, healthier, more educated and greener future, has stories to tell you. In every part of the podcast, we share selected stories of these works of UNDP. In this part, we are going to talk about a caravan, which turned into reality from a dream. How would it be to go on vacation with a caravan that produces the energy it needs on its own? We will discuss this with our guest speakers. Mr. Osman Kahyaoğlu, welcome!
Osman Kahyaoğlu (O.K.): Thank you!
UNDP Turkey: He is a board member and secretary-general of ODİDER; which is the Association of Auto Gas Stations. Ms. Argun, welcome!
Gökmen Argun (G.A.): Thank you!
UNDP Turkey: Ms. Gökmen Argun is the GEF-SGP (Global Environmental Facility - Small Grants Programme) national coordinator. She is –in a sense- representing the UNDP side in our programme. Mr. Kahyaoğlu, I would like to ask you first before touching upon the project in general. We are discussing an “EcoCaravan”. How did the idea of a caravan supplying the energy it needs on its own come about?
O.K.: This idea came out of reduction of emissions. As we always say, the main issue ODİDER works on is to run machines on CNG and hydrogen. In fact, this idea started off from the principle of zero-emissions. We discussed this with our colleagues and decided we should work on this project to enable people to get accustomed to this idea. When we discussed how to reach users and people, and how to make them accept the idea and get accustomed to it, we realized that if we produce a caravan in which people can live – since a caravan provides an environment in which people can live in…
UNDP Turkey: Well, what types of energy can this caravan produce, using what kind of resources?
O.K.: There is a photovoltaic battery system on the caravan; as it absorbs sunlight, it produces electricity. There is also a wind turbine that can be put up and taken down, this produces electricity as well. The electricity produced by these two methods can be collected in a battery. Then you can use this collected energy inside the caravan. You can use it to power any appliance such as a dishwasher, TV, kettle or oven. You can use it for any appliance that runs on electricity. We even have a 900 BTUs air conditioner, controlling air temperature inside the caravan.
UNDP Turkey: This means you take advantage of sun and wind. An in the meantime…
O.K.: We can store electricity with zero emissions.
UNDP Turkey: You have mentioned hydrogen energy; how is this produced?
O.K.: The main reason behind the idea is; since hydrogen is a type of energy which people are scared to use, are wary of using and which is beyond what they can concievably imagine as a source of energy, we wanted to bring them this energy right to their doorstep. Since the source of hydrogen is a zero-emission source of energy, we thought that we should also produce electricity from a zero-emission source.
UNDP Turkey: Where does hydrogen come from?
O.K.: There is a production system within the caravan, using refined water. We produce hydrogen from there.
UNDP Turkey: Meaning transformation of the hydrogen in water into energy…
O.K.: Yes, we transform it into energy.
UNDP Turkey: Ms. Argun, I would like to ask you a question; how many people are involved in this project? What partners do you have on this project? How many people are involved especially on the scientific – engineering side?
G.A.: Actually, the process of creating this project was quite long; maybe Mr. Kahyaoğlu can provide you with more detailed information. In the framework of GEF Small Grant Programme, we try to recruit as many people as we can. For instance; we have many people who have expertise on the technological aspects. It is especially crucial for us to have UNIDO ICHET as a partner.
UNDP Turkey: Let me clarify what UNIDO ICHET is; United Nations Industrial Development Organization - International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies.
G.A.: Mr. Kahyaoğlu can provide you with detailed information regarding the number of experts we have; what I would like to say is that the project came about as a product of many peoples' ideas as those experts, including the ODİDER team, exchanged ideas with our committee members.
UNDP Turkey: We discuss a project in which there are contributions from various partners. Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, UNIDO ICHET – as we have just mentioned-, ODİDER –which recieves assistance from the Ministry of Energy. GEF SPG is in a sense responsible for coordination, and last but not least UNDP is also involved. One more question: is it easy to run such a multi-partner project?
G.A.: In fact, when you speak the same language and know what to do, if we understand what we are going to do from the project document, if the document is well-prepared, as it is in this project – then everybody knows what to do and what skills to use where, and everyone does what is necessary. We haven’t had any problems so far.
O.K.: I would like to add something to clarify the issue. Creating the idea took 2 months. After creating the idea…
UNDP Turkey: And implementation…
O.K.: ... forming the project took 4 months; and in only 3.5 months, we produced the caravan.
UNDP Turkey: Well, we are talking about a caravan you have manufactured, producing the energy it needs on its own, and is the only one in the world.
O.K.: Let us put it like this; it is the only caravan which has photovoltaic batteries and a wind turbine, that produces and stores electricity and then uses this to create hydrogen to then creat more electricity...
G.A.: A hybrid system…
O.K.: ... on a single system.
UNDP Turkey: Where does the energy running the motor of the caravan come from?
O.K.: There is a diesel motor operating the caravan. Since the company that manufactures this motor does not yet have a motoro that runs on hydrogen and natural gas, or rather they have not yet built a prototype of such a motor, we rushed to create the prototype of the caravan...
UNDP Turkey: But we are speaking of a caravan which is going to produce the energy to run the motor on its own in the following steps, aren’t we?
G.A.: Actually, may I tell you a detail? For enabling such an energy source to be used in Turkey, there needs to already be stations for it. The ODİDER has a wide natural gas station network; if there were accessible hydrogen gas stations everywhere, it would make it very easy for people to operate a vehicle that runs on hydrogen.
UNDP Turkey: ... I guess our target is…
G.A.: …this is the second step.
UNDP Turkey: ... apparently to highlight improvement of sustainable energy technologies in the tourism and caravan sectors. Well, what will such a prototype caravan be used for?
O.K.: Let me give you an example. This caravan is a demonstration. A person can live inside for four to five days when all the batteries are charged and the motor is turned off. Do not think of this as a caravan; but think of it as your house, your home in your village; you can implement the same idea. We planned this with 3 types of energy resources. However you can choose to use only photovoltaic battery and wind turbines and neglect hydrogen. On the other hand, someone else may choose hydrogen. In fact, following the project, a hydrogen support unit was constructed in the İDO Pier. The reharvesting of energy is done by using hydrogen. These may seem like just prototypes, but we want to spread these ideas all over Turkey. Thus our aim is to make everybody, local governors, mayors, civil servants realize the benefits and take action towards this.
UNDP Turkey: It also makes us think of emergencies. What models have you come up with for emergencies right now?
O.K.: We have thought about a mobile health center, an emergency vehicle, an education vehicle, etc. For example; we researched the vehicles the Turkish Red Crescent use for collecting blood. These vehicles always consume energy produced from diesel fuel generators. We are thinking about applying it to these situations.
UNDP Turkey: OK, the last question is for you, Ms. Argun. Which of the Millennium Development Goals does this project fit in to?
G.A.: This project fits in to climate change – combating climate change under “ensuring environmental sustainability” is a crucial step for us.
UNDP Turkey: You are involved in a project which combines technology and technique and awareness raising. Thank you very much for participating Ms. Gökmen Argun, national coordinator of Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme and Mr. Osman Kahyaoğlu, board member and secretary-general of ODİDER; or Association of Auto Gas Stations. We have come to the end of the New Horizons Podcast of United Nations Development Programme Turkey. This podcast has been recorded at the studios of Radio İLEF of University of Ankara. You can follow our podcast on Açık Radyo (Open Radio) on FM frequency or on the internet, as well as on YouTube in video format. Our username on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Flickr is UNDP Türkiye. Hope to see you next week, goodbye!
UNDP Turkey: Hello, this is the New Horizons Podcast of United Nations Development Programme in Turkey. UNDP, which works for more productive, healthier, more educated and a greener future, has stories to tell you. In every part of the podcast, we share selected stories of these activities of UNDP. In the first part, our topic is sharks. We learnt from articles in the Turkish press that the number of sandbar sharks, that could only reproduce on the coasts of the Atlantic Ocean and in Çamlıköy Boncuk Bay of Marmaris district of Muğla province, increased to 17. Well, what can be the interest of UNDP in such an issue; we will discuss this with our contributors. Our contributors are Coordinator of Strengthening the System of Marine and Coastal Protected Areas of Turkey, Dr. Harun Güçlüsoy, welcome. Project Coordinator and Inspection Branch Director of Environmental Protection Agency for Special Areas, Mr. Güner Ergün is today with us. Welcome. Let me start with you, Mr. Ergün. The number of sandbar sharks increased to 17; after which steps was this result gained?
Güner Ergün (G.E.): As you know, the coastline of our country is approximately 8400 km and certain parts of it are under protection. One of these protection areas is a Special Environmental Protection Area. These Special Environmental Protection Areas compose 1.5 percent of the coastal and maritime areas. Special Environmental Protection Areas are important in terms of cultural, historical and biological diversity. And in these areas, there have been many works carried out with the aim of conducting research on endangered species and tracking their population for 21 years since the foundation of the agency. “Chelonia mydas” or what we call “Caretta caretta”, “Monachus monachus” or what we call Mediterranean monk seals and lastly “Carcharhinus plumbeus” or what we call sandbar sharks are among the essentials of our scientific research. Activities for research and tracking of the sandbar sharks population have been continuing with increasing acceleration, thanks to international agreements we adhered to and national legislations since 2006.
UNDP Turkey: Turtles and seals are marine animals we are accustomed to. However we have not heard of projects for sharks in Turkey. You have reached a population of 17; how did this project for sharks start?
G.E.: Actually, I mentioned agreements Turkey adhered to, I should also have mentioned action plans. As I have just touched upon, action plans regarding species of Mediterranean monk seals, sea turtles, marine vegetation and Cartilaginous fish are among these action plans. According to the Barcelona Agreement, countries adhering to the Agreement primarily have to track these species, and minimize the dangers to these species. Since such works have been accelerated within our institution, it has been targeted to start projects for the protection of these species.
UNDP Turkey: Mr. Ergün, you are involved in this project from the Environmental Protection Agency for Special Areas of Ministry of Environment and Forestry. Mr. Güçlüsoy, you actually represent the UNDP side and you are in charge of Strengthening Marine and Coastal Protected Area System of Turkey . What is the contribution of UNDP to this project?
H.G.: As Mr. Ergün from the Environmental Protection Agency for Special Areas has mentioned, we, as UNDP, have marine and coastal protected areas with various aims and visions in Turkey. UNDP’s project aims to have a system to unite these protected areas. Meaning UNDP works to enhance the protection of certain areas; in the meantime we also aim to spread this all around Turkey. Indeed, in this sense, we would like to have a national action plan and strategy as an example in Mediterranean and Black Sea towards this project’s end.
UNDP Turkey: In this framework, which regions are declared as special protection areas?
H.G.: In the last month, Saros Gulf was declared as the tenth Special Environmental Protection Area in the Official Gazette within the context of this project. Of course we have been working on six different areas apart from this special protection area. We have been carrying out works for both the strengthening and building of capacity and maintenance of financially active mechanisms; meaning maintenance of financial sustainability of these issues; and finally for governance and administration of these areas in cooperation with both central and local related groups.
UNDP Turkey: Environmental Protection Agency for Special Areas became a current issue in the Turkish media because of this project; of course it gets these results by the effort that it puts into this project. You have projects related to other species and water quality in other protection areas. Could you briefly touch upon what else your agency does?
G.E.: We carry out activities for the detection of biological diversity of marine and coastal areas. We first accomplished this between 2002 and 2004 in Datça Bozburun Special Environmental Protection Area. Between 2005 and 2006, we accomplished our aims for biological diversity of marine and coastal areas of Fethiye, Gökova and lastly Köyceğiz Special Environmental Protection Area. As I have mentioned, these are activities for research and tracking of populations of endangered species. Meanwhile, again this year, we have been carrying out approximately 160 projects for the analysis of the quality of sea water. Along with this, we work for solid waste management. There are works for waste collection, purgation and disposal, especially under the sea, outside areas of our concern.
UNDP Turkey: Mr. Güçlüsoy, how long has the United Nations Development Programme been involved in this project; and how long is the duration of the project?
H.G.: We have been involved in the project since May 2009. The duration of the project is 4.5 years. So far, 1.5 years, 30% of the project, has passed. Although we have completed one third of our activities, we have more to do. That is, a 3-year-period may be seen equal to a 6-7-year-period in our work. I am indeed hopeful. We, as the Environmental Protection Agency for Special Areas and UNDP, need to work hard.
UNDP Turkey: Actually, when concrete successes are examined, it becomes clear that there are many things we can list: Saros Gulf was added to the Special Environmental Protection Areas; the Special Environmental Protection Area in Gökova was enlarged, people were recruited for the formation of area offices and they were trained, etc. We have been talking about such a comprehensive project. What type of strategies does the Environmental Protection Agency for Special Areas foresee? For instance, will these areas be extended in 10 years time? Will the number of endangered animals increase? What are your actions regarding these and what is your foresight?
G.E.: Of course, first of all, we are trying to create a training and practice center connected to the Agency, in which other universities and volunteer institutions are involved. The center will be in Akyaka and we would like to gather and train managers who are able to work in maritime protection areas, who have carried out studies we will do in the center. In addition to this, of course, we would like to enlarge our marine and coastal areas and work to contribute new data to existing scientific studies.
UNDP Turkey: Mr. Güçlüsoy, I asked you a question at the beginning of the programme; what would the relevance of UNDP to these works be? The number of sharks in the Aegean Sea increases; yet we have a concept called sustainable development, not everybody is familiar with this, if we examine aims and targets of the UNDP. What is the link between UNDP and sharks?
H.G.: Yes, in fact there is not a direct link. This is an indicator of the main goals of our project. If there is an increase in the number/population of sharks, and if there is a rise in interest in the area due to our projects and activities we do, this is a type of indirect indicator for us, showing that our project is successful in the context of the management of other areas, for participation of public, and the management and control or the area.
UNDP Turkey: …and I understand that this fits into the environmental sustainability aims of the Millennium Development Goals. Thank you very much for participating in the first episode of our podcast. Coordinator of Strengthening Protected Marine and Coastal Protected Areas System of Turkey Dr. Harun Güçlüsoy, and Project Coordinator and Inspection Branch Director of Environmental Protection Agency for Special Areas of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Mr. Güner Ergün, thank you. We have come to the end of New Horizons Podcast of United Nations Development Programme Turkey. This podcast has been recorded at studios of Radio İlef of University of Ankara. You can follow our podcast on Açık Radyo (Open Radio) on FM frequency or on the internet through iTunes, on www.undp.org.tr, besides on YouTube in video format. Our username on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Flickr is undpturkiye. Hope to see you next week, good bye!
In this episode, we will all discuss before and after of divulgation of these mountain ranges as national park. Why is this process important to Turkey; what does it mean in the international arena; and why is the United Nations Development Programme involved in it?
UNDP Turkey: Hello, this is the New Horizons Podcast of United Nations Development Programme Turkey. UNDP, which works for a more productive, healthier, more educated and greener future, has stories to tell you. In every part of the podcast, we share selected stories of these works of UNDP. Our thread is Küre Mountains National Park. We will all discuss before and after of divulgation of these mountain ranges as national park. Why is this process important to Turkey; what does it mean in the international arena; and why is the United Nations Development Programme involved in it? General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks, the Department for Monitoring and Assessment of National Parks Branch Manager and Head of Enhancing Forest Protected Areas Management System in Turkey, Mr. Mustafa Yılmaz and Mr. Yıldıray Lise, welcome. Mr. Lise is a qualified biologist and deputy manager in the same Management System. Mr. Lise, I would like to ask you my first question. When were Küre Mountains declared as a national park and why were the Küre Mountains chosen?
Yıldıray Lise (Y.L.): The Küre Mountains were announced as a national park as a result of a joint Project of FAO, UNDP and the Ministry of Forestry of that period in 1998, and then officially in 2000. One of the crucial reasons of its announcement as a national park is that it has natural values, with respect to its importance for both species it contains and the forest it nestles. It also has geological properties. There are many caves, canyons and waterfalls. In addition to these, there are cultural characteristics. While mentioning cultural characteristics, we should touch upon folklore, cuisine and architecture. In this framework, Küre Mountains were divulgated as a national park. However, one of the other crucial reasons was that there were international evaluations done all over Europe. 100 hot points in Europe were determined. 9 out of 100 are in Turkey. More specifically, 1 out of 9 is within the Küre Mountians National Park and these are the reasons of its divulgation as a national park.
UNDP Turkey: You represent the UNDP, UN side of the Project, and you represent the General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Park, Mr. Yılmaz. I would like to ask you; Küre Mountains were inscribed as a national park; what are the contributions of this to the district and people; and what are your targets for the future?
Mustafa Yılmaz (M.Y.): We aimed for the divulgation of Küre Mountains as a national park, the protection of cultural values and natural resources in the framework of vision of national parks, and introducing usable resources at both local and national levels along with the aim of protection and creation of new income for people. If the locality contains values that have touristic value, then this will contribute to the increase in tourism. In this sense, Küre Mountains both increases our recognition in the international arena and raises the number of people visiting this place.
UNDP Turkey: Hot points were mentioned; what are they?
Y.L.: This was an evaluation done specifically in Europe. Forest protected areas and forests with high natural value, which needed to be urgently protected, were determined. 9 of them are in Turkey. Turkey, following Russia, is an important location regarding forest regions with many hot points. When analyzed, there are 9 hot points in many places from northeastern Turkey to Mediterranean. Protection of these places and implementation of sustainable policies were envisaged. Küre Mountains Range is one of the first protected areas in Turkey.
UNDP Turkey: We use hot point when referring to areas which need to be protected urgently. You have been involved in a process called PAN Park. Before touching upon this process, could you tell us a little bit of what PAN Park means and how Küre Mountains were included in this process?
M.Y.: PAN Park is a network which was created for both protection of natural values and use of these parks with the ideals of sustainable tourism by maintening the values of natural resources in many national parks in Europe. This is a network connecting protected areas and extending assistance in terms of managerial terms and prestige. Turkey was first nominated for this network with Küre Mountains National Park. This is a process starting with signing letters of intent. Within this process, of course there are criteria we need to accomplish and there is target of 2012. In 2012 we would like to accomplish the PAN Park Certificate. What will Küre Mountains gain with a PAN Park Certificate? First of all, we will gain prestige in the international arena to protect values of natural resources, we will also get international recognition and this enables us to easily reach a target audience, and this will support local people in the context of tourism due to the maintenance needs of such a network.
UNDP Turkey: You hope to accomplish this aim by 2012…
M.Y.: Yes, the process has already been going on. In 2010, we determined a road-map with related authorities. We will accomplish the process at national level in September or October in 2011; most probably we will accomplish the process with an international organization in May or September of 2012.
UNDP Turkey: It will be a protected area within P.A.N., PAN Parks, Protected Areas Network. Are there any other parks included in this network?
Y.L.: No, the first is Küre Mountains. Since 2006, the nomination process, we have specifically undertaken our activities for Küre Mountains in the framework of the Enhancing Forest Protected Areas Management System Project we have been carrying out with Ministry of Environment and Forestry, UNDP and World Wildlife Fund Turkey. The ultimate aim of our project is to enable the Küre Mountains National Park to become more recognized at international level with a PAN Park Certificate along with the criteria Mr. Yılmaz has already mentioned.
UNDP Turkey: There are 2 dimensions; the first is the environmental dimension – protection of that mountain range and areas which should be protected; and the other dimension is human. I think contribution to and development in the local economy are the highlighted aspects. The UNDP gets involved at this point. What was the reason of UNDP to get involved in the project?
Y.L.: Actually UNDP has been involved from the beginning of the formation of this project as I have just said. Divulgation of national parks is a project of FAO, UNDP and Ministry of Forestry of that period. Later on, there was a search for a project supported by GEF and it continued approximately 8-9 years; and finally we initiated the project in 2008. This means the executive is Ministry of Environment and Forestry; yet all procedures are done by UNDP. As you have said, maybe the most important factors of UNDP are that we have 80000 hectares of buffer zone surrounding the cornel area. UNDP has an active role in enabling rural activities and especially allowing women and other groups to get into these processes actively.
UNDP Turkey: We have been talking about one part of an extensive project during this programme. We shall analyze the larger scope of this project and clarify it, Mr. Yılmaz. What do you contribute to those areas by your visits in term of environment, people living in that district?
M.Y.: First of all, in order to use this area in an orderly way, there needs to be a plan specifically for that area. In this sense, a management plan, a management plan for visitors, a tourism strategy… If we cannot form the necessary infrastructure before we open up to the international markets, we face failure. We are now working to accomplish these. After accomplishment of these, local mutual cooperation will be initiated at a local level. Currently there are many people who operates guesthouses, who are interested in tourism and handcraft. However, if we do not have a sufficient system for marketing and supply chain, neither people nor natural resources are satisfied, because it will lead to unconscious use of resources. If you don’t have a specific aim, you start to damage resources after a certain period. Our aim is to prevent this and so we will have 4-5 different projects in the region. These are management of relations between values of natural resources and humans, relations between people and agriculture, and the management of wildlife such as the wild bear. We have projects to turn traditional cloths and the nature that they are inspired from into a trademark.
UNDP Turkey: Actually, the region is a region which is close to Istanbul and Ankara, thus it is in such a place that people can easily get to. What will a visitor find there; when they visit the national park, will they find a well-organized park?
Y.L.: Of course. After the start of our project, we founded visitor centers both on the Bartın side and the Kastamonu side of the park, and we have entrance points to the national park here as well. These are guide points for people visiting there. After completion of the management plan, an area guidance system will be implemented in the national parks in Turkey. Local people accompany visitors and tell them about the environment. In this framework, the first practices were conducted in 2002 in Küre Mountains. We had experience there and after approval and officialization of this plan, visitors will be able to hire hosts and have a detailed tour. Currently there is a well-organized structure both for accommodation and transportation.
UNDP Turkey: … and in the meantime, this place has started to attract interest of travel magazines, hasn’t it? It has been touched upon in many magazines and TV documentaries.
Guests: Yes, that's right.
UNDP Turkey: Can it be sustainable? After completion of this project, what do you think the system will be? Could you tell us a little bit more about this?
M.Y.: Sure. We, as the General Directorate of National Parks, aim to enable these projects to be sustainable. Because the biggest problem is that after completion of the project, envisaged targets and activities, according to local people, your accountability decreases. We, as the General Directorate, initiated a huge project for setting up a monitoring system in order to prevent this. We, as the General Directorate, determined the general methodology implemented in internationally protected areas. This year, we included 41 national parks in Turkey to be able to monitor their managerial activities in our business schedule. As a result of this, we clarify human resources in the national parks, what the conditions of monetary and financial sources are, and what contributions the project has to the region and to nature.
UNDP Turkey: So you are doing your best to make it sustainable. My last question, we have limited time. Which of the Millennium Development Goals do these accomplishments fit in to?
Y.L.: Specifically, it fits in to environmental dimension in the environmental sustainability. Yet, when we look closer, we should also address eradicating poverty; villagers living in the forests are in the poorest segment of Turkey. And we try to support them through sustainable resource practices and activities offering alternative income. Besides this, it is also important to look at water in the area. In the context of access to clean water, these accomplishments serve 3 other dimensions as well. I would like to mention one point for our audience and listeners, there is a web-site of Küre Mountains. They can read about every issue we have discussed related to the project and the area.
UNDP Turkey: You can see all the details on kdmp.gov.tr. I would like to thank you Mr. Mustafa Yılmaz, Forestry Engineer (M.A.), General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks, the Department for Monitoring and Assessment of National Parks Branch Manager and Head of Enhancing Forest Protected Areas Management System in Turkey, and Mr. Yıldıray Lise, biologist and deputy manager in the same Management System. We have come to the end of the New Horizons Podcast of United Nations Development Programme Turkey. This podcast has been recorded at the studios of Radio İLEF of University of Ankara. You can follow our podcast on Açık Radyo (Open Radio) on FM frequency or on the internet, besides on YouTube in video format. Our username on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Flickr is UNDP Türkiye. Hope to see you next week, goodbye!