Economic Development & Trade & Innovation

Increasing Competitiveness of Middle Black Sea Region TR83

Turkey’s Middle Black Sea region was set up in 2009 and is now well established; the Middle Black Sea Region Development Agency (OKA) carries out activities to support the economic and social development of Amasya, Çorum, Samsun and Tokat provinces. The main objective of this project was to

Justice and Human Rights

Technical Assistance for Strengthening Institutional Capacity of the Judiciary and Execution System for the Fight against Addiction

The contract will contribute to the improvement of institutional capacity of judiciary in terms of fight against drug addiction. In this context the contract will cover activities such as trainings, workshops, needs assessment, drug addiction awareness raising group programmes, family counselling programmes, establishment of a monitoring and integration

Education and Employment

Technical Assistance for Promoting Registered Employment

Unregistered employment remains one of the critical concerns and significant challenges of the Turkish labour market. Even though recent years have seen a downward trend in unregistered employment, a substantial portion of Turkey’s workforce is still employed without being registered with the social security system. In this regard,

Economic Development & Trade & Innovation

Technical Assistance for Samsun Logistics Centre

The project was conceived, Turkey’s logistics network ranked 30th worldwide but offered much potential for improvement. With its strategic Black Sea location, seaports, airport and access to national rail and road networks, the Turkish city of Samsun was viewed as being in an excellent position to create a