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Lessons from Turkey
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Global Perspectives on
Watershed Management
  • First generation (1970s and 80s): top down, engineered solutions, little consultation
  • Second generation (1990s): community participation, local involvement, working from menus of options



  • …. What’s the next generation?
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Experience in Turkey
  • Eastern Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project, now closed, was a classic second generation project which had significant positive impacts.


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Poverty and Forests in Turkey
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"Second project (Anatolia Watershed..."
  • Second project (Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project) was a second generation ‘plus’ project


  • ….. What was the ‘plus’?


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Significant differences from the previous project
  • 1. Institutions: widened involvement of public sector institutions (MEF and MARA: TÜGEM,OGM, ORKÖY, KKGM, AGM, SPAs, and CYGM)


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Significant differences from the previous project
  • 2. Very strong focus on service delivery: to poor communities in upland catchments
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Significant differences from the previous project
  • 3. Linkages: between upstream and downstream interests
    • Upstream interests: jobs, income generation, access to resources (forests, pastures, irrigation) [High poverty rates]

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Significant differences from the previous project
  • 3. Linkages: between upstream and downstream interests
    • Downstream interests: livestock improvement, manure management, crop productivity [Lower poverty rates]

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Adding to the menu of options
  • Capitalizing on local interests in animal health and hygiene
  • Introducing integrating manure management systems which return compost to crops/pastures
  • Reducing and controlling water pollution into the Black Sea
  • Reducing nitrate levels in groundwater
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Manure management measures
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Some lessons
  • Centrality of community institutions in decision making
  • Organizing multiple government institutions to focus on service delivery in poor communities (convening power of the Bank)
  • Impact of introducing marginal technical improvements for managing manure
    • Animal hygiene
    • Local hygiene
    • Nitrate pollution reduction
    • Access to composted manure
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What about climate change?
  • Warming is already evident (3ºC over last 50 years in western Mediterranean)
  • Winter precipitation since 1950 has decreased by about 20 percent
  • Projected impacts on Turkey of global 2ºC temperature rise include:
    • changes in seasonal rainfall
    • more dry days per year
    • outcome will have impacts on agriculture


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Changes in seasonal rainfall
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Increase in the number of dry days
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The challenges
  • Scaling up: 65 percent of total rural land is degraded. Current operation is a ‘micro-pilot,’ covering 28 microcatchments.  As many as 2000 could use similar treatment
  • Poor understanding of impacts on hydrology – increasingly critical to have this understanding as climate change impacts are felt
  • Medium term challenge of mitigating climate change impacts