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Projects Regional Strategies and capacity building projects Competitiveness Agenda for Southeast Turkey, 2007
For the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Anteja assembled a team of ten international experts for a 3 month engagement to develop a new “competitiveness policy” and implementation strategy for this region, the most backward one in Turkey. Despite $35 million in mainly infrastructure investments over the past 15 years, the gap between incomes and quality of life in the region has not improved yet. Anteja ECG developed recommendations for a significant shift in policy, featuring a public/private partnership approach, intensive internationalization program, and regional branding as the emerging world’s leading renewable energy & organic product center (e.g. organic food products and cotton for baby clothes), along with targeting applied technology centers and privatization of significant portions of the irrigation system. The potential for ecologically sustainable hotels and tourist attractions was considered central to the plan. The Prime Minister has adopted the recommendations and $11 billion had been allocated for its implementation. Six months prior to this exercise, Anteja ECG was asked by the UNDP to conduct a weeklong training for 30 participants from private and public sector who were active in policy development or implementation for the GAP (Southeastern Anatolia) region. Anteja ECG developed a training module for this event and a detailed curriculum and summary report is appended to this document.
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