Sunday, March 7, 2010

Building local development strategy in rural areas


Hilmi Numan is the member of the Rural Development Support team (RSDT) providing technical assistance in preparing a Rural Development Plan in the Turkish Cypriot Community.


Hilmi coordinates the project of building local development strategy in the North West area and the Karpaz areas.

The project helps to increase the local governance and improve the capacity of the local stakeholders in territorial management using a bottom-up approach and integrating multi-sector actions. One of the project goals is to prepare the call for proposals guidelines for local development strategy proposals under next package of EU intervention funds.


The project was initiated in October 2009 and by now sector analyses in the North-West area focused on tourism and culture, environment and forestry, fishery and agriculture have been completed.

The project has been implemented in close co-operation with the TCC central bodies in the sectors of agriculture, interior affairs, tourism, environment, culture, economy, planning etc.

Since December, Hilmi supported by Cem Cicek, PDPM local consultant has developed the deliverables sheet including the quality criteria for selected deliverables and started to implement the done/not done system in his work. Planning process and practical usage of the PDPM tools helped Hilmi to grasp the overall picture of the project and take control over committed actions.

Several changes in the project scope and schedule as well as resources since January have occurred. As a result the trade offs within the project team had to be implemented, nevertheless Hilmi was able to reorganize and focus on changed commitments.

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