Turkey – Technical Assistance to the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD)

AWARDING NOTICE

Technical Assistance to the Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) in strengthening the institutional capacity and improving the disaster and emergency management system.

CGIAM has been awarded a two-years (2016-2018) technical assistance project funded by the European Commission – DG Cooperation and the Turkish Central Finance and Contracts Unit (CFCU).

The project has been proposed by an international partnership led by NIRAS IC Sp. z o. o. with the cooperation of CGIAM, AGRIN Co. Ltd. (TR), Emergency Service College/Crisis Management Centre Finland (FI) and Institute of Meteorology and Water Management National Research Institute (IMGW-PIB) (PL).

General purpose of this project is strengthening AFAD’s institutional capacity and improving its disaster and emergency management system. In fact, the objectives in this Project are twofold addressing respectively the organisational and management aspects related with the institutional capacity building and the operation issues of the disaster risk reduction and emergency management cycle. A particular attention shall be given to the Civil Society Organisation involvement within the disaster risk reduction and emergency management.