The World Bank Tuesday approved the Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project for Turkey. By promoting sustainable natural resource management in twenty-eight microcatchments in Anatolia and Turkey’s Black Sea Region, the project will help reduce environmental damage and raise incomes of communities affected by resource degradation.
The project is being funded by a loan of US$20.0 million from the World Bank and a US$ 7.0 million grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Trust Fund. The project is also expected to receive contributions of about US$18.0 million equivalent from the Turkish government and project beneficiaries.
The project will build on the recently-closed World Bank-funded Eastern Anatolia Watershed Project. It is also Turkey’s contribution to a regional effort seeking to reduce nutrient flow to the Black Sea under the Strategic Action Plan for the Protection and Rehabilitation of the Black Sea. (menareport.com)
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