Development of a National Training Strategy to Enhance Administrative Capacities of Public Institutions in the Context of Accession Negotiations and Implementation of Its Pilot Modules

The Dutch Institute for Public Administration is implementing a technical assistance project with the Turkish Ministry of EU Affairs. Main objective of the project is to improve the knowledge of civil servants about EU harmonisation and the process of alignment in the pre-accession period, as well as the technical and financial cooperation instruments utilized in this process. The improvement of the knowledge of civil servants will lead to a better understanding of their jobs and a rise in their occupational performance. The project will deliver three specific outputs and will run over the course of 2012.

- To develop a national training strategy in Turkey. This training strategy will focus on enhancing the administrative capacities of public institutions in the context of accession negotiations.

- To design and provide trainings, incl. training of trainers, giving an overall information about general EU topics and Turkey-EU Relations to two different target groups, namely the civil servants who are directly involved in the process of full alignment of Turkish national legislation with the EU acquis, and the civil servants who are not directly involved with the harmonization process but are still responsible for the implementation.

- To design and implement training programmes in two pre-determined negotiation chapters, being Fisheries and Competition Policy - State Aids, to the staff of the related public institutions and of the Ministry for EU Affairs, which will set an example for the future trainings in other negotiation chapters.

- Development of a national training strategy for Turkey

- Design of general EU training modules

- Delivery of general EU training modules

- Coaching and advice to Turkish trainers on didactical skills

- Development and design of trainings on specific EU negotiation chapters

- Development and preparation of training materials

Client: Turkish Ministry of EU Affairs