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UNESCO, UNICEF, UNWTO takes mission for Kars, Turkey
Monday, 01. February 2010, 20:57
The UN Joint Programme “Alliances for Culture Tourism in Kars” strives to improve the tourism sector in Kars and create new employment opportunities. Capacity building and training programmes in the tourism and service sector in Kars have reached a wide range of audiences in the first week of October to help construct local prospects for cultural and economic growth. Local men and women from Taşbaşı, Çanaksu, Boğatepe, Doğruyol and Hamamlı villages gathered to learn about possibilities of House Pensioning in the area.
The joint project started on November 2008 and ends by December 2010. Kars is expected to improve in culture tourism thanks to the UN care and action.
The joint program will mobilize the culture sector in Turkey’s Eastern Anatolia. It will result in increased incomes for the people of Kars contributing to the realization of poverty reduction at a localized level. In specific the joint program will develop the cultural tourism sector in Kars contributing to social cohesion by recognizing pluralism and by reducing income disparities between people of Kars and the rest of the country.
How will Turkey benefit?
The Joint Program contributes to the achievement of poverty reduction in Kars and its environs through leveraging the cultural tourism sector in a way which fosters social cohesion and creates income opportunities for the poor. The Joint Program will create a developmental change, albeit confined to the province of Kars.
UNDP, UNESCO, UNWTO and UNICEF Participate
The proposed Joint Program will utilize the respective capacities of four UN agencies (UNDP, UNESCO, UNWTO and UNICEF) in coordination with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey to implement the Joint Program based upon existent national strategies, including the Ninth Development Plan (2007-2013) and the Government’s Tourism and Strategy Action Plan of 2007-2013 and the 2023 Tourism Strategy in mobilizing cultural values as a complementary asset for promotion of tourism.
The three joint program outputs are:
- A model for strategic direction, prioritization and safeguarding of tangible and intangible cultural heritage and cultural tourism delivery in Turkey’s less developed regions produced and implemented in Kars
- Capacities of communities and enterprises in Kars increased for income generation job creation in the culture based tourism sector
- Local authorities and civil society in Kars and its environs and other relevant provinces, promote social cohesion and dialogue through recognizing of pluralism
Who are the partners?
The government partner of this program is Ministry of Culture and Tourism. In addition, Kars Governorate, Kars Municipality and City Council as well as local tourism businesses are among local partners. International partners are UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP and UNWTO.
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