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MINUTE of VIRTUAL DEBRIEFING MEETING of LoA between FAO and OMO

Date: 29 September 2022

In accordance with the Letter of Agreement (LoA) signed between FAO and OMO, under the FAO-Turkey Forestry Partnership Programme, for the development of two full-fledged project documents on ‘Improving Biodiversity and Sustainable Forestry’ and Enhancing of the Capacity of the Turkish International Forestry Training Centre’ a virtual debriefing meeting was held on 29 September December 2022, Thursday between 10-12 am as per work plan of the LoA.  See attached participation list (Annex I).
 

İsmail Belen, who is Forestry Specialist for Central Asia – Leader of OMO project team, opened the meeting as the moderator. After giving a warm welcome to participants, he introduced the meeting agenda and then gave the floor to the participants of the meeting for introducing themselves.
 

After introduction, İsmail Belen gave general overview on the project preparations and gave an update regarding feedback process of the project documents.
 

Director of Training Center in Antalya Emin Demir also connected to meeting from Antalya.
 

FTFP National Coordinator, Ms. İffet Deniz Cengiz, made a few remarks by thanking the participants for their feedback and participating in the meeting, underlying other issues regarding BRIDGES and FRIENDS projects which have been implementing in Africa and Central Asia.
 

İsmail Belen also added that OGM had not made any objections on the prodocs and welcomed them with open arms, by thanking for the efforts. He also mentioned that ÇEM has requested to include desertification, land degradation and land degradation neutrality (LDN) subjects in the training package and simulation software and the necessary amendments have been made accordingly.
 

İsmail Belen requested participants from OGM and ÇEM to pre-endorse the revised prodocs. The both General Directorates have agreed to pre-endorse the revised prodocs on IFTC and BSFM.
 

Thereafter İsmail Belen reported the recommendations by General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks (DKMP) and thanked them for their strict scrutiny of the prodocs and mentioned that Ahmet Şenyaz would be pleased to respond the comments by DKMP and clarify main points handled during the revision process (Annex II).  
 

İsmail Bey gave the floor Ahmet Şenyaz to explain the revision process and how to reflect General Directorate’s feedback in the project documents.
 

Erdoğan Ertürk reiterated DKMP’s comments and recommendations and Ahmet Şenyaz responded all comments and recommendations by making necessary clarifications and took notes on the agreed addings to be made on the prodoc. Metin Kocaeli also participated to discussions to make his remarks on the preparation process of the project.
 

İsmail Belen asked Erdoğan Ertürk if the clarifications gave full satisfaction and asked for DKMP’s pre-endorsement of the prodocs. Then Erdoğan Ertürk declared to pre-endorse prodocs on behalf of DKMP.
 

On behalf of OMO, İsmail Belen thanked all participants for improving project documents through their scientific and technical discussions.
 

İsmail Belen also thanked Ercan Kaptanoğlu who is responsible for technical aspect of the meetings and webpage design. 
By thanking all participants, he closed the meeting. 

 

Annex 1 Debriefing Meeting Participation List
S.No    Adı Soyadı                                           Kurumu
1           Sevilay Sönmez                                 ÇEM
2          Güleser Avcıoğlu                              ÇEM
3          Erdoğan Ertürk                                  DKMP
4          Furkan Ekici Aydın                            DKMP
5          İffet Deniz Cengiz                             FAO
6          Murat Çevirme                                 OGM
7          Gediz Metin Kocaeli                         OGM
8          Kemal Okumuş                                 OGM
9          Ramazan Balı                                    OGM
10         Galip Çağatay Tufanoğlu            OGM
11          Alpaslan Ünsal                                  OGM
12         Dr. Hülya Kılıç                                     OGM
13         İlhami Aydın                                       OGM
14         Ayşe Toptan                                      OGM
15         Emin Demir                                        OGM-UOEM
16         İsmail Belen                                       OMO
17          Ercan Kaptanoğlu                          OMO
18         Şefkiye Topçu                                   OMO
19         Ahmet Şenyaz                                  TOB
20       Burak Güresinli                                  TOB ABDİGM
21         Ezgi Ülkü Uzun                                    TOB ABDİGM

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