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Sigma is supporting the reform efforts of Turkey in priority areas through its work on the following projects: 

Design of Reform

  • Review of the Draft PAR Strategy (July 2004)

Financial Control and External Audit

  • Peer Collaboration to Support the Implementation of the Public Financial Management and Control Law (January 2007 - December 2008)
  • Comments on the Draft External Audit Act (May - July 2004)
  • Assistance to the Ministry of Finance on Public Financial Management and Internal Financial Control (May - July 2002) 

Legal Framework, Civil Service and Justice

  • Support to the Design of EU-financed Project Fiches (January - March 2009)
  • Conference on Order and Change in the Turkish Bureaucracy (January - February 2009)
  • Conference on the Quality of Public Services (February - October 2008)
  • Civil Service Legislation - technical assistance (November 2005 - November 2006)
  • Public Administration Reform (September 2005 - November 2006)
  • Civil Service Reform and Administrative Modernisation (December 2004 – December 2005)

Policy-making and Co-ordination

  • Strengthening the Administrative Capacity of the TGNA (April 2009 - March 2010)
  • Administrative Simplification Seminar (March-June 2008)
  • Regulatory Impact Assessment and EU Member State Practices (February - May 2006)
  • Regulatory Impact Assessment and European Approximation (June - October 2005)

Public Expenditure Management

  • Changing Role of Parliament (TGNA) in the Budget Process (June - December 2008)

Public Integrity System

  • Speech at TEPAV Anti-Corruption Conference (December 2006 - December 2007)
  • Speech to a Conference on Anti-Corruption (July 2005)

Public Procurement

  • Peer Assistance in Public Procurement and Concessions/PPPs (August 2007 - November 2008)
  • Conference on Social/Economic Considerations and New Legislative Package Procedures (March - May 2006)
  • Peer Assistance – Public Procurement (May - October 2004)
  • Assistance in Developing the Public Procurement System (September 2002 – March 2003)
  • Assistance in Drafting Public Procurement Law (July - November 2001)

Further sources of information on Turkey, such as its geography, people, system of government, can be found by consulting the following sites:

European Commission's country profile: Turkey
EC Delegation to Turkey
Presidency of the European Union
Relations of the EU with Turkey
Government Information website

You may also wish to visit the European Union website
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