Turkey-Ankara: IPA – Technical Assistance for the Capacity Building of KGM for the Road Infrastructure Safety Management in Turkey

To harmonize Turkish legislation with Directive 2008/96/EC and enhancing the administrative capacity at the General Directorate of Highways (KGM) to implement road infrastructure safety management.
To provide an important contribution to the overall objective of the MAAP-T. The interventions foreseen within this Operation will facilitate the achievement of the Specific Result 3 (Improved Safety in Transport) of the MAAP-T under Action 1 – Sustainable and Safe Transport. It will also support the Action 4 – Acquis Alignment and EU Integration.
Shortly the followings are required for the harmonization and implementation. Analysis of current situation, institutional capacity building, establishing institutional structuring, identifying necessary legislative amendments, preparing draft legislations and guidelines, organizing training programmes as well as training of master trainers, preparing handbooks for road safety impact assessment, road safety audit, road safety inspection and network safety management, reviewing similar applications in Europe, application-oriented case studies within Turkey’s road network, preparing a model training programme for implementation groups and providing necessary trainings.
— the contract shall be based on; but not necessarily be limited to:
—— preparation of the required legislation, guidelines, and other relevant documents,
—— revision of design manuals of KGM and preparation of handbooks,
—— capacity building Activities of KGM.