Küre Dağları Milli Parkı’nda Uygulanan Kırsal Kalkınma Projelerinin Sonuçlarının Değerlendirilmesi

Presented by various non-governmental organizations in Bartin and Kastamonu area, five projects were supported in the scope of Global Environment Fund's (GEF) Strengthening of Forest Protection Areas Management Project (PIMS 1998) and "Examplary Practices Program". In this study, it was aimed to investigate the experiences of those NGOs whose projects' were supported and the success rate of their projects. In this context, application dossiers of the supported projects, their interim reports, field visit reports and final reports were examined. In addition, face-to-face interviews were conducted in the areas where those five projects had been carried out. According to the findings of this study, it is very difficult to say that all of the above-mentioned namely, "Development of Ecotourism-based Home Boarding", "Protection of Agricultural Production Areas with Electric Fences", "Improving Marketing of Agricultural Products", "Protection of Traditional Culture and Utilisation of Women's Labor", "Supporting Linen Processing" have been successful and have been continued to be sustainably by the local people. It is necessary to improve the methods that aim for more effective participation of the local people in such projects in order to facilitate implementation of such projects and to support sustainable rural development.