about tusenet

The tusenet project is part of the Swedish programme for cooperation with Turkey - a programme aiming at strengthening the process of democratisation and respect for human rights in Turkey and promoting closer links with European cooperation structures and common values.

One major ingredient of the programme is bilateral cooperation between local authorities in Turkey and Sweden. The Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR) is supposed to play an important role by inspiring reform of the municipal sector and development of its Turkish equivalent the Union of Municipalities of Turkey (UMT).

The tusenet project aims at supporting Turkish municipalities and UMT to be capable to take on roles as professional organisations in the road to a future EU membership - in areas as good governance, efficiency, democracy and transparency in actions, capacity building, safe-guarding of municipal interests, cooperation with different stakeholders, etc.

The project is built on cooperation between six networks of Swedish-Turkish municipalities, involving 6 Swedish and 23 Turkish municipalities, and between SALAR and UMT.

tusenet is implemented during 2006-2010.